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Dreamworks' Shark Tale

Shark Tale is a 2004 video game based on the film of the same name that was released on PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Advance, GameCube and Xbox. The player is the role of Oscar, the fast-talking…

57 27 September 2004

Dreamworks' Shark Tale is an adventure developed by Edge of Reality, released 27 September 2004 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Dreamworks' Shark Tale is

Dreamworks' Shark Tale is an adventure game developed by Edge of Reality and released in 2004. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Shark Tale is a 2004 video game based on the film of the same name that was released on PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Advance, GameCube and Xbox. The player is the role of Oscar, the fast-talking little fish, who becomes an unlikely hero after he decides to take the easy road to fame and fortune by fighting with his shark friend.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Shark Tale series

Dreamworks' Shark Tale is the first of 2 entries we hold in the Shark Tale series. The next entry was Shark Tale: Fish Eat Fish in 2005.

See all 2 Shark Tale games in release order →

How it was received

Dreamworks' Shark Tale holds a critic score of 57 out of 100. That places it above 13% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 13 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Dreamworks' Shark Tale launched on 27 September 2004, within three weeks of Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable and Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald.

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When did Dreamworks' Shark Tale come out?
Dreamworks' Shark Tale was released on 27 September 2004 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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