Spike Lee's The Twilight Zone

Review by Adam_hX


Story: 10/10
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I found the story for this game to be very amusing. You play as 4 weird characters (One of which is Sonic the hedgehog!) who get kidnapped by Spike Lee and his butler ''Freakazoid' (A crazy superhero cartoon). Your characters get thrown into Spike Lee's movies and have to try and escape from them in seperate missions. Each mission is influenced or based off a popular Hollywood film.

After completing the missions/movies you get to go into space to battle Spike Lee and his clone army.

The structure of the story is very similar to the old mega drive/super ninendo game Spider-Man & the X-Men: Arcade's Revenge.



Characters: 7/10
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There are 4 main characters that you get to play as. They are a girl with a shotgun, a weird asian bloke, sonic the hedgehog and a freaky-looking 'wolflike' thing. I couldn't tell if the wolflike creature was from an existing game or not.

My favourite character was shotgun girl, because her missions play like top down shooter, and she gets to blow off zombie heads (I am a big zombie fan).

The other characters in the game are based around actors and movie producers.


Graphics: 6/10
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I like the RPGmaker 2003 graphics. Its very reminiscant of my old super nintendo (Who I loved like a child until crazy ex gf threw it out the window back in 2001). Some of the potraits looked a bit out of place at times, but the rest of the game fitted perfectly. The maps were solid and diverse. My personal favourites were the horror movie mission and the space level.


Music: 7/10
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Most of the music has been heard plenty of times before. The music in the space level made me laugh and suited the characters perfectly.


Gameplay: 8/10
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This game does not play like a typical rpgmaker game. There are elements of platformer/top down and even first person elements (The sniper mission). The author has been very creative with rpgmaker and created interesting gameplay.

Some people may hate the style of gameplay, but as a person with a poor attention span I enjoyed the variety.

I stress that you read the instructions before you play. I did not at first, and died a dozen times before I worked out what I was doing wrong. Fortunately the save points were around in all the right places.

I could not locate any bugs in the game. There was one instance wherethere was no image associated with a save file, but it didn't really affect the game.


Overall: 40/50
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I might be biased because I am a fan of Spike Lee, and the Twilight Zone. I think people should try this game because it is creative, random and a good laugh.