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Shrek Forever After

Shrek Forever After is an action-adventure video game based on the film of the same name. It was released on May 18, 2010, in North America. It is the fourth and final video game based on the movie series of…

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Shrek Forever After is an adventure developed by Gameloft, released 18 May 2010 on PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and iOS.

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What Shrek Forever After is

Shrek Forever After is an adventure game developed by Gameloft and released in 2010. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Lux Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Once a fearsome ogre, Shrek has settled into a comfortable life as a domesticated family man, living happily with Princess Fiona and their triplets. But the daily grind of autographing pitchforks for tourists leaves him longing for the days when he felt like a real ogre again. Seizing on that discontent, the smooth-talking dealmaker Rumpelstiltskin tricks Shrek into signing a pact, and the ogre suddenly finds himself cast into a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away. In this warped reality, ogres are hunted as monsters, Rumpelstiltskin rules as king, and Shrek and Fiona have never even met. To set things right, Shrek must unravel Rumpelstiltskin's mischief and fight to save his…
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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. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Shrek series

Shrek Forever After is the 40th of 53 entries we hold in the Shrek series. The next entry was Fruit Ninja: Puss in Boots in 2011. Its critic score of 60 is almost exactly the series average of 58. The highest-rated entry is Puss in Boots at 80.

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How it was received

Shrek Forever After holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Shrek Forever After launched on 18 May 2010, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Alan Wake and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Alan Wake, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

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When did Shrek Forever After come out?
Shrek Forever After was released on 18 May 2010 for PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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