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Are 2000s Licensed Games Actually Good?

zenith

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Looking at a few 2000s Movie / TV games I remember being good when I was younger. But are they really?

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0:00 - Intro
1:36 - Ratatouille
21:47 - Over The Hedge
34:21 - The Fairly OddParents: Breakin' Da Rules
57:18 - Outro
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This video is about Movie Games & TV video games… that are good? Well i, zenith, zenithzv decided to find that out! I challenged myself to play some old licensed games like Ratatouille (PS2), Over The Hedge (Gamecube), and The Fairly OddParents: Breakin' Da Rules (PS2) and seeing if they still hold up or if its just nostalgia. I even thought about speedrunning one of these games, because the speedrun looked very interesting. Another Licensed game is The Simpsons: Hit & Run, but this is not Can You Beat The Simpsons Hit & Run With the WORST Car? This is how bad are 2000s Licensed Games? This is also not TF2: 30 Days of ONLY Soldier or TF2: 30 days of ONLY Engineer. I has a few inspirations like Austin Eruption and Rocket Sloth for their Licensed Game videos. But overall i thought i gave it a unique twist.

thank you :)

#gaming #nintendo #nostalgia

20 Comments

@zenithzv Creator 1 year ago Pinned

If you guys enjoyed videos like this, or know of a licensed video game you liked from this time, leave a comment and I may do a sequel! Thank you all :)

@lazarusdotaccdb 1 year ago

I swear THQ were the masters of making 3d platformers that all there basically the same game but with a different a different pop culture character plastered over it.

@AceMusubi 1 year ago

The reason these kinds of games are so important to me, personally, is not only how we carved unique fun out of such an odd subgenre, but the fact that almost all of these games came to our hands because of a loved one who wanted to treat us, despite how little they know about the content.

@SebastianTheGreat 1 year ago

One contractual requirement of every licensed platformer was that they need to have at least one Crash Bandicoot/Indiana Jones chase sequence

@TheTrueBatBrain 1 year ago

"most license games are, well, bad" shows the Piglet game that took over twitter for a second for being pretty good and an gateway to survival horror of all things

@halunkenjunge 1 year ago

5:00 "We are greeted by our rat friend" and its literally your rat dad

@demo2823 1 year ago

The 3 letter profile name is a tradition from arcade games. You're supposed to use your initials, and it would allow you to keep track of your high score compared to others' without losing anonymity.

@neo_phoenix-01 1 year ago

Over the Hedge was infinitely more fun to me as a child because I had a friend that visited regularly, meaning we played lots of games together on my PS2. And when you got a friend, any game becomes good. We'd just mess around, compete to see who got more kids, roleplay, whatever. Took forever to actually beat the main game, not only because it was hard, because dumb kids, but also because we'd just not focus on actually beating stuff. And of course, we also played the golf cart minigame to death. I was starting to get scared when the section was about to end you were seemingly not gonna talk about the golf cart, but you did not disappoint. There's loads of other multiplayer games like this on PS2, like Shrek has beat 'em ups too, there's that Astro Boy (the 3D movie one with the insane graphics and animation, but weird ass plot) Mega Man clone, all the Ben 10 games, and that's not even getting into other genres like all the fighting games, such as DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3. The PS2 was the king of multiplayer games, man. It made my childhood awesome.

@blazevoptixzz9748 1 year ago

The Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar games were ELITE

@jeremypanjaitan4039 1 year ago

Oh, Licensed video games? Like, th e Simpsons hit and run? That game with the worst car in it? That one?

@MegaDude10 1 year ago (edited)

If you liked "Breaking Da Rules", I recommend the sequel "Shadow Showdown". It improves on the formula of it's predecessor and is actually really fun. They also made the bosses more fun and engaging (for the most part).

@Orbitblock 1 year ago

Ratatouille and Over the hedge on ps2 were some of my favorite games as a kid. Not to mention all of the Harry Potter ps2 games

@gannonclevenger2327 2 months ago

Over The Hedge is a top tier licensed game

@DarthZ01 1 year ago

if i remember right, it was the ratatouille game where i discovered one of my favorite gaming mechanics. having some kind of hub/base that upgrades/changes with story progression.
iirc the sewer base gets upgraded as you do quests.
i love when you get tangible, visible, or even usable things at your home base based on main quests, side quests, or collectibles.
Bully is another game that I love for this with all the stuff you get in your room.

@silverfire1248 1 year ago (edited)

God. I played the 102 Dalmatians puppies to the rescue so many times as a kid. I loved that game. I actually still like that game… honestly highly recommend playing it. It’s on PC

@LocktheRed 1 year ago

A licensed game that was peak in the early 2000s was "The Godfather" and its ps3 remaster.

That game had perfectly meshed the main story of the movie with its own character narrative. Tons of mechanics, territory wars, compound raids, business takeovers, and heists.

You even rise through the ranks of the mob family with each new position giving special abilities and bonuses.