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...and a lion cub that talks like Juan Valdez.

Terrible channel ultrawin!

This is the same company that made Grand Theft Auto, right?

http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/

To be fair they describe themselves as a 'super budget publisher'.

It looks like the London Cab Challenge is playing the game for more than five minutes.

I can't believe that PS2 actually allowed those games to be distributed. Fail.

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Self promoting this video back to the front page; last published Saturday, January 10th, 2009 9:36am PST - promote requested by original submitter Zonbie.

Man, they are really baiting the Disney lawyers with that Dino Adventure, and 'generic lion cub'. Guess they just banked on no more than twenty people ever playing their games.

mahahaha the animal soccer world voice overs are the worst dutch-english accent I've ever heard in a game and I laughed so hard at the peter pan part...

THEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Hahah.. The Animal Soccer thing is just the developers doing the voices, I guess.

Why is the father in Peter Pan talking to himself:
Father:"Do you know what's happened to my tie"
Father:"No I don't, perhaps it's in a draw"

And definitely on the Disney, well, and pretty much any other successful kids movie. We have land before time, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Lion King.

Man, how do they sleep at night knowing that unsuspecting parents have bought their kids these games and those kids have been forever traumatized.

Horrible.

I had a similar gaming experience just recently. Myself and my kids were given a Wii for Christmas (huzzah), and so I was out looking for a budget game to add to Wii Sports. Well, I couldn't find anything that I'd seen a good review of, so I stupidly purchased something that was budget priced and looked like it would give the kids some fun little games to play like they do with Wii Sports (they're 4 and 5 yrs old)... well... I was stupid.

I bought this game and got it home... and then was STUNNED at the abysmal quality of it.

Something I thought would be really easy for them is the old slam the hammer on the thing to ring the bell game... NOPE. First you had to do a pumping motion really hard with the nunchuck, then you had to press a button the wiimote, then you had to spin the wiimote around and around to erm... charge up something, then you had to press another button and do a downward motion with the nunchuck.

HOW HARD would it have been to just have it be a swing down motion with the bloody wiimote?

And pretty much every game was either overly complex or just INSANELY difficult.

Then the story mode was of the same ilk as the ones in this video... stationary pictures with a few cutouts moving across the screen with no animation, and piss poor voice work.

So, because of that I will NEVER buy a game made by 'Play Zone'.

I was just glad it was the first game I'd ever bought from an EB games, because they take returns just because you thought the game was crap.

Thank god for that!

If you ARE after a good game for preschoolers, can I recommend Diego Safari Rescue. Awesome game that my kids love AND can control really easily, and yet has a large range of different wiimote actions that fit in with the things they're doing onscreen... really well made game.

"What the hell's going on here?", indeed!

I had to down-vote this sift. I realize the games are awful and i feel bad for anyone who gets one as a present. however, from their site:

"With a small elite team of 6 people ...
...We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months."

I work in the game industry and I can read between the lines and know what this actually means. Those six guys probably sleep at the office more than at home. if they have kids, they might as well be orphans and I would bet they don't get paid overtime. I have been through a situation like this (i started my career at the infamous 3DO) and I know that even good people will make a crap product when put in a situation like this.

So, while I understand why others ridicule them, i can't do it myself. walk a mile in another mans shoes, etc...

Note to the creator of this video: Delete that font from your computer.

Who the hell keeps giving these assholes money to make this shit? I can't help but feel terrible for those poor kids whose parents see this shit in a bargain bin and buy it for them. I shall weep for those kids tonight.

>> ^daxgaz:
I have been through a situation like this (i started my career at the infamous 3DO) and I know that even good people will make a crap product when put in a situation like this.
So, while I understand why others ridicule them, i can't do it myself. walk a mile in another mans shoes, etc...


I'm going to have to disagree. If a chef makes a dish that he can't stand behind, he shouldn't serve it. To create and sell shit like this is disgraceful.

Xax > Dax. I prefer to walk a mile in the shoes of the CUSTOMER.

I'm an indie dev who works with one other guy. A great deal is possible in five months, especially if you have six people and are working full-time.

These guys have no excuse.

Note to the creator of this video: Delete that font from your computer.

As a Londoner, I can tell that one black cab in London looks anything like that.

It bears more or a resemblance to a hearse.

>> ^daxgaz:
I had to down-vote this sift. I realize the games are awful and i feel bad for anyone who gets one as a present. however, from their site:
"With a small elite team of 6 people ...
...We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months."
I work in the game industry and I can read between the lines and know what this actually means. Those six guys probably sleep at the office more than at home. if they have kids, they might as well be orphans and I would bet they don't get paid overtime. I have been through a situation like this (i started my career at the infamous 3DO) and I know that even good people will make a crap product when put in a situation like this.
So, while I understand why others ridicule them, i can't do it myself. walk a mile in another mans shoes, etc...


yep, I work in the games industry too - but the bottom line is, you can't be proud of a game that is best described as 'avoid'

|These are cheap cheap games, made on the cheap. And yes, even if you are very talented - you will not be able to produce much of quality in such a short time frame. But still....the London driving game, I mean...come on!!

Well... that skateboarding game is fairly accurate when I think of my attempts at the sport.

more of the London cab challenge here:

http://www.videosift.com/video/GTA-IV-eat-your-heart-out-it-s-the-london-cab-challenge

>> ^daxgaz:
I had to down-vote this sift. I realize the games are awful and i feel bad for anyone who gets one as a present. however, from their site:
"With a small elite team of 6 people ...
...We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months."
I work in the game industry and I can read between the lines and know what this actually means. Those six guys probably sleep at the office more than at home. if they have kids, they might as well be orphans and I would bet they don't get paid overtime. I have been through a situation like this (i started my career at the infamous 3DO) and I know that even good people will make a crap product when put in a situation like this.
So, while I understand why others ridicule them, i can't do it myself. walk a mile in another mans shoes, etc...


Nope, it's no excuse... it's like saying "Look, all these knock off brand sneakers, glasses, bags etc. may be absolute shit, but come on, let's not point out how bad quality they are because people who aren't doing very well make them"

Nope, doesn't cut it. Yeah you can feel bad for people down on their luck, but these are people with at least the education required to be able to code, so they should be doing better than this. And even with a short turn around time they aren't EVEN TRYING. Come on, you get together a bunch of your mates and I GUARANTEE you can get better written and performed voice work than this... it doesn't take more TIME it takes SOME CARE.

So I think downvoting this is the wrong attitude, you don't hide shite quality like this and allow them to keep making it, you call them out on it and make them lift their shitty little game a bit and actually... TRY.

Also, just pumping out copies of other things. BAH, at least try to make something vaguely original.

No sympathy.

like i said, i understand others that ridicule them and i think they probably deserve it. But, I have been there and i feel bad for the individual developer, not the company. I know what it's like to have a game you made raked over the coals and how frustrating it is to work while making those games.

and spoco, i DO feel very bad for the people in sweatshops making knock-off designer crap. That's a horrible life. I don't want the crap they produce, but i can still empathize with the worker that is powerless to make a difference.

I work in the games industry as well and I can tell you (what you already know) that there's no excuse for this level of quality. You can't even find a second coworker to say some lines in a conversation? A male voice for a woman, really? There just is no sympathy necessary for people who rush a product out like that for no reason. Flooding the market with shit of that caliber serves to only hurt the industry. I worked for small crappy companies before and even with a small budget and a short schedule, there's plenty of time to FINISH the game and add a little bit of polish. These guys are totally uninspired and obviously could care less to take pride in their product. There's just simply no excuse.

i thought the peter pan footage was brilliant

Lol!

Love how the wife and husband's voices are merely two different barely distinguishable variations of clearly one dude's monotonic voice. That's some brass-balls, no-nonsense ingenuity right there.

You guys are missing the obvious. The wife was the husband's cross-dressing twin brother.

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