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Tembo the Badass Elephant

TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT is a larger than life, 2D side-scrolling action adventure from Game Freak.

71 21 July 2015

Tembo the Badass Elephant is an adventure developed by Game Freak, released 21 July 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Tembo the Badass Elephant is

Tembo the Badass Elephant is an adventure game developed by Game Freak and released in 2015. It was published by Sega Games. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shell City is plunged into a state of emergency after coming under attack from the devastating forces of PHANTOM, led by a mysterious masked commander. Terrifying war machines, emblazoned with skulls, tear through the city leaving a trail of destruction in their wake! As the National Army struggle to contain PHANTOM, General Krenman sees the mammoth task at hand and calls upon the only thing that stands between Shell City's obliteration and its salvation; the peanut chompin', villain stompin', PHANTOM romping BADASS Elephantidae…TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT! Aided by his faithful avian companion Picolo, it's up to TEMBO to jump, smash, punch, swing, and butt stomp his way through the PHANTOM…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 15 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Tembo the Badass Elephant holds a critic score of 71 out of 100. That places it above 41% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 2 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Core 2 Duo ~2GHz or higher (or equivalent), 2 GB RAM and Graphics Card NVIDIA GTS 240 or higher (or equivalent). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.

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What it launched against

Tembo the Badass Elephant launched on 21 July 2015, within three weeks of Rocket League, God of War III Remastered, N++ (NPLUSPLUS) and Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Rocket League, God of War III Remastered, N++ (NPLUSPLUS), Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

Tembo the Badass Elephant — frequently asked questions

When did Tembo the Badass Elephant come out?
Tembo the Badass Elephant was released on 21 July 2015 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Tembo the Badass Elephant?
At minimum, Tembo the Badass Elephant needs Core 2 Duo ~2GHz or higher (or equivalent), 2 GB RAM, Graphics Card NVIDIA GTS 240 or higher (or equivalent) graphics, 998 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Tembo the Badass Elephant?
The PC version needs about 1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("998 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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