Drake & Josh: Talent Showdown

Drake & Josh: Talent Showdown is a 2007 action-adventure game for the Nintendo DS. It is the second and last video game based on the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake & Josh.

Drake & Josh: Talent Showdown
Developer(s)Artificial Mind & Movement
Publisher(s)THQ
Platform(s)Nintendo DS
Release
  • NA: July 30, 2007
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single player

Plot

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Drake and Josh win the infamous talent show, Teen American Talent, by avoiding sabotage from other contestants and by perfecting their music. The game allows the player to interact with characters from the TV show, including Drake, Josh and Megan.

Reception

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Drake & Josh: Talent Showdown received "generally unfavourable" reviews according to Metacritic, earning an aggregated score of 43/100.[1]

Nintendo Gamer called it an "awful mess of a game", giving it a score of 25/100.[5] IGN similarly panned the game, stating that it "doesn't respect the source material", criticized the "monotony" of the audio and visuals, and savaging the game overall as "one simple fetch quest, repeated dozens of times", ultimately giving the game a score of 3.5/10.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Nickelodeon Drake & Josh: Talent Showdown". Metacritic. Archived from the original on May 25, 2024. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
  2. ^ David, Mike (August 16, 2007). "Drake & Josh: Talent Showdown". GameZone. Archived from the original on June 22, 2008.
  3. ^ DeVries, Jack (August 15, 2007). "Drake & Josh: Talent Showdown Review". IGN. Archived from the original on June 9, 2022. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
  4. ^ Miller, Zachary (August 14, 2007). "Drake & Josh: Talent Showdown Review". Nintendo World Report. Archived from the original on February 1, 2010. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
  5. ^ a b "Drake & Josh: Talent Showdown". Nintendo Gamer. United Kingdom. November 2007. p. 72.
  6. ^ DeVries, Jack (2007-08-15). "Drake & Josh: Talent Showdown Review". IGN. Retrieved 2024-11-13.
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