DK: Jungle Beat Wiimake in June

By Robert Purchese Published 5 May, 2009

Congo wrong with this one.

Nintendo has announced a 5th June release date for New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat.

This is another of the GameCube remakes for Wii, following the likes of Pikmin and Mario Power Tennis from earlier in the year. The best up to now, for our money, is definitely Pikmin 2.

DK: Jungle Beat comes back to life with two extra stages plus the mandatory Wiimote controls. The GameCube original had a bongo peripheral to pound in time with musical prompts, which rewarded you with banana points depending on your accuracy.

Jungle Beat was short but refreshingly unique, and scrapping the need for the expensive bongos could make this Wiivamp worthwhile.

Head over to our review of Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat on GameCube for our thoughts, or wait a little while longer for the Wiimake review.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (14) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • spidermanalf #1 3 years ago

    How will it cope with the clapping bits? Later levels I had me on bongos and my brother clapping!

  • university_zippy #2 3 years ago

    Surely this would be like remaking guitar hero without the guitar peripheral? It would lose part of it's appeal and would just slip into a myriad of other remote shaking games? Yes it still has the winning Nintendo characters but without the bongos it just feels a little too generic.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #3 3 years ago

    Although I missed it on the cube I'd be happier if we would get an ExciteBots or Punch Out release date rather than this.

  • FairgroundTown #4 3 years ago

    Will it use WiiMotion Plus? That would have much SUCH a difference to Samba de Amigo.

  • Anthony_UK #5 3 years ago

    Jungle Beat without bongo's.... There really is no point....

  • paul_haine #6 3 years ago

    Expensive bongos? I seem to remember them being about £20 plus game for most of the time they were on sale.

  • Toothball #7 3 years ago

    @Anthony_UK:

    My thoughts exactly. The impact on the bongos really made that game. Every level left you feeling like you'd just been in an actual fight. I'm sure it'd be functional with Wii controls, but you may as well play it on a controller if you can't get the bongos.

  • kinky_mong #8 3 years ago

    @20charactersmax: That video spends ages discussing how the game having 6 save files rather than 3 is a major selling point. You can even copy and erase save games! Day 1 purchase for me!

  • chrisjm #9 3 years ago

    can they announce some new games

  • Wastelander #10 3 years ago

    I've still got two sets of bongos plus all the DK games. They were practically giving them away a couple of years ago. I bet I got my new Cube/game/bongo package for less than this remake will go for at retail.

    Love the bongos though, I'm not usually into peripheral games but there was something great about them.

  • twh104 #11 3 years ago

    +1 paul_haine

    Yeah about a week after release in 2005 I got the game plus the bongos for 29.99 from Gamestation. "Expensive" ?

  • smelly #12 3 years ago

    "Will it use WiiMotion Plus? That would have much SUCH a difference to Samba de Amigo. "

    No it wouldnt have.. I wish people would stop thinking motion plus somehow solves ALL the problems of everything!


    "Jungle Beat without bongo's.... There really is no point.... "


    +1

  • Stuz359 #13 3 years ago

    I can understand some of the reaction for this game, the bongo's were a unique and fun control method and the game may be diminished by the lack of them, but at the same time vring the game to a whole new audience.

    What's disappointed me mostabout wii play releases is the negative reaction of some posters on this site. They say that is just releasing old games but for the Wii, but let's face it, the Gamecube was a fantastic console, blessed with loads of great exclusive games that NO-ONE bought. Surely releasing them for the wii with a potential for reaching a much wider audience is good not only for some of the masterpieces that were released on Cube but also for gamers as a whole that did not catch them first time around or for an entirely new audience that did not know these games existed.

    Eternal Darkness, Luigi's Mansion, resi remake, F-Zero and Rogue leader please.

  • chrisjm #14 3 years ago

    yes the cube was great, but they are neglecting people who have played these already by not making new games.