4.8 /10 1 Votes
4.9/10 GameSpot Director(s) Hideki Anbo Artist(s) Noboru Hotta Developer Sonic Team Publisher Sega Platform PlayStation 2 | 4/10 IGN 54% Metacritic Producer(s) Mineko Okamura Initial release date 18 April 2004 Designer Yuji Naka Genre Action game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer(s) Yosuke Yoshizawa
Atsushi Ota
Nobuo Nakagawa Composer(s) Takashi Yoshimatsu
Yutaka Minobe
Naofumi Hataya
Mariko Nanba
Teruhiko Nakagawa
Fumie Kumatani
Hideaki Kobayashi
Norihiko Machida Release date(s) JP: April 18, 2004
NA: August 18, 2004
EU: February 11, 2005
AU: February 23, 2005 Similar Sonic Team games, Other games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Astro Boy (アストロボーイ・鉄腕アトム, Asutoro Bōi: Tetsuwan Atomu, "Astro Boy: Mighty Atom") is a video game based on the 2003 anime television series, produced by Sonic Team. The story deviates from the positive 2003 series with several plot twists like the lack of important characters like Skunk and the lack of backgrounds for characters like Atlas who just appears as a robot bent into destroying all humans and as well changes in several characters personalities like Shadow who just wants to destroy all humans.
Reception
The game received mixed reviews. Game Informer's Matt Helgeson gave it a 5.5/10, opining that "The amount of time you have to spend tweaking your viewpoint with the shoulder buttons is ridiculous, an unwanted flashback to early 3D platformers like Gex and Spyro the Dragon." In a second opinion, Matt Miller rated it 6.75/10, praising "incredible special effects and a smorgasbord of boss battles", but stating that it is "unlikely to entrance for more than a weekend".