This monstrosity is, without a doubt, One of the Worst Video Games of All Time, but it isn't the Worst of them All !!!
This is the story of one of the most evil games in existance. Every fan of E.T was insanely mad when they started playing it. I already knew that it wasn't going to be one great game, but what i wasn't expecting also was that it would turn out to be One of the Worst Video Games of All Time!
The game started with the title screen, like every game of it's time. I must admit that the only thing that can't be called "bad" about this game is the title screen. It wasnt bad, but mediocre for the time. after you started playing, E.T comes in this weird purple rectangular (which is his spaceship I think) and lands in the middle of the forest, just like in the movie. Now you just landed...now you might be wondering, what in name of uncle Sam under your shorts are you supposed to do? And what's with those points on the bottom of the screen? Why is that each time I walk, I start losing points? And what's the deal with the weird icons on the top of the screen? From what I understand, you are in the middle of the forest, and like in the movie, your goal is to call the mothership to come and pick you up, but in an entirely different way. You have to collect phone pieces, all around the game, scaterred throughout the game's most painfull moments, the pits. I will now explain how godawfull this game is, and why is it so popular among the gaming crap.
The gameplay is where this game throws itself into the biggest pile of s*** in the entire world. You are controlling E.T, and your goal is to find phone pieces to call the mothership back to come and pick you up. It seems pretty simple at first, but this is one of the most painfull video game moments in history. The phone pieces are scaterred throughout the pits, and you got to fall down into every single one of them if you want to complete the game. If there is nothing inside it, you have to get out of it and start falling in more pitts. How do you get out of them you ask? Well, you have to press the fire button to make E.T stretch his neck, hold the button and press up, to make him float out of the pitt... This seems weird enough, but the worst is yet to come. Good luck getting out of the f****** pit, because every time you succeed in getting out, you automatically fall again! What do you have to do? Float up again! Then you fall back into the god damn pit again, and it loops over and over again!!! Sometimes you really get out of the pit and succeed and don't fall again, but this is complete random, from what I played. Talking about something else, in the forest, there are 2 guys after you. One is a female scientist I think, and when she catches you, she brings you over to this weird building which looks like a prison or a Greek like building or something. The other one is an FBI agent, that comes after you to steal your phone pieces, and put them back into random pits... WHAT?! NOW I HAVE TO FALL BACK INTO THE F****** PITS ALL OVER AGAIN? Yes, so make sure this guy doesn't catch you, or else you'll have to suffer from the game's sacred pit ritual. In the start of the game, you are given 9999 points, which I believe it's E.T's HP, and you are constantly losing points every time you take a step. Once E.T loses all his points, he dies, and after that something weird happens. Prepare yourself for what i'm proud to consider, The Most Random, Stupid, Barbaric, Idiotic and Funniest Moment in The History of Video Games... Elliot comes out of nowhere, walks right towards E.T, touches it, dissapears and revives him with 1500 points... o_O ... O_O ... ?_? WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD JUST HAPPENED!?!? It makes no f****** sense!!! Elliot revives you, with less than half your points!!! It's like the game wants you to play at all costs!!! THIS GAME IS EEEEEEEEEEVIL!!!?!!!
The sound is just absolutely atrocious. There is only one music in the game, and that's the title screen music. After that, while your playing, there's no background music. It sucks! Oh and the sound effects, don't even get me started! When you walk, it sounds like someone is farting. And when you press the fire button to run, it definetly doesn't sound like something running! In fact, it doesn't even sound like something in existance!!! When you stretch your neck, it sounds like those weird things that doctors use to make the heart pumping again, when you put them on your ears. The sound just sucks, end of story!!!
About the grafics, it's hard to tell, because for the time, almost every game looked the same as this one. Altough there are some games where the grafics are sooo much better than this game. E.t doesn't even look like E.T.
He looks like a huge pile of s*** with eyes. The trees are just huge square-shaped dark green things on the background. The grafics are hard to tell if they're good or not for the time, but it kinda looks like they're crappy for the time.
But the one thing that scared me the most was that every cartridge left of E.T were burried in the desert! That's shocking! That is just one of many proofs for you not to come even close to this game. I have played many bad games in my life, and I can tell that there is only 1 game that is worse than this one. Now talking serious, if you never played this game, I DEMAND for you not to come even close to it. It definetly deserves to be called One of The Worst Video Games Of All Time!!!