Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! is an adventure developed by Atomic Planet Entertainment, released 9 October 2002 on Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! is
Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! is an adventure game developed by Atomic Planet Entertainment and released in 2002. It was published by Infogrames. It is available on Xbox 360, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
uring a squabble over television, Zapper tries to use his brother Zipper (a grub) as a substitute TV antenna. Zipper is snatched away by an infamous thieving magpie, Maggie, who leaves an egg at the scene of the crime. Unfortunately, much to his dismay, Zapper sets off and determines to rescue his brother and turn Maggie into a jailbird. At the end of the game, Zapper gets Zipper back after defeating Maggie, and finally sets him up as a substitute TV antenna, just in time to watch TV by himself.
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.
How it was received
Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 18 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! launched on 9 October 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
Official trailer
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