| Hungry Shark Trilogy | |
 Hungry Shark Trilogy Icon | |
| Installment No. | 1st-3rd |
| Devices | iOS, Android |
| Sharks | Great White Shark |
| Release Date | 2011 |
| Succeeded By | Hungry Shark: Night |
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The Hungry Shark Trilogy is a set of the first three games in the Hungry Shark series. It revolved around a creature resembling a Great White Shark which has an insatiable appetite.
The Hungry Shark series was available to be purchased as a whole for $6.49 AUD, formerly available for free, as the individual games.
Features[]
The Hungry Shark Trilogy contains three games (previously released as separate installments) which all revolve around the violent marine adventures of a shark that seems to be a Great White Shark. All installments of the series contain dozens of different creatures and locations, some elements common across the entire trilogy. Some elements managed to make their way into later games in the franchise. All three games utilize a unique "hybrid" graphic style, featuring pre-rendered sprites articulated at a lower framerate and number of angles to produce movement similar to 2D animation; later games in the franchise would instead feature full 3D animation.
Hungry Shark: Part 1[]
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Hungry Shark: Part 1 was the first ever Hungry Shark game, and the first game in the Hungry Shark Trilogy, released early in 2010. It featured a diverse range of aquatic creatures to be eaten and treasures to be found. The game involves a perpetually-ravenous creature resembling a Great White Shark, comprising the game's sole playable character. Despite the lack of playable characters, this single shark can be expanded to the "Mega Shark" by watching 15 videos or purchasing it with real money.
On initial release, two versions of the game existed: the "full" Part 1, which could be purchased for 4.99 USD, and Hungry Shark Free, a demo version with a maximum score cap and time limit. Advertisements could be watched to unlock the full game.
Hungry Shark: Part 2[]
As with Hungry Shark: Part 1, Hungry Shark: Part 2 (released late in 2010) featured a diverse range of aquatic creatures to be eaten, treasures to be found and a Great White Shark-like creature as the central character. Among the new consumable entities added are jet skiers, two forms of crab (small and large), stingrays, a wider variety of reef fish and a sunbathing oil baron, with cans of toxic waste a newfound form of threat. While the game's map noticeably differs from that of its predecessor, several key features, such as coastal reefs, a polar area inhabited by penguins and a maze of deep anglerfish-ridden caves, are retained in modified forms.
A new addition to this game is the first-ever Giant Crab enemy, inhabiting a cavern or "lair" at one of the map's greatest depths. Unique from other forms of prey within the game, it cannot be directly consumed, instead requiring the player to periodically and repeatedly attack a vulnerable point on the crustacean's carapace to weaken it, ultimately obliterating it with the aid of an adjacent minefield. Through defeating the Giant Crab, the player can advance into Fatman's Cove, a small area populated by a myriad of reef fish and the previously-mentioned oil baron.
As with its predecessor, Part 2 was released in both premium (priced at $4.99 USD) and free-to-play formats.
Hungry Shark: Part 3[]
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Like all games in the Hungry Shark Trilogy, this installment, released in 2011, featured a variety of aquatic creatures to kill and consume and treasures to locate. As with the previous two games, a Great White Shark or a similar creature features as the main character. New prey species include Humboldt squid, lionfish (which, while toxic to the player's shark at lower levels, can be eaten upon achieving maximum size or by purchasing the "Mega Shark" upgrade), turtles (which grant the player's shark maximum boost), "Tube Men" (a more abundant and respawn-capable adaptation of the oil baron from the previous game) and flying fish, while several species from the previous two games (such as penguins, anglerfish and blobfish) are noticeably omitted. This is likewise the first game in the series to feature enemy sharks, albeit all resembling the player's shark.
There is a unique location in this game, a secret lab concealed within an underwater volcanic vent (replacing the polar areas and Caves of Doom from the first two games). The lab contains edible scientists, a feeding frenzy of edible enemy sharks and an Evil Genius boss wielding a projectile harpoon gun. By defeating the Evil Genius (through leaping from the water and "chomping" him three times), the player can unlock and advance into the Sea of Despair, a large, pollution-ridden area (and possible model for the Arabian Sea in Hungry Shark World) home to unique types of prey (such as shark finners, harpooners, gulper eels, larger crabs and the Kempy Bass) and threats (among them oil slicks and two more potently-toxic varieties of jellyfish).
Trivia[]
- The game has made a brief cameo in the movie Dark Tide.[1]
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