I love Popcap games, too. I played a little bit of Feeding Frenzy as a few demo, but I didn't have the money at the time to buy the game. Plus, I think it was on my friend's computer, so not really a cool thing to download things onto other people's devices.
Feeding Frenzy 2: Shipwreck Showdown
|
 On 04/01/2023 at 09:42 AM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
I revisited this 2006 PopCap game on Xbox Series S and discovered I hadn't got all the achievements. Weird. So I attacked this thing with the hunger of a shark and got pretty close to completing everything.
I've been a PopCap fan since Bejewelled in 2001. The first Feeding Frenzy was 2004. I played that on PC along with many other PopCap games like the similar Insaneaquarium. The Feeding Frenzy series takes it's influence from an even older game on Intellivision called Shark! Shark!. The mechanics are the same. You play as a fish eating smaller fish until you grow into a larger fish. You work your way up the chain to being the top predator. In Shark! Shark! you just score points and last as long as you can. In Feeding Frenzy you build up a meter, grow into new, bigger fish, and when the meter is full, you move on to the next level (as well as score points). It's a super fun mechanic and gives ample room to present interesting graphics and gameplay twists.
I love the graphics in Feeding Frenzy 2. I love seeing all the different types of fish and reading the little factoids between levels. You swim in a variety of environments both in shallow and deep, dark water. You can leap above the waterline to eat flying bugs and light up the depths by eating phosphorescent jellies or starfish. Some bigger fish can be bitten in the tail for bonus points and there are loads of different pickups that give you temporary powers, shrink the bigger fish, or give you bursts of speed to eat everything on the screen.
The game provides several modes. There's a campaign mode consisting of a large amount of levels, multiplayer mode where you compete with friends to see who can eat the most fish, and a Time Attack mode which is just the campaign levels with a time limit. In this playthrough, I beat the campaign mode and started in on all the Time Attack levels. I stopped about half way through those to play other things.
It's curious no other games were added to the series since '06. The only thing similar I can think of right now is Maneater where you play as a Great White Shark in a open world. You eat fish and fight the humans who killed your mother. It's a pretty good game that my friend has played to exhaustion, and I have played for several hours.
Comments