Donald Duck: Quack Attack

Vorlage:Infobox VG Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers, known as Donald Duck: Quack Attack in Europe, is a platform game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and Disney Interactive and published by Ubisoft for various consoles and Windows-based personal computers. A completely different game with the same title was released for the Game Boy Color, as well as on Game Boy Advance, the latter being given the title Donald Duck Advance.

Gameplay

Goin' Quackers requires the player to move through various settings, such as the forest or the city, while jumping over obstacles. The viewpoint of the levels change from a 2D side-scrolling perspective to a 3D perspective. Re-doing the levels in order to defeat Gander's time in same, nets the player advantages in the game.

Plot

Goin' Quackers begins with television reporter Daisy Duck discovering the mysterious temple of the evil magician Merlock. As she tells the story, however, she is kidnapped by Merlock. Donald Duck resolves to find her with the help of Gyro Gearloose's new invention, the "Tubal Teleport System", which will be able to locate Merlock and Daisy. Along his journey, Donald must compete with his arch rival Gladstone Gander, recover a piece of Gyro's "Tubal Teleport System", and reverse the spells that Merlock put on Huey, Dewey and Louie's toys. Other characters appearing in the game include the antagonists Beagle Boys and Magica De Spell.

Development

The game was developed in 2000 by Ubisoft Montreal in a collaboration with Disney Interactive as a homage to Carl Barks, who died the same year. Coincidentally, Disney also produced a Donald-focused record album called Goin' Quackers in 1980. However, other than the title, there seem to be no intentional similarities. The score for Goin' Quackers was composed by Shawn K. Clement. There are remnants of Rayman 2 dialogue in the game, suggesting the possibility of that it might have been built on a modified Rayman 2 engine.

Donald Duck Advance

Vorlage:Expand-section Donald Duck Advance is a Game Boy Advance game released in 2001, which shares similar elements to the Game Boy Color version of Goin' Quackers.

Reception

Vorlage:Expand-section Vorlage:VG Reviews Goin' Quackers was fairly well-received by the media. Jon Thompson of Allgame reviewed the PlayStation 2 version and commented that although "it's an easy, competent game, it won't bother you while you're playing it because everything is so darned fun."