The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (video game)
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| The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | |
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 Original North American PS2 cover art |
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| Developer(s) | Heavy Iron Studios (PS2, GC, Xbox) AWE Games (PC) WayForward Technologies (GBA) Aspyr Media (Mac) |
| Publisher(s) | THQ |
| Designer(s) | RenderWare |
| Platform(s) | PC, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Mobile phone, Mac OS X |
| Release date(s) | Windows GBA, GC, PS2, & Xbox Mobile July 16, 2005 Macintosh
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is a video game based on the film of the same name, which is a complement of SpongeBob SquarePants. It was created on the same engine as SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom on the console version of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie video game.
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[edit] Plot
The plot of the video game is very similar to the film. King Neptune's crown has been stolen by Plankton and SpongeBob and Patrick must retrieve it from where Plankton sold it to: Shell City. A few areas in the game are not seen in the film, such as the level "Drive of the Knucklehead-McSpazatron", where SpongeBob and Patrick must drive through Planktopolis to get to the Krusty Krab, and where SpongeBob and Patrick must escape Gooberland (their dreams) by following the Goofy Goober in the Patty Wagon.[1] And later again to the Krusty Krab 2, in the Patty Wagon (requiring several Goober Tokens to get it back as this is in their reality, not their dreams).
[edit] Gameplay
Console versions - The gameplay is similar to that from the previous game, Battle for Bikini Bottom. There are 18 levels in the game that loosely follow the storyline of the movie. There are many different types of levels:
- The regular platforming levels.
- "Spongeball" returning minorly from Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, are levels which are a spinoff of Super Monkey Ball.
- "Floating Block Challenges" where Patrick must navigate through a bunch of blocks (with many conditions like bouncing, disappearing, spikes, and rotation).
- "Combat Arena Challenges" where you defeat 1 or 3 waves of enemies.
- "Sonic Wave Guitar" challenges where SpongeBob must direct a flying guitar wave through rings.
- Driving challenges using mini-tubs and cars; each challenge has the main challenge where you get to the end, 2 time challenges and a ring challenge.
- 4 boss battles.
Each completion of a challenge grants the player with a Goofy Goober Token. In order to learn the moves required to advance in levels and the stories, SpongeBob and Patrick will have to complete these side missions (like the extra driving and minigame challenges) to get these tokens. SpongeBob and Patrick have a few moves, and when they get a sufficient amount of points, they can upgrade a move (e.g. increasing their max health).
PC versions - The gameplay is similar to that of Employee Of The Month. The game consists of 8 chapters.It mainly follows around SpongeBob and Patrick a various number of locations(e.g the Trench)
Game Boy Advance version - There are 6 worlds to progress through, plus many bonus levels.
[edit] Awards
- Platinum Hits for the Microsoft Xbox[2]
- Player's Choice for the Nintendo GameCube[3]
- Sony Greatest Hits for the Sony PlayStation 2[4]
[edit] Reception
The PS2 version was noted by Play Magazine as "a full blown AAA platformer".
[edit] PS3
On February 5, 2012, it was officially revealed that The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie would be coming to the PlayStation Store as a PS2 Classic on February 7, 2012. [5]
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