Last year I bought Viva Piņata as a Christmas present, this year she wants Party Animals. I think it would be cool playing this with family and friends.
TGS '07: Viva Piņata: Party Animals Hands-On
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Randolph Ramsay, Site Manager, GameSpot APAC
We spy another minigame for Viva Piņata: Party Animals at a not-so-empty Microsoft booth at TGS.
Despite Microsoft's much-publicised inability to truly crack the Japanese game market, the large Xbox 360 booth at TGS was quite the hotbed of activity. One of the games we had to line up for was Viva Piņata: Party Animals, the upcoming party game compilation from Australian dev house Krome Studios.
As you've probably read from our previous coverage, this game takes the characters and world created by Rare in the original Viva Piņata and puts them in pure party game territory. The four-player title will let players take the role of either Fergy Fudgehog, Paulie Pretztail, Franklin Fizzlybear, or Hudson Horstachio in a series of more than 50 challenges.
We've seen a few of the games that the final title will ship with, such as Piņata racing, as well as a hot-potato-style bomb-passing game, all of which featured extremely simple controls that befit Viva Piņata: Party Animals' family demographic. A new minigame we saw at TGS proved to just as simple: a Piņata dancing game that saw the four competitors line up and perform dance moves. These moves were essentially timed button presses on the Xbox 360 controller, the indicator of which appeared above each individual Piņata's head. Nail the moves and your Piņata will bust out in dance; miss them and it'll stumble while trying to disco. It was a quick and fun affair, although we were disappointed to note that each Piņata had only one set dance animation.
Viva Piņata: Party Animals is set for release on the Xbox 360 at the end of October.
By
Randolph Ramsay, Site Manager, GameSpot APAC
Randolph Ramsay loves games in the same way monkeys love bananas. Sure, they can live without it, but what's the point? He also loves fighting games, but never plays online in case people notice just how bad he is at them.
16 comments
just so fans of the "first" viva pinata know, this game has NOTHING to do with viva pinata other than the name. totally different gameplay, totally different game. it is not a sequel; it just takes advantage of the trademark
It will be good one. I like original viva pinata it was very addictive and has awesome graphics ( one of the best on 360, it looked like CGI movie). This one is gonna be the same, with lot of minigames.
Arghh, my kid must not know of it's existence! It's MY console! - Took me ages to prise the controller out of his little fingers with VP. Time for a t.v blackout methinks...
no offense to people who like this game but it looks so friggin boring. i hated the other the game and ill hate this one. Halo3 is the way to go.
I loveth Viva Pinata. It's sucked up my life and pulled me away from every other game I own. Is that ridiculous? PS: Will not get this sad abuse of a good license. Sorry.
Party Animals isn't being developed by the same team, demo is quite disappointing - this unfortunately (based on the demo) is just a bad piece of shovelware. Rare do good games, they shouldn't have let this one go the way it has.
I enjoyed the first one, but a party game? I think it fits with the Viva Pinata license but I probably won't get it because it is a party game.
definitely getting this game...I really enjoy Viva Pinata and this looks quirky enough to authorize a purchase from me.
i loved the original game from RARE. But Krome did well with Ty the tasmanian tiger 1 so i hope this is just as great
wow a family fun game. you are smiling all the time when you are playing with this game
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Viva Pinata: Party Animals
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- Publisher(s): Microsoft Game Studios
- Developer(s): Krome Studios
- Genre: Strategy
- Release:
- ESRB: E
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