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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

Be the Baudelaires—Switch between the 3 Baudelaire orphans to utilize each of their special abilities Invent to Prevail—Gather objects throughout your adventure to build ingenious inventions to for solving…

59 10 November 2004 ESRB E

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is an adventure developed by Adrenium Games, released 10 November 2004 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is an adventure game developed by Adrenium Games and released in 2004. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 2. It carries an ESRB E age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Be the Baudelaires—Switch between the 3 Baudelaire orphans to utilize each of their special abilities Invent to Prevail—Gather objects throughout your adventure to build ingenious inventions to for solving tricky puzzles or for creating unique weapons to fend off Olaf’s creepy cohorts. Truly based on a story— Engage in over 20 different missions based on the adventures from the movie and the 1st three books Dupe the dopes—Defeat Count Olaf and his troupe of villains who assume many disguises in their never-ending pursuit of the Baudelaire orphans and their family fortune.
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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 A Series of Unfortunate Events series

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is the first of 3 entries we hold in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. The next entry was Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events in 2004.

See all 3 A Series of Unfortunate Events games in release order →

How it was received

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 11 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events launched on 10 November 2004, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater and World of Warcraft. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, World of Warcraft.

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When did Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events come out?
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events was released on 10 November 2004 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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