

Sadly, unlike Jaws: The Revenge, there is no Michael Caine there to class it up. Being that you are the shark and the one eating people and causing problems, the plot is that your tantrums are caused by man’s meddling with nature and not because you are a gigantic ocean predator. Jaws Unleashed allows you to play as the titular shark in what feels more like an adaptation of the 1977 Jaws knockoff Orca. Then in 2006, Appaloosa Interactive decided that it was time for a sequel, taking place 30 years after the first movie and released on PlayStation 2, Xbox, and PC. Has anyone else ever tried that? Was that Leatherface’s weakness this entire time? The gunman makes zero appearances in-game, and when you run out of gas completely, you get a game over screen of one of your potential victims running over to kick you square in the butt. You would think that being shot at would be one of the hazards of the game. The cover for the game shows what appears to be a detective of some sort firing a gun.

To refill your chainsaw, you have to kill five victims. As you run around cow skulls, fences, and empty wheelchairs, your gas gradually runs out. After all, crude graphics or not, you were playing as a monstrous lunatic whose only want is to carve up invading teenagers with his chainsaw and steal their skin.Ī simple game, you play as Leatherface, chasing young kids around and trying to shred them apart with your favorite power tool.

While incredibly tame by modern standards, the 1983 Atari 2600 version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre was seen as controversial at the time. Rather than the Maitlands coming to grips with the monster they had unleashed on the world, we instead just end the adventure with Beetlejuice bowing to the audience and using his victory to promote himself for future jobs. It just so happens that he does his work through some excessively bizarre and borderline unplayable platforming and fetch quests. Beetlejuice spends the game doing the job he was hired to do in helping the Maitlands rid their home of the Deetz family, while the game ignores the big plot point that he’s a sinister entity who can’t be trusted. Though coming out three years after the movie, the NES game chooses the more villainous movie version of the character as the source material.
