Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Nintendo DS

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

Released 2/9/10
Genre : Action Adventure
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ESRB Rated E 10+: Everyone 10+
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  • Fantasy Violence
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For Percy Jackson, surviving high school history class goes way beyond just landing a solid 'B.' Like many other high school students, Jackson finds himself learning about mythological Greek gods and monsters. But Percy's experience goes way beyond the usual when he finds himself caught in a world of Greek gods come to life. And when the lightning bolt of the mighty Zeus goes missing, Jackson must battle powerful gods and other mythological creatures to find the lightning thief. Play as Percy, assemble a team, and go off on an epic search for answers in this tactical strategy game based on the book and movie.

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7
Lots of reading required.
More of an interactive storybook with turnbased battles thrown in. I finished it over a weekend so unless you're really bad at turnbased battles there isn't much challenge. The different characters and their spells and ablities were interesting. However there were no limits to how many times you could use them during any single battle. Items were limitted but I just stockpiled them because I usually had a character with a similar or better ablity. This game would have been alot better with a few sidequests and more variety in the enemies, but I'd say it's worth the rental at least.
tiloho (member since 2005)
reviewed on 6/16/10
17 agree
10
1 of the Best games I ever played
It is aweasome!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't like most ds games but this is an exception
Conn11 (member since 2010)
reviewed on 6/29/10
11 agree
1
so-so... book was better
basically, percy jackson the game was kind of- well the book was better. all you do is touch the place you need to go and battle when you need to. the best part is the battle. i recommednd renting this before buying it. if you like it, do the oblivious and buy it. i didn't.
JRose0120 (member since 2010)
reviewed on 6/7/10
15 agree
1
Boring Lame
Percy Jackson was a great movie and book but this games sucks. <br /><br />Graphics:2 <br /><br />The graphics looked like a real old game.<br /><br />Challenge:3 <br /><br />It is like 2+2=4 Easy <br /><br />Fun 0 <br /> boring <br /><br />Plot/storyline:1 <br /><br />Doesn't make snse
xd0012 (member since 2008)
reviewed on 5/1/10
11 agree
2
Great Book, Horrible Movie, DISGUSTING Video Game.
The battle system is chunky, needing fine tuning. The sound is just bad, but that may just be the DS's speakers. There isn't much to do here. If you like Pokemon's battle system and hate the movement via foot and bicycle, you haven't read the book and you haven't watched the movie, don't care about horrid graphics, then this is most certainly the game for you! (maybe).
Thenooblet (member since 2009)
reviewed on 2/25/10
45 agree
10
PERCY JACKSON GAME ROCKS
This game is the best game ever.Books are absolutly the best serious ever. Movie the best ever the game is AWSOME PERCY JACKSON ROCKS
bb1967 (member since 2007)
reviewed on 7/12/10
8 agree
9
slow
game fly is so slow im going to cancel if the game ist here by monday
john21 (member since 2010)
reviewed on 4/24/10
19 agree
1
This absolutely SUCKS
Graphics- They looked a lot like little cardboard people moving. The movement was chunky and laggy. The people very well could have been pieces of paper. <br />Game-play- Again it sucks. Absolutely no challenge. It was like some 3 year-old had designed it so that you pretty much couldn't die and you just tell the enemies to die an they would sort of fall down. <br />Story- This part just made me angry. Normally I don't care about video game story lines unless its Zelda but I'm a Percy Jackson junkie. I've read the lightning thief at least 11 times(no joke) so when the movie came out I just had to see it. But it sucked. Annabeth being combined with Clarisse was the last straw. I left half way through. but then i came back. But it just got worse and worse! When the game game out i was hold on with that last bit of hope that they might make up for it with a great game(It's happened before with the golden compass), but naturally the story in the game just got worse. Percy can't wear the flying shoes! So basically all I have to say about this game in general is only rent if you haven't read the books,haven't seen the movies, don't now a single thing about Greek mythology, and love horrible games.
doubleB (member since 2007)
reviewed on 11/10/12
0 agree
1
Percy Jackson
This game was a game i was going to buy for my ds. I was sooooo glad i didn't! It's a bit like pokemon but pokemon is much better. I loved the book, liked the movie, and hated the game.
nyan2779cat (member since 2012)
reviewed on 8/31/12
0 agree
1
TERRIBLE!!!!
I got this game because I LOVE the books. It is EXACTLY like the movie but super boring! Unless you have never read the books and like the movie ALOT, I would definitely NOT play this game!!!!!!
mariolover101 (member since 2012)
reviewed on 7/13/12
0 agree

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