Jaws is an adventure developed by Intelligent Design Ltd., released 31 December 1989 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE and Commodore C64/128/MAX.
What Jaws is
Jaws is an adventure game developed by Intelligent Design Ltd. and released in 1989. It was published by Screen 7. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX and ZX Spectrum.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A monstrous great white shark is terrorizing the beaches of Amity Island. A grim discovery confirms the worst- he's out there and he's hungry. In a bid to save the Island's failing tourist trade, Mayor Vaughn engages a professional shark killer from the mainland. Unfortunately, en route, a fierce storm wrecks his boat, and the means of Jaws' destruction is scattered throughout the caves and chasms of a menacing sea world. In desperation, Mayor Vaughn turns to you, Police Chief Brodie. With your two colleagues; Hooper the shark expert, and Quint the manic shark hunter, you set off to retrieve the lethal weapons from the sea bed and kill the unwelcome intruder. Unfortunately, Jaws has other…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Jaws series
Jaws is the second of 9 entries we hold in the Jaws series. It arrived 2 years after Jaws. The next entry was Thunder Jaws in 1990. Its critic score of 50 is almost exactly the series average of 48. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Jaws holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72.
What it launched against
Jaws launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris and Pipe Dream. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Denaris, Pipe Dream.
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