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Megamind: Ultimate Showdown

Just as Megamind has become our new Mega Hero, a sudden crime wave hits the city. The Doom Syndicate & their Doom Goons have emerged and are looking to take over! Only Megamind and his arsenal of gadgets can…

40 2 November 2010

Megamind: Ultimate Showdown is an adventure developed by THQ Studio Australia, released 2 November 2010 on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Wii.

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What Megamind: Ultimate Showdown is

Megamind: Ultimate Showdown is an adventure game developed by THQ Studio Australia and released in 2010. It was published by THQ. It is available on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Just as Megamind has become our new Mega Hero, a sudden crime wave hits the city. The Doom Syndicate & their Doom Goons have emerged and are looking to take over! Only Megamind and his arsenal of gadgets can stop them!
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How it plays

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

Where it sits in the DreamWorks series

Megamind: Ultimate Showdown is the ninth of 15 entries we hold in the DreamWorks series. It arrived 7 months after How to Train Your Dragon. The next entry was Megamind: Mega Team Unite in 2010. Its critic score of 40 is 10 points below the series average of 50. The highest-rated entry is Kung Fu Panda at 73.

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How it was received

Megamind: Ultimate Showdown holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2010 averaged 70, so it scored 30 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Megamind: Ultimate Showdown launched on 2 November 2010, within three weeks of Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Call of Duty: Black Ops. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Official trailer

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Quick answers

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When did Megamind: Ultimate Showdown come out?
Megamind: Ultimate Showdown was released on 2 November 2010 for Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii and Xbox 360.

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