KAO the Kangaroo

"Titus strikes again, how do they do it?"

A little history is in order here first. Titus, the producers of Kao the Kangaroo have been making games pretty much from the beginning of gameing and manage to produce the worst games year after year after year. Never yet haveing produced a good game, it's a wonder how they keep getting licenses. Kao the Kangaroo was in danger of being a good game, but evidently cooler minds prevailed, and realizeing that their fame rests on mediocrity, they managed to rethink this game to its grave.
GRAPHICS: 6/10 The best part of the game, but not what you should be getting from the Dreamcast. In order to insure another misereable game, they managed to botch this in a unique way, the scenery constantly blocks your view.
SOUND: 4/10 Nothing terribly offensive, but nothing very good either
CAMERA: 5/10 I've seen worse, but also much better.
CONTROL: 3/10 While the controls are generally spot on, evidently someone decided they could insure their inclusion in gameing's hall of shame by reversing up and down when running into the screen, only sometimes they don't, and you need to know when.
GAMEPLAY: 5/10 Every platforming convention is here, which is fine for die hard fans, but the total lack of originality, and the high degree of difficulty, coupled with the fact that it is a relatively short game, and that there is really nothing hidden or hard to find leaves one wanting more, and in this case, with so many other problems, a whole lot more, like a different game.
DIFFICULTY: 9/10 Don't let anyone tell you this one's for kids, thanks to bad camera and controls, bad collission, and the fact that the only way you can see every bonus level is to play in hard mode, makes this game very difficult.
VALUE: 1/10 You will never finish this hunk of junk, and even if you just rent it, you'll feel cheated.
FINAL COMMENTS: You should know by now that the bad reviews of Titus games are totally warranted, so don't rush out to buy it because it couldn't possibly be that bad; yes it can be, and then some. At this point in time Titus could bring out a game called ''Legend of Zelda, the Early Years'' and I would know to stay away, and you should too.
FINAL GRADE (not an average): 1/10 I wish it could be lower.

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 03/13/01, Updated 03/13/01