Game Company’s Description: Deep in the Peruvian Jungle, assume the role of Pitfall Harry, a fearless, rough-and-ready treasure seeker who battles evil using his athletic ability and a knapsack filled with adventure gear. Your mission: race against a rival explorer to find hidden treasures, which in the wrong hands could spell doom for you and your friends.
Featuring over 50 perilous levels, including lush rain forests, creature-ridden caves and vast glacial mountains, you are challenged to explore a dynamic obstacle-filled world. Adventure your way through a vast landscape, from forests to ancient ruins to subterranean mines. With fast-paced action pathways and a host of obstacles and challenges, you must face the consequences of your every decision.
Crossing treacherous jungle terrain and dark areas filled with puzzles, tricks and traps, you’ll be swinging on vines, avoiding crocodiles and dodging rolling logs as you unearth artifacts and use your cunning to defeat dangerous foes. Laugh in the face of danger!
Look: A major pitfall, if you will, is the graphics. There is nothing amazing here and is very cartoon-ish. The animations are good yet the textures are not.
Feel: Finally an edition of Pitfall where Harry is more than just some guy jumping holes and fighting off snakes. The Lost Expedition has a story and depth. The rest of the game however follows the tried and true formula of jumping objects and very simple fighting and weapons.
Harry must find items to make his way through the stages. What is neat is how the right control stick controls Harry’s right arm, a very interesting addition. Along the way Harry picks up more skills that will be necessary later on in this narrative. You won’t be surprised to find the usual holes and vines that have become part of Pitfall history.
Hear: The voice acting is about the only redeeming quality—this isn’t exactly a good thing. The characters are fun and it can add an interesting element, yet it’s a bad thing when sound is your games best aspect.
Frankly: Light on graphics and slim on game play Pitfall is fun, but you won’t come back more than once.
+ Ralphie Wright
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