Flushed Away | DJcube

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NA release: 24th October 2006
EU release: 24th November 2006
JP release: N/A
Developer: Monkey Bar Games
Publisher: D3 Publisher
NGC Magazine Score: N/A
Mods Used: Widescreen Code

Flushed Away was a joint venture between Dreamworks and motion stop experts Aardman, creating a CGI film in the style of Wallace & Gromit. It involves a posh and pampered pet rat being disturbed by a thief, with both ending up in the sewers. The heavy focus on water meant that they couldn’t achieve what they wanted with claymation, so went down the CGI route. It never really had the same charm as a result.

The game tie-in is a 3D platformer, but not with the typical style of levels. The first level, set in the fancy house, gives you a false sense of hope as it actually feels somewhat decent, but once you get to the sewer (told via stills of the film dubbed over by the game cast, very PS1 feeling) it all goes downhill.

The game does a terrible job at telling you what to do. You’re just told to speak to people in a vast hub world with no direction, map or anything. For ages I thought the game was just doing missions in this world, just walking for minutes at a time across a vast, empty space. But it turns out that hidden in a corner behind where you start is the actual game, consisting of tedious platforming levels. What terrible design.

Poor

There are few solid gameplay elements, such as some clever use of Rita’s grappling hook, but the overall feel of the game screams “rush job” from nearly every angle. The music is generic, the VO is repetitive, the overall presentation is extremely bland, and the gameplay is chalk full of quirky execution.
Mark Bozon, IGN

Remake or remaster?

Not for this.

Official Ways to get the game

There’s no official way to buy this Flushed Away.