Rank and Play ID: RNP-IGDB-6200

The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge

Rank and Play

No ratings

Critic rating

55.0 / 100

2 votes

Release

Oct 21, 2004

Genres

Music, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

Overview

Action game based on Henry Selick's stop-motion movie masterpiece. Players slip into the role of Jack Skellington, King of Halloween, and relive the adventures set in Tim Burton's dark world. Following the events of the Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas movie, players take control of Jack Skellington who sets out on a search of new ways to spook kids during Halloween. He returns home to find that Oogie Boogie has returned and Halloween Town is in peril once again. The game combines elements of action, platforming, and rhythm-based gameplay, as Jack must also perform musical battles to defeat certain bosses and progress through the…

Storyline

A year after the film, Jack Skellington once again feels Halloween has become dull and repetitive. He talks with Dr. Finkelstein improving the next Halloween with new scares and discoveries. The doctor gives Jack the "Soul Robber", a green, whip-like weapon. He then leaves to look for new frights; remembering his lesson from before, Jack searches solely in his world. Equally bored Lock, Shock, and Barrel revive Oogie Boogie, who brainwashes Dr. Finkelstein into creating minions for him. Oogie also kidnaps five of the seven Holiday World leaders. Oogie plans to become the "Seven-Holidays King" once he takes control of Christmas Town. But on De…