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Psychonauts | 
enlarge | From: Majesco Sales Inc. Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99 Buy Used: $10.79 You Save: $19.20 (64%)
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Avg. Customer Rating: 22 reviews Sales Rank: 6507
Platform: Xbox ESRB: Teen Media: Video Game Autographed: No Memorabilia: No Number Of Items: 1 Batteries Included: No Age: 12 - 20 years Operating System: XXX Shipping Weight (lbs): 2 Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: 01398 Model: 96427013983 UPC: 096427013983 EAN: 0096427013983 ASIN: B0007PIEAQ
Release Date: April 20, 2005 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | Enter people's minds and use your powers of levitation and Psi-Blasts to face people's worst fears | | • | Rise up in rank as you collect figments of other people's imaginations, sort their emotional baggage, clear out their mental cobwebs, and crack open their memory vaults | | • | Complete special training missions to earn new powers like telekinesis, pyrokinesis and more | | • | Fully interactive environments - use tightropes, trapezes, ladders, poles, ledges, trampolines, climbing walls and rail slides to your advantage | | • | Multiple paths and sub-challenges - the nonlinear gameplay offers greater depth and better gameplay |
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Product Description Psychonauts are special psychic operatives with powers they use in service to the world's governments. When studentsbegin disappearing from Psychonaut boot camp, a young recruit begins tracking down the mad scientist responsible. Face inner demons and wrestle with other people's nightmares, while accomplishing your mission -- all without going insane. Immersive story injected with lots of humor and lots of imaginative environments Challenging puzzles with alternate solutions that self-tailor to your strategies&abilities
Amazon.com Following in the footsteps of the award-winning titles Full Throttle and Grim Fandango, visionary designer Tim Schafer delivers his newest creation--the bizarre, psychic adventure, Psychonauts. For years, the Psychonauts have deployed their psychically-armed operatives all over the world, but now there is trouble brewing in their own boot camp. A deranged scientist is abducting camp cadets for their brains! One student, a mysterious and powerful new arrival named Raz, stands alone against the lunatic. Raz must develop and unleash an arsenal of paranormal powers, including his most powerful weapon of all--the ability to launch himself telepathically into the minds of others. Ultimately, he must enter the psyche of his worst enemy and destroy his dark plans at their source. Entering the mind of madman has its challenges, and Raz must struggle to preserve his sanity while he battles to save the day. In this third-person shooter, you will explore 13 levels--three that are set in the "real" world, and ten that are set inside the mental jungle-gyms and terrifying prisons of dementia. Journeying through the mind of a lunatic, Raz, you will rise through the ranks as you collect figments of imagination, sort emotional baggage, clear out mental cobwebs, and crack open memory vaults. After you complete special training missions, Raz will learn new psychic powers, such as levitation, telekinesis, invisibility, pyrokinesis, clairvoyance, and confusion. With tightropes, trapezes, ladders, poles and other dynamic environmental features, you'll zip through an engrossing story injected with humor, vivid characters, and a spectacular range of wild, imaginative environments. The non-linear plot offers incredible depth of play, loaded with multiple paths and strange sub-challenges like digging up imaginary atomic elements, finding lost brains, and telekinetic canoeing. You'll thoroughly enjoy the journey with Raz as you make your way through weird worlds and the dark recesses of Schafer's creative, squishy gray matter in this oddball, puzzle-game shooter. Psychonauts delivers monsters that slink like cats in the night and puzzles that will bend your brain like string theory--you'll be dazzled, confused, and challenged.
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Instant Classic November 13, 2008 It's a shame adventure games like this aren't being made as much anymore. I grew up on adventure games such as King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and of course the Tim Schafer games, Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, and Full Throttle. Psychonauts brings adventure gaming to the platform adventure environment. The creative concept of going into the minds of others and exploring the world in there mind provides a world of limitless imagination. And it even makes me think about the psychology of real people.
The story is engaging, and keeps you glued as you jump into the minds of different people. The graphics are cute. As you get towards the end, it environment and stories become more grim. Controls are decent. I had a minor problem with landing jumps with the camera angle and shimmying along edges, but nothing major. I highly recommend this game to anyone who's a platformer, adventure, puzzle fan.
I really hope there's a sequel.
I've put so many hours into this game... October 15, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I finally got 100% on this game but it took long enough! This is one of the most underrated games of all time. Charming platformer. Great replay value. I would have paid ten times the amount I did and for the hours I've gotten out of it... totally worth it.
itr seems to stick with you December 13, 2007 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
i played this game when it first came out and I'll never forget it! i loved it so much! but it is just a game.
Could be a perfect 360 game! You listening, Microsoft? August 12, 2007 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm only a few hours into this title and the other 5-star reviews aren't lying...this is a fabulous game on all levels (save one, w/ caveats--and that I'll get to later). I'm a long-time gamer (began on the Atari 2600 and Apple IIe) so I've sort of 'seen it all'-- and thus find myself gravitating towards titles that transcend genre and cliched game mechanics. The same old, same old, even with splashy new next-gen hooks, well, BORES ME.
"Psychonauts" acheives both the comfort of familiarity and the refreshing draw of the truly inspired and original. It's familiar in the sense that it creates and evokes a world akin to a Pixar feature--it has bright colors, lots of humor and the game is engineered in such a way that you immediately feel safe to explore. The blood and gore is left checked at the door...but the intelligence and freshness isn't, so the surprises and rewards for playing arent' cheap shock, but more substantive. You quickly grow to love the characters and the world.
I wish there were more of this type of gaming available on the Xbox--it reminds me why I was so fond of the variety available on the Playstation 2, and why I enjoyed titles ranging from Ico, Klonoa, Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear and so on, to outstanding end-of-life titles such as Shadow of the Colossus and Okami. In none of those are you pushed to spill human blood in mindless swaths, and they were all incredibly gorgeous and innovative.
In the end, my only complaint/caveat is that there is no next-gen upgrade available for this title--"Psychonauts" begs to be given an overhaul for the 360s graphics engine capabilities, much like the upcoming PS3 "Ratchet and Clank" title will have. Alas, this isn't any demerit to the developers, but more a woeful shake of the head to the Xbox audience that didn't give this game it's due respect in sales and thus encourage such an enterprise.
Go buy this game and enjoy--and keep your fingers crossed that Microsoft will eventually 'get it' the way I'm betting you will...
You want to play it June 23, 2007 I have problems starting a video game...let alone finishing one. This wasn't hard at all to get into and become immediately enthralled in its gameplay and story. The controls are fantastic as is the character development and 'gimmicks' which the game uses to great results. The irony is that as a Psychologist I wish that I could just jump into peoples skull jelly like on the game and solve their problems, but alas... I would recommend this game for all age levels and all types of pschoses
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