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Authors: Harold Zatorski (hzatorsk)
Email: harold_zatorski@yahoo.com
Revision: 1.0
Revision Date: January 23, 2002
For updates: See gamefaqs.com / xbox / Shrek forum -

This FAQ is about 98% complete. I am missing a few eggs and someone may wish to
hint on the fairies. If you'd like to donate tips. Drop me an email and I'll add
them.

Credits

Copyright ¸ 2002, By Harold Zatorski - No commercial publication. Cannot be
offered for sale, printed, or offered in commercial publication without express
permission. Personal use is permitted as long as you do not charge a fee, and
provide it ENTIRELY UNMODIFIED with appropriate credits and copyright in place.

Special thanks to: agghyson (formerly: MonsterManiac). Agghyson contributes
help in the Gamefaqs.com/Xbox/Shrek forum and helped me several times where I
have been stuck. All of the race mode information, many of the tips and
shortcuts and finding my mistakes are his work. We all should especially thank
him for the how-to on the tough egg in the top of the Red Dragon castle and the
final Merlin encounter.

Check out gamefaqs.com for the latest version.


Getting Started

Okay everyone that is just getting started! You are going to need to learn to
jump. That'll make all the difference in your play.

When you jump, you can only get so high. By jumping off an object, you can jump
again and get higher. Many of the jumps you will jump at a different object than
what you are really aiming for. While in the air, you can control to some degree
which way you move. This will get you the height necessary to jump off yet
another wall or object.

This entire game is pretty much coordination in jumping and running. We all
spent quite a bit of time practicing and getting better at the jumps. This game
starts out HARD!! But I find I can now do this jump almost every time with
little effort. Keep at it... it does come to you. It will get easier. :)

Rating yourself

This game starts out hard! Very hard. Unless you already possess that magic
touch you will probably need several hours to develop the skills to jump
properly. It really does get easier as it goes. Expect to jump a lot and
master multiple wall jumps for greater heights. Keep at it.

N - Newbie - You've played the less than an hour and sometimes forget you can
run with the trigger. Bouncing off one wall is easy, two walls tricky and three
very difficult to impossible. You catch fairies by accident and run from the
area with hearts in a panic looking for more hearts.

S - Skilled - You've played several hours and mastered most jumps. You run most
of the time and can balance precariously in the strangest spots. You know where
all the hearts are! You catch fairies with ease and are no longer humored by
burps and farts.

M - Master - You've put ten hours into this game and think it is too easy, you
are upset because you want to solve all six missions at the same time with one
guy. You don't need hearts.

Read the mission carefully

If you don't know what to do. Did you read the mission book entry for that
mission? Since the mission book is built into the game, you should really take
a look at it from time to time.

Cheats

To date, there are no known hidden cheats. Saying this will most likely cause
someone to discover one. The game has a built in cheat mode where you can 'buy'
cheats by earning coins in the 'race' mode. See the race mode for more
information.

Solve only one mission at a time

Don't collect fairies and eggs and try to solve other missions at the same time.
If you accidentally solve another mission, instead of finishing the one you are
attempting the game forces you to lose your progress on the partial completed
missions. Only the 'solved' missions are saved. I spent quite a while working
on an egg in the Red Dragon castle and once I got it. and after forgetting this
little tidbit I managed upon the dancing cow and gassed her (solving that
puzzle) and lost my egg.

Missions

Each of these levels are sorted by world and then the individual mission. Each
mission has a 'story' mode and a 'race' mode.

You must complete the swamp to open up Mother Goose World and Sweetville
Industrial Park. Once you start solving missions (i.e. good deeds), other
worlds will open up. The required number of deeds are listed with each world
throughout the FAQ.

What'll you get if you finish all the story mode missions. Well. we won't spoil
that for you. Let's just say... There are no secret or bonus worlds.

Fairies

Run! - Also, if you miss fairies, or can't get a fairy at a certain location
because it moves too fast or too soon. Watch where they go. They only have a few
spots that the stop at and they alternate between them. It is not uncommon to
run back and forth between two locations to catch one. Also, watch where they
are low to the ground. The fairies muck about throughout the worlds and they
are not hidden. We did not document their exact locations, as they are easy to
spot.

Race Mode

Race mode is used to earn coins to buy cheats with. You race against time to
solve the same puzzles over again. While we think all of the race mode missions
are possible, you'll probably find most to have very limited time and are quite
difficult. The race mode is rated by how hard we found them to do and the
amount of time you are given. It will appear with the mission hints as:

(Race Mode: ### seconds / Difficulty - Special comments)

If we have not successfully accomplished the 'race' mode for a given mission,
there will be 'unknown' rating or comment. That means we may have not tried it.
or we may have tried it a hundred times and were not successful.

By the way. Buying the cheats prevents you from progressing in the game, but you
do need to complete all the race modes to finish the game. We listed the cheats
at the end of this FAQ.

What do you get for finishing all the race modes. .we don't know!

Shrek DVD Movie Game Hints

First... be sure to get the right DVD if you are renting. Our video store split
the DVD 2 disk set into a fullscreen and a widescreen Disk 2 rental. (They may
not give you both disks when you rent Shrek.) I had to harass them into letting
me swap the disk 1 rental for a disk 2 rental when I discovered this minor
issue. Disk 2 has the hints!

Second... They really suck. If you have already watched Shrek before and don't
really want to shell out the $4 or so your video rental store wants to see it
again... save your money. It consists of the Ogre's sign painted with a
question and the next button on your remote displays a sign with a picture
painted on it.

Here is the text of the hints from the DVD:

"How do I help a six foot knight over a thirty foot wall?"
Picture: Ogre kicking night

"How do I knock out a knight if I don't have a giant hammer?"
Picture: Ogre farting on knight

"How do I cook a chicken?"
Picture: Ogre burping through a torch on a chicken

"How do I cook three chickens?"
Picture: Ogre farting through a torch on a chicken

"How do I knock out a knight?"
Picture: Ogre with hammer hitting a knight

"How do a pick up a spare on a seven ten split?"
Picture: Ogre throwing knight at two other knights on a wood plank"



The Swamp

This is not a 'real' level. It is a training area that teaches you to run,
fart, burp, jump and fight, jump down into the pit and follow the mirror's
instructions.

You must complete the swamp to open up Mother Goose and Sweetsville Industrial
Worlds.


Mother Goose World

(Requires: The Swamp - in other words. you must do the swamp first)

A couple of missions can only be done at night. You must punch the clock face
on the tower to change it to night. You do not have a lot of time before it
returns to day.

1 - Corral the Sheep

Story Mode:
Pick up the little sheep and throw, drop or kick them into the corral. The wolf
will remove them. Beat the wolf unconscious then kick him through the tunnel
out of the farm.

Race Mode: 44 seconds / Fair
There are four sheep on the farmland and one hiding behind the barn. On your
first try just try to find the last sheep so that you won't search for it when
you have no time. You must kick them in, it will save you time. Kick them on
the hill just a little past the fence. Try to find out where is the best for
you to kick them in. Now you are ready to do it. In addition, even if you miss
(a little short) the wolf might kick them in if you are lucky.

2 - Put the Eggs into the nest.

Story Mode:
You must pick up and carry the small egglings to the nest while avoiding being
beat up by the big Humpty character. A little skill kicking and tossing is
required. Once they are in the nest, they will stay there and not escape.

Race Mode: 39 Seconds / Hard
Same thing as the sheep only tougher. You can't miss this time. Also you must
get the egg on the wall first or it'll fall behind and will be almost impossible
to get (time consuming). You must kick them a little past the tree and don't
miss.

3 - Gas the Cow

Story Mode:
Punch the clock face and it will turn to night. Run over to the farm side and
chase down the cow, you must fart on the cow. I run in circles and fart many
times quickly (then I sit back down and continue playing Shrek:)

Race Mode: 14 Seconds / Easy - Fair
RUN! You should also know to jump off the clock tower and run straight to the
tunnel to save time. Practice the path in the daytime so you know it cold!
Don't aim straight for the cow. run around her and she'll cross your farts.

4 - Wake the Guards

Story Mode:
Nighttime, punch the clock and the guards go to sleep. Punch them several times
and they will wake up. Two guards are usually near the two watchtowers and the
third inside the gate.

Race Mode: 14 seconds / Fair to Hard
Wake up the guard punch each of the guard 4 times and go toward the gateway so
you do not lose too much time to get the last one. You must try to have at least
3 second to wake up the last guard.


5 - Eggs

(Race Mode: 64 Seconds)

1. Egg in Pink shoe - Door in heel of shoe. Jump and perhaps bounce off a wall
and go towards back of shoe.
2. Farm Barn/Tower - Tough to find at first, Get between tree and barn facing
tree. Jump off tree to barn and go around to other side of barn. A lined up
running jump will make it to the tower and egg.
3. Egg on top of Arch - Some claim to jump from clock tower, Most have either
jump and bounced off the tree or beat up the big humpty dumpty on the grassy