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Gex's problems with TV are seriously starting to affect his life. He's a secret agent who lives in his own high-tech spycave, but the only kind of case he ever seems to get entails collecting remote controls and entering television sets that transport him to strange new worlds. (Names like Invasion of the Body Slammers and Lake Flaccid speak for themselves.) In his latest adventure, he must rescue fellow agent X-Tra (Baywatch's Marliece Andrada, whose presence here screams, "You're being marketed to, little boy.") from his long-standing enemy, Rez. In typical third-season fashion, the makers of a hit series aren't straying too far from formula, and you can tell that, like Gary Coleman in Diff'rent Strokes, Gex is having a tough time showing off his range.
As mentioned before, Gex enters differently themed worlds where he must accomplish a number of tasks before receiving a remote-control prize (there are four per stage). The more controllers he gets, the more worlds he can enter. Gex gets around by running, jumping, bouncing on his tail, climbing grooved walls with his sticky gecko feet, and leaping with a karate kick. That kick can also be used against enemies, as can the tail bounce, tail swipe, and his spit after he swallows special power-ups.
Probably the signature feature of the Gex series is that comedian Dana Gould spits TV- and movie-related one-liners throughout. While the jokes were an inventive feature in the first Gex game, they've since gotten really tired. The writers behind Dana Gould's quips simply seem as though they've run out of ideas. The comments are a lot less Austin Powers-obsessed than they were in Enter the Gecko, but you'll still be thankful for the option to turn them down or off.
The game engine behind Gex 3 is indubitably the little engine that could. It's responsible for Gex: Enter the Gecko, Akuji the Heartless, this game, and the upcoming Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, too. Each game has seen its own modifications; this one obviously has the most in common with the last Gex game, the main difference being the improved game camera. Graphically, it looks much the same as before, maybe with a little less pop-up and slowdown, though both are still present. You now have more control over modifying your perspective, and the intelligent camera is better, but the views are still nowhere as tight as in Insomniac's Spyro the Dragon or Rare's Banjo-Kazooie. Specifically, it can still be terribly difficult to judge distance and depth from your viewpoint, sometimes making 3D-platform jumps a grueling proposition. This doesn't come up a great deal of the time, since there's a surprisingly small amount of platform jumping in this platform game, but when it appears, it can be a real teeth gnasher. The developers seem to have realized this because once you get further into levels like Little Red Riding in the Hood and Cut Cheese Island, shortcuts appear. So, if you miss a jump, you won't lose too much ground. But the final stage, where you hop from satellite to rotating satellite on your way to battle Rez, is a perspective nightmare, with dark textures on top of a dark background.
Visual gripes aside, the game is more fun than its predecessor. Gex's new outfits often provide him with new abilities. For instance, when he's wearing a vampire's cape or Little Red Riding Hood's hood, he can glide. When he has a pirate's hook, he can use it to slide down ropes. There are also minigames that place him in a kangaroo's pouch or in a tank. These elements may sound lame on paper, but they do break things up nicely. This, along with the improved level design, make the game addictive enough that you'll want to play it through, and maybe even go back and discover everything there is to find within.
Gex 3 is enough of an improvement over the last game that fans of the previous one should enjoy it even more, but with the leaps we've seen in 3D PlayStation platformers over the last year (read: Spyro the Dragon), it comes off feeling a bit dated. It's essentially a fun game, but one that ends up taking up residence in the badlands between a rent and a buy recommendation. So, in short, Gex has become a little more refined, but less original at the same time. --Steven Garrett
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Customer Reviews
LOVE IT!
After reading the negative reviews of this game, I had to write one to defend it. I bought this game, (among others) right before a big snowstorm. Luckily, I played this one first, because the others never made it out of the packaging! It's true that it can get a little annoying listening to the comments made by Gex as you play, but that CAN be turned off. Also, a note to parents!--Some of the comments Gex makes are a little "adult in nature." Anyway, I love the game and my boyfriend and I race home from work so we can be the first to play it. There are many different levels, and lots of funny things to do, like ride a kangaroo or an alligator to collect things, and change into "DracuGex" or a Superhero version of Gex and fly around to hard to reach areas. Give the game a chance...once you get the hang of it, hopefully you'll have as much fun as we do!
The game isn't all that bad!
I've seen bad reviews with this game, but why? These people just can't handle Gex. It has 1000 hilarious quotes made by Gex, but a warning, this game DOES have some adult humor within it. Even though the plot could use some work, it has good graphics and out-of-this-world levels. Find out if you can handle Gex 3 by renting it first.
This game is really fun, but there is adult language in it.
The last time we saw Gex which was in the game called Gex: Enter the gecko he saved t.v. from a robot named Rez. Kinda wierd huh? Well in this game a woman named Agent Xtra was captured by Rez. When Gex was at home thinking about his last successes he decided to watch the news. When he was in the middle of watching the news he saw that Agent Xtra was captured by Rez. So Gex decided to go and save Agent Xtra. So he goes to the Gex caves and starts his new adventure.
What you gotta do is you have to go to new t.v. levels and collect as many t.v. remotes as you can. Remember, the more remotes you collect the closer you will get to Rez. In this game Gex wears all sorts of different costumes like Hercugex, Supergex, Privategex, Dracugex, Little Red Riding Gex, and Sherlockgex. There is a whole lot more, but I cannot name them all. Gex also has rides too like Al Nino the donkey which can help Gex go up hills that are too slippery for Gex to climb and Humps the camel which can help Gex cross sinky sand and there are a few others. There are secret characters that you can play in the bonus rounds, but you have to find them first before you can play them. There is Rex which is Gex's prehistoric ancestor and Cuz which is Gex's cousin.
This game is really fun to play and not only that, the graphics are very nice and colorful. The colors in this game are much brighter than the other Gex games which makes this game even better and more fun to play, but the camera is a bit slow, but that is ok. You will get used to it after a while. The bad thing about this game is that there is adult language in it. It says bad words like d--- and s---. While you are playing this game you will hear really, really, really funny one-liners from Gex, but some of them have bad words in the one-liners or shall we say quotes. Believe me do not let kids under the age of 10 to play this game. That was the reason why I gave this game a four star instead of a five star. But hey, this game is okay for the whole family anyway, if you have a child that is younger than the age of ten and you don't want your child to hear the bad words than you are lucky, because there is a way to turn off the voice of Gex that way Gex won't even speak at all. You can turn the Voice from Gex off by going to the pause menu.
Well that is all I have to say about Gex3: Deep cover Gecko. If you ever buy this game I hope you will like it as much as I did. Thanks for taking your time to read my review. ( - -,) ( ^ ^,) :)
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