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3.5 / 5

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Platform
Game Boy Color
Genres
Beat 'em Up
Player Perspective
Third person · Top-down · Side view
Release date
December 31, 2000
Languages
🇩🇪 German · 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 English · 🇪🇸 🇲🇽 Spanish · 🇫🇷 French · 🇳🇱 Dutch

Summary

The Game Boy Color version of *Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar* brings the film’s slap‑slap‑boom humor to a handheld screen with straightforward action controls. While the title rides the same cartoon‑style graphics as its console siblings, the portable edition inherits the same “run‑and‑fetch” core loop that defines the series. Cryo Interactive’s publishing push paid off: the PlayStation version alone moved 300,000 units by spring 2000, a success that helped shine a light on the GBC port despite its modest reach. Critics, however, weren’t shy about the game’s simplicity—*GameGuru* called the gameplay “simple” and “boring,” pointing to chores like catching flying fish or baked pigs and delivering them to the village table. *Hardcore Gaming 101* echoed that sentiment, labeling the experience repetitive, with tasks ranging from serving wild boars to gathering mistletoes from trees.

Edited by Maya Carter

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Single