User Rating: 6.4 | Disney's The Haunted Mansion XBOX
This game reminds me a little of MediEvil on the playstation: you play a character that must run through areas infested with undead, solve simple puzzles and kill some ennemies. The environment is what you can expect from a haunted mansion: dark rooms with spider webs all over them, plenty of tomb stone in the garden, and of course, a small picture with "tomb sweet tomb" hanging on the wall. Graphics are not exceptionnal but are not bad either. Rooms could have been more detailed. Most rooms seems to have been visited by thief before you play the game (not much furniture in them). Sounds is adquate for this type of game. It's a little gloomy but not too much. This is not a game for scaring people. It's just to have fun exploring a haunted mansion, Disney's style (don't expect to be afraid, even if your character jumps everytime a ghost appears). Gameplay is easy. However shooting is a bit awkward, the "lock" does not necessarily lock to the desired ennemy and the camera sometime does not follow the character correctly. The game is unfortunately too easy. I have already collected more than 700 out of 999 souls in less than one hour. Like most puzzle games, replay value is limited once you have completed the game.
