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Shrek (2001)

by Digital Illusions CE, TDK Mediactive

Genres:Platform, Puzzle

Game modes:Single player

Story:Taking place after the 3D animated movie of the same name, the game allows the player to control Shrek, a huge green ogre, as he must rescue Princess Fiona from the evil wizard Merlin while finding his way through worlds full of crazy twists on familiar fairy tale characters. In this third-person action platformer, Shrek bashes and burps his way past various challenges, fighting creatures and collecting items to complete Good Deeds and unlock new levels. Each world features six missions to complete save for Merlin's castle and two of the missions in every regular level involve either collecting hidden Easter Eggs or grabbing the evil fairies who run away as you approach. Other missions in a stage can involve tasks like defeating a boss or transporting characters to their destinations.Show more

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March 22, 2025

We grabbed this game from a bargain bin on the day we brought home our Xbox and were expecting disappointing shovelware: Not at all. We had so much fun with this game, and are still quoting lines from it to this day. It's a game that looked at the original movie, saw its humour and the neat spins it gave to fairytales and really took it to heart. There is a LOT of heart and energy put into this game. The controls really keep shrek being an ogre in mind (you can grab, fart and burp) but are dropping him into mostly bright nursery rhyme and fairytale environments, creating a great contrast. The game rewards you for exploring each world, too. While the controls could be a tad floaty, it almost added to it? It suited Shrek. I'd love to play this again, the writers' freedom shined through to me as a kid so I bet I'd appreciate it on another level now

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July 17, 2025

This may surprise many people, but this forgotten Shrek tie-in games holds an important place in gaming history as the first console game to use bump mapping technology to add depth and lighting to otherwise flat textures, such as Shrek's leather vest. Aside from that, the game is notable for the sheer bizarreness of its existence, having nearly nothing to do with its source material besides the titular character himself. Instead, the developers of the game simply took the basic premise of an gross ogre in a fairy tale world and ran with it in their own direction of choice. That doesn't happen often with licensed games, and that deserves more preservation than this game has gotten imo.

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