The Golden Compass
The Golden Compass is an action-adventure/puzzle game played from a third-person perspective. It was released prior to the film by the same name and features a slightly different sequence of events towards the…
The Golden Compass is an adventure developed by A2M, released 30 November 2007 on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Wii.
What The Golden Compass is
The Golden Compass is an adventure game developed by A2M and released in 2007. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Golden Compass is an action-adventure/puzzle game played from a third-person perspective. It was released prior to the film by the same name and features a slightly different sequence of events towards the end of the story, as well as additional footage at the end of the game not seen in the film.
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 and Single player.
How it was received
The Golden Compass holds a critic score of 37 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 27 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Golden Compass launched on 30 November 2007, within three weeks of Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Assassin's Creed and Crysis. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mass Effect, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Assassin's Creed, Crysis.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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