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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
An Exception...., 4 Jul 2003
Normally, i wouldn't be seen dead playing an platform game. Im a 13 year old boy!!! I like violence!!! I like football!!! I like anime!!! Only 6 year olds like platform games, right!! Right?? When the original Ape Escape came out, i was 8. It ROCKED. However, i rented it twice, completed it, and never bought it. As I grew older, my tastes in video games swayed from Crash Bandicoot to Metal Gear Solid, from smiling orange creature to a man with a mullet the size of Chichester. I liked GUNS! BLOOD! PLOT TWISTS! And then this came out. I thought, "hmmmmm..... ill give it a go," but my concience told me, "BUY IT! BUY IT! BUYBUYBUYBUY!"
The next thing I knew, i was in Woolworths, handing 40 quid over the counter with the game in my hands. "AAAAAHHHHH!" I thought, if my friends find out about this, i'm doomed! DOOMED!!! And then I played it. It was like being reunited with an old friend, and i loved it. Ape Escape is a game where you must catch monkeys with a net, using other various gadgets and playing mini games along the way. The game uses both analog sticks, left for movement, right for using the gadget. (Get it and you'll see.. trust me.) It was more of the same old game i loved 5 years ago, which is its only downside. Lots of people wanted so much more, but its really more of the same. I personaly dont care, but many do. I decided to throw a quick remark in at school. "IVE GOT APE ESCAPE 2!!" Uh-oh, I thought, why did i just do that? "Ape Escape 2? Sweet! Dude, u gotta let me play it!" "Uh, ok.." And like that, ive got 10 friends round my house having a tournement of monkey football. I guess you can go off platform games, but not Ape Escape.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Go Ape!, 9 Jan 2004
For Ape Escape, read Ape Escape 2. After a successful start on the PS1, the ever original platformer returns for a second outing, this time on the PS2.
In essence very little has changed at all. The innovative control system that set the series apart from the rest (being the first game soley designed for analogue controllers) has now been copied and although its perfectly laid out, has lost a little bit of its sparkle.
The gameplay has remained very much the same too and to a little bit of dismay, almost every gadget you could you in the PS1 version has been carried over, with very little else added!
However, where things have got better are the graphics, which are colourful, bold and beautiful and the monkey's AI. The stars of the show now really do have human brains. They run, hide, attack, man various weapons, swim, dive, have scent and hunger. Each monkey is individual and you must cater for that.
On top of the main game are some helerious mini games to be found, and endless hidden pieces waiting to be unearthed. This is not a game you'll play for a few hours and then put to one side which is aided by the perfectly paced difficulty curve.
Ape Escape 2 is essentially more of the same, but its completely barmy ways (karaoke monkeys anyone?) will have you hooked from start to finish.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not Bad, Not amazing, 24 Jun 2003
Not having played the original game before I was a little unsure what to expect, I had expected it to be a bit childish. And, well, it is a bit, but its still fun. Ive spent quite a few hours on it, Its got great controls, some nice mini games to distract you from the main game, and the end of level bosses are tricky but not impossible, but the story sux a little. I dont think I would have bought this game, having played it, certainly not for forty squids, but for 20-25, maybe. Tihs is the sort of game a 7-14 year old is gonna love.
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