#THE APPRENTICE VIDEO GAME MOVIE#

He plays the main character in The Apprentice video game.

The candidates are greeted by a gargantuan screen and, just after sieving the last CGI Lord Sugar out of their nightmares from the toothbrush episode, here he is again вЂ“ in a more macho get-up. TheyвЂ™re being summoned to Samsung KX in London KingвЂ™s Cross. Wonder when this wave will end so I can move to the next screen and get stuck in another battle just like this only so I can finish it to move the screen.ItвЂ™s a lie-in for the five-week-down and weary candidates as theyвЂ™re awoken by a 5am call. Purple attack with purple attack immunity. But yet again, to do so involves more of the same cookie cutter magical melees as before. Between the magical firefights are the occasional sublevels in the magical realm where you can level up your spell power.

It seemed like I was getting stuck in group battle after group battle, with each and every one looking like the last.Д®ven though the shorter battles are Gone In 60 Seconds, it feels much longer due to the sheer number of them and how they run together. Basically, the grunts of the game are just elusive enough that they donВ’t die as quickly as they should to give a sense of progression. Those trash bags floating around quickly turned into a nuisance. That is, until the repetitiveness of it all hit me like a swarm of bees to the eyes. It was quite fun to select my spells, run around in a clean top-down view, and beat up floating trash bags, sewer pipes, and oil slicks with my magic. Games based upon movies are notoriously bad, and for a stinker like The SorcererВ’s Apprentice, I had very little hope it would be anything better than terrible. As you progress through a level, Balthazar dispenses tips and advice while occasionally progressing the story via pop-up text.Дuring the first hour or two of playing the game, I was quite shocked that I was enjoying myself and impressed by the fun simplicity of the gameplay that managed to also have some tactical depth to it. Mana is used in your attacks for most spells and is charged by filling up at placed mana shrines (or whatever they are supposed to be) throughout the level.

Each spell is tied to a different color, and when you are attacked by enemies of the same color as your selected spell, you are effectively immune from harm. The graphics are colorful and crisp, with a variety of magical spells at your disposal. Snarkiness aside, the game does show promise from the outset. Unfortunately, the developers at Disney didnВ’t see fit to draw Balthazar Blake, CageВ’s character, to resemble the actor in more than the slightest of ways. Step number one would seem to be an extra helping of Nicolas Cage in handheld format. When your filmВ’s star has you shaking your head with bemusement simply due to his existence, you know heВ’s something special.

#THE APPRENTICE VIDEO GAME MOVIE#

If I know one thing, it is that the only redeeming hope for a critically panned movie and its handheld counterpart are heavy doses of one Nicolas Cage. But instead of debating the ending of that movie, weВ’re here to discuss whether or not the Nintendo DS version of DisneyВ’s The SorcererВ’s Apprentice is worth your time, which may be a tough sell to an audience largely apathetic to the movie on which the game is based. Like most of you, I saw Inception instead. Normally I wouldnВ’t admit to such a thing up front, but one look at the box office numbers and youВ’d know I was lying if I tried to claim otherwise. If youВ’re like me, you didnВ’t actually see The SorcererВ’s Apprentice.

The apprentice video game