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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs series

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is based on the 2009 computer-animated film of the same name. The player is cast as Flint Lockwood, an aspiring inventor who tries to solve the hunger problem in his town by…

43 11 September 2009

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a platform developed by Ubisoft Shanghai, released 11 September 2009 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii and Xbox 360.

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What Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a platform game developed by Ubisoft Shanghai and released in 2009. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment of America. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is based on the 2009 computer-animated film of the same name. The player is cast as Flint Lockwood, an aspiring inventor who tries to solve the hunger problem in his town by creating a machine that turns water into food. Soon, the machine is out of control, and it literally is raining food on Flint's town. It's up to him to stop the machine and get rid of the abundance of food. To make matters worse however, the machine is now protected by mutated food. The player has to fight and puzzle their way through twenty levels, using Flint's self created gadgets such as a hair dryer converted into a heat gun, which can be used to melt obstacles composed of ice…
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs series

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is the first of 3 entries we hold in the Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs series. The next entry was Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in 2009.

See all 3 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs games in release order →

How it was received

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs holds a critic score of 43 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 2,373 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 24 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs launched on 11 September 2009, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham Asylum, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version and Pokémon HeartGold Version. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham Asylum, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, Pokémon SoulSilver Version, Pokémon HeartGold Version.

Official trailer

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When did Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs come out?
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was released on 11 September 2009 for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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