Sneakers Critic Reviews

A bizarrely conceived, thinly veiled pseudo point-and-click adventure with some very simplistic fighting sequences.

The shame is that the lousy and simplistic gameplay takes away from the fact that this is actually a nice-looking Xbox title.

A game rife with control problems and uninspired gameplay.

Sneakers should have been caught in the development mouse trap.

It's tedious, frustrating, poorly designed, lacks any sort of graphical flair, and is all but guaranteed to induce boredom within the first ten minutes, never mind the approximately two hours it takes to finish the game.

Anyone with a modicum of gaming experience will probably find Sneakers to be boring and tedious.

The game's infinitely looped, saccharine-sweet piano music and French-style accordion tunes may in fact turn children into the hockey-mask wearing, ax-wielding maniancs we always see in the movies.

Everything is low quality and repetitive, you'll throw the game down in a number of minutes.

All of that may appeal to very young kids of roughly the same age as Barney's fans, but playing the game is another matter. Any child old enough to hold a controller has outgrown the concepts here.

I plan on burning my copy so that it can't fall into the hands of impressionable children who might then come to think all video games are meant to suck this bad.

Sneakers has a stench not even a pair of Odor Eaters can mask. It is hard to believe this was the title Microsoft touted for its Japanese console launch, and after playing you'll understand why the system failed to entice the buying public.

After playing Sneakers, I don't think the package declaring it's "Only On Xbox" is such a bright idea. They'd be better off keeping that sad fact a secret and quietly dumping all remaining copies of the game next to the steaming pile of "E.T." 2600 cartridges rotting in the desert.

Pretend the game is the plague and avoid it at all costs.