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2009 · Oxygen Games · Action-adventure · Adventure

CID The Dummy

Save the world, the day, and the girl in CID The Dummy, an action-adventure game. The game comes with high speed crashes, turbo-charged weapons, kung-fu fighting, mind-boggling puzzles and level systems and more monsters than you can shake a super-charged fire-blazing bazooka at. Join CID to save the world, the day and the girl in this year's most daring adventure.

Released: 17 April 2009
Platforms: PlayStation 2 PlayStation Portable Wii Windows
Genres: Action-adventure Adventure Beat 'em up Platformer
Developers: Oxygen Games
Publishers: Oxygen Games
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action Comedy
Country: Italy
Age ratings: ESRB E10+

About

CID The Dummy is a 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.

›Story

In a world obsessed with safety, with potential danger around every corner. A world where the once lowly Crash Impact Dummy has risen to a position of great importance amongst us, responsible for crashing, smashing, checking and re-checking everything from lemonade to escalators; CID has been chosen for the mission of a life time.

A chance to crash and smash with real purpose, to battle the most fierce robot villain, a chance to rescue the most beautiful girl in the world... a chance to do something amazing!

Keywords

martial arts
brawler
action-adventure
superhero
damsel in distress

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Story

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

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, and 31/100 for the Wii version based on 7 reviews. On GameRankings, the game holds scores of 36.00% for the PlayStation 2 version based on 2 reviews, 35.60% for the PlayStation Portable version based on 5 reviews, and 33.43% for the Wii version based on 7 reviews.