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Tak and the Guardians of Gross

While cleaning up a shrine, Tak removes a giant crystal and inadvertently releases the four Big G's, four of the nastiest, most disgusting Titans to terrorize Tak's village: Trashthulu the landfill giant…

70 13 October 2008 ESRB E10+

Tak and the Guardians of Gross is an adventure developed by Blitz Games, released 13 October 2008 on Wii and PlayStation 2.

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What Tak and the Guardians of Gross is

Tak and the Guardians of Gross is an adventure game developed by Blitz Games and released in 2008. It was published by THQ. It is available on Wii and PlayStation 2. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

While cleaning up a shrine, Tak removes a giant crystal and inadvertently releases the four Big G's, four of the nastiest, most disgusting Titans to terrorize Tak's village: Trashthulu the landfill giant, Slopviathan the slime giant, Gorgonzilla the molten cheese giant, and Stinkolossus the stink giant. Now Tak must find the Juju masters of the Big G's and acquire the magic needed to stop the giants before they make a mess that will take Tak an eternity to clean up!
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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.

How it was received

Tak and the Guardians of Gross holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Tak and the Guardians of Gross launched on 13 October 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space and LittleBigPlanet. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space, LittleBigPlanet.

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When did Tak and the Guardians of Gross come out?
Tak and the Guardians of Gross was released on 13 October 2008 for Wii and PlayStation 2.

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