ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth

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ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth

System(s): Xbox

Publisher: Sega

Developer: Visual Concepts, ToeJam & Earl Productions

Distributor: Microsoft (Europe)

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
US	2002-10-22^[1]	$49.9549.95^[2]^[3]	64020
DE	2003-03-07^[5]		R13-00005
ES	2003-03-07		R13-00003
FR	2003-03-07
UK	2003-03-07^[4]		R13-00001
IT	2003
AU	200x

ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth is the sequel to ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron. It was originally released for the Xbox in 2002, and is currently the first and only entry in the series to be presented in 3D. The duo are also joined by a new female friend, Latisha.

During development the game was known as ToeJam & Earl III: All Funked Up^[6].

Gameplay

ToeJam & Earl III plays as a cross between the original ToeJam & Earl and ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron, with an emphasis on the former's roguelike elements, being built around the concept of exploration. Up to two players can traverse a world uncovering new environments with the aid of specified or random items in the form of "presents", which in turn can either help or hinder your experience. Collecting money also helps in making progress, special ordering presents, making deals with Earthlings and more. Keys also serve as a way to unlock new levels and environments.

The main objective is to spread the word of funk to the people of Earth, as decreed by the Funkopotimus himself, Lamont. To do this, all characters have the ability to perform Funk-Fu, which also acts as a means of self defense. Funk-Fu serves as basic attacks that look like physical attacks, but instead will funkify earthlings causing them to become friendly with you. Funkified earthlings can also give helpful items or aid in level quests.

Each action in the game rewards points, which then gives the ability to level up your character which also increases your belt-color ranking. Attempting to funkify an earthling with a rank higher than yours causes them to be invulnerable until your belt level matches theirs.

After the game has been completed, the "Random Mode" will be unlocked. Environments will be randomly generated as opposed to fixed that re-arranges the location of presents, keys, earthlings and more.

Playable Characters

Just like previous entries, up to two players are able to play simultaneously. However with the addition of Latisha as well as three secret characters, both players have the option to hotswap between the characters at the beginning or by finding a location in the overworld(s) that allow you to change characters. Each character also has specific abilities or perks that give them an upper hand over the other characters in certain situations.

The additional three characters must be downloaded to the Xbox hard drive.

	ToeJam
	Extra shot power Speed & jump powe Mailbox rebate Good Money Luck
	Big Earl
	Stronger Funk-Fu Can eat bad food Two-for-one Sushi Increased Life
	Latisha
	Double Rhythm Power Double treats Risky present luck Can ride tornadoes
	GeekJam
	(downloadable character) Super jump power Super money luck Super Rhythm Power Can ride tornadoes
	Earl Bot
	(downloadable character) Speed power Super Funk-Fu Super shot power Three-for-one Sushi
	Suteki
	(downloadable character) Speed & jump power Can eat bad food Increased life Triple treats

History

Development

ToeJam & Earl III was once set to be a Sega Dreamcast game, and was even pencilled in for release in November 2001^[7], but the demise of the console led to development being moved to the Xbox.

Once development moved onto the new platform, there was consideration in bringing the game to other platforms after the Xbox version was completed. Namely the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube. It was noted that the same experience could not be brought to other platforms in the same way as the Xbox version. As a result, only came out on one system.^[8]

Production credits

Developed by: ToeJam & Earl Productions
Produced by: Visual Concepts
Published by: Sega of Europe

Design & Management Team

Lead Designer & Creative Director: Greg Johnson
Project Manager: Mark Voorsanger
Lead Programmer: Steve Scholl
Production & Design Assistant: Suruchi Krieglstein
Executive Producer: Scott Patterson, Visual Concepts

Programming Team

Camera, Graphics & Game Engine Enhancements: Steve Scholl
Artificial Intelligence, Mini-Games & Boss Battles: Matt Russell
User Interface & Sound: Randy Tudor
Character Controls, Software Tools & Utilities: Richard Fife
Graphic Special Effects & Performance Optimizations: Robert Leyland
Random Level Generation: Mark Voorsanger

Art Team

Lead Environment Artist: Maida Kreis
Lead Animator & Concept Artist: I-Wei Huang
Animator: Rob Skiena
Environment Artist: Hal Smyer
Texture Artist: Maria Bowen
Additional Artwork: Lee Ballard, Robin Lujan

Sound Music Team

Music Composition, Sound FX & Sound Engineering: Burke Trieschmann
Gospel Singing: Genevieve Goings
Gospel Composition: Greg Johnson, Genevieve Goings

Character Voices

Player-Character Voices: Greg "Big Earl" Brown, Sherrie "Latisha" Jackson, Kirk "ToeJam" McHenry
Other Character Voices: Genevieve Goings, Greg Johnson, Rob Skiena, Suruchi Krieglstein, Burke Trieschmann

Visual Concepts Credits

Executive Producer: Scott Patterson
Library and Tools Engineers: Ivar Olsen, Eivind Hagen, Boris Kazanskii, Chris Larson, Chuck Batson
QA Manager: Chien Yu
Lead Tester: Damon Perdue
Quality Assurance (In Alphabetical Order): Eric Andreassen, Brian Beavers, Stephen Benz, Benjamin Bracamonte, Chris Charles, John Crysdale, Andrew Davies, Christopher Gross, Jeremy Huddleston, Erik Lampi, Robert Nelson, Haven Rocha, Semmy Sebastian, Junior Sison, Derek Williams, Tim Walter

Sega Europe Ltd

COO Sega Europe: Naoya Tsurumi
Director of Product Development: Kats Sato
Assistant Producer: Jens Geffert
Senior Producer: Matt O'Driscoll
Technical Producer: Elliott Martin
Product Manager: Mark Fisher
Commercial Manager: Mark Horneff
Sega Europe Localisation: Eva Backmann (GER), Marta Lois Gonzalez (SP), Brigitte Nadesan (FR), Giuseppe Rizzo (ITA)
Special thanks: Marcus Joseph
Guest Writer: Jon Gibson
Special Testers: Adam De La Torre, Dan De La Torre, Debra Lockridge, Eriko Johnson

Very Special Thanks To

: Scott Patterson, Greg Thomas, Peter Moore, Shinobu Toyoda, Rob Lightner, Robert Leffler, Dave Halverson, Oliver Miyashita, Ken Lobb

Source:

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Downloadable content

Additional characters and levels were available as additional downloadable content for the game. They could be obtained either through the Xbox Live service (which was decommissioned on May 11, 2010) or from the Xbox Exhibition Disk Volume 2.

Title and description	Links	Releases
GeekJam		US 2002-11-15^[9] FREEfree
Earl Bot		US 2002-11-15^[9] FREEfree
Suteki		US 2002-11-15^[9] FREEfree
Hades Maze		US 2002-11-15^[9] FREEfree
Funkadelic		US 2002-11-15^[9] FREEfree

Magazine articles

Main article: ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth/Magazine articles.

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Sega Retro Average

Publication

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Consoles + (FR)

PAL

85

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Electronic Gaming Monthly (US)

NTSC-U

72

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GameNOW (US)

NTSC-U

83

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GamePro (US)

NTSC-U

88

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GMR (US)

NTSC-U

70

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Hyper (AU)

PAL

69

^[15]

Le Magazine Officiel Xbox (FR)

55

^[16]

Official Xbox Magazine (UK)

PAL

79

^[17]

Play (US)

NTSC-U

90

^[18]

Xbox Zone (DE)

PAL

74

^[19]

	76
Based on 10 reviews

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2002-06-20

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2002-09-19

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2001-07-02

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External links

Official website (archive)
Official website on Sega.com (archive)
ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth on Xbox.com: US (archive)
Greg Johnson SEGAbits Interview

References

ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth
	Main page \| Development \| Magazine articles \| Reception Prototypes: 2001-07-02 Prototypes: 2002-06-20 \| 08-06 \| 09-09 \| 09-19

Games in the ToeJam & Earl Series
	ToeJam & Earl (1991) \| ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron (1993)
	ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth (2002)
	Sega Vintage Collection: ToeJam & Earl (2012)
	Sega Vintage Collection: ToeJam & Earl (2013)
ToeJam & Earl related media
	ToeJam and Earl Rap (1991) \| Sega Tunes: ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron (1996)

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[Press_release:_2002-11-04:_SEGA_Delivers_Great_Games_for_All_Ages_and_All_Consoles_This_Holiday_Season-2] Press release: 2002-11-04: SEGA Delivers Great Games for All Ages and All Consoles This Holiday Season

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[:File:SegaE32002PressKit_Documents.pdf_p21-6] File:SegaE32002PressKit Documents.pdf, page 21

[:File:NextGeneration_US_78.pdf_p74-7] Next Generation, "June 2001" (US; 2001-05-22), page 74

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[:File:ConsolesPlus_FR_134.pdf_p104-10] Consoles +, "Mars 2003" (FR; 2003-0x-xx), page 104

[:File:EGM_US_161.pdf_p281-11] Electronic Gaming Monthly, "December 2002" (US; 2002-11-05), page 281

[:File:GameNOW_US_14.pdf_p62-12] GameNOW, "December 2002" (US; 2002-11-12), page 62

[:File:GamePro_US_171.pdf_p172-13] GamePro, "December 2002" (US; 2002-1x-xx), page 172

[:File:GMR_US_01.pdf_p95-14] GMR, "February 2003" (US; 2003-01-07), page 95

[:File:Hyper_AU_114.pdf_p76-15] Hyper, "April 2003" (AU; 2003-03-05), page 76

[:File:LMOX_FR_13.pdf_p64-16] Le Magazine Officiel Xbox, "Mars 2003" (FR; 2003-xx-xx), page 64

[:File:OXM_UK_013.pdf_p66-17] Official Xbox Magazine, "February 2003" (UK; 2003-xx-xx), page 66

[:File:Play_US_011.pdf_p84-18] Play, "November 2002" (US; 2002-xx-xx), page 84

[:File:XboxZone_DE_2003-02.pdf_p68-19] Xbox Zone, "02/2003" (DE; 2003-0x-xx), page 68

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ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth

From Sega Retro

Contents

Gameplay

Playable Characters

History

Development

Production credits

Downloadable content

Magazine articles

Artwork

Physical scans

Technical information

ROM dump status

External links

References