Windows

The Ant Bully

Aside from learning a few inaccurate oddities about ants or using it to make fun of your friends, this game isn't worth much.

If you enjoy collecting pointless doodads, have an affinity for battling enemies whose AI appears to be broken, and seek the highest level of repetition possible, The Ant Bully is your game. I, on the other hand, hope that kid gets eaten by a grasshopper.

As a total package, The Ant Bully is a mix of surprisingly good and atrociously bad. While the gameplay is pretty entertaining at times, borrowing a few design elements form some of the best adventure games out there, fetch quests still get in the way of an otherwise amusing escapade. Graphically the game holds its own, though there’s really nothing that puts the effort above and beyond other licensed titles. The audio, however, seems unpolished and unfinished, making The Ant Bully extremely annoying to not only the gamer, but anyone else in the general vicinity of the TV. Combine that with repetitive gameplay and a story mode that takes only a few solid hours to wear thin, and you’ve got a licensed title that’s better left for rentals than a purchase.

Ant Bully is het zoveelste teleurstellend kinderspel gebaseerd op een animatiefilm. Pest liever wat mieren in je tuin.

Tenzij je echt een Ant Bullyfilmfan bent doe je er goed aan dit game links te laten liggen. Je krijgt inderdaad wel wat achtergrondinfo, maar in een totaal oninteressante, snel saai wordenden en slordig uitgevoerde verpakking.

As there have been many films adaptations thus far in video gaming-and most of them have never failed to disappoint to some degree-I shouldn't be surprised by this particular title's shortcomings. However, with a cast including Bruce Campbell and a solid movie to draw from, I hoped for more. If you have kids or younger siblings who are huge fans of the movie, they'll probably be engrossed by controlling the movie's hero onscreen. But unless you're easily amused by such meager pickings or dislike a great deal of challenge in a game, then you will probably find yourself looking elsewhere for a new platformer. This is not a terrible title; it just fails to impress on multiple levels.

Unless you're absolutely smitten with what you saw in The Ant Bully movie, you should probably avoid this game. While the game does indeed tell more of the story, it does so in a way that's preachy and uninteresting. Fighting the same half-dozen insects and repeatedly gathering trivial items is no way to spend five or six hours of your life, especially when you can't even rely on the graphics or cinematic scenes to salvage anything from the experience.