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Game Title
 
Category Point-n-Click/Keyboard, Arcade/Adventure/Children
Release Date

November 2005

Developer/Publisher

Brethren Entertainment
Digital Praise
Description

Third Person

"The city of Angeltown has been invaded by a quartet of nefarious nasties who, under the direction of Maniac Brainiac, are exerting their evil influence over the town's children. Playing as one of three Light Rangers, your task is to defeat the villains and restore the town's harmony by completing five arcade-style games-within-the-game.

"The Light Rangers are actually three ordinary nine-year-olds named A.J., Amos, and Angel who have been "transformed by the power of God's word" to do battle with the game's villains...Regrettably, some of Angel's in-game behavior just doesn't sit right with me...Angel loves animals...[and] is rather rough with them because she's overenthusiastic and doesn't know her own strength...in the game's opening cutscene, a cat sees Angel and reacts with obvious alarm. Angel then accosts the animal and squeezes it way too forcefully....in a still graphic that's displayed between game segments, Angel is clutching a cat so tightly that its eyes are popping out. A similar image appears during the North Angeltown arcade game, on a billboard that also quotes Scripture. In both images, Angel is winking at the player.

"I also find Angel's behavior questionable in a subsequent cutscene. During an altercation with one of the villains, she does something rather dreadful to that character's hair. Then everyone laughs about it.

"A User's Manual is included on the Light Rangers disk...[but] is not accessible once gameplay has started...in order to refer to the manual while in the middle of an arcade game one must exit Light Rangers completely, which also results in the loss of all progress made in that particular game...Unfortunately, Light Rangers permits no saves other than those performed automatically at the end of each arcade sequence.

"[T]he High Scores screen reflects a code in each score slot...The screen states "Use your WEB CODE on our website to unlock bonus items," and provides a link to the Brethren Entertainment site...But I was unable to locate any bonus items there...In contrast, the User's Manual says to use these codes on the official Light Rangers site. Unfortunately, I didn't see any bonus items there, either.

"Light Rangers offers a couple of tools for parents: the Question Editor and the Egg Timer. I had problems with both of them.

"I tried to get a better feel for Light Rangers by asking lots of questions...I also played Light Rangers from start to finish more times than I've played any other game I've reviewed, thinking that maybe I just wasn't 'getting' it...Try as I might, I was simply unable to get okay with some parts of the game.

"Light Rangers could have been a wonderful game for kids. As I've said, it does have some good points. Unfortunately -- and I truly wish this were otherwise -- I feel they're overshadowed by its flaws."

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Grade - Review

C-
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Minimum System Requirements

PC Icon PC REQUIREMENTS:

  • Windows® XP/ME/2000/98SE
  • Pentium® III 533 MHz with MMX
  • 350 MB hard disk space
  • 128 MB RAM
  • DirectX® v9.0
  • DirectSound® compatible sound card
  • 8 MB VGA compatible video card
  • Standard CD-ROM/keyboard/mouse

Mac Icon MAC REQUIREMENTS:

  • Power MacIntosh G3
  • OSX 10.1.5
  • 350 MB hard disk space
  • 128 MB RAM
  • Standard CD-ROM/keyboard/mouse
Media 1 CD-ROM

 

 

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