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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - The Video Game

Get ready for a story so epic it could only unfold in the corridors of the world's largest museum--the Smithsonian Institution. Museum guard-turned entrepreneur Larry Daley discovers that his favorite…

40 5 May 2009

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - The Video Game is an adventure developed by Amaze Entertainment, released 5 May 2009 on Wii, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - The Video Game is

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - The Video Game is an adventure game developed by Amaze Entertainment and released in 2009. It was published by Majesco Entertainment. It is available on Wii, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Get ready for a story so epic it could only unfold in the corridors of the world's largest museum--the Smithsonian Institution. Museum guard-turned entrepreneur Larry Daley discovers that his favorite exhibits, and some of his best friends, from New York's Natural History Museum are being shipped off to the archives at the Smithsonian. Larry gets a distress call from the miniature cowboy, Jedediah, reporting that Egyptian ruler Kahmunrah and a trio of heinous henchmen--namely Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and Al Capone--are plotting to take over the museum, then the world. Speeding to the nation's capitol, Larry is clearly in over his head. But with some impressive new pals, including the…
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How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Night at the Museum series

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - The Video Game is the first of 2 entries we hold in the Night at the Museum series. The next entry was Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - The Video Game in 2009.

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How it was received

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - The Video Game holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 27 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - The Video Game launched on 5 May 2009, within three weeks of Minecraft, Infamous, Plants vs. Zombies and Punch-Out!!. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Minecraft, Infamous, Plants vs. Zombies, Punch-Out!!.

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When did Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - The Video Game come out?
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - The Video Game was released on 5 May 2009 for Wii, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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