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Booyah

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: March 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

You play as a voodoo doll, named "Voodoo Vince", your mission is to rescue the vodoo priestess who got kidnapped (she is your owner). As a voodoo doll, you have power to inflict injury to your enemies by first causing injury to yourself (of course). you can perform special voodoo attacks when you collect enough magic orbs (from defeated enemies). It's just a standard platformer game once you get past the novelty. You can do your basic spin attack, jumps, grabbing onto ledges and floating. The graphics are nice and have a deformed look to it, adding to the wacky atmosphere of the game. The sound effects and music, were good, but very repetative. The controls were okay. The game gets difficult fast, and will give younger players a hard time. Since younger players are the target audience I think it was a mistake to make the game this hard. The game is also very short and very linear.

Pros:
+good graphics
+good controls
+voodoo doll powers
+funny

Cons:
-very difficult gameplay
-weak sound effects
-repetative music
-very short game
-linear gameplay
-difficult puzzles
-nothing innovating
-dark looking levels
-awkward camera

There are lots of better platformer games out there. Voodoo Vince is not one of them.

Voo-Doo Dooh

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 9
Date: October 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was one big fat dud. Graphics were okay, camera and controls were atrocious just like the other reviewer said. This game does not have replaybility. It is maybe worth 1 video rental to chalk down what you do not like about this game. There are much better platformers out there this year. No excitability here. My kids even asked me to turn this off.

Not worth your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 19
Date: November 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

XBox needs to stick to their shootem ups and sports games. This is not a worthy platformer. The graphics in this game are the pits. Amped 2 good, Vince not.

What a dud...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 28
Date: September 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I played the demo for this game, which admittedly doesn't give one a complete picture. I had high hopes for Voodoo Vince. I love the character design and screen shots I have seen of the levels looked like it would throw you into an entertaining macabre version of New Orleans. Unfortunately, the game seems to suffer from many ailments. First, the camera is attrocious. The controls were backward and there was no way to change it. Further, you end up in places where you can't even see where the heck you are. Very frustrating. Second, the voice acting is just lame. The script seems pretty weak too, but I wasn't exposed to alot of it. Third, gameplay is really boring. I was looking forward to the idea that the more damage you cause yourself would then in turn injure your enemies, but the power ups that allow it are few and far between. So you end up just punching weird looking critters over and over. There may be other ways to do it, but the makers didn't make it very clear in the demo. Finally, the music is really really lame. I don't know what they were thinking, but it is the most boring score for a platformer I have ever heard.

It just might work its voodoo on you. Good - not great!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: April 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Voodoo Vince. I bought it for the Xbox because it got pretty good reviews and my XBox needed a platformer. By the way... three out of five stars for me, means that I liked the game and would reccomend it to fans of the genre. In truth it is worth 3.4 stars, but no way is it ever gonna be worth five. The only five star platformer I have played was the original Super Mario 64, so based upon that game, 3.4 is a fair assessment of Voodoo Vince. What can you expect?

Graphics...Astounding: 4.5
Music...Very Original and good: 4.0
Control... better than most: 4.0
Originality...somewhat lacking: 2.0
Humor...sometimes funny, sometimes dumb: 2.5
Gameplay...fun...but nothing new: 3.0

OVERALL SCORE: 3.4 out of 5

This game is probably one of the better platform titles for the XBox, so if you must have a platformer... rent it first. Odds are, if you like platformers, you will have fun. If you don't like them, however, Voodoo Vince isn't going to convince you otherwise.

JEFF

Highly Underrated Platformer with A Lot of Laughs!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: July 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I didn't pick this game up until it dropped to $20, mainly because I had heard mixed reviews about it. After playing it, I'm beginning to think that many reviewers are just jaded from the surplus of platformers available on the market. The game is beautiful and easy to learn. Voodoo Vince is a very cute mascot with just enough personality to crack up even the most serious of players.

Story
The story is pretty entertaining. You are a voodoo doll named Vince. You are the "third best" doll of a woman by the name of Madame Charmaine, who has been kidnapped by Kosmo the Inscrutable. During the crime, Vince has zombie dust sprinkled on him, bringing him to life and allowing him to receive telepathic messages from Mme. Charmaine.

Characters
Vince is a very likable character, with his tongue in cheek disdain for all things platforming (e.g. "Another musical gate puzzle...hooray"). I can't decide if he has very low or very high self-esteem, because his character seems to waffle between the two. In any case, he is very entertaining. Mme. Charmaine's visual role is small after her abduction, but her voice haunts you throughout the game (think Cleo from the Psychic Friends network). The main "baddy", Kosmo, reminds me of Bert from Sesame Street. He is supposed to be quite comical, but I find it hard to believe that a Muppet could pull off such a heist!

Gameplay
The gameplay is standard 3D platforming at its best -- jump around and float/hover to drop more slowly and find secret areas. Your special attacks are one of the more novel I have seen. To harm a large number of enemies around you, you invoke a random special attack which involves...hurting yourself! You collect icons throughout the game that add to your portfolio of attacks, including my favorite: the shark attack.

WOW! Animation and Great Tunes
A few other reviewers have dissed the animation, saying it isn't XBox calibre, but I couldn't disagree more. The first time Vince looks in an old, worn out mirror in the first level, I was amazed at the attention to detail that the designers put into this game. The burlap on Vince looks so real that I expect to get a rash from touching its rough surface! Everything else is cartoony, but the lighting effects are excellent, as is the feeling of age in certain areas (e.g. inside an old drainpipe).

Jazz and blues tunes permeate this title, giving it a real Cajun feel. The Main Street level of The Quarter really feels like New Orleans, especially how the music speeds up when Vince catches on fire. (Don't ask...it's an important part of the story).

Will This Gather Dust?
It certainly won't in my collection. Vince is cool, and his antics are classic. I am still revisiting levels trying to get all of the pages and skulls that I missed the first time through.

At $20, this game is a steal.

Overall Recommendations:
You'll like this if:
* You grew up on platformers and still love them.
* You like Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga style humor.
* You like New Orleans.

Voodoo Vince - A platform game that mocks all platform games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: November 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

So what do you get when you add your typical platform game, a third-rate voodoo doll, and a fun Louisiana Cajun storyline? Voodoo Vince! As much as I've been bored by many of the platform titles that have come out over the past few years (and the millions of sequels issued after them), Voodoo Vince was a welcome change of pace. You play an animated voodoo doll that is out to rescue his owner, Madame Charmaine, who is captured by Kosmo the Inscrutable (think Vizzini the Sicilian from Princess Bride - add a Fez and you're getting close).

The game pokes fun of other platform titles (pardon the pun), as much as it plays like one. It has the genre's obligatory boss battles, puzzles, and hidden items, but Vince always has something witty to say about each new challenge that will keep you in stitches. It steals some ideas from a few other platform games, such as target-based grappling ala Rayman and a spin attack that is reminiscent of Crash Bandicoot, but those aren't bad platform~ games to take from. The last thing that still makes me giggle is Vince's DIE! How can you not like a game in which you are supposed to set yourself on fire?

This game stands apart from other platform titles for its atmosphere, especially the music. I rarely am able to keep the sound up on a title for an excessively long amount of time, however, with this title the music and background effects are superb. I wish more titles had the musical direction that Voodoo Vince has, but then again not many are from the bayou! The imagery of the game is vivid and colorful, and it is the prettiest platform title for the Xbox since Oddworld.

As far as knocks on the game, I think the biggest one I have, which is one that I have for all games of this genre, is this: the camera angle will kill you for a while. All third person perspective titles have this problem, and I don't know what it will take to fix it. It isn't as bad as some titles have been, but there are parts where you won't be able to determine how steep an incline is, or where an item or switch is. Luckily enough, there are special abilities that will help you later in the game to get over this problem, helping you out in determining where things are. I don't knock the game too hard on this as I've come to realize that third person camera angles just have this problem.

If you're going to run through the game without collecting every secret item, you can get through it within 10-12 hours easily. I was going through getting everything, as I loved seeing all the different voodoo powers, personally enjoying all the different ways to chop/slice/smash all of the monsters, and it took me about 20 hours. If you're looking for something that's going to make you laugh out loud and have fun, this game is for you. If you don't have a sense of humor, buy one.

Overall I give Voodoo Vince a solid 4 out of 5 TJ's (That's Throbbing Joysticks to anyone who doesn't know my ratings scale). If you're broke, go rent it; it'll soak your weekend into oblivion - you won't be disappointed.

Extremely fun, but also extremely frustrating

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: November 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Voodoo Vince is, in a word, intense. It's also funny, snarky, and challenging.

Controls for Vince are very easy to pick up, although, with certain combinations, it can be painful or downright deadly for Vince if you have a brain freeze, and hit "dive bomb" instead of "propeller" (like, say, over a bottomless pit).

The camera controls aren't perfect, but they're pretty easy to pick up, and eventually they become second nature when you're playing.

My favorites, and the thing that VV is known for, are the "voodoo powers". Like another reviewer said, they're basically slickly-animated smart bombs. However, having said that, it's definitely a kick to be surrounded by monsters, and then setting off things like Blender, Vial of Acid, William Tell, or Wrecking Ball (unless I've missed something, it's randomly chosen, but they all have the same effect on the monsters).

The mini-games are also quite clever, and the boss fights are sufficiently challenging, although if you don't execute them perfectly, the re-do factor of trying to damage the boss can be extremely trying.

Ultimately, this is a very addicting game, and one that I really hope comes out with a sequel.

A 10 Inch Voodoo Doll Becomes A Hero?!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Great game. Right mix of witty commentary, well-designed environments, enough (but not too many) collection items, good character movement and fighting skills (but not too many), pleasant theme (Voodoo in the Big Easy), excellent graphics.

Way Cool

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is full of fun surprises and is very funny. It's pretty easy but it is exciting and awesome!I think this game is as great as gta: vice city! Every one should own this game!

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