ThunderCats
ThunderCats is a side-scrolling video game that is based on the original animated television series ThunderCats. The game was published in 1988 by Elite Systems Ltd for home computers. The player takes control…
ThunderCats is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Aspect, released 30 October 2012 on Nintendo DS.
What ThunderCats is
ThunderCats is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Aspect and released in 2012. It was published by Namco Bandai Games. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
ThunderCats is a side-scrolling video game that is based on the original animated television series ThunderCats. The game was published in 1988 by Elite Systems Ltd for home computers. The player takes control of the character Lion-O and maneuvers him through 14 side scrolling levels to search for the missing Eye of Thundera. Lion-O begins the game equipped with the Sword of Omens (with the Eye of Thundera missing from the hilt) but has the option to switch throughout the game between the sword and a short range energy gun. In several levels, Lion-O will jump into a flying vehicle that can fire in a similar manner as the short range energy gun. The first four levels of the game are a part…
How it plays
Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the ThunderCats series
ThunderCats is the second of 2 entries we hold in the ThunderCats series. It arrived 25 years after ThunderCats: The Lost Eye of Thundera. It is the most recent released entry in the series.
How it was received
ThunderCats holds a critic score of 44 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 26 points below the year average.
What it launched against
ThunderCats launched on 30 October 2012, within three weeks of Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Assassin's Creed III. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Dishonored, Hotline Miami, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Assassin's Creed III.
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