This game is pretty much average at best. The graphics do
resemble the movie a lot. The songs from the movie like the
Genie song, and Whole New World are here, and they sound
very good. The story follows the movie very closely, from
beginning to end. If you were a big fan of the movie, you
should like this game, it isn' real bad, it just isn't that
good either. Though fun at times, and the graphics are great
it just doesn't have the substance I was looking, for and it
falls to the rest of the pile of non descript side scrollers.
Story 8/10
Just like the highly successful Disney Master Piece, you are
Aladdin. You start in the beginning of the movie in the
Arabian market out smarting the guards who caught you
stealing a loaf of bread. As you progress through the game
you will see a lot of characters people and things from the
movie. Like the prison, Jafaar's castle, the Genie and some
others. Abu the lovable chimp from the movie also is in this
game, he makes guess appearances. Which is a relief,
basically if you seen this great movie then well you should
play the game as well.
Graphics 9/10
The graphics were outstanding, every stage looked exactly
like the movie. From the Arabian Roof Tops, to the Desert
everything looked exactly like you were playing the movie.
Aladdin looked great as well he was highly detailed and
looked exactly like his movie counterpart, every thing from
the rip in his pants to his facial features. The cut scenes
between each stage looked great to, it helped the story move
along, I won't give it away for you just in case you didn't
see this movie. The backgrounds were truly the best of all
particularly the cave of wonders. You will not be
disappointed with the graphics seen here I assure you.
Sound 9/10
The music in this game was fabulous. Every great and
memorable song from the movie was represented here, and it
sounded great as usual. The Genesis had a success with the
sound department because music of this high quality is
basically non-existent to Genesis users. I really liked the
themes of whole new world, and the Genie themes, listening
to this music again and again gave me a new found
appreciation for the movie. The sound FX were great as well
and they came across nicely, there weren't drowned out by
the music at all. You even had voices from the Guards and
some times Aladdin even said things like 1-up. Both of these
departments put together brings you a treat for both the
eyes and the ears.
Game Play 7/10
This game is for one player only. You have about 7 or 8
stages that depict the various and important scenes from the
movie. You start of as Aladdin and you have a sword and a
few apples. The first stage is Arabian Market you will have
to fight many guards here, most good down quite easily with
just getting hit by a couple of apples or a sword. You have
to use ingenuity because on some stages instead of fighting
a boss you may have to find various items. Items like
Flutes, or scarabs when you find them proceed to the end of
the stage and you win. After each stage depending on if you
collected at least one Genie icon you will get a chance to
play a bonus game. It is like a slot machine, there is an
apple on it, Aladdin's face, a ruby, Genie's face, and
Jafar's face. If you get an apple you get 5 extra apples, if
you get a ruby, you get an extra ruby, if you get Aladdin's
face you get an extra life, if you get Genie's face you get
an extra play, and if you get Jafar's face you get nothing.
Then there's another cool bonus round featuring Abu, where
you get to play as him, you have to avoid barrels and
guards. Eventually items that Aladdin can use will drop from
the top of the screen. There are only 2 Abu bonus rounds you
will have to find them for yourself. You do other things
besides just climbing platforms, and beating up guards, you
get to climb ropes and fly the magic carpet. The magic
Carpet stage in my opinion is the coolest stage in the
entire game, the carpet will fly real fast and you have to
avoid rocks and boulders, which are placed in the flying
path. The Genie will help you because his thumbs will point
up or down depending on which way the rock is, some times he
just doesn't know, so just stay in the middle. The game
difficulty is adjustable and there aren't any save or
passwords.
Overall 7/10
I only have a few gripes with this game over than that none.
Besides the fact that most of the game is very easy no
matter what setting you put it on. Then theirs the fact of
that the Genie is barely in the game, the only time you see
the genie is during the bonus round and on one stage inside
his bottle. All though the graphics make up for this, when
you think about it not really because I would have more in
depth challenge than anything. Even though this was based on
a child's movie, and obviously so was the game, but
developers realize that more than just children may play the
game. They should of made the hardest mode a little harder
and included more Genie in the game it would provided much
more enjoyment for me and other more experienced gamers. The
replay value is low because there isn't much to do after you
beat the game, and frankly their should have been more
secrets placed in the game. If their were it would of made
it much more worth while to pick this one up again. Al
though children will enjoy this and That's basically who it
is for. If you loved the movie you probably will find some
one-time enjoyment from this as well.
