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Disney's A Christmas Carol

Inspired by the Dickens tale re-imagined by Robert Zemeckis, Disneys A Christmas Carol is an innovative puzzle-adventure game celebrating the spirit of the holidays with a Scrooge twist. The game invites a new…

60 3 November 2009

Disney's A Christmas Carol is an adventure developed by Sumo Digital, released 3 November 2009 on Nintendo DS.

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What Disney's A Christmas Carol is

Disney's A Christmas Carol is an adventure game developed by Sumo Digital and released in 2009. It was published by Disney Interactive Studios. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Inspired by the Dickens tale re-imagined by Robert Zemeckis, Disneys A Christmas Carol is an innovative puzzle-adventure game celebrating the spirit of the holidays with a Scrooge twist. The game invites a new generation to connect with the illustrious story & characters like never before and is sure to become a tradition embraced by the whole family. This keepsake from the movie will provide hours of festive entertainment and is destined to be an instant classic. Features Manipulate Scrooges environments to guide him on his supernatural adventure Blow and shout into the microphone and use the DS stylus to pull, shake, drag, rattle and tap Scrooges world and influence game play Experience…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are historical and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Disney series

Disney's A Christmas Carol is the 372nd of 516 entries we hold in the Disney series. The next entry was The Princess and the Frog in 2009. Its critic score of 60 is 6 points below the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Kingdom Hearts III at 90.

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How it was received

Disney's A Christmas Carol holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Disney's A Christmas Carol launched on 3 November 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins and Left 4 Dead 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2.

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When did Disney's A Christmas Carol come out?
Disney's A Christmas Carol was released on 3 November 2009 for Nintendo DS.

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