Virtual Journey: The Game is a 2009 platform video game based on Paramount Animation's CGI-animated film of the same name, developed by Blue Tongue Entertainment and and published by THQ. The game was released in 2009 for PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, and Nintendo DS.
Most of the cast from the film reprise their roles in this game, while some of them were replaced.
Gameplay[]
The player plays as Kasey and can play as Karissa, Bitly, Nyasia and Quickly in co-op to defeat Master V and his henchmen. The player will also be able to customize Kasey, Karissa, Bitly, Nyasia and Quickly. It includes cutscenes from the movie, and each clip is based on a level.
Plot[]
Same as the movie plot but it has many edits and differences in the video game version.
In the cutscenes, before the levels began, Kasey is an ordinary teenage boy who lives in a video game/virtual reality world, Virtual World. After he tried to become video-game character, Kasey accidentally falls through the hole and discovers legends of a threat named Master V. Before he going to tell everybody, he saw a blue-haired teenage girl named Karissa who secretly hiding to sneak out and goes on the quest. After she left, Kasey gets captured by evil robot, created by Master V, and attempts to kill him using the laser. But, he gets saved by Karissa, who takes him to escaped.
Visiting her hideout, Kasey and Karissa meet G.A.M.E., a robot who working for video game and joins the heroes to stop Master V. After they fixed G.A.M.E., they get attacked by evil robot They manage to escape using one of her flying hoverboard. As hoverboard explodes, they heads on their journey.
Master V, disgruntled that his evil robot has failed to captured Kasey and Karissa, send his evil robot to track them down and kill them. Meanwhile, during their journey, they get chased by a pack of robot dinosaurs, and then they bump into a multicolored 8-bit-alike shape-shifting creature named Bitly, who agrees to help. After they escaped from robot dinosaurs, they reach to an video games city, where they get greeted by Nyasia, a warrior princess, and Quickly, a bird-like creature.
After a not so successful speech sent by Kasey, they being attack by Master V and his evil robots. They manage to escape using Quickly's spaceship, and they go to the base where they talk about a plan to stop Master V. With some messed up plans, Kasey comes up with a good plan. They sneak in Master V's fort.
Master V hires a mean-spirited person named Minka to chase them down. Kasey comes up with a new plan that would finally kill Master V. That plan kinda worked at first, but Minka kidnaps Kasey's friends first, before capturing Kasey last. As Kasey was about to lose hope, Karissa sets herself and friends free, but Kasey walks off. Minka has a serious change of heart and helps the heroes. After a speech, Kasey decides to go to Virtual World to finally stop Master once and for all.
Kasey, Karissa, G.A.M.E., Bitly, Nyasia, Quickly and the rest of the video game characters fight Master V and his evil robot. Master V returns for a final confrontation to kill Kasey. However, Karissa uses the portal to suck Master V and his evil robot. Kasey is then hailed as a hero, and he and Karissa starts dating each other. The cutscenes end with Kasey and the gang celebrating their victory.
Levels[]
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Voice cast[]
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Reception[]
The game received generally positive reviews. Metacritic calculated an average score of 75 out of 100 for the game. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 67 out of 40 for the PlayStation 2 version.
Sequels []
A sequel to the game, which was based on the second movie, titled Virtual Journey: Level Two was released on August 13, 2013. Despite being developed by Behaviour Interactive and published by Sega, the gameplay of the game is quite the same as the game based on the first film, but with some differences. A video game for the third film Virtual Journey: Next Dimensions has also been made.
Trivia []
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