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Drill Dozer

In the platformer Drill Dozer, you can take the roll of Jill, the daughter of a crime boss who is set on revenge. When a rival gang steals away her family's heirloom, Jill gives chase in her Drill Dozer, an…

75 22 September 2005

Drill Dozer is a platform developed by Game Freak, released 22 September 2005 on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

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What Drill Dozer is

Drill Dozer is a platform game developed by Game Freak and released in 2005. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Doug -- who is the leader of a bandit gang known as The Red Dozers and also Jill's Father -- was ambushed by a rival gang known as the Skullkers. They attacked the Red Dozers to steal the powerful Red Diamond, a gift from Jill's dead mother. To retrieve it, Jill mounts the powerful vehicle, the Drill Dozer!!
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Drill Dozer holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Drill Dozer launched on 22 September 2005, within three weeks of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

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When did Drill Dozer come out?
Drill Dozer was released on 22 September 2005 for Wii U and Game Boy Advance.

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