Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
Banjo and Kazooie are facing their greatest adventure yet, battling long-time nemesis Gruntilda for rightful ownership of Spiral Mountain. Use your wits and imagination to invent wild and wonderful…
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is an adventure developed by Rare, released 12 November 2008 on Xbox 360.
What Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts 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. It runs on Havok.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game takes place following the conclusion of Banjo-Tooie, in which Gruntilda's body is destroyed by Banjo and Kazooie. Eight years have passed since Gruntilda's defeat. While Banjo and Kazooie are eating pizza, playing video games and listening to the radio, they discover Gruntilda's detached head returning to Spiral Mountain. They are about to fight when they are stopped by Lord of Games (L.O.G.). He attempts to settle the conflict between the two by devising a series of worlds and challenges. He uses his powers to give Gruntilda an artificial body and to restore the duo's physical fitness, but not their moves from previous games. L.O.G. transports the characters to Showdown Town, his…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and open world. It supports multiplayer for up to 8 players online. Local play supports 1 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Banjo & Kazooie series
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts is the sixth of 11 entries we hold in the Banjo & Kazooie series. It arrived 4 years after Banjo-Pilot. The next entry was Banjo-Kazooie in 2008. Its critic score of 87 is 26 points above the series average of 61. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 22 points above the year average. Players rate it 76, 11 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 25 hrs.
What it launched against
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts launched on 12 November 2008, within three weeks of Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2 and Left 4 Dead. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Fallout 3, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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