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Jaws Unleashed
Developer(s)	Appaloosa Interactive
Publisher(s)	Majesco Entertainment
Released	May 23, 2006 (North America)October 20 (UK)
Genre	TPS (third-person shooter)
Mode(s)	Single player
Ratings	ESRB: Mature 17+
Platform(s)	PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC
Media	DVD

Jaws Unleashed is a 2006 video game licensed from the 1975 film Jaws. It was developed by Appaloosa Interactive, developer of the popular Ecco the Dolphin series, and released by Majesco. Like the Grand Theft Auto series, the game is open-ended; the player can free roam throughout the water, feeding on other animals and destroying everything in his path.

1 Storyline
2 Free roam
3 Bosses
4 Levels
5 Reception
6 References
7 See also
8 External links

Storyline

"Jaws Unleashed" follows a great white shark (called "Jaws" in the game) from the film series of the same name as he invades and terrorizes Amity Island 30 years after the original film. The game also features references to plot elements from the other three films. Amity Island is growing, with huge businesses like Environplus moving in and others making the island a huge tourist attraction. Jaws kills the son of Enviroplus' CEO, forcing him to hire shark hunter Cruz Ruddock to kill the shark. Amity Marine biologist Michael (son of Chief Brody) wants to capture Jaws to study it. Players are introduced to the controls and abilities of Jaws in a tutorial, where the player kills several divers, learns to attack swimmers at a beach, and must destroy a set of docks. Michael shows up at this point, and captures Jaws and transports him to a waterpark, similar to Sea World. The CEO puts Jaws in a holding tank, where Mayor Vaughn and Michael are arguing about what to do with the shark. The Mayor wants Jaws be killed as he is endangering the beaches. After they leave, the shark eventually escapes from his holding tank, and destroys the waterpark. In one of the exhibit tanks, there is an orca battle. After this, the player is free to roam. Jaws finds his way into a beach party in the middle of the night, and attacks the swimmers. When a truck starts throwing explosive barrels in the water, Jaws grabs one, and throws it at a pipe. The barrel explodes, causing a chain reaction that blows up the entire Environplus refinery. After this he causes more carnage such as destroying an underwater facility, destroying an oil shipment and finally devouring the mayor. Seeing this as the last straw Cruz sets to blow up Jaws, but he is killed when his boat is destroyed. His mission completed, Jaws then swims off into the sunset.

Free roam

The game also contains a free roam mode. In this mode, players can travel above water and under it, exploring the sea. The player may encounter an array of different creatures, although some of the animals from the story missions are absent in free roam mode (for example, the colossal squid from the level entitled "The Facility"). However, players can encounter smaller, less powerful squid. A few of the creatures players can meet are octopus, squid, crocodiles, orcas, whale sharks, and many other species of sharks. Notable features of the free roam mode include the skeletons of enormous animals on the sea floor and a dead blue whale in Fisherman's Isle. At the borders of the map in certain areas, it is possible to see several species of live whales, including blue whales, sperm whales and humpback whales. Also in free roam are small side challenges that do not advance the story. Some of the side challenges recreate scenes from the films. For example, in one mission, players must sneak up on a girl, drag her across the surface of the water, smash her onto a buoy, and finally kill her. This is a recreation of the opening scene of the movie where Chrissie Watkins is killed by the shark.

Bosses

The Aquarium Orca
Aurora II
Coast Guard Ship
Colossal Squid
Mayor's Yacht
Orca II

Levels

Jaws Unleashed has many levels that can be revisited upon completion.

Bonus Tutorial
The Breakout
The Dead Of Night
Hunted
Predator In The Bay
The Angry Armada
A Taste For Blood
The Deep
The Facility
Blood On The Beach
The Final Chase

Reception

Jaws Unleashed received an overall poor critical reaction. Most complaints against the game center around the game's glitches and freezing up and its camera problems. One of the most positive reviews came from IGN, which rewarded the game with a score of 7.4 out of 10 while calling it "Grand Shark Auto". Other reviews were far more harsh: GameSpot gave the game a rating of a 4.8 out of 10, while Official Playstation Magazine gave it a 1.5 out of 5. Metacritic's aggregate scores for Jaws Unleashed were 51 (on the low extreme of "Mixed or average reviews" for the Xbox version and 49 (on the high extreme of "Generally negative reviews") for the Playstation 2 version. Gameinformer magazine gave the game a sub-par 4.75, saying, "This game reaches a new level of video game absurdity, going well out of its way to make a complete mockery of the license it's based on." As the game was released on PC, players experienced a better overall performance, handling, and less problems during game play were reported. Indicating the later released PC version to be if not better than the console versions maybe the best release of the game so far. The same has been thought to be true in the PAL (Europe) version. Despite this, the game was a commercial success, selling over 250,000 copies, therefore earning it Gamespot's "Worst Game Everyone Played of 2006" award [1]