Metacritic Games

Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis (GameCube)

Aquaman, the dynamic DC Comics super hero, stars in a spectacular underwater action / adventure brawler as he defends the deep-sea city of Atlantis against his most infamous arch-enemies Ocean Master, Black Manta and the Lava Lord of the Fire Trolls. Aquaman fans, here's your chance to wield Aquaman's legendary super powers and cybernetic morphing hook/hand against these seemingly invincible villains and their armies. [TDK Mediactive]

TDK Mediactive
Action, Adventure, Fighting
Players: 2
T (Teen)
Developer: Lucky Chicken Games
Released July 23, 2003

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

27 / 100

Critic Reviews

50 Village Voice
Everything looks blurry, and it's tough to move around and fight—some combos require you to punch a dozen buttons. Plus, the panel-by-panel narrative looks more cheap than it does charming. Aquaman is all washed up!
40 Maxim Online
There’s just no way to make Aquaman more exciting than beached jellyfish. It’s time to let the scaly superhero sleep with the fishes already.
32 Nintendo Power
The battles are well-executed, if a little slow, but the overall experience is one-dimensional. [Oct 2003, p.140]
30 IGN
Much like Aquaman himself: pathetic...unoriginal, uninspired, and sleep-inducing.
26 netjak
I will say one thing about TDK and Aquaman: The comic book character is unbearably pitiful and TDK managed to translate that perfectly into a just-as-pitiful game.
23 GameSpot
Even the most hard-core Aquaman devotees will likely find little use for this short, shallow, problematic ramshackle game.
20 Game Informer
Call me crazy, but punching an enemy while doing the doggy paddle doesn't exactly generate a whole lot of excitement. [Oct 2003, p.131]
15 Nintendophiles
In case it isn't abundantly obvious, this game is bad. It's horrible. It's awful... might just be the worst game on the Gamecube.
10 GameShark
Unfortunately, no matter how much you change his appearance or try to play up his role as King of Atlantis and his responsibility for patrolling the majority of the planet, Aquaman still sucks.