Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Buffy Summers makes her console debut in a third-person action game set within the not-so-peaceful town of Sunnydale, CA. As the 17-year-old Chosen One, Buffy must use her heightened strength and agility to…
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an adventure developed by The Collective, released 18 August 2002 on Xbox.
What Buffy the Vampire Slayer is
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is an adventure game developed by The Collective and released in 2002. It was published by Fox Interactive. It is available on Xbox only. It runs on Slayer. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Buffy Summers makes her console debut in a third-person action game set within the not-so-peaceful town of Sunnydale, CA. As the 17-year-old Chosen One, Buffy must use her heightened strength and agility to defeat vampires, zombies, and other demons attracted to the town's dangerous proximity to a Hellmouth. Based on the UPN television series known for its unusual blend of action, suspense, comedy, and drama, the game takes place around the timeframe of the show's first and second seasons.
How it plays
Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the third of 5 entries we hold in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. It arrived 2 years after Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The next entry was Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wrath of the Darkhul King in 2003.
How it was received
Buffy the Vampire Slayer holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Buffy the Vampire Slayer launched on 18 August 2002, within three weeks of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Mafia, Syberia and Medieval: Total War. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Mafia, Syberia, Medieval: Total War.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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