The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy's Grand Adventure Explained

The Peanuts Movie:
Snoopy's Grand Adventure
Publisher:Activision
Developer:Behaviour Santiago
Engine:Unity
Platforms:Nintendo 3DS
PlayStation 4
Wii U
Xbox 360
Xbox One
Genre:Platformer
Side-scroller
Modes:Single-player, multiplayer
Director:David Williams
Designer:Macarena Francia
Louis Manning
Programmer:Daniel Córdova
George Laskowsky
Artist:Marco Montecinos
Felipe Montecinos
Composer:Lee Blaske

The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy's Grand Adventure is a side-scrolling platform video game based on The Peanuts Movie. The game launched on November 3, 2015, in North America, and November 6, 2015, in Europe and Australia for the Xbox 360 and most eighth-generation platforms,[1] [2] becoming the first Peanuts video game released on a Nintendo platform internationally since Snoopy Tennis in 2001. It was distributed by Fox Digital Entertainment, published by Activision and developed by Behaviour Santiago.

Gameplay

The player plays as Snoopy and can play as Woodstock in co-op to help find Charlie Brown and his friends. In order to do this the player must go through several levels, each one ending at Snoopy's Doghouse. Along the way the player will collect Jelly Beans, use various costumes, and find members of the Beagle Scouts. The player is able to customize Snoopy and Woodstock.

Story

Charlie Brown and his friends play hide and seek in his backyard while unintentionally leaving a trail of jelly beans. Snoopy finds the trail and follows them in order to locate the gang.

Throughout the game, he goes through hiding spots the gang that the gang have hidden. However, due to Snoopy's crazy imagination, he believes them to be amazing and exciting places like the Amazon, space, Aztec temple, etc. he then finds Peppermint Patty, Linus, Lucy Van Pelt, Franklin, Pig-Pen, Schroeder and believing him to be the last kid standing. Charlie Brown believes he won, but unfortunately finds that The Little Red Haired Girl won instead as Charlie came out before she came out. Despite the fact he lost (again), he is happy that she smiled at him and congratulated him. Schroeder then plays the theme for the Peanuts and everybody dances.

Reception

The game received generally "mixed or average" reviews on Metacritic. At GameRankings the PS4 version holds a score of 65.00% while the Xbox One version holds a 63.56% score and the Wii U version has a score of 60.00%.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Activision Publishing, Inc. Announces The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy's Grand Adventure Video Game. Develop. July 8, 2015. August 8, 2015. July 15, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150715051356/http://www.develop-online.net/press-releases/activision-publishing-inc-announces-the-peanuts-movie-snoopy-rsquo-s-grand-adventure-video-game/0208678. live.
  2. Web site: The Peanuts Movie: Snoopy's Grand Adventure officially announced. Nintendo Everything. July 8, 2015. August 8, 2015. August 12, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150812052621/http://nintendoeverything.com/the-peanuts-movie-snoopys-grand-adventure-officially-announced/. live.