It's the haphazard level design that really keeps the game from being more than middling. After playing through a few levels, you won't be able to shake the feeling that everything has been slapped together all willy-nilly. Power-ups are strewn about seemingly at random, often in spots unreachable except during suicide runs, and enemy spawn points seem as if they were set purely as afterthoughts. Cool gameplay concepts aside, much of the game's levels appear more like the product of someone playing around with a level editor rather than creating a professional game. The fact that every mission is essentially a hunt for DNA strands is a bit weak as well, and once you get over the rush associated with blowing up crates and crawling on walls, you'll find very little here to keep your attention. All told, if you have a little bit of twitch-game prowess and a rather long attention span, you'll be able to collect enough DNA strands to reach the game's final levels in a handful of hours, though given how repetitive things get even a few minutes in, you likely won't be motivated to get that far.
Unfortunately, it isn't all that great.
Stitch: Experiment 626 is a fairly decent-looking game, with a relatively smooth frame rate and some genuinely neat particle effects. The character models are hit or miss, with some of the enemies looking nice and detailed and others looking sort of slapped together. The environments are cool looking--their color palettes are nice and vibrant, and the textures are passable. On the other hand, the game's camera perspective is a bit off a lot of the time, and in certain sequences--wall-crawling ones especially--it makes the game harder to play than it should be. Still, it's nothing that anyone who's played some other 3D platformers wouldn't already be used to. In terms of its sound, nothing in the game stands out one way or another. Stitch will occasionally yelp now and again, and Jumba will brief you frequently--and both voices are done decently. The music consists mostly of various repetitive techno confections.
Stitch: Experiment 626 provides a disjointed gameplay experience, and as such it can't be recommended to anyone who isn't very into the recently released Disney movie. Though it isn't as bad as movie-based games tend to be, there are much better PS2 action games out there that would probably make better use of your time and money.
What You'll Pay
- See All Prices
- Set Price Alert
- Price History
