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Jungle Party
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October 20, 2006
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Sony Interactive Entertainment
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ISO/CSO
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366 Mb
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Region :
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Europe
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That doesn't mean the game can't be fun in small doses, but there's an awful lot of cutting/pasting of basic concepts with the setting changed. Granted, the concepts as a whole are sound -- holding onto an anvil while skydiving to gain points only to pitch it over to someone else right before hitting the ground creates a great risk/reward scenario -- but this same idea is repeated with sliding down tree branches, sticking a head in a lion's mouth, stealing an ostrich's egg and so on.
The same goes for a handful of shooting games that range from lobbing coconuts to popping balloons and quick-fire color matching challenges that have you chopping through totem poles or juicing up rockets. Again, none of these concepts are bad, but they're stretched perhaps a bit more than they should be and more variety would have meant the game could have been expanded to longer play sessions and a wider audience. Of course, to even play the game at all, you have to buy Buzz! The Mega Quiz, which is absolutely aimed at an older audience, so perhaps this is Sony trying to cover their bases.
Regardless of repetition and recycling of core concepts, the work that developer Magenta Software put into the game shows. The little simians that make up your in-game avatar are adorably animated, exhibiting plenty of little touches like smooth transitions between animations (for instance, a monkey clapping in approval will eventually seamlessly transition into the same basic idle animation as a monkey that just got zapped by lightning). The limited scope of the mini-games means a nice amount of detail and stylized modeling could go into the jungle environments, and for the most part the textures are certainly palatable.
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