Thunderbirds

released on Jun 07, 2007

An Europe-exclusive game based on the 1960's marionette-based TV series of the same name.


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This game makes me wish even more that they didn't cancel the original thunderbirds that was supposed to be made. The Idea of the game is that you play 9 levels where you have to use the thunderbirds to save the day, each mission adds 1 extra task to do as the game goes on, but there is no personality to any of this outside of including a cutscene with a thunderbird being used at the beginning of each level. The Graphics are excrement, they look they were cut out of a CG picture book and glued to move on each page/screen. The Gameplay is limited to have you shoot planes and pick up people from thunderbird 1, carry objects to destinations with thunderbird 2, play asteroids with thunderbirds 3 + 4. The World is terrible, mostly fields with few skyscrapers next to each other and called a city with no life, you don't see the people thunderbird 1 picks up, you just see a giant platform that they should be on, the rescue missions don't have many options, and the repetitive way you do them shockingly makes them REPETATIVE. There's isn't even any voice acting to improve the personality of the game. You also can't raise the altitude and play in an upper head view so you can't easily know which terrains will hit what your carrying, so it's best to stay to the lowest one, and the colors of the place to grab objects and the place to put them on the map feel reverse to me, red X is where to grab the items, and the green circle is where to put them. The Life in these missions is so bad, that sometimes the mission text doesn't match the missions you do, 1 text said that you have to block off a bridge after an explosion happened on it, and they couldn't even animate an explosion effect on the bridge, this is high school dropout lazy. Also, some objections tell you to shoot down enemy planes, yet there are also enemy planes outside of these missions you could find and shoot down for points that are no different from the other ones, and the stupidest gameplay of all is that when you get a game over, the thunderbird you're controlling crashes to the ground even if you didn't crash the thunderbird yourself or run out of fuel, it's like the pilot just committed suicide for failing the mission, also the other thunderbirds don't show to commit suicide when you lose, since you can only have 1 at a time, but by that logic if that is the case, then does that mean every thunderbird would commit suicide if they fail a mission, they is not a safe mind set to have when you have to go around saving THE ENTIRE WORLD. The Music is not bad, the menu thunderbird's theme is fun to listen to, and the game music fits the tone of the game. Sounds are nothing special, in fact, they feel like way inferior sounds to the show sometimes, so that hurts the attempt at making this game good even more. The Thunderbirds game shouldn't have been made unless it could be given to better developers, and if there were none available, don't make it at all.

Remember when SCI planned to make a PlayStation 2 game based on one of Gerry Anderson's greatest TV shows he ever produced before they canned it in favour of making Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Color games?

I'm sure had they gone ahead and made it, it still would have been far better than this dreadful disaster from the hacks at Blast! that I came across at my school I used to go to (that yes, did have a PS2 there for some reason) that makes a complete mockery of this cult TV classic.

Join International Rescue in their most mundane and dreadfully dull adventures yet as they're reduced to saving sodding cows whilst they battle against egregious timers and praying to God that their Thunderbird doesn't just fucking stops and falls out of the sky for no reason.

See Thunderbird 3 be reduced to playing the world's most boring Asteroid clone that never fucking changes (and speaking of which, the missions all feel the same).

And marvel at graphics that look more like Playdoh than anything Supermarionation.

Thunderbirds on PS2 is a no-go!