Game Information
Overall Rank: 632
Average Rating: 4/5
# of Ratings: 3
US Release Date: 06/21/2005
Platform: PlayStation 2
Genres: Action (3D Platformer, Action/Adventure)
ESRB Rating: T
Developer: Double Fine Productions, Budcat Creations
Publisher: Majesco
Also Available On: PC (Steam), Xbox
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Rating of
3.5/5
Megadrive - wrote on 06/08/2023
Pretty fun Banjo Kazooie-style 3D platformer with an Earthworm Jim style sense of the surreal, interesting ideas, nice music and ass-ugly graphics.
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4/5
Applied Psychology
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 07/08/2011
The 2005 release of “Psychonauts” on the PS2, Xbox, and Windows marked the first independent foray into game design by Tim Shafer, one of the demented individuals behind LucasArts’ iconic point-and-click adventure titles, such as “Maniac Mansion” and “Monkey Island.” Knowing the kind of insanity and trainwreck logic most of those games involve, alongside the fact that this game has ‘psycho’ in the title and is NOT an adventure game, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect going into it. What I found was that Mr. Shafer is a truly gifted designer who needs to hire better programmers.
Presentation
“Psychonauts” is technically average for a PS2 game. The polygonal models look good, are well animated, and have few texture/jaggy issues. It is possible to tell when …
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