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SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom

The evil Plankton has set in motion his most diabolical plot ever! The fate of Bikini Bottom has been put into the unsuspecting hands of SpongeBob. Explore a huge world filled with unexpected surprises…

100 31 October 2003

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is an adventure developed by Heavy Iron Studios, released 31 October 2003 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The main story takes about 14 hrs to finish.

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What SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is an adventure game developed by Heavy Iron Studios and released in 2003. It was published by THQ. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It runs on RenderWare.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The game revolves around the theme of robots invading Bikini Bottom, SpongeBob's hometown. The robots were created by Plankton, the evil genius owner of the Chum Bucket, who has built a new machine called the Duplicatotron 3000 to produce an army ofjeremih to take over the world using these robots, but only after he creates them does he realizes that the switch on the Duplicatotron has accidentally been switched to "Don't Obey" and the robots quickly kick him out of the Chum Bucket before taking over it. SpongeBob and Patrick were playing with toy robots and wish they would with real robots. Patrick uses his "magic wishing shell" to make their wish come true, hoping they will show up…
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How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Spongebob Squarepants series

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is the 20th of 155 entries we hold in the Spongebob Squarepants series. The next entry was SpongeBob SquarePants in 2003. Its critic score of 100 is 32 points above the series average of 68. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 31 points above the year average. Players rate it 92, 8 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 14 hrs.

What it launched against

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom launched on 31 October 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Call of Duty, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Screenshots

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Characters

All 18

Dlc

Remakes

Quick answers

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom — frequently asked questions

When did SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom come out?
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom was released on 31 October 2003 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
How long does it take to beat SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom?
The main story of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom takes around 14 hrs, or 15 hrs for 100% completion.

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