The Ant Bully
Based on the animated movie, The Ant Bully puts you in the role of Lucas, a 10-year old boy who passes his time by tormenting an ant hill. Before he knows it, the ants use a magic potion to shrink him down to…
The Ant Bully is an adventure developed by Artificial Mind & Movement, released 24 July 2006 on Wii, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Ant Bully is
The Ant Bully is an adventure game developed by Artificial Mind & Movement and released in 2006. It was published by Midway Games. It is available on Wii, Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Based on the animated movie, The Ant Bully puts you in the role of Lucas, a 10-year old boy who passes his time by tormenting an ant hill. Before he knows it, the ants use a magic potion to shrink him down to their size. Then they put him to work for the colony, giving him a fresh perspective on life. The game is played from a 3D third-person perspective. Most actions are context-sensitive, performed with the press of one button, e.g. Lucas automatically jumps when running off a ledge. You play various missions, and receive medals upon their completion. These medals are worth varying amounts, depending on how well you played: gold is 50 points, silver is 30 points, and bronze is 10. You use…
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.
Where it sits in the The Ant Bully series
The Ant Bully is the first of 2 entries we hold in the The Ant Bully series. The next entry was The Ant Bully in 2006.
How it was received
The Ant Bully holds a critic score of 48 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 17 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Ant Bully launched on 24 July 2006, within three weeks of Persona 3, Dead Rising, Prey and Civilization IV: Warlords. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Persona 3, Dead Rising, Prey, Civilization IV: Warlords.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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