User blog:A Heroic Smurf/Review: The Smurfs 2 (Video Game)

NOTE: This review is strictly my opinion of the game. Other people's opinions might be different.

Recently I rented The Smurfs 2 video game for the Xbox 360. What caught my interest about the game was that it was an Action-Adventure Platformer (similar to Super Mario). So anyway let's get started:

Plot
The plot of the game follows the plot of the second movie. All the Smurfs are celebrating Smurfette's birthday, but Smurfette gets kidnapped by Vexy (The game has it spelt Vexi) and instead of immediately sending her through the portal to Paris, she takes her to Gargamel's hovel before creating a portal to travel to New York and then travelling to Paris.

Gameplay
The game has six worlds consisting of six stages, and at the end of the last stage you'll face off against a boss. The worlds in the game include: The Enchanted Forest, a Lava Jungle, the Artic Tundra, Spooky Swamp, New York and finally Paris.

Characters & Voices
There are 4 playable Smurf characters when you start the game: Papa, Clumsy, Grouchy and Vanity, with 5 more Smurfs unlocked as you complete each world: Brainy, Jokey, Hefty, Gutsy and finally Smurfette when you defeat Gargamel. Each Smurf comes with their own unique ability.

In terms of the voices. I know they are not movie quality, but I believe they could have at least picked better voice actors to voice the characters, especially Gargamel.

Audio
In terms of the music, I kinda like the music for most of the levels. They did include the La-La song, but it only plays when you pick up 4 vials of Smurf Essence and continues to play as long as you continue to pick up vials.

Other
Since it is the Xbox version of the game. It comes with a set of achievements which can range from: completing each world, defeat the boss without getting hit, use a characters ability 20 times in a level, collect a certain amount of Smurf coins and there's only one achievement for multi-player.

Another thing I was surprised about the game was the character designs in the cutscenes. They greatly resembled what they looked like in the A Christmas Carol special, another thing was that the game shows what the Naughties look like a True Blue Smurfs.

Overall
After my first playthrough, I kinda enjoyed playing the game. (I had to play it in secrecy as my family would ridicule me even more for playing it. Since they kinda already ridicule me for liking Smurfs in the first place.)