CID The Dummy is an 3D adventure video game released for the PlayStation 2, Wii, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation Portable on April 17, 2009, in Europe, and July 7 in North America.

CID The Dummy
Developer(s)Twelve Games
Publisher(s)Oxygen Games
Platform(s)PlayStation 2
PlayStation Portable
Wii
Microsoft Windows
Release
  • EU: April 17, 2009
  • NA: July 7, 2009
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Platform
Mode(s)Single-player

Plot edit

The game features a story about two scientists who were once colleagues and are now bitter rivals. After an experiment gone wrong, D. Troit, the game's villain, creates an army of sentient robots and kidnaps the daughter of B. M. Werken. Werken retaliates by creating a crash impact dummy, the hero and the game's playable character, to defeat D. Troit and his armies and save Werken's daughter. Werken is assisted by a small flying robot named Copcam.

Reception edit

CID The Dummy received negative reviews upon its release. On Metacritic, the game holds scores of 41/100 for the PlayStation Portable version based on 6 reviews,[1] and 31/100 for the Wii version based on 7 reviews.[2] On GameRankings, the game holds scores of 36.00% for the PlayStation 2 version based on 2 reviews,[3] 35.60% for the PlayStation Portable version based on 5 reviews,[4] and 33.43% for the Wii version based on 7 reviews.[5]

Demake edit

The demake Crash Dummy was developed by Twelve Games and published by Funbox Media and released digitally in 2019 for the Nintendo Switch on February 28,[6] PC via Steam on March 1,[7] and the Sony PlayStation 4 on March 4 respectively as a 2D side-scroller.[8] Links to both an iOS and Android versions of the game exist on the company's website but no longer function due to these versions being delisted from those platforms[9] and instead were ported up to consoles and PC.

References edit

  1. ^ "CID The Dummy for PSP Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  2. ^ "CID The Dummy for Wii Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  3. ^ "CID The Dummy for PlayStation 2". GameRankings. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  4. ^ "CID The Dummy for PSP". GameRankings. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  5. ^ "CID The Dummy for Wii". GameRankings. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  6. ^ "Crash Dummy, Nintendo eShop store page". Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  7. ^ "Crash Dummy, Steam store page". Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Crash Dummy, Playstation store page". Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Crash Dummy main page with broken iOS and Android links". Retrieved 14 March 2022.

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