Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

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User Score
6.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 16
  3. Negative: 3 out of 16
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  1. Steeldude
    Aug 25, 2015
    6
    A decent game. You can play as all three characters, it is a standard 3D action adventure where you gather items to create new inventions to overcome obstacles. It is basically really similar to the Harry Potter games, at least the first three ones. You run around, collect items, get new skills, explore surroundings to find secrets, fight bad guys ...
    The game is quite short, it is quite    A decent game. You can play as all three characters, it is a standard 3D action adventure where you gather items to create new inventions to overcome obstacles. It is basically really similar to the Harry Potter games, at least the first three ones. You run around, collect items, get new skills, explore surroundings to find secrets, fight bad guys ...
    The game is quite short, it is quite enjoyable, but not memorable in any way. The only slightly unique thing is the item-collecting as you actually always have a list of items that you have to gather which resembles some traditional point-and-click adventure games, making this game a real 3D action ADVENTURE game. :D

    If it actually followed the books and told the whole story, that would have been a completely different case. Unfortunately, it is just a game version of the movie. The movie was good, I liked it, even though I was not the fan of the mixing of the first three books into one story. The same goes for the game. It's a mix of everything that's quite good ... but because we've seen it many times already, it is not spectacular.    … Expand
  2. FekonaSilence
    Nov 17, 2004
    10
    Cool game!!!
  3. JeremiahS.
    Dec 25, 2004
    10
    Great game.
  4. HuckleberryPie
    Mar 6, 2012
    6
    A bit of a good game, but it felt too forgiving and had little to no replay value, besides the fact that this is in fact moddable thanks to the Unreal Engine that powered it.
  5. Speed4Runs
    Dec 17, 2012
    5
    Good game, but it has a lot of problems. It's not even comparable to the book.
    4.75 out of 10, for me.
  6. NeoconTom
    Apr 10, 2019
    9
    This was a fun game on PC back in the day, sad the console version is nothing like it.
  7. mr-NachoMen
    Jan 9, 2019
    6
    Video games based on films suffers from the same curse that movies based on video games had. a small window of opportunity to pleased gamers and to make it an actual game. Unfortunately this game does not manage to make anything impressive at all.
    Based on the film released in 2004, In this game the player has the chance to control the 3 Baudelaire children; Violet, Klaus and Sunny. Most    Video games based on films suffers from the same curse that movies based on video games had. a small window of opportunity to pleased gamers and to make it an actual game. Unfortunately this game does not manage to make anything impressive at all.
    Based on the film released in 2004, In this game the player has the chance to control the 3 Baudelaire children; Violet, Klaus and Sunny. Most of the game has the objective per level to gather objets so Violet can create and important gadget to progress to the game or a weapon to defeat enemies.
    The game is a third person perspective with platformer elements and puzzle solving which is extremely easy. common enemies are rats, crabs and bats and Olaf's minions that serve as boss fights, each boss fight has 4-5 rounds in which the player must shot the "boss" with an specific kind of ammunition until is totally defeated.
    The platformer sections, puzzle solving and combat like i mention are easy, this is because the game such as the movie were targeted to an infant audience so make sense to the game to be easy and short with an average of 4 hours long.
    Visually the game looks bad even for a 2004 game, with average texture work and resolution, low character modeling and bland level design with little exploration to offer. The game was built using the Unreal 2 Engine and it seems that the developers didn't properly know how to use it, the PC version (which is the one i'm reviewing) is the worst looking of all, even the GameBoy Advance version looks way better (and it is a 2D game!)
    The voice acting... terrible. The actors: Jim Carrey, Liam Aiken and Emily Browning reprise their roles from the film but... their acting is bland like, if they don't know how voice acting works or like if they were not interested at all in the project (and i don't blame them). The writing is terrible as well with silly dialog.
    For a kid in that time... this game works great and was interesting. But for an adult well... this is a mess of a game.    … Expand

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#96 Most Discussed PC Game of 2004
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#72 Most Shared PC Game of 2004

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Metascore
64

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. PGNx Media
    77
    The PC version of the game was changed for the worse; the console versions are recommended due to their more accurate control scheme and level variety.
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  2. IGN
    65
    It's not that I think the console version of Lemony Snicket is all that great, mind you, but it is definitely better than the PC version.
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  3. Cheat Code Central
    60
    Overall the gameplay is far too simple for any casual gamer but it's sure to keep kids entertained even if they haven't seen the movie or read any of the novels.
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