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Stuart Little 3: Big Photo Adventure for PlayStation 2
Stuart Little 3: Big Photo Adventure for PlayStation 2 lets you explore New York from the perspective of a small mouse. A flying accident has damaged his brother George's photography project. Stuart wants to recreate the collection and sets off into the city with a camera. You seek the right subjects, follow clues and complete tasks so you can take new photographs. Progress therefore revolves around a growing photo album and the places you discover to fill it.
Stuart uses different vehicles on his journey, including his red car, a skateboard, boats and a helicopter. Each vehicle changes how you cross an area. Between rides, you walk and jump past obstacles that look much larger from his small scale. Residents and other familiar characters give you tasks or help when you do something for them. Even Snowbell can lend a hand if Stuart brings an appropriate treat.
Costumes give Stuart extra actions. As a firefighter, for example, he uses a hose, while other outfits involve golf or archery. This variety links the photography quest to short activities and different ways of solving a problem. You play this adventure alone. The photographs are taken inside the game world: the camera belongs to Stuart's equipment and the story, while vehicles, clues and costumes determine how you reach the next shot.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Stuart Little 3: Big Photo Adventure for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Stuart Little 3: Big Photo Adventure
Magenta Software made Stuart Little 3: Big Photo Adventure for PlayStation 2. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe published the European edition in 2005. The studio created a three-dimensional adventure in which a familiar film character received a mission of his own. George's damaged school project provides the starting point, after which Stuart travels through urban environments to collect the required photographs again. The developers used the camera as a reason to explore the city and bring the familiar mouse into contact with all kinds of residents and everyday situations.
Sony's original fact sheet placed considerable emphasis on vehicles and dressing up. This let the small protagonist move through the same familiar world in different ways: a street became a driving route, water called for a boat and a costume supplied a new action. That design combined Stuart's scale with individual tasks. Progress was not constantly determined by a single attack or jump; often, you first had to understand which tool matched the photograph being requested.
The game appeared in a period when PS2 received many standalone family adventures based on film characters. Big Photo Adventure made George's photography project the thread connecting the city's different tasks. The album gave the varied activities a common purpose and made discovered locations relevant again. Magenta thus built the game world around Stuart's curiosity, his small size and his ability to take on a different role each time through vehicles and clothing.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Stitch: Experiment 626 on PS2 also features a small film hero, three-dimensional exploration and tools that open new routes. Stitch collects DNA for Jumba and uses plasma blasters, a grappling hook and a jetpack on strange planets. Stuart works on a photo album in the city and switches between vehicles and costumes. Both alternate between different actions; the purpose of those actions differs between photography and an armed journey through space.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit on PS2 also lets you travel through a residential area and help familiar faces with separate tasks. Their Anti-Pesto business catches pests with strange devices and protects a vegetable competition. Stuart tries to recreate George's photographs with vehicles and costumes. Both use a familiar neighbourhood as a collection of activities, but Wallace and Gromit emphasise cooperation, whereas Stuart's photography adventure is carried out by one player.
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy on PS2 similarly features searching through three-dimensional areas and collecting to progress. Jak seeks Power Cells on a journey to restore Daxter's original appearance. Stuart instead collects shots for George's school project and uses familiar vehicles from his own small world. Both reward investigating side paths, but a photography task asks for something different from a platforming route towards a hidden energy source.
Ratchet & Clank on PS2 likewise connects exploration with devices that determine how you pass an obstacle. Ratchet buys weapons and tools during a journey across different planets, with Clank as his constant companion. Stuart uses vehicles and outfits for tasks in the city. Both make you consider the right equipment, but Stuart's photography project and short activities place less emphasis on constant shooting and expanding a collection of weapons.
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc on PS2 also provides variety through powers that temporarily change movement or combat. Rayman helps Globox and fights the Hoodlums in fantasy areas. Stuart puts on costumes to use a hose, for example, and thus finds solutions to photography tasks. Both connect a different ability to a different situation; Rayman mainly builds this into an ongoing platform adventure, while Stuart also uses many vehicles and individual activities.
