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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Step inside the magical world of Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory. Based on the Warner Bros. film and the classic novel by Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lets you delve deep inside the…

20 15 July 2005

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is an adventure, released 15 July 2005 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was released in 2005. It was published by Global Star Software. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Step inside the magical world of Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory. Based on the Warner Bros. film and the classic novel by Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lets you delve deep inside the factory to relive the classic story as Charlie Bucket. Find a golden ticket and, along with four other children, win a personal tour of Willy Wonka's factory as guided by the notorious and reclusive candy maker himself. Discover what happens after the other children, greed-driven and unrestrained, wreak havoc throughout the factory.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory series

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is the first of 2 entries we hold in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory series. The next entry was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005.

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How it was received

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory holds a critic score of 20 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 47 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory launched on 15 July 2005, within three weeks of We Love Katamari, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented, Ys: The Oath in Felghana and Halo 2: Multiplayer Map Pack. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: We Love Katamari, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented, Ys: The Oath in Felghana, Halo 2: Multiplayer Map Pack.

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When did Charlie and the Chocolate Factory come out?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was released on 15 July 2005 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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