So you can't sneak past guards inside buildings that way and you also can't use any of the Grinch's inventions. Although, the disadvantage of the latter is that, when disguised, you lose your disguise if you enter any buildings. Not only can he jump around like nobody's business, but he can also use his foul breath for a variety of purposes, sneak around to avoid security guards, smash things with his behind and use the handy phone boxes scattered around Whoville to change into a disguise that will keep the Whos from recognising him. In order to accomplish his Christmas-spoiling mission, the Grinch has a wide range of abilities as his disposal. And with the local Whos keeping a watch out for you, life as a Grinch is rarely dull. You can then go about these tasks in any order some tasks, such as snowman smashing, require you to just run around Whoville jumping on them, while others may mean you have to sneak into a building and avoid security guards. How so? On each level, you're told what you need to achieve, for example, smash a certain number of presents, perhaps chuck eggs into ten houses, or paint over the mayor's posters. You can only access the second section after the first has been completed and so on, but rather handily the levels themselves - which in turn contain various locations - are fairly non-linear. The game is split up into four rather large levels, accessible from the Grinch's stony mountaintop retreat.
Thankfully, the voice acting in the game is of a suitably decent quality and while the game doesn't exactly follow the plot of the book, it retains much the of the charm of the original story. So given the widespread fame of the tale, it's somewhat surprising that Konami chose to make said story into a game given that the majority of film licensed games end up being somewhat under par. The original story of The Grinch has already been the subject of a Chuck Jones animation, and more recently, the aforementioned live action film starring Jim Carrey. It's a mixture of platform hopping, object collecting, puzzling, Thief style sneaking about a mixture of gameplay that comes together to make a strangely entertaining game.
You view the Grinch-manufactured mayhem from a third person perspective, a la Tomb Raider, although there's yet to be a Lara Croft game that revolves around wrecking Christmas gifts with her arse or using bad breath to her advantage, something that's a regular occurrence in The Grinch.īut on the other hand, while the Grinch can grab the edges of platforms and pull himself up like Ms Croft, The Grinch isn't just about platform hopping.
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Instead, you have to wander around Whoville and the surrounding areas spoiling the Who's Christmas by smashing presents, destroying snowmen, firing rotten eggs into windows and performing all other manner of cold-hearted tasks. This is definitely a good thing since an entire game spent swapping presents and pleasantries with other Whos, hugging and dancing around would be too much to bear. The Grinch casts you not as little Cindy Who or any of her equally appalling brethren, but as the Grinch himself, mean spirited, green fur and all. We've been informed that rumors of a bloody shoot-em-up sequel Grinch 2: Red Christmas are completely unfounded, fortunately.
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In perfect timing for the holiday season, as well as the recent mega Blockbuster Jim Carrey movie (just announced as the biggest grosser of 2000), Konami have released a rather decent platform game in the shape of The Grinch, the Christmas-stealing cartoon fable based on Dr Seuss' The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
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