The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (video game)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a mobile video game based on the Fox 2000 Pictures and Walden Media movie of the same name. Developed by Fox Digital Entertainment, it was released in 2010. It is a sequel to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian movie-based video games.

The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The title screen
Developer(s)Gameloft Software Beijing
Gameloft Software Shanghai[1]
Publisher(s)Fox Digital Entertainment
Platform(s)Mobile, iPhone, iPod Touch
ReleaseNovember 18, 2010
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Console game

Back in early 2009, Destructoid reported that video game developer Nihilistic Software was working on the video game for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. This was substantiated by an online resume for Nestor Angeles on the Animator Database. It was then assumed that the game would be completed in coincidence with the film’s release in December 2010. [2] Less than a year thereafter it has been revealed that the video game adaptation of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader produced by Nihilistic Software was cancelled when Walt Disney Pictures (and therefore Disney Interactive) left the Narnia project in late 2008/early 2009. [3]

Mobile game

Plot summary
Main article: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The game is set as a journey to Aslan's country and then back to England.[4] As King Caspian, Edmund, or Lucy, the player will encounter sea monsters and dragons in epic battles. Loosely based on the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, the game also shares some sequences with the original book.

Gameplay

The player is allowed to become one of the film's three main characters: King Caspian, Lucy and Edmund.[5] Gameplay includes defeating enemies including bosses with a sword as well as solving simple puzzles. In some parts the player will control a rowboat and has to evade rocks and attacking pirates on a rowboat. Health and stamina can be replenished along the way by picking up bottles dropped by defeating enemies or destroying jars or opening treasure chests.[6]

Reception

The game, just like its predecessor, was met with average to mixed reviews upon release. Will Wilson, writing for the mobile gaming website Pocket Gamer, gave a 6/10 mixed review, stating that: "the Voyage of the Dawn Treader is a solid movie tie-in that doesn’t desecrate the license and will please fans, but it doesn’t offer up anything to get pulses racing either".[8]

References
  1. "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (J2ME)". MobyGames. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  2. "TDisney + Nihilistic = crazy delicious?". Destructoid. 11 April 2009. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  3. "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Video Game Has Been Cancelled!". NarniaWeb. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  4. "Games". Gameloft. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  5. "Page Redirection". Gameloft. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  6. "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (J2ME)". MobyGames. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  7. Wilson, Will (7 December 2010). "The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  8. Wilson, Will (7 December 2010). "The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 6 September 2020.


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