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it sound good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 79
Date: June 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i dont no one thing about this game but it sound good and the name make me one to may be by it i dont play xo much but i no game i hvae a xob a game culb and a ps2 and if i puy this game i think you need to to hop you like what i have told you by by the way i have been playing game for 22 years now

It becomes a chore after a while

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: January 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

At first, it's fun finding ways to get to that light switch and light up a room and yadda yadda, yadda. Sure, when it's fun, creative puzzles that take a few moments. However, after a while it just ranks up there with doing your math homework and eating your broccoli. A heinous chore. Some of the puzzles in Haunted Mansion were just frusterating, and not in the fun way. More like a half hour ordeal when your not fighting any monsters, just figuring out which way to point some frigging mirrors.

In the end, if you have a Game Cube or have a friend who does, rent Luigis Mansion. Same principal, but a lot more fun. The ghosts are tougher to catch, but you don't have to deal with those ridiculous little puzzles. Otherwise, leave the Ghost Busting to Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd.

Just a comment

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 18
Date: December 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I thought this review section was a place where people could review a game that they have played, not critique the grammer of other reviewers or insult their place of origin.
It might be a "New Jersey thing", but then again I would NOT even remotely go bragging about being from New Jersey if I was so unfortunate as to have to reside there.
Just a thought.

Possibly my favorite game for the Xbox

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is terrific. Apart from one or two graphic anomalies (no game is perfect) and two significant omissions from the documentation, the only negative thing I can say is that it's too short (about 17 hours on easy level). It's beautiful, fun, funny, and just a great experience. This is one of my favorite games for the Xbox.

(The important omissions are that you can strafe (step sideways) and back up without turning, each by holding the left trigger and moving the left thumbstick; and, you get 100 souls each time you get a gem, so you can open two doors marked 170 when you've only collected 70. Those two tidbits might be in the documentation, but I didn't catch them when I quickly read through, and they're important.)

I found this game to have just the right mix of goofiness, scariness, and challenging obstacles to be fun. Most of the time, you're trying to solve puzzles and get past/around/over/through things, but sometimes you have to shoot your way through monsters and evil spirits. However, the shooting isn't really the point: the threats are mostly just part of the atmosphere, and your arsenal consists of just one "weapon" with a few upgrades along the way.

The graphics are awesome, the sound just right (except for the pause music which will drive you insane if you listen to it too long), and the game play smooth. If you like platform- and puzzle-style games with a little goofiness, a little fear, a good dose of the supernatural, and lots of puzzles, this game is the game for you.

And by the way, my family played through on the easy level all together, and the scary stuff wasn't too much for my four-year-old... as long as we kept reminding her it wasn't real, just a drawing. Yet for adults, a couple of images are too creepy or disconcerting to laugh off completely or easily forget.

I just wish it was twice as long. For the price, I'd expect more than 25 or 30 areas. But it's so much fun, we're already playing through it again on the next higher skill level...

9.4 out of 10.

Fun, but not 11th Hour

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I was hoping for a game like 11th Hour or Fools Errand. This game is more arcade like, but the puzzles are fun. Turns out I'm liking the game more and more as I play it. I do get tired of shooting the ghosts that come at you from all driections, I've got plenty of shooters to do that.
The basics of the game are that you are hired by the good ghosts of the mansion to get rid of the evil spirtis. You go from room to room solving puzzles in order to capture free spriits that allow you to gain access to other parts of the mansion. Along the way evil spirits and creatures attempt to do you harm.
The graphics and sound are very well done. Its easy to just pickup and play a room, save and go do other things, or you can sit for a few hours and work the game.
Definitely worth a rent, but good puzzle games are so few and far between, give it a purchase so we can all enjoy more titles in the future.

Buy It

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: October 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This one is great! 4 out of 5 stars. Camera, gameplay and graphics are really good. They seemed to have mastered camera control and the gameplay is a modified shoot-em up. The graphics are clean, crisp and very detailed (windows are quite amazing).
The only cons are that they need more music in the game and while the ghosts are neat looking they dont seem to have that Marc Davis drawing style applied.
Buy this if you are a HM fan. Buy this if you are a fan of haunted house games that have a GhostBusterish way of snagging the ghosts. The Haunted Mansion is a visual Treat.

what????

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 20
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

maybe it's New Jersey thing but I think maybe one particular Georgian needs to spend less time playing video games and more time learning to be literate.

Like Playing The Ride

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played/finished the game. It's a lot of fun, and captured the creepy feel of the Disney ride very well. You'll recognize various rooms and props from the ride (the stretching room, the dining room; the floating candleabra, the grandfather clock with the crooked pendulum). Of course, to fill out the game, there are several areas that weren't in the ride, such as the children's room and the attic. Many of the puzzles or puzzle-like situations are very well done and quite original. Some of my favorites were two different parts where you are temporarily shrunk, and find yourself having to get through a maze of children's blocks while balancing on a marble (much like "marble madness"), and the other where you are on the pool table (discussed in other reviews, so I won't recount it here); also, a seemingly tiny room has walls that move as you approach them, so you can only see about 10 square feet of the otherwise huge room at any one time. As with the Disney ride, there is also a little humor weaved in, and the overall product was a lot of fun.

Good for Haunted Mansion fans

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game a while ago after returning from Tokyo Disney. I'm a fan of the Haunted Mansion ride. This game captures more of the feel than the movie did and provides good entertainment value. The puzzles are well though out and graphics work well. Overall a good buy for children and adults alike.

Really fun but short

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i would have easly given it a 5 star if it was longer. i beat the game in only 5 hours of game play. other than that its a lot of fun. if you have been on the ride youll notice that theres a lot from it in the game which i thought was pretty cool and interesting. for a really fun game for like $5 you should get this one

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