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Tarzan Untamed is Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: October 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Wow, is all I can hype up for this game. It is simply an amazing game in all aspects. Clean graphics, catchy tunes, and great gameplay which you'll get in under an hour. It is albeit a bit short, but fun non the less.

Short games are the fate of the GC

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 38
Date: November 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The lack of technological innovation is hurting the GC. It shows up especially in this game. The lack of effort can be seen in this game as you will laugh once you figure out that it took longer to go to the store and pick this game up then it did to finish it.

The game is greate

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: November 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I see a lot of graphics and this game is amacing.
Tarzan can surf and flew it down on a bongijump.
I recomendated you (...)

Not Luigi- but fun none the less!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 18 / 22
Date: November 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Watch for "rogue" reviews as people who are obviously out to give the GameCube a bad name are not giving good, helpful reviews. This game is a simple one-- that means its fun, but not hard to master. It takes a part of the Playstation Tarzan game that was fun-- the sliding on trees-- and expands it considerably. It will take a good bit of control not to slide off into oblivion, but anyone from 5 to 50 years old can still have fun with this one.

The graphics are not ground breaking, but they are improved over the Playstation version and the jungle sounds are excellent. Don't buy this over Luigi- but if you already bought a couple of games and are looking for a good second string list, this one will fit that bill just fine!

Tarzan is both untamed and tamed at the same time.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Tarzan is an okay game but the N64 and Playstation version were much,much better. Tarzan slides onto Gamecube and PS2 but slips and fails but succeds at the same time. Some times, if you grab an enemy with your hands, than you can see your hands go through them. The camera's just as untamed as the game's expectations. If you go left, the camera goes right. The short game plot is not helping either. Here's my advice: Rent it and see if it's good than if you like buy it. But to me, I think it's a rent game only.

Extreme Disney

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: December 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Excerpts from the full review at Nintendorks:

"Tarzan Untamed, from respected developer Ubi Soft, does a good job of living up to the movie it's based on. It's the only real 'kiddy' Gamecube launch game, and even this title is more mature than you'd expect from Disney. Tarzan Untamed features some standard 3D platforming, but adds levels with extreme-sports style. These sequences imitate the movie's most exciting scenes, where Tarzan's branch-sliding and vine-swinging involve skateboarding and bungie-jumping techniques. This refusal to be generic saves Tarzan Untamed from the unhappy fate of most licensed games: stale gameplay that doesn't even have that much to do with the license. Unfortunately, Tarzan Untamed never succeeds in becoming anything better than merely decent.

Ubi Soft's approach to Tarzan's gameplay is really quite clever, somehow managing to be both innovative and derivative at the same time. If you've played Rayman 2 (and shame on you if you haven't), you've experienced most of the gameplay in Tarzan Untamed. Tarzan's platforming, which involves a lot of downhill sliding, should be immediately familiar. The "extreme" angle has been played up, and Tarzan can even rack up bonus points by pulling various tricks, but Rayman is clearly a bigger influence than Tony Hawk. The waterskiing sequences are another Ubi Soft throwback, with only the bungie jumping bonus stages and the downhill surfing offering divergences from Rayman 2. On one hand, you'd be hard-pressed to pick a better platformer to imitate and the gameplay fits perfectly with the Tarzan license. On the other hand, the game doesn't offer much that's new.

Is Tarzan Untamed fun? Sure, and the varied gameplay keeps things from getting old too quickly. But it's not fun enough to warrant a purchase for most folks, and a gamer strapped for cash might even feel that renting this game would be a waste of money. This is the kind of game that you'd probably never buy, but it's not the worst possible thing you could get as a gift, and you'd probably have a good time playing it with a younger sibling. It's a solid game that shows that licensed games don't have to suck, and that a skilled third-party developer doesn't have to work too hard to make a worthwhile Gamecube title."

Fun for our second childhood 8-)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: December 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My husband and I bought our first video game console this Christmas - the Gamecube. We're in our late 40's and we wanted to be able to learn to play without becoming discouraged or overwhelmed. We chose this game because we got the impression from the other reviews that it would be a nice game to learn with... and it is. I enjoy moving the character through the jungle, and learning to manipulate him in such a beautifully rendered scenic environment is a pleasure. The sound track is very enjoyable and I have had a fine time becoming more capable and learning the techniques needed to get through the game. My one criticism is that I wish I did not have to start all the way over at the beginning after I lose my last life in the level. I'd appreciate being able to pick up where I had left off before I made my last fatal error. But once I accepted this limitation and got used to starting all the way over again, I found myself taking comfort in mastering the earlier moves through repetition and getting to the more difficult areas more quickly. This game is a nice pleasant variation after playing Star Wars or Crazy Taxi.

Pretty good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my 6 year old cousin, It has good graphics and sound effects are good but i reccomend this game for ages 5-10.

This will be great for the kids

Don't buy it

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 15
Date: January 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It is short and u should buy super smash in stead because Tarzan
can be described in 2 words (Tarzan Nofame)!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wouldn't reccomend this one...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Okay, it's cool when you ski and bunjee jump. It is the COOLEST when Tarzan gets chomped by an alligator. I bought this game and now I am sorry I did. Look, if you really want to see Tarzan in action, see the movie. Otherwise, you would be much happier getting Super Smash Bros. Regardless of the above, you should not get this game if your age does not range between 4-9.

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