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Psychonauts
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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Majesco
EAN: 0096427013983
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Item Dimensions: 200
Label: Majesco Sales Inc.
Manufacturer: Majesco Sales Inc.
Model: 96427013983
MPN: 01398
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Xbox
Publisher: Majesco Sales Inc.
Release Date: April 20, 2005
Studio: Majesco Sales Inc.
Features:- 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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Editorial Review:
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.
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - itr seems to stick with you
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.
Rating: - Could be a perfect 360 game! You listening, Microsoft?
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 ... Read More
Rating: - You want to play it
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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Rating: - I love this game!
One of the coolest and most creative games I've had the pleasure of playing. Not quite the best (almost though!), but certainly the most sureal, innovative and satisfying. If you're not an elitist gamer who enjoys something different and fun, go get it.
Rating: - Kitchey, Fun, Addictive
Like all the good reviewers already said, this game is awesome. I'm just adding my 2 cents.
I picked up a copy based on the reviews and all my other games just took a back seat this weekend to my exploring the warped world of what seems to be a well written book that I can play out in a video game scenario.
Definately try this out. It IS a platformer though...
You will feel that "go from this area to that area after exploring all the areas" but I'm only 4 hours into ... Read More
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