An adventure game based on the CGI-animated Robert Zemeckis movie starring Tom Hanks and based on the children's book by Chris Van Allsburg. When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe. Climb aboard the Polar Express and meet memorable characters from the film as you race across train tops, ride runaway rail cars, and sort through mountains of presents. Explore massive 3D environments including the North Pole and The Polar Express. Interact with recognizable characters from the movie, including Hero Girl, Know-it-All, Lonely Boy, Hero Boy, the Hobo, Smokey & Steamer and the Elves. Play mini-games, solve puzzles, and search for lost presents.
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Character models look so damn ugly. Like my god they are so hard to look at. The only character that even looks actually decent and good is the Conductor. Some of the designs of the levels don't feel good or isn't designed well level wise. The movies scenes being used in this game does NOT work well for this game. For example, during the level where you fight Scrooge in the first level. You are in a different room. When you defeat Scrooge it cuts to where you are with the other characters. They could've done something better with this. I mean Chicken Little does this better. The most of the minigame levels don't feel all the good and don't seem designed well. Also yeah the dance minigames. I know you guys were waiting for that. Yeah they are the worst sections of this game and feel very fillerish. The Hero Boy acts incredibly out of character. Like it seems they took his character and made it extreme. Like yeah he has done some good moments in the movie, but those feel relatable. Here? They gave him this superhero persona. I feel like they should've had another Scrooge boss fight because the second one we had feels like the end of the game and it just keeps on going with putting in the same minigames we did before. Except nothing changes. The platforming feels incredibly wonky and isn't all that good. Wish that they could've inproved this. And at the end of the game, we don't even meet Santa Clause. Which is... THE WHOLE POINT OF THE MOVIE!
Overall, I feel like this game doesn't know what it wants to be. Like it either wants to be minigame focused or wants to be a platformer. I think it should've just stick to being a platformer and have it improved. This game is bad. I admit, but not really the worst I have ever played. But, I definitely won't be going on this train ride again.
Then I guess yeah, the game runs well, doesn't have apparent glitches, is reactive, and "can" be fun at times.