Monster House

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• Fun for a while

   

  By David Thompson from Lancashire, England , 09 Mar 2007

  [Highly rated reviewer]

  Just a quick health warning first - I didn't finish the game, although I think I got pretty close to the end in quite short play time (3-4 hours or so). Monster House takes the film (which we liked) and turns it into a Resident Evil style game, complete with the panic action events from Resident Evil 4. Shotguns and rifles are replaced by water guns and catapults, and animated furniture takes the place of zombies and other nasties. Gameplay is also fairly similar to RE4 - mainly fighting, with some simple puzzles. There are three playable characters, with distinctive personalities, though slightly less individual fighting styles.
  
  We enjoyed the first couple of hours with the game, mainly because of the atmosphere - sound effects and music made the game suitably creepy. The gameplay was also fun to start with but became rather repetitive, however, with the game throwing up the same enemies over and over again. It also re-used the same environments for the three characters ('we've already been here' complained my son). Although the battling wasn't particularly difficult, I found the save system to be annoying, and this was the main reason that we didn't finish it. If you get a button press wrong on a panic action event, or fail on one of the trickier fights, be prepared to replay the last ten minutes just so you can try again. Perhaps allowing a save just before and after a main event would have made the game even shorter than it seems to be, but we just got bored repeating things we had already done.
  
  In a way, this is a classic rental title. Quite fun for a while, but overall a rather flawed and short lived experience. Play it the same day you receive it and send it back in the morning.

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