madagascar Full PC Game

          Madagascar is a short but endearing adventure that will be immediately appealing to the adolescent gamers in your household, whether or not they've seen the movie. 

Activision's video game version of DreamWorks' latest computer animated comedy, Madagascar, is one of those rare movie-to-game translations that manage to be good even if you've never seen the film. Unsurprisingly, the game is a kid-friendly platformer that retells much of the film's story--throwing in some more adventure-centric sequences for the purposes of gameplay--replaces all of the film's star talent with soundalike voice actors, and generally doesn't take too much thinking or time to complete. What is somewhat surprising is that the gameplay is pretty solid for a game aimed squarely at kids, the voice actors do a good job of capturing the inflections of the film's characters, and the game features a nice boon of unlockable content to make up for the short quest. By no means is Madagascar the next big thing in platforming, but as far as kid-friendly fare is concerned, it does the job. 

           Madagascar tells the story of a group of eccentric animals living in the New York City zoo. Marty the zebra isn't content with his city life, finding himself in search of a way out of the zoo. His friends include Alex the lion, a self-assured, somewhat prissy creature that fancies himself the "King of New York"; Melman the giraffe, a perpetually paranoid and hypochondriacally ineffectual fellow; and Gloria the hippo, an oafish, yet somehow dignified lady beast. 

The three of them are quite content with their life in the zoo, but when Marty hooks up with a group of penguins running a covert escape operation, the four find themselves on a journey that takes them away from the comforts they've known their whole lives and into the wild and unfamiliar jungles of Madagascar. This is pretty much the plot of the film to the letter, and the game does a good job of taking the same kind of goofy humor from the movie and translating it into a coherent and periodically amusing game plot. It's unlikely to have you rolling in your seat or anything, but for a younger audience, it's well suited. 

System Requirements

3D hardware accelerator card required – 100% DirectX(R) 9.0c-

compliant 32 MB video card and drivers*

Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 98/ME/2000/XP

Pentium(R) III 800MHz or Athlon(R) 800MHz or higher processor

256 MB of RAM

800 MB of uncompressed hard disk space

A 100% Windows(R) 98/ME/2000/XP-compatible computer system including:

DirectX(R) 9.0c (Included)

100% DirectX(R) 9.0c-compliant true 16-bit sound card and drivers

*Supported Chipsets for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

All NVIDIA(R) GeForce2(TM) and better chipsets

All ATI(R) Radeon 7500(TM) and better chipsets.