Product Description

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge is an action-adventure game that continues the story of Jack Skellington and his arch-nemesis, Oogie Boogie. Players take on the role of Jack, who must battle bizarre and vicious enemies in order to stop the diabolical Oogie Boogie from kidnapping the leaders of all the Holidays and establishing himself as king. Armed with the amazing "Soul Robber" and the ability to transform into other forms, Jack will have to use everything at his disposal to defeat this evil plan. Hollywood quality music and voice casting from the film create a truly cinematic experience

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5946 in Video Games
• Brand: Capcom Production Studio 3
• Model: 712725002084
• Released on: 2005-10-11
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platform: PlayStation2
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 5.40" h x .50" w x 7.50" l, .33 pounds

Features

• Take on Oogie and his henchmen as Jack Skellington and transform into Santa Jack and the Pumpkin King -- each with their own attacks and abilities
• Collect the souls of your enemies to purchase awesome weapon and character upgrades
• Fight and explore your way through more than 25 bizarre and fantastical levels
• Unique gameplay styles -- including thrilling music-based battles -- keep the action exciting and fresh
• Interact with a freakish cast of characters -- including the eccentric Dr. Finklestein, the mischievous Lock, Shock and Barrel and more

From the Manufacturer
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge is an action-adventure game that continues the story of Jack Skellington and his arch-nemesis, Oogie Boogie. Players take on the role of Jack, who must battle bizarre and vicious enemies in order to stop the diabolical Oogie Boogie from kidnapping the leaders of all the holidays and establishing himself as king. Armed with the amazing "Soul Robber" and the ability to transform into other forms, Jack will have to use everything at his disposal to defeat this evil plan.

Features:

• Take on Oogie and his henchmen as Jack Skellington and transform into Santa Jack and the Pumpkin King--each with their own attacks and abilities
• Collect the souls of your enemies to purchase awesome weapon and character upgrades
• Fight and explore your way through more than 25 bizarre and fantastical levels
• Unique gameplay styles--including thrilling music-based battles--keep the action exciting and fresh
• Interact with a freakish cast of characters--including the eccentric Dr. Finklestein, the mischievous Lock, Shock and Barrel, and more
• Hollywood-quality music and voice casting from the film create a truly cinematic experience

Customer Reviews

Eureka! This year Christmas will be ours!
Wow! How addictive! They really did a great job with this game on pretty much all aspects.

The animation is really great. Though it is obviously computer generated graphics, it looks like the same stop motion models in the movie. It really makes you feel like you are in the movie. There is one level where the scenery is completely black and white. This totally reminds me of something out of an Edward Gorey book (a big influence of Tim Burton). It was an awesome level to play.

The story is really creative and cute. Before playing the game, my expectations weren't that high. I was a little if-ey on the fact that the whole game was Oogy getting revenge. I was expecting it to be a bit of a sellout, unoriginal and cheesy. However, they did a great job with the storyline. The writers for the game stayed so true to the `feel' of the movie. They totally captured the same essence. Basically, Jack leaves Halloween Town for a while and when he comes back the town is abandoned. It turns out that when he was gone, Lock, Shock and Barrel helped revive Oogy. Oogy then developes a plan to take over all the holidays. It is up to Jack to stop him from messing up all of the holidays, armed pretty much only with his Soul Robber (a weapon that Dr Feinkelstein gave him).

The Soul Robber is fun but a tad disappointing. I feel like there was little skill and planning involved in using it. I think there could have been more combinations and stuff. I found little use for the pumpkin Jack and Santa Jack aside from burning barricades and getting ghosts out of barrels. I wish there were more things I could have done with them.

Not only do you kill a lot of mobs etc., but there are puzzles and secret areas in the game. Viewing the movie actually does payoff as there is a bit of trivia from Corps Kid that pays you some money.

I thought the camera angles and flow were really cool. The camera angels were fixed so you didn't have a lot of free reign to look around. This took some getting used to at first, but was fine once I did.

The controls were pretty simple for the most part. It didn't take very long to get used to them at all.

The music throughout the game is all from the movie. I love the music from the movie so naturally I love hearing it in the game, but you do hear it repetitively while playing, so it will get stuck in your head when you're not playing it. Just like the movie, singing plays a large role in the game. In fact, it even plays a role while fighting. If you collect enough musical notes while fighting a boss, then you go into this sort of bonus fighting mode. The voice acting was superb as well. They got several of the original voice actors from the movie; and the ones that were not from the movie sound very close to the originals.

I think this is a great game for fans of the movie to get. It stays very true to the movie and just feels like a continuation of it. You really get the feeling you are in Halloween town fighting as Jack. The game does get a bit redundant at times, but overall it's pretty awesome.

POSSIBLY THE SLEEPER GAME OF 2005!
I had heard a rumor that this game was coming out. It's a good thing, because I might have completely missed it. It wasn't in a single advert from the major electronic stores; which is a shocker, because it is a Disney game.

Or is it? Tim Burton seems to be a black sheep; a dark spirit in the brightly lit world of Walt Disney, with his dark tales of corpses and skeletons and evil spirits wrapped in burlap...

But let's get things straight about Walt Disney. Walt was the brains behind Pirates of the Carribbean, and oversaw plans for the Haunted Mansion. There are themes in those rides that aren't quite kiddy-friendly. Some of them are quite morbid. Which goes hand and hand with Tim Burton.

This game is like that. Released for the Japanese market LAST YEAR, this game was a huge seller in a nation that appreciated the sweet little stop motion movie; that most American audiences couldn't quite get. It infuriates me that Nightmare is considered to only be adored by the gothic "Hot Topic" crowd. It's just like so many instances of people writing reviews that apparently haven't seen the movie.

The game is so stunning and rich, it's literally like stepping in and controlling the movie. You play as Jack, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, who, after another slightly disappointing Halloween, decides to go out on a voyage to look for new chills and thrills. Along for the ride he takes a new invention, the Soul Robber, a whip-like weapon that smacks enemies down to size.

BAD MISTAKE. In his absence, the mischevious trick or treaters Lock, Shock, and Barrel resurrect the nefarious sack of bugs Oogie Boogie, and he takes over Halloween Town, threating to spread his horrifying shadow across all Holiday worlds as well as our world.

Jack has many items at his disposal to take his town back. While defeating enemies, he can collect pumpkin coins and buy upgrades to his weaponry. Along the way, he'll also pick up two other personas, the fire breathing Pumpkin King and Santa Jack, with his bewitched presents. Even saving as you go is made fun, with the stacked Mr Hydes. Replenishing your health meter is easy; the magical fountain in the center of town does the trick. You even get a bottle to fill, and the opportunity to create more bottles.

One odd feature is the "Dance" mode. As you fight bosses, musical notes will appear. After collecting so many, you engage the boss in a dance, by pressing the correct symbol buttons. This is a bit tricky. It's the first game I've played like this, but I'll probably get the hang of it sooner or later.

This is a great, visually stunning game. I liked the fact that quite a few of the original voice talents came back to give life to their computer counterparts. Original music is back, with new lyrics to go along with the game.

This is not a rent game. This is a buy and get lost in game. Five stars. I would have given it more if I could have.

It's Time for Jack to Save Christmas- and Halloween, Thanksgiving, easter.....
(Review is based on the first few levels)
If you haven't watched the movie in a while, you may want to before you start playing "Oogie's Revenge"-

The story begins one year after the events in the film- well- technically 10 months since the events in the movie end on Christmas Eve, but technicallities aside- The residents of Halloween Town are celebrating another Halloween, claiming it to be, yet again, the best yet, but Jack Skellington feels like there's still something missing. He seeks out help from Dr. Finkelstein, who lets Jack have his new invention the "Soul Robber"- okay- sounds a little evil- even a little sacriligeous- but in actuallity it's a green slime looking thing that wraps around Jacks wrist and can reach out and bash the living crap out of enemies, and as the game progresses you can upgrade it, along with two other costumes that each possess their own special powers: Pumpkin King: Fire blowing abilities, and Santa Jack:P the ability to throw presents that can do a number of things to enemies.

A month later, after trying the Soul Robber out, Jack returns to find that Lock, SHock, and Barrel have sewn Oogie Boogie back together, Bugs and all, and he has taken over Halloween Town. To make matters worse the town's residents, trying to get their Pumpkin King back, set out Monster and Ghosts and tons of Booby traps to impress Jack, but to only have the creations and traps turn against them, so it's up to Jack to save Sally and not Only the residents of Halloween Town, but the residents of Other Holidays which Oogie has decided to take over.

For those of us who watch the movie religiously, there are some rewards to having the watched the film repeatedly (actually, in one part of the game, Jack is required to answer 10 questions about Halloween Town, don't answer enough right and you'll have to start all over again- and the question sren't always the same- sample question I've encountered: What Color is the Mayor's Name Tag? What Shape is Jack's Doorbell? What Color is Sally's Hair? How Many bolts does Dr Finkelstein have on his head? as well as questions that require you to know the difference between Lock, Shcok, and Barrel-

Some of the movies voices have returned to reprise their roles, including Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon)andOogie Boogie (Ken Page), Dr. Finklestein's voice is obviously different (William Hickey, the original voice, died in 1997) while the rest of the cast either blends in very well, or is just plain obviously not the original voice.

Although at times, especially in the introduction to the game, the music is original music composed for the film, the rest of the songs are adapted to the game from Danny Elfman's Unbelieable original score and Music, some songs do have new lyrics to fit in with the game, and all the songs have been rerecorded with the new cast.

The gameplay itself varies throughout, everything from RPG, to Strategy, to the boss rounds which, at points, are like Dance Dance Revelution and Britney's Dance Beat. The Characters and Backgrounds are amazing and allow much more freedom of exploration than the Halloween Town Level in Kingdom Hearts (some of the Game Play is similiar at times) and the character movements are very smooth, and the graphics are top notch. Instead of boring tutorials, all the new moves and abilities are described in the in game menu, as well as descriptions of special moves, bios and descriptions of characters that you have encountered and more. Best of all, if you miss a movie along the way, you can return to Jack's house and watch EVERY cut scene, as well as listen to every song played so far in the game, view your ratings on past levels, and there's even a figure shelf where you can zoom in and rotate different statues of characters throughout the game (statues are earned from a straight A level- but don't worry- every level can be replayed to get better points)

The only downside to the game is that the camera is pretty much locked, which can be annoying in some parts of the game (at one point you need Zero's help to sniff out the Hanging Tree's hangmen, but without moving the camera, you sometimes have to guess where he is, but other than that the game play is pretty good.

With three skill levels, hidden rooms, secret levels, as well as secret items to collect throughout the game, this should keep you busy for hours, even days, and should help fill in that space between viewing of Nightmare before Christmas,a dn should help smooth out the wait for Corpse Bride to come to DVD-