The Nightmare Before Christmas series
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge
Action game based on Henry Selick's stop-motion movie masterpiece. Players slip into the role of Jack Skellington, King of Halloween, and relive the adventures set in Tim Burton's dark world. Following the…
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge is an adventure developed by Capcom, released 21 October 2004 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge is
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge is an adventure game developed by Capcom and released in 2004. It was published by Buena Vista Games. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A year after the film, Jack Skellington once again feels Halloween has become dull and repetitive. He talks with Dr. Finkelstein improving the next Halloween with new scares and discoveries. The doctor gives Jack the "Soul Robber", a green, whip-like weapon. He then leaves to look for new frights; remembering his lesson from before, Jack searches solely in his world. Equally bored Lock, Shock, and Barrel revive Oogie Boogie, who brainwashes Dr. Finkelstein into creating minions for him. Oogie also kidnaps five of the seven Holiday World leaders. Oogie plans to become the "Seven-Holidays King" once he takes control of Christmas Town. But on December 23, Sally manages to send a magical paper…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Nightmare Before Christmas series
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge is the second of 9 entries we hold in the The Nightmare Before Christmas series. It arrived 11 years after Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. The next entry was Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King in 2005.
See all 9 The Nightmare Before Christmas games in release order →
How it was received
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge launched on 21 October 2004, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Counter-Strike: Source and Need for Speed: Underground 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Counter-Strike: Source, Need for Speed: Underground 2.
Official trailer
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