Casper

"Okay Casper, Who actually cares if you found a tuna fish sandwich in the middle of nowhere?"

Casper the film was quite a disastor, and as films are concerned, games based on them are rubbish, such as The Mummy, Blade and Toy Story 2! Casper, the game is more of a disastor then this... this THING! The game is horrible to look at, a pain to listen to and torture to play!

The film is about a little ghost-boy called Casper who lives with some relatives, Stinky, Stretch and Fatso. The three ghosts with the un-appealing names make Casper do all the housework and are mean to him. Poor Casper, what a shame. But when a professor and his daughter come to the house, Casper begins to warm to the humans, instead of frightening them like the three evil ghosts.

Now that the humans have somehow gone missing, Casper must search the huge mansion that he lives in looking for pieces to restore a machine. On his quest he must battle his relatives by offering them a Tune sandwich and other ways of defeating them.

The best way to describe Casper is like Zelda. You spend a lot of the time getting items and keys to open doors with. The biggest fault with this, is that you need to find a key in just about every single room, it does not entertain you after you have found the second or third key.

Casper's graphics aren't anything to be thrilled by. Whilst not blocky, they look like SNES graphics (Wait until I describe the sound and music), but the best thing is, is Casper's transparation, you can see right through him. The animations are good though, for example when Casper transforms in to a tornadoe-type ghost.

When I talked about the graphics, I said ''Wait until I describe the sound and music'', well, there is not many sound effects in Casper except for little tings and beeps, which could have been easily transfered from the Nintendo (NES)! The music is very faint and quiet too, but only to make atmosphere, but it is as scary as the teletubbies and Tweenies in the same room... oh wait a minute... THATS SCAREY!

I do not recommend this game to anyone, not even for small children. A crap movie followed by a crap game. Does it get any better then this?

Good

- Quite a big game

Bad

- The game is more or less repeated after you get the first key
- Rubbish in most elements!

Summary:

Graphics - 2/10
Sound - 1/10
Music - 3/10
Story - 2/10
Gameplay - 1/10
Lifespan - 2/10
Enjoyment - 1/10
Challenge - 4/10
Overall - 2/10

Alternatives: Try a stronger game which Mario elements... Luigi's Mansion!

Reviewer's Score: 2/10, Originally Posted: 04/06/02, Updated 04/06/02