Jaws Unleashed
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| Developer(s) | Appaloosa Interactive |
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Majesco Games |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
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| GameRankings | (PC) 60.12% (Xbox) 53.75% (PS2) 53.02% |
| Metacritic | (PC) 55/100 (PS2) 52/100 (Xbox) 51/100 |
Jaws Unleashed is a 2006 action video game inspired by the 1975 film Jaws. It was developed by Appaloosa Interactive and published by Majesco. The game features open world gameplay, with the player being able to roam freely throughout the water, feeding on other animals and even on humans; all the while destroying everything in its path. Jaws Unleashed was released for Microsoft Windows, Xbox and PlayStation 2.
30 years after the events of the first film, Amity Island is growing, making corporate connections with prestigious companies like Environplus to improve the Island's economy. Unfortunately the increased population around the Island and recent industrial activity has also attracted one of Earth's most fearsome creatures and the game's main character: Jaws, a great white shark. When the Environplus CEO's son is eaten by the ferocious beast, the CEO Steven Shaw hires renowned shark hunter Cruz Raddock to track down and kill the shark. Meanwhile, Marine Biologist Michael Brody tries to capture the shark for research. Players are introduced to the controls and abilities of Jaws in a tutorial, where the player kills several divers, learns to attack swimmers at a beach, and must destroy a set of docks. Michael shows up at this point, and captures Jaws and transports him to a waterpark, similar to Sea World.
Mayor Vaughn puts Jaws in a holding tank, where Brody and Shaw are arguing about what to do with the shark. Shaw wants Jaws to be killed as he killed his son and is endangering the beaches. After they leave, the shark eventually escapes from his holding tank, and destroys the waterpark. In one of the exhibit tanks, the shark killed the resident Orca. After this, the player is free to roam.
The Shark finds his way into a beach party in the middle of the night, and attacks the swimmers. When a truck starts throwing explosive barrels in the water, Jaws grabs one, and throws it at a pipe line filled with oil. The barrel explodes, causing a chain reaction as the oil ignites that causes the entire Environplus refinery to catch fire and collapse into the ocean. After this he causes more carnage such as destroying an underwater facility, destroying an oil shipment and finally killing the Shaw and Mayor Vaughn. Seeing this as the last straw, Cruz sets to blow up Jaws, but he is killed when his boat is destroyed. Brody looks down at the wreckage of Cruz's boat, The Orca II. To make sure the shark is dead, he drops a bomb over the devastation zone. As Brody, aboard the Coast Guard helicopter flies off into the sunset, Jaws reveals himself to be alive when his single dorsal fin rises above the water line and begins to follow the helicopter as the game ends.
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