Garfield

This game was produced by a company known as "Code Monkeys", which is quite fitting. This game was obviously coded by monkeys. The 3D models are ugly, and the animations are beyond ugly; they're downright scary, especially the way Jon and Garfield's mouths move. The voice acting would have the Mega Man X7 VAs on the floor laughing. The game itself consists of running back and forth across the house countless times while vacuuming up stuff, blowing it back where it belongs, and rearranging pictures. Garfield likes to randomly change direction even though you didn't touch any other keys, and for some reason scrolling through the status menu causes the vacuum cleaner's tornado to come out different parts of Garfield, like the top of his head, or his arm. It just makes wading through this boring and agonizing mess of a video game all the more painful. And as if things weren't bad enough, there's actually a glitch in the Attic area (should you have the patience to make it that far) that prevents you from completing the game. There was supposed to be a PS2 version, and as of writing this it looks like it didn't fall through. All I have to say is "Hooray".

I would like to list all the ways this game absolutely sucks but I would go way over the limit. I'll stick to the most common ones:

1. Glitches galore Tornadoes that come out of Garfield's every single orifice, controls that like to throw themselves in reverse every ten minutes, lip-sync fails. The Attic is the worst offender. Something in that room was badly programmed and the game is pretty much unwinnable. Odie likes to bump into you everywhere you go pretty much and nothing works as it should. The vacuum is at least semi-effective, that's probably the only good thing about this entire game. The VAs sound nothing like Thom Huge or Lorenzo Music (and to be quite honest I am glad none of them donated their voices to this horrible pile of crap.) It's difficult to find places for objects or even place them where they should go. Collision detection is extremely mediocre if it's there at all.

I'd buy this if you like playing half-finished games that no sane person would, else I'd just stay away.

It's very interesting. I like cats very much and think that if they could just help us to drive away loneliness and kill the time and never think that they could bring us so much fun like the cat called Garfield. To my mind, cats are the animals which usually sleep soundly nearby the fireplace or at the corner of a warm sofa and then play with butterflies in the gardens only when sleep time has become one of their most favorite things he has got and one more minute's sleep will mean boredom and headache. I can't imagine I had a cat so naughty like Garfield which brings so much happiness, just as the saying goes "a coin has two sides", the same amount of trouble will come on its back. Now I can say that the storyline, the music, the acting, and the set are excellent. It's worth every penny.

...and yes, this review is actually about the game, not the movie.

I played it when I was little and very much liked it, now I looked it up again, saw those reviews and prepared myself for the worst. To my surprise, I still enjoy playing Garfield, just as much as before. I haven't encountered any glitches or anything, the game's interesting, looks cute and performs exceptionally :)

I do remember that when I first played it in 2006 the vacuum cleaner didn't always work as it should have, but that's the only fault I can think of (besides maybe the bad quality of the non-English audio files, but I personally have never needed to listen to them in-game)

So yeah, despite everyone else on this site hating it, it's very much possible to love this game, crede-ma! (believe me!) :)

If this was a students' project, it could easily get a B+. But as a commercially released game based on a popular franchise this attempt at a quick cashgrab looks extremely pathetic. The visuals are tolerable, the sound is lazy, and the gameplay is insanely lame and repetitive. In this game Garfield has to clean the entire house after Oddie ravaged it, moving items to their designated places. Your progress will be slowed down by the most annoying dog Oddie, and, more importantly, the game itself - the inventory is terribly small, the vacuum cleaner which Garfield uses refuses to work properly and the loading times are horrible. The game of course features many references to the original material, and it also gives you the possibility to explore John's house, but these little things will hardly force you to play this atrocious game. If you really want a game about a cartoon character cleaning their house - go to Goofy's Fun House, that one at leasts rewards you with some classic cartoons. Want some vacuum cleaner action - then it's the Luigi's Mansion for you. And this game about the laziest cat in the world should be entirely avoided for the sake of your mental health.