Sea Life Safari

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Sea Life Safari
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Developer(s) WildTangent
Wanako Games (XBLA)
Publisher(s) Vivendi Games [lower-alpha 1]
Platform(s) Windows, Xbox 360 (XBLA)
ReleaseWindows
August 16, 2007
Xbox 360
June 18, 2008
Genre(s) Photography
Mode(s) Single-player

Sea Life Safari is an underwater exploration video game [1] originally developed by WildTangent for Microsoft Windows in 2007. Sierra Online released the game on Xbox Live Arcade on June 18, 2008.[ citation needed ]

Contents

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Xbox Live Arcade version

Reception

The Xbox 360 version received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2] IGN reviewer Hilary Goldstein said of the same console version, "Sea Life Safari could have been a decent offering for children, but it falls short in far too many areas -- it's not educational, the photo analysis is inaccurate and it's not very fun." [7] TeamXbox reviewer Andy Eddy was more kind, praising the presentation which "[is] a good feel for what it's like to be underwater—though not too photorealistic to make it dull and boring for the little ones." [10]

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References

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  1. Released under the Sierra Online brand name