The camera is far enough back that you can get a good view and see all of the potential dangers around you in the first game the camera was far too close. Also, it often allows you to walk off sides of platforms, so watch out! Don't expect everything to have walls, that would make things too easy. There's no auto-movement, you need to press for each move. Pressing a direction on the d-pad will move your frog one square in the direction you press. While it uses 3d, overhead-angle graphics, the game plays traditionally - like the original Frogger games, this game works on a grid. Last, there's a four player multiplayer mode. Second there's Super Retro mode, which I will explain later. This is good for going back and improving performance in levels later, after beating the game. First there's the expected single stage mode, where you can replay any level you've beaten and try to collect everything or complete the level in a faster time. On that note, the most important mode is of course the main Story mode, but there are several other modes of play.
In addition to the main two though, there are five other characters playable in the other modes.
You play as each in certain levels,m though functionally they are the same. In story mode, Frogger and the pink girl frog Lilly Frog team up to rescue the babies from Swampy. Wanting revenge from his defeat, the evil croc Swampy has kidnapped numerous baby frogs! Yeah, it's a pretty basic plot, but it's good enough I guess, and some of the CG cutscenes are amusing. It doesn't change as much as people would think from the original formula, and that is part of why it's such a good, and challenging, game.įrogger 2: Swampy's Revenge is, as the title suggests, a sequel to the first game. I find it interesting how much it feels like the classic original title - while it is a new game, they clearly were working from that early '80s playbook as well. This game was hugely improved over the first one. I will address each of the two Hasbro Frogger 2 games separately, because apart from the basics of gameplay, they are entirely different games, with different settings, some differences in plot and game design, and more.įrogger 2: Swampy's Revenge (PC/PS1/DC) (played on DC)įrogger 2: Swampy's Revenge is, like the new Frogger game before it, a 3d platform/action game with Frogger-inspired gameplay. There are two versions, one for GC/PS2/XBox and the other for GBA.
(Oh, before I begin, the same team that made Swampy's Revenge made another similar title a few years later, sans the Frogger license - Zapper: One Wicked Cricket. It has its issues, certainly, but is a pretty good game overall. so, well, let's just say that the game far exceeded my expectations. However, when I got Frogger 2 for Dreamcast a year or so ago (maybe a bit more, not certain), my expectations weren't especially high sure, I'd liked some of Hasbro's remakes, but I remember the poor reviews of their Frogger 1. I don't remember hearing a lot about the games, though I think they got okay reviews. A handheld title for the GBC, called simply Frogger 2, was also made (Frogger 1 for GB and GBC is a port of the arcade original, not a new title, but the second one is entirely new.). It was released on PC, Playstation, and Dreamcast. Several years later, Hasbro made a sequel to the game, Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge.
The only one I disliked really was Frogger, the first one, but I haven't played too much of it.Īnyway, though reviews for the first Frogger remake (released on PC and PSX in about 1997) weren't great, it clearly sold well, because it inspired the rest of the line.
Activision's Space Invaders is fun, though I haven't played Asteroids. Opinions on these games in restrospect seem to often be mediocre, but I got and always liked the Centipede remake from Hasbro, and have liked most of their other ones I've played too, including Frogger 2 and Q*Bert.
In the late '90s to early '00s, Hasbro and a few other companies including Activision made some new titles in classic first and second-gen game series like Pong, Centipede, and Frogger.