Blues Brothers 2000 is a platform game

Platform game

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 for the Nintendo 64

Nintendo 64

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 console, released by Virgin Interactive

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 in October 2000 in Europe, and by Titus Software

Titus Software

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 in November 2000 in North America. The game is a platformer, loosely based on the band and the film

The Blues Brothers (film)

The Blues Brothers is a 1980 musical comedy film directed by John Landis and starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as "Joliet" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from a musical sketch on the NBC variety series Saturday Night Live. It features musical numbers by R&B and soul singers James...

. Due to major delays it was r released two years after the film it was suppose to help promote was in theaters.

Gameplay

The game player starts out as Elwood in prison who needs to get the band together for the battle of the bands, which is in less than two days. After saving the guitarist, Cab, then defeating the warden, the player progresses through Chicago, in hopes of finding Mac and Buster. After going about the rooftops, the player enters Willie's Club, where Mac is being held captive. After defeating Willie, Mac says that Buster has escaped to the old graveyard. Arriving there, the player finds that an evil tree has put Buster in a cage. The final battle takes place in a swamp.

External links

• Review: Blues Brothers 2000, IGN
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• Blues Brothers 2000, GameFAQs
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