Frogger (Xbox 360)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.0 stars Good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 6.7 (3.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Jeff Gerstmann
• Reviewed on: 07/13/2006
• Released on: 07/12/2006
• Originally published on GameSpot: Frogger (Xbox 360) Review

Frogger is a classic arcade game, originally released to arcades in 1981. The premise is simple. You, as a frog, must hop across a busy road and then hop across a log-and-turtle-filled river to get to a home base at the top of the screen. Getting hit by cars, jumping into the water, and getting eaten by otters or snakes are the sorts of things you want to try to avoid. Now, that arcade classic is available on the Xbox 360. It's a mostly faithful emulation of the arcade original with a few interesting updates that should please fans of the series.

Like many of the other Digital Eclipse-developed Xbox Live Arcade games, Frogger defaults to an enhanced mode, which offers somewhat-more-modern graphics and sound. If you can't stand those graphics and the updated music, you can opt for the original look and sound instead. It's a pretty accurate emulation of the arcade game, but for some reason, the music has all been changed, even if you're playing on the original setting. The classic Frogger opening music is gone, and no music plays while you hop around. It's an odd change, and it detracts from the authenticity of the package a bit. Perhaps it's based on some alternate version of the arcade game, but it's not the music heard in the Buckner & Garcia "classic," "Froggy's Lament." So it's not canon.

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