Madagascar (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Madagascar

Be a part of Dreamwork's animated adventure by guiding Marty the Zebra, Alex the lion, Melman the giraffe, Gloria the hippo and those stealthy Penguins as they escape the Central Park Zoo into the streets of…

66 24 May 2005

What Madagascar is

Madagascar is an adventure game developed by Toys for Bob and released in 2005. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on RenderWare.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Madagascar is a 2005 platform video game based on the animated film of the same name by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, produced by DreamWorks Animation. The game was released on May 24, 2005 in North America and on June 30, 2005 in Europe. The GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox versions were developed by Toys for Bob. The Microsoft Windows version was developed by Beenox and the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance versions were developed by Vicarious Visions. All versions of the game were published by Activision. Madagascar: Operation Penguin was the next Madagascar video game to be released on the Game Boy Advance.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.

Where it sits in the Madagascar series

Madagascar is the first of 21 entries we hold in the Madagascar series. The next entry was Madagascar in 2005. Its critic score of 66 is 16 points above the series average of 50. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Madagascar holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 68, across 87 votes.

What it launched against

Madagascar launched on 24 May 2005, within three weeks of Forza Motorsport, Killer7, Medal of Honor: European Assault and Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Forza Motorsport, Killer7, Medal of Honor: European Assault, Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!.

Cheats and codes

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