Xbox-exclusive 3D platformer starring Voodoo Vince, New Orleans voodoo doll. Vince's creative deaths to hurt enemies are the game's heart. Flavorful Louisiana dark humor, unique atmosphere. An often-overlooked original Xbox exclusive.
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Voodoo Vince, a rag doll animated by his creator Madam Charmaine's magic, deliberately injures himself to damage enemies in a magical and offbeat New Orleans. Published by Microsoft Game Studios, released in 2003 in the United States, Europe, and Japan. Xbox exclusive featuring a unique creative death system where the environment kills Vince in unpredictable ways, wacky environments, and carefully crafted absurd humor.
European PAL pressing of Microsoft's cult platformer, distributed in more measured quantity than the American version on a market where the first Xbox stayed a minority against the competition. The complete boxed European version is harder to assemble, its continental run having been modest. Its collecting interest rests on this relative scarcity of the PAL run of a singular Xbox exclusive, sought by European collectors of the generation's Microsoft catalogue.
Is Voodoo Vince still worth playing in 2026?
A platformer from Beep Industries, Voodoo Vince casts a voodoo doll in a phantasmagoric New Orleans, where the hero deliberately hurts himself to deal the damage at a distance to his enemies through the principle of voodoo magic. The originality of the concept, the gothic cartoon art direction and the macabre humour win over fans of atypical platforming. The slightly rigid handling and a dated production weigh on it. A singular title for fans of original 3D platforming and offbeat worlds from the Xbox era.
