The Addams Family: Mansion Mayhem - PlayStation 4

Game is fun keeps you guessing, my son loves playing the game.

Great Christmas gift for my 11 year old!

If you're an addams family fan like me than this game will be right for you. This game Is pretty easy and I had no issues with it.

Actually, you won't hear the Addams Family theme song on this game (unless it plays in the minigame mode, which I haven't played in), which for me is a it of a head-scratcher, but I find it to be a good game. As with any video game, there are things that could have been better.The description of the game that is shown at Amazon says that it follows "an original story based on the hit animated movie." It apparently refers to the new Addams Family 2 movie, not the original animated movie; I only know this from the legal mumbo jumbo on the back of the game box. For me it was confusing that the description didn't specify WHICH movie! Really, though, since the game has a story different from the plots of the movies, but has the characters in the same cartoony style of the movies, you could say that it is based on BOTH movies!Anyway, the game has two play modes, each for up to four players: a Story Mode and one in which you can play minigames (I assume, because I haven't seen this mode, that these are the same ones that come up in certain places in Story Mode). You can play as Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, or Pugsley (though not, disappointingly, Uncle Fester!). Apparently, players can all be the same character. In Story Mode, you can select a different, or the same, character each time you enter the mode, and you can change characters by quitting the game and going back to the character-selection screen. (There aren't multiple save files.)My bro and I played through Story Mode once, always as Wednesday (me) and Pugsley (him), and overall it was pretty fun, although it could be rather frustrating at times. (From what we've seen, players have different-colored circles under their characters; I guess this is the only way to tell which player is which if they have the same character!)What you have to do is pretty much your standard 3D platformer-type stuff: run around, fight enemies, pick up items, solve puzzles, and of course do a lot of platforming! Really, there aren't a lot of different things to pick up, just (besides the items that you have to pick up at the end of certain stages) Doubloons, Family Crests, and Hearts. Collecting Doubloons (different numbers in different stages) is one way that you get Crests, which you have to have to progress; you apparently don't have to get ALL of them, though you have to get MOST of them. (The game makers could have thrown in a trophy or SOME type of reward for collecting ALL of them, but they apparently didn't. Oh well.) Hearts, of course, are for restoring health. You have unlimited "lives," and it's a good thing, too! If you die, you respawn, though (in my and my bro's experience at least) not always in a very good place on the screen! My bro and I found that oftentimes, if one of us died, the other had to get to a platform that wasn't moving in order for the "dead" one to respawn!Most of the enemies are pretty much alike, and many charge you when they see you. It can be a little hard to hit them before they hit you. It's best to press the attack button a little before you come up on the enemy (or before it comes up on you). Strangely, there are no boss characters other than the end boss, and you don't fight him directly.The places (or a lot of them) where the screen auto-scrolls from left to right are terrible; they don't seem to have been implemented very well at all! They were the most irritating parts of the game for my bro and me! (Most of them are in the minigame stages, which you HAVE to play!)Misleadingly, the game (and the description of it) make it sound as though each playable character has their own "special ability"; actually, the special abilities are specific to the STAGES rather than to the CHARACTERS themselves. Regardless of which character you are, the same particular stages will always give you the same particular abilities --- which you don't automatically have, as you have to move onto a big emblem (that's what I'm going to call it) on the floor in order to receive the abilities (in many, if not most stages, you switch abilities at certain points). There's really no point in calling any of the special abilities "whosever special ability." The abilities ARE pretty cool, however.The game has lots of cutscenes, which are O.K. but are far from really riveting or super-impressive. It seems like not too much effort went into them, as they are not animated, and there is no actual recorded dialog in them (or for that matter, anywhere else); you can only READ what the characters say, not HEAR it (well, the House vocally says "GET OUT" a couple of times, but that's it). So yeah, don't expect any movie-caliber cutscenes in this game. Some of the text in them IS kind of funny, though. (Incidentally, Cousin Itt is conspicuous by his total absence from the game, at least in Story Mode.)The game did freak out on me and my bro once, causing us to have to exit a stage and go back in, but fortunately, the game apparently saves each time you collect a Crest (we've never seen an icon appear on the screen like usually happens when a game saves, although from what it says on the "This game uses an auto-save feature" screen, it's supposed to have one [Thing!]). We haven't had any more-major problems.Overall, this game may not be anything spectacular --- it has its share of annoyances and could have used a little more work --- but it's still good. Worth the $30, I'd say.

Great game for all ages. The mini games are perfect for new, young gamers.

Fun fun game! The kids and I play all the time!!

This is a cute, wholesome game

Very easy game, best for 8-12 year olds.

fun and easy game to play. loved it

Was not the best game

Its not good at all, basic game and put a few Addams characters in, they know it will sell and its not cheap so I expected more.. its so disappointing...boring...Its 2022 (when I tried it) felt like a 2010 game.

Definitely not what I expected, I thought it would be a proper story, on the lines of the haunted mansion on PS2.