Commander Keen
To the kids at school, you're 8-year-old Billy Blaze. To alien enemies in the galaxy you're superhero Commander Keen and it's up to you to save the Earth from destruction. As you put on your brother's football…
Commander Keen is an adventure developed by David A. Palmer Productions, released 17 May 2001 on Game Boy Color.
What Commander Keen is
Commander Keen is an adventure game developed by David A. Palmer Productions and released in 2001. It was published by Activision. It is available on Game Boy Color only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
To the kids at school, you're 8-year-old Billy Blaze. To alien enemies in the galaxy you're superhero Commander Keen and it's up to you to save the Earth from destruction. As you put on your brother's football helmet you'll blast away on your Megarocket to space-worlds far away from home. Your mission: Face off against intergalactic creatures, recover the lost plasma crystals and save humanity -- it's all in a days work. Created by the game masterminds at id SoftwareTM, Commander Keen in the ultimate outer space blast-a-thon!
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Commander Keen holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Commander Keen launched on 17 May 2001, within three weeks of Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, Bejeweled, Flower, Sun, and Rain and Red Faction. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, Bejeweled, Flower, Sun, and Rain, Red Faction.
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