Drake of the 99 Dragons

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Drake of the 99 Dragons
Developer(s)	Idol FX
Publisher(s)	Majesco
Release date(s)	2003
Genre(s)	Third person shooter
Mode(s)	Single player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen (T)
Platform(s)	Xbox, Windows

Drake of the 99 Dragons is a cel-shaded third person shooter video game for the Xbox video game console and Windows. The game stars Drake, an undead assassin on a quest for revenge of the one who stole "the ancient artifact".

[edit] Gameplay

Drake has a number of special moves, such as the abilities to double jump and to run up walls. He also has the ability to slow down time for better accuracy, though this feature could be triggered by accident fairly easily during normal gameplay, which can quickly throw off a player's focus.

[edit] Reception

The game was released to almost universally negative reviews, largely due to its unwieldy camera that often got stuck or prevented the player from seeing the on-screen action, and just happened to be on the same analog stick as the aiming reticile, making it look like, as Adam Sessler of X-Play said in a 1 out of 5 review of the game, Drake was shooting as if he was in "a sub-homicidal semaphore session". In July of 2006, X-Play called Drake the single worst game ever released for the Xbox, even going so far as to state that it had eclipsed the game Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis as the standard by which they rate all bad games. A European release by Vivendi Universal was cancelled after the critical panning of the game, even though a demo version was issued and it was made Xbox 360 compatible. GameSpot named it the second to worst "frightfully bad" game Halloween 2005, before #1, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.

[edit] External links

• Majesco homepage
• Drake homepage on Majesco's website
• Game Informer review
• X-Play review
• GameSpot review, with link to "Frightfully Bad Games" video