![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You’ve seen this all before in some form or another, pretty typical stuff. It’s a very typical action plaftormer from the era, nothing incredible but it’s quite fine, decent to be blunt, and it uses the license quite well, as Asterix and Obelix have to act indipendently in some sections in order to make the other character pass through, sometimes you will need to move as Asterix and then use Obelix to move a pulley to transport Asterix, Obelix can’t fit through narrow passages but on the other hand he can destroy the iron crates without needing a cannon or a sip of magic potion. It definitely does a good job in terms of preserving and adapting the source material, there’s no deluge of random ass references to random shit made for the sake of being edgy or take the piss on other videogames, the characters don’t randomly spout bullshit phrases just to be saying something, fearing that the player would read the silence as a lack of character or “zest”. The story isn’t anything special, but the game does capture the spirit of the comics by Goscinny and Uderzo, i love that boars here endlessly give out hams health pick-ups when hit, that you have to slap a random druid just twirling a cauldron to save the game, and most importantly both Asterix and Obelix feels like themselves. Good enough as an excuse in terms of videogame logic to have Asterix & Obelix travel to various places like Egypt, Normandy, Greece and Helvetia, freeing their fellow gaul citizens and getting more pieces of the map along the way. The plot sees the titular duo wander off of their little Gaul village to the ol’ boar hunt only to come back and find out Ceasar (yes, Julius Caius Ceasar from Caligula, exactly) has somehow managed to storm the village, capturing most people and sending them off to various distant ends of the Roman empire in order to have locked out sight and mind, hopefully for good.īut with the help of a fired roman spy, you find out that most of the imprisoned gauls most likely managed to get a piece of the map indicating their location, as Ceasar took the extra step – just in case – of ripping the map in pieces and scattering them in various locations. Originally developed for PS2, Gamecube and PC (with a GBA version that’s basically another game entirely) by defunct french studio Etranges Libellules and published by Atari Europe, this remaster was instead published by Microids (which pretty much took the place Infogrames had back then) and developed by the quite non-defunct (at the time of writing, anyway) french Osome Studios. One of the live-action ones, but still, it’s new Asterix & Obelix material! Oddly, this was the last of the Asterix XXL series to get the remaster treament, the first being XXL 2 in 2018, then we had the brand new XXL 3 in 2019, then the “romastered” version of the first game in 2020, the one we’re talking about today, to celebrate the release of a new Asterix & Obelix movie in theathers. ![]()
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