Blinx: The Time Sweeper
Blinx: The Time Sweeper is a platform game developed by Artoon and published by Microsoft Game Studios. It was released for the Xbox on October 7, 2002. A sequel, Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space, was…
Blinx: The Time Sweeper is a platform developed by Artoon, released 7 October 2002 on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Blinx: The Time Sweeper is
Blinx: The Time Sweeper is a platform game developed by Artoon and released in 2002. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Blinx, a Time Sweeper, on his mission to prevent the end of the world. The game revolves around Blinx's (then-near-unique) Time System. Blinx is outfitted with a magical vacuum cleaner, known as a Sweeper (or TS-1000), with which he can exert some control over Time itself; slowing, speeding up, recording, reversing, or stopping its flow entirely.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Blinx: The Time Sweeper holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Blinx: The Time Sweeper launched on 7 October 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Kingdom Hearts and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Kingdom Hearts, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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