The game takes place 30 years after the film and includes themes and locations from the Jaws film universe. Liz Buckley: Jaws Unleashed is a free-roaming action game that lets you play as Jaws, the great white shark. The days of Ecco are over-Appaloosa has moved on to more carnivorous fare in Jaws Unleashed. GameSpot: Sum up Jaws Unleashed in five sentences or less. But what exactly is Jaws Unleashed all about? Majesco product manager Liz Buckley gave us the full story in a recent interview. Thankfully, like the film's Quint and Matt Hooper, here come Majesco and Ecco the Dolphin developer Appaloosa to rectify this dire situation. ![]() Not since the halcyon NES days of "Boat-From-Jaws" has the great white menace been given his dues on the small screen. Assuming the shark is dead, Brody, aboard the Coast Guard helicopter, flies away, but Jaws reveals himself to be alive and begins to follow the helicopter.It's been far too long since Jaws was represented in video game form. Brody drops a bomb over the wreckage of Cruz's boat, The Orca II. Seeing this as the last straw, Cruz sets to blow up Jaws, but he is killed when his boat is destroyed. After this, he causes more carnage, such as destroying an underwater facility, destroying an oil shipment, and killing Shaw and Mayor Vaughn by ramming his yacht into a barge filled with fireworks. The barrel explodes, causing a chain reaction as the oil ignites that causes the entire Environplus refinery to catch fire and collapse into the ocean. When a truck starts throwing explosive barrels in the water, Jaws grabs one, and throws it at a pipe line filled with oil. The shark finds his way into a beach party in the middle of the night, and attacks the swimmers. The mayor brushes off Brody's complaint and decides to have the machines stay. After this, the player is free to roam.īrody tells the Mayor that his research has discovered that the subsonic frequencies emitted by Environplus's Seaseeker submarines are causing the sharks around Amity to become more aggressive and attack humans. In one of the exhibit tanks, Jaws kills the resident Orca. After they leave, Jaws escapes from his holding tank and destroys the waterpark. Shaw wants Jaws to be killed, as he killed his son and is endangering the beaches, whereas Mayor Vaughn wants to put the shark on display for tourists. ![]() Jaws is put in a holding tank, where Brody, Vaughn, and Shaw argue about what to do with the shark. Brody shows up at this point, captures Jaws, and transports him to Amity's marine theme park, similar to SeaWorld. 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. Meanwhile, marine biologist Michael Brody tries to capture the shark for research. When the son of Environplus CEO Steven Shaw is eaten by the ferocious beast, Shaw hires renowned shark hunter Cruz Raddock to track down and kill the shark. The increased population around the island and industrial activity has also attracted Earth's most fearsome creature and the game's main character: Jaws, an enormous, 35 ft (11 m) great white shark. Jaws Unleashed was released for Microsoft Windows, Xbox and PlayStation 2.ģ0 years after the events of the first film, Amity Island is growing, making corporate connections with prestigious companies like Environplus to improve the island's economy. The game features open world gameplay, with the player assuming control of a large great white shark and being able to roam freely throughout the water, feeding on other animals and humans, while destroying everything in its path. It was developed by Appaloosa Interactive and published by Majesco Entertainment. ![]() JAWS UNLEASHED is a 2006 action-adventure video game inspired by the 1975 film Jaws.
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