Cat Alexander 3D: Art Island

Cat Alexander 3D: Art Island is a 1996 3D video game in which marked the Series' transition to 3D

Plot
Alex Visits an art museum with a few freinds, only to see that all the statues, paintings and sculptures stolen, Alex has to get them back

Gameplay
The Gameplay is now 3D (as followed by the title), Alex can scratch, double jump and pull of a Super Attack, each character gets three super attacks (players can only use one at a time however), the Claw scratch Alex attacks with can now be charged to deal greater damage

New Characters

 * Wendy Wolfe - a kind wolf that turned into a rebellious tomboy because of Alexander slaying her uncle in World Of Fairly Odd Tales by placing rocks on his stomach, ultimately ended up drowning her (Wendy's) uncle, Alex did this because he needed to protect the little goats from being eaten again
 * Markov - A Vampire who recently wants to haunt on Alex because he is power-hungry

Reception
The game had received mixed reviews from critics, fans and gamers alike, with most of the praise coming from the glorious FMV, Graphics, Fantastic Music and Great controls (Minus the underwater segments) and the main criticism being the frustrating difficulty (level layout), the underwater segments, the short replay value (clocking under 3.75 hours)


 * EGM - 6/10
 * Metacritic - 63 (7.2 User Score)
 * Game Informer - 6.2/10 (1997), 4.6/10 (2009)
 * Game Revolution - C+ (1996), B- (2011)
 * EP Daily - 5/10

THE GAME ENTHUSAIST
Sean Wembleton "The Game Enthusaist" rated this in October 1, 2017, this is his perspective


 * Story - 62% (Neat)
 * Gameplay - 49% (Bad)
 * Graphics - 76% (Great)
 * Music - 93% (Legendary)
 * Replay Value - 57% (Okay)
 * TOTAL: 67.4% (Neat)
 * His final remarks: Actually not so Great, but in my opinion it's satisfactionary, if you want a good 3D low poly game about a cat, you should stick with this game, but unfortunately this is one of the weakest Cat Alexander games in the main series, next to Winter Quest 1, there are much better platformers in it's time but i gotta say, Alex did a decent effort transitioning to 3D unlike Bubsy or Earthworm Jim despite it's flaws, luckily the two games after is way better than the decent first

Unlike Bubsy 3D, reception has been mostly mixed now and then

Trivia

 * The Japanese version had the same release date with PaRappa The Rapper
 * The Team was only given 37 weeks or roughly 8.5 months to develop the game