Urban Yeti!

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Urban Yeti!
Urban Yeti Coverart.jpg
Developer Cave + Barn Studios
Publisher Telegames
Platform Game Boy Advance
Release
  • NA: August 16, 2002
Genre Action
Mode Single-player

Urban Yeti! is an action video game developed by Cave + Barn Studios and published by Telegames for the Game Boy Advance. It was released in North America on August 16, 2002.

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Gameplay

The yeti battles with a police officer on a street. Urban Yeti screenshot.jpg
The yeti battles with a police officer on a street.

The plot of Urban Yeti! focuses on a yeti's quest to find a yeti mate in a large city populated with humans. [1] The game plays from a top-down perspective similar to the early Grand Theft Auto games. [1] [2] The player must make their way through the city in order to come across missions, which take the form of separate minigames, such as when the yeti must get a job in order to earn the money to pay a toll to cross a bridge. [1]

As the yeti walks around the city, he is attacked by townspeople and must try to avoid being killed. [1] The game features four minigames and four missions to complete. [2] Once minigames are completed, the player is unable to go back and play them again unless they type in the password for the section of the game they are in. [3]

Development

Urban Yeti! was published by Telegames and developed by UK developer Cave Barn Studios. [4]

Reception

Urban Yeti! received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the game's humor but criticized its technical problems. It received a 67% and a 68.71% from review aggregate websites Metacritic and GameRankings respectively. [6] [5]

IGN's Craig Harris criticized the game's slow frame rate and technical problems, saying that the game was produced by a "few guys down in someone's basement" instead of some established development studio. [1] Allgame's Brett Alan Weiss noted that the game had charming moments, but ultimately had little replay value and had too many graphical problems. [2] GameZone's Scott Kuvin felt that the collision detection of the game had some glitches, but felt that the game's humor overcame any technical problems. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Harris, Craig (August 23, 2002). "Urban Yeti! - Game Boy Advance Review". IGN. Archived from the original on December 5, 2010. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 Weiss, Brett Alan. "Urban Yeti! - Review". Allgame. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
  3. 1 2 Kuvin, Scott (September 28, 2002). "Urban Yeti Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on October 19, 2002. Retrieved July 31, 2010.
  4. ↑ Harrism Craig (October 25, 2002). "Yeti Crossing". IGN. Archived from the original on July 14, 2024. Retrieved February 3, 2022.
  5. 1 2 "Urban Yeti! for Game Boy Advance". GameRankings. Archived from the original on 2019-12-09.
  6. 1 2 "Urban Yeti! (gba) reviews". Metacritic . Archived from the original on July 14, 2024. Retrieved July 11, 2020.
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