Jaws Unleashed

I got this game because I love Jaws, it is my favorite movie. But this game has some flaws that make it hard to play. The effects are great and you get to see a large amount of different ocean animals. It is fun swimming up to people and eating them. This game is quite violent. But the camera angles in this game BLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is hard to keep a good angle while you are swimming and when you are close to the surface the top of the water reflects and makes it impossible to get a good range of where to go. Also at times it is hard to figure out what is going on in some story missions. But there are far worse games. But I can not recommend this game really.

I picked up JAWS: Unleashed three days ago, and I'm totally hooked. The list price of a brand new copy was only 27 bucks--not bad at all. I can't comment on its replayability, but so far the story missions are more than entertaining. It's not Grand Theft Auto calibur, but it's definitely one of the better games around.

First of all, if you love marine life like I do, JAWS is a blast. Not only do you get to hunt and kill tons of lifeforms, but you get to take a good look at all of them in a nice little Animal Bios extra on the main menu. Unfortunately, this brings me to the biggest downside of the game. I was so ready to give this an 8, but I felt cheated, and in my anger, I dropped it by a point. Why? Ever been to the NY Museum of Natural History? You see that giant blue whale scale sculpture hanging from the ceiling? Absolutely amazing, isn't it? That thing is HUGE! In the animal bios, we are promised that we'll be battling blue whales, and I was flinching around in my chair with anticipation. Sure, they're harmless in reality, but the Animal Bio gives damage stats for a tail whip and how much nutrition eating a blue whale will provide you. Unfortunately, the designers sucker-punched us whale-lovers. There are NO blue whales in this game! Well, okay, there are, off in the distance, where the water's current is too strong to go. Hell, I would have been happy just to swim up near one, even if I couldn't attack it, but no...we just get very distant silhouettes. No sperm whales, either. And the giant squid aren't exactly gigantic at all. (Even though I've only had this game for a short time, I've searched everywhere for the blue whales' locations, and finally read an apologetic statement on a forum at Gamefaqs.com from an employee that worked on the game...so it is confirmed.) With that rather ugly quip aside, the game is extremely visceral and fun. If you love ocean life, you will love this game. If you loved the movies (or at least the first one), you will love this game. Otherwise, I'm not sure how you'll react, but there is plenty of blood and gore to keep you entertained. The controls, I found, were perfect (unlike what Gamespot has to say), and the camera only bothers me on rare occasions, which is good for a 3D underwater game. There are bugs, but they come up so rarely and they do little to interfere with the gameplay.

Overall, I am more than happy with this game. Free roaming gets repetitive after long stretches, but the story missions provide a nice departure from that. Aside from the empty promises I mentioned above, this is a stellar game that is at least worth a rental.

Well even those who aren't big Jaws fans can still love this game. Being the shark and attacking unsuspecting boaters and swimmers is much different than any other game you'll ever played and the idea is fantastic. I wonder why PS2 doesn't have a video game where you are Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers? Do they think those movies were too long ago for a successful game to be made? Perhaps the latest Halloween movie coming out may finally give them inspiration to make one. Sometimes gamers like to play the villain. Doing so in this game as Jaws was different, but very fun and I think that if you check out others' votes, they agree. I heard this movie was difficult to find apparently at one point, but I got mine here in Houston and I suppose many were available, so getting one wasn't difficult. Then again, when people are having a tough time finding Madden Football, I can always find one here too. If you haven't played this, now you can find one fairly cheap on eBay and it is worth buying and playing.

I highly anticipated this game because I am a pretty big fan of the Jaws movies. But you really don't need to like the movies to like the game. This game is so gnarly it hurts. It literally is Grand Theft Auto with a shark. You can do anything you want, from attacking and killing over 100 species of sea-life underwater, or going to the surface to cause some mayhem. You can attack people from their boats(Many different ones), attack swimmers on the beach, rip them to shreds. And when I say rip them to shreds I mean it. You can rip people up anyway you can think of. tear off their legs, heads, arms, rip them in half. Or you can just put them in your mouth and bite down to turn them into flesh chunks. Of course, there is story to the game all based around the town of Amity. There are story missions in the game you play to progress. Plus there are over 30 side missions to do. And the shark is pretty damn smart, can almost do anything. But that's part of the reason it's so much fun. They also add a small Rpg part in the game where you can upgrade health, hunger(meter), power, etc. You also learn new attacks and skills along the way. I can't say much more though, since I only bought the game a day after it released. Also the graphics are pretty good. 8/10. I must say the graphics on the shark are spectacular. The only reason I gave it a "8" is because the people are animated pretty badly. Anyway, I personally love this game and highly recommend this game to Jaws fans and Gta fans.

I like jaws. That movie doesn't scare me crap-less like other people (but the initial scene did in 1995) and i actually will find myself tuning into the movie whenever i get a chance. this film holds the reputation for being the first summer blockbuster, Exceeding 100 million dollars in ticket sales. This record was soon broken by George Lucas's star wars in 1977.

but then in 2006, a few small gaming companies get together to grant one wish...to play as the shark. But here's where I get confused. they called it "Jaws Unleashed" when they could've called it Jaws: Vengeance, or Jaws: Death from the depths, or my personal Favorite, Grand Theft Shark: Amity Island." I mean, Is Jaws really chained up? In Jaws Unleashed, It's your job to raise hell in amity without dying. In order to do that, you swim up to beaches and devour some unsuspecting bathers, and at the same time, chewing them to bits (Sounds like fun, right?) well, i'm a highly desensitized guy, but this game really bothered me the first time i played it. ripping innocent human beings apart with a shark that doesn't have any logic other than to eat, is really sick. fortunately, for pussies like me, the game programmers allowed me to eat other fish, dolphins, whales, and alligators. yes. I cannot stand seeing a bikini clad babe get her torso severed in mid thorax (movie reference) but seeing flipper getting his head bitten off makes me laugh harder than achmed the dead terrorist bragging about how he's gonna get 72 virgins in heaven.

I've heard a lot of angry video game nerd knock-offs just bash the controls on and on, as if the game's responsible for all the world's Problems. Yes, the controls suck, but the game's still playable. once you get used to the controls, you can have fun.

The music is basically the jaws theme, and then the jaws theme remixed, too many times over. There could've been a better soundtrack, maybe dubbing in some stock 70s music during the swim sequences, rather than the same old duuh-dunt, duuuh-dunt over and over.

The Story mode is stock itself. Mayor Larry Vaughn obviously got over having his kids nearly killed in the jaws movie, and wants the beaches open, despite the increasing amount of sharks in the area. but Michael Brody keeps telling him over and over that the increasing sharks in the area are from the company that spends it's time sending machines around to collect things. yeah, i didn't get well into the story mode so i don't know whats up.

How about the loading screens? the game's designers put together a series of trivia about the movie, of course, where does the trivia come directly from? Thats Right. The Internet Movie Database. Right here. Damn pirates.

Finally, Extras. there are various clips from the movie, which you can watch if you collect all the tin cans in the levels. i don't what scenes are there (there's about 8, probably scenes of the shark's attacks.) except for one where the 2 guys throw the roast into the water hoping to cash in on $3,000.

Bottom line, this one's a rental.

6/10