The Grinch

Video games are one of the best indoor activities for a person; it helps to experience a completely different world. The Grinch (2000) follows the footsteps of the popular movie. The game was narrated by George Lowe. In ‘the Grinch’ the player has to use the Grinch’s smelly breath to pass through the obstacles and to reach to his final destination.

What is the Plot of the game, The Grinch?

Every video game has a story behind it, similarly the Grinch was made on the movie, so the plot was about the Grinch who wants to steal the gadgets from the town, Whoville but during deciding what to steal first he lost his plan’s blue prints and now the Grinch has to run to find them.

So basically what happens is that the Grinch looks through a telescope at Whoville and plans to use his imaginative amazing gadgets to steal the Christmas presents. But first he needs to prepare the gadgets and for that he has some blueprints.

Unfortunately, the Grinch falls down from the large boxes and the blueprints for his gadgets fly away from the wind blowing and they fly far into different areas of the Wholand. So now to find the missing blueprints, the Grinch goes through the Whoforest, Whoville, Wholake and Whoville Municipal Dump. He starts destroying Christmas gifts, and he also plays many pranks on citizens of Whoville. The player has to keep moving forward to recover the missing pieces of the blueprints that flew away when the character fell in the start of the game.

Features of the game:

• Single Player
• Non-violent action and adventurous game
• You play as The Grinch himself
• You get to choose from different imaginative gadgets and weapons such as a Rotten Egg Launcher, and Grinch Copter etc.

PROS of the Grinch:

• The fans of the movie can relive their love for the movie.
• No such violence promoted against human beings.
• The game has a very easy gameplay.
• Includes missions that encourage strategic thinking.

CONS of the Grinch:

• Only offers single player.
• The game version does not live up to the high standards of the film
• Game needs to upgrade for better results.
• Might give out a bad message that it promotes stealing.
• Smashing of gifts may promote an inappropriate concept of Christmas in the minds of little kids.

Personal Rating

The game is very easy and based on the popular movie however it did not live up to the popularity and success of the movie. We would give this game an average rating of 3/5.

"It isn't easy being green," sang Kermit the Frog, and how right he was. The Grinch may have come from the wrong side of the swamp, but things certainly don't run smoothly when you've got kids to scare, snowmen to smash and a Whoville Christmas to ruin.

You play the green one on his quest through a Dr Seuss-inspired world to disrupt the festive celebrations of the far too cute Whoville and collect the missing blueprints for the Grinch gadgets. Unfortunately, you can't do a lot of serious maiming with weapons like the Rotten Egg Launcher and Slime Shooter. Well, what did you expect? Along the way you have to indulge in all kinds of child-friendly naughtiness, such as squashing presents, sabotaging posters and, heavens no, shuffling the mail.

Movie tie-in games have a reputation for being fairly half-hearted at best and cat litter at worst. Lumped in with the whole merchandising shebang alongside talking dolls and plastic lunchboxes, those poor pixels never really stand much of a chance. But the Grinch is worth a quick second look simply because once in a while, when everything stops rhyming, it's quite good fun.

The game doesn't break any new ground, either visually or in terms of gameplay. It runs relatively smoothly, the puzzles are fairly tricky and the graphics and sound are certainly passable. Moreover, it's almost refreshing not to have to worry about being blown to pieces and know that the most dangerous thing around the next corner is likely to be an over-enthusiastic child.

If you're prepared to make some serious concessions to your inner child, then you and the Grinch might form a beautiful friendship. If, however, you're more of a blood-and-gore type of a gamer, you might find yourself thinking 'Yes, this is all very pretty, but where's the light anti-tank gun?'