Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge Critic Reviews

This adventure looks great, its landscape dominated by crooked buildings and brooding grey skies; navigating Jack is simple and the characters are all well realised. A perfect children’s game.

One of the most alluring hub-based adventures I've ever had the pleasure of playing.

It's like a work of musical art, with plenty of eventful gaming moments.

The Nightmare Before Christmas isn't going to score points on original gameplay, but it makes up for it with an excellent translation of the movie.

The frequent backtracking gets annoying, but given that Oogie's Revenge is like Devil May Cry and was developed by Capcom, it still manages to provide a memorable experience.

Boss battles are simple, yet well done, incorporating Jack's whip-like Soul Robber and a musical rhythm sub-game that's just very cool.

The sound is superb, something about singing while you are in battle is enjoyable and at times you will find yourself singing along to the game.

Excellent atmosphere and great characters straight from the fantastic movie. The game itself is an average 3D action-adventure.

7 / 8 / 7 / 7 - 29

Nightmare isn't a spectacular game, but the development team has done an excellent job of capturing the film's style and spirit (pardon the pun).

This B-grade game isn't going to win any awards, but as far as movie-related video games go, it's one of the better entries.

The gameplay is simply not good enough to compete with the production values. The developers were unable to match Burton's creativity.

Fans of The Nightmare Before Christmas (the movie) will adore this game, mostly due to it staying true to the milieu and characters from the movie. Non fans will still get a kick out of the game, as it’s an enjoyable mix of platforming and music.

The game features fun and innovative boss fights and your Soul Robber weapon is nice too. Those elements are solid, but Capcom didn’t perfect key aspects of the game including the terrible camera angles and repetitive fighting that causes the game to be irritating.

I really wanted to enjoy Oogie's Revenge, I really did, but the game is just too little variety stretched over too much similarity in tasks. It's fun in bursts, but as a long haul action game, even I can't handle this much Halloween.

Were it not for the part where you actually have to play it, fans of the film could have had a conceivably great time with Oogie's Revenge.

It was fun at first, but got grindingly boring as I kept playing.

Unless you really enjoyed watching The Nightmare Before Christmas, there are plenty of other action adventure games with much more value.

By the time you’ve whipped your way through a dozen or so levels, you’ll probably be getting a little bit tired of mashing the square button and twirling your analog stick. You’ll also notice that other aspects of the game are a bit sloppy.

Looks like even Tim Burton can't help but succumb to the movie-game conversion curse. Decent action and gameplay, but nothing to write home about.