Azurik: Rise of Perathia

 Xbox
Metascore
52

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 26
  3. Negative: 10 out of 26
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  1. Game Informer
    45
    Just about everything about the playcontrol is cumbersome. [Feb 2002, p.91]
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  2. Game Revolution
    42
    What really puts the hurt on this game is the lack of any real challenge or fun.
  3. Yahoo!
    40
    For every imaginative, interesting and appealing puzzle, there's one long, drawn out, dull key hunt. For every awe-inspiring graphical vista, there's a boring, black, featureless tunnel. For every sparsely spread save point, there's a (or rather, many) long plummets to unexpected insta-death.
  5. Play Magazine
    40
    It’s also home to some of the most pathetic voice acting I’ve ever heard. [Feb 2002, p.59]
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  6. Electronic Gaming Monthly
    38
    It’s hard to take a game seriously whose hero looks like a plastic, blue Reboot reject. I think Paul Reubens would have been more believable. [Feb 2002, p.164]
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  7. Official Xbox Magazine
    37
    This game drops the ball in every conceivable way, providing a wholly lackluster experience. [Feb 2002, p.74]
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  8. Gaming Age
    33
    Not that Azurik is the most painful experience I’ve encountered, but the game offers nothing new to the genre, and seemingly borrowed everything from elsewhere. The pain is there though, believe me.
  9. XenGamers
    33
    After only a few seconds gamers will realize that the vilest foes in Perathia are amateurish graphics and formulaic gameplay.
  10. Xbox Nation Magazine
    30
    Sports one of the most mind-numbingly frustrating camera systems in recent memory. [Spring 2002, p.92]
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  11. TotalGames.net
    30
    There is nothing in this game which stands out to make it playable; not in the story, nor the gameplay, nor the graphics, and the vast majority of it is poorly thought out, second hand, uninteresting and redundant drivel.

Awards & Rankings

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#34 Best Xbox Game of 2001
8
#8 Most Discussed Xbox Game of 2001
6
#6 Most Shared Xbox Game of 2001

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User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 18 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18
  1. Broyax
    Apr 6, 2017
    0
    On dirait un jeu Lidl ou Leader Price... vous parlez d'une exclu ! à mourir de rire si ce n'était pas aussi navrant : artistiquement affreux,On dirait un jeu Lidl ou Leader Price... vous parlez d'une exclu ! à mourir de rire si ce n'était pas aussi navrant : artistiquement affreux, un monde générique et sans âme, graphiquement indigne de la Xbox, jouabilité d'une médiocrité incroyable, version française sabrée. Un échec total.… Full Review »
  2. BlackArachnid41
    Sep 15, 2014
    10
    A fantastic adventure game for the original Xbox. If you're looking for a more difficult experience, massive beautiful landscapes, and areA fantastic adventure game for the original Xbox. If you're looking for a more difficult experience, massive beautiful landscapes, and are into games like The Legend of Zelda, I highly recommend getting this game.… Full Review »
  3. TonyJ.
    May 11, 2006
    3
    As commented in the reviews, formulaic and predictable. Possibly the least dynamic or exciting collect-em-up ever created. Whoever it was As commented in the reviews, formulaic and predictable. Possibly the least dynamic or exciting collect-em-up ever created. Whoever it was that compared it with Zelda must've had their eyeballs in back to front. This game just makes me want to fall asleep to avoid the monotony of hammering the A button to defeat poorly animated foes, assuming I can even see them in some of the pitch black and disorientating tunnels. A truely lackluster title with laughable voice acting and a cringe inducingly contrived plot (if you can call it that). The mission in the game is to retrieve some discs. Personally I shall be doing my utmost to lose this particular one.… Full Review »
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