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Beavis
& Butthead Do U. ©
GT Interactive
Beavis
& Butthead are back, not on the TV (thank god), but on your PC
(oh no!). They are back in a new adventure where they go to college
trying to score with college chicks. There first adventure game,
Virtual Stupidity, was actually a really fun game, and was actually
very decent and still worth checking out. After playing Do U., I was
disappointed when I finished this game saying to myself, "That's
it? Man that was short!" Don't continue reading this review as
I'm about to break a review unwritten rule and give a small spoiler
about the game. If you do stop reading at this point, I will warn you
now: Only pick up this game if you're a die-hard Beavis &
Butthead fan.
Before
I go, I should mention that I'm actually a fan of Beavis &
Butthead. I liked the TV series, and really enjoyed the movie. The
storyline boils to this (spoiler): You have to go around the school
trying to get eight check marks on the game, then after that you have
to do three college pranks, then finish off with a Virtua Squad type
game. The graphics & animations are actually closer to the TV
series than there first adventure game, but that doesn't always mean much.
The
speech, all original material done by the infamous Mike Judge is
actually funny at times, but nowhere as funny as TV series. The jokes
got pretty redundant very quickly. If Beavis & Butthead got too
annoying for you, you could turn off the speech and make it subtitles
only, but that lost a lot of the luster for the game. The box claims
to have new music from these great MTV bands (AKA their videos were
shown once during 120 Minutes and were never seen from again). Nope,
kind of false advertising. You heard this music when you went to the
radio station (Communications) & at the frat house, but that was
it during the game. If this game had less talking and more music to
rock to, maybe it would have been more enjoyable.
Do U.
boils down to "Do A, then B, then make sure you C & D to get
item." Some of the puzzles were insanely difficult, then others
were extremely simple. A good example was the part where you had to
hit a golf ball exactly right to complete a part of a puzzle. This
took me at least fifteen or twenty attempts before doing it
correctly. I actually had to ask for help on a couple puzzles because
some puzzles you had to grab an item from several different places in
order to complete the puzzle, sometimes from obscure places.
My
biggest gripe has to be the length of this game. It took me a total
of two days (eight playing hours) to complete this game. And the
ending sucked, to put it bluntly. While it is value priced at $29.99,
that's too short for an adventure game. It's games like this that
should put a refund policy on the game if you're not completely
satisfied. Virtual Stupidity lasted me at least a good week. Beavis
& Butthead Do U just fall well short.
Overall
I can only recommend this for the type that must play every
Adventure game or extreme fans of Beavis & Butthead. It was fun
while it lasted, but it's just too damn short! If this had some kind
of redeeming replay value, like alternative ending or visiting other
colleges, then this would be a worthy adversary to advice getting.
Since it falls short of this, grab at your own risk.
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GAME
TYPE
Adventure
REQUIREMENTS
P166,
32M RAM, 4M Video Card, 8x CDROM, Soundblaster
PRICE
$29.99
REVIEWER
D.H.
INFORMATION
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Demo? |
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51% |
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Quick
Summary:
The
annoying duo is back and hitting college, but leave way too quickly. |
SCREENSHOTS
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