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Jaws Snapped Up By Ecco Developers

Posted by simoniker on from the chomp-chomp dept.

Thanks to Yahoo for reprinting a Majesco press release announcing a videogame version of Universal Pictures' and Steven Spielberg's Jaws, apparently "scheduled for release in 2005 for the PlayStation 2... Xbox [and PC]." The title, in which "players assume the role of a... shark driven to a predacious frenzy by the sonic emanations of underwater oil drilling equipment", is being "developed by Appaloosa", the developers of the Ecco The Dolphin series for Genesis and, latterly, for Dreamcast/PS2. Elsewhere, QT3 messageboard readers point out Sole Predator, likely the pre-Jaws licensed version of the game, in which "players assume the role of the most feared predator on earth, the Great White Shark."

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  1. Re:Played Ecco the Dolphin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I had the manual and everything, and as far as I could figure out, you had to do something with sonar blasting things on an alien space ship. As to why, I have no idea.

    Of course, that was years ago, and my memories from that time are kinda hazy....

  2. Appaloosa? Great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yay, the company that made not one, but two awful renditions of Contra. On the other hand, they did create Kolibri, the best hummingbird-based shooter in the whole 32X library...

  3. Top predator? by Castaa · · Score: 2, Informative

    "players assume the role of the most feared predator on earth, the Great White Shark."

    The Great White Shark isn't even the most feared predator in the oceanic food chain. The Orca is the ocean's top predator. Orcas have been know to kill Great White Sharks.

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