CID The Dummy

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CID The Dummy
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Developer(s) Twelve Games
Publisher(s) Oxygen Games
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
PlayStation Portable
Wii
Microsoft Windows
Release
  • EU: April 17, 2009
  • NA: July 7, 2009
Genre(s) Action-adventure
Platform
Mode(s) Single-player

CID The Dummy is a 3D adventure video game released for the PlayStation 2, Wii, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation Portable on April 17, 2009, in Europe, and July 7 in North America.

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Plot

The game features a story about two scientists who were once colleagues and are now bitter rivals. After an experiment gone wrong, D. Troit, the game's villain, creates an army of sentient robots and kidnaps the daughter of B. M. Werken. Werken retaliates by creating a crash impact dummy, the hero and the game's playable character, to defeat D. Troit and his armies and save Werken's daughter. Werken is assisted by a small flying robot named Copcam.

Reception

CID The Dummy received negative reviews upon its release. On Metacritic, the game holds scores of 41/100 for the PlayStation Portable version based on 6 reviews, [4] and 31/100 for the Wii version based on 7 reviews. [5] On GameRankings, the game holds scores of 36.00% for the PlayStation 2 version based on 2 reviews, [1] 35.60% for the PlayStation Portable version based on 5 reviews, [2] and 33.43% for the Wii version based on 7 reviews. [3]

Demake

The demake Crash Dummy was developed by Twelve Games and published by Funbox Media and released digitally in 2019 for the Nintendo Switch on February 28, [7] PC via Steam on March 1, [8] and the Sony PlayStation 4 on March 4 respectively as a 2D side-scroller. [9] The game was met with poor reviews.

References

  1. 1 2 "CID The Dummy for PlayStation 2". GameRankings. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  2. 1 2 "CID The Dummy for PSP". GameRankings. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  3. 1 2 "CID The Dummy for Wii". GameRankings. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  4. 1 2 "CID The Dummy for PSP Reviews". Metacritic . Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  5. 1 2 "CID The Dummy for Wii Reviews". Metacritic . Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  6. Adam (24 April 2009). "Review: CID The Dummy (Wii)". Nintendo Life. Archived from the original on 30 November 2024. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  7. "Crash Dummy, Nintendo eShop store page". Archived from the original on 2 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  8. "Crash Dummy, Steam store page". Archived from the original on 14 May 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  9. "Crash Dummy, Playstation store page". Archived from the original on 14 May 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.