Banjo-Kazooie
The Xbox 360 remaster of Banjo-Kazooie has visual and performance improvements over the Nintendo 64 version. In this version, the player doesn't lose the notes after getting out of a stage, which is a major…
Banjo-Kazooie is an adventure developed by Rare, released 3 December 2008 on Xbox 360.
What Banjo-Kazooie is
Banjo-Kazooie is an adventure game developed by Rare and released in 2008. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Banjo the bear leads a peaceful life on Spiral Mountain alongside his fast-talking bird friend Kazooie and his cheerful younger sister, Tooty. Their quiet home is shared, however, by the wicked witch Gruntilda, who one day asks her sentient cauldron who the prettiest girl on the mountain is. To her jealous fury, the answer is not herself but young Tooty. Consumed by envy and determined to steal the girl's beauty for her own, Gruntilda swoops down and kidnaps Tooty, spiriting her away to her towering cliffside lair. When Banjo and Kazooie hear the commotion and learn from their mole friend Bottles what has happened, the duo set off at once, venturing into Gruntilda's twisted lair to rescue…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Banjo & Kazooie series
Banjo-Kazooie is the seventh of 11 entries we hold in the Banjo & Kazooie series. The next entry was Banjo-Tooie in 2009. Its critic score of 78 is 17 points above the series average of 61. The highest-rated entry is Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts at 87.
How it was received
Banjo-Kazooie holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Banjo-Kazooie launched on 3 December 2008, within three weeks of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Left 4 Dead, Prince of Persia (2008) and Prince of Persia. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Left 4 Dead, Prince of Persia (2008), Prince of Persia.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Banjo-Kazooie yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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