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Wii News by Tom Bramwell
Continuing its pre-E3 splurge that yesterday saw the announcement of Virtua Tennis 3 for PS3 and X360, SEGA's sent word of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz - due out on Revolution in an unspecified timescale.
SMB: Banana Blitz is being developed by SEGA Studios to take advantage of the Revolution's unique freestyle controller - with a mixture of new puzzle levels and Party Games that depend on its innovative features.
On the single-player puzzle levels, the controller will give AiAi and friends the ability to jump when players flick the controller in an upward motion - apparently we should see some quite different levels as a result.
Meanwhile the Party Games include games like ring toss, Whack-A-Mole and a number of others that take advantage of the controller - and although it's not clear whether the old games will be invited back, we're told to expect a "large library" of offerings.
Expect to learn more about SMB: Banana Blitz - including a release date, which is very likely being kept back to allow Nintendo to announce it first - at E3, where it'll be on display.
We'll let you know what we make of it - and of course anything else that pops up on SEGA's pre-E3 tour.
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Salubrious_K
26/04/06 @ 08:15
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I still can't work out in my own head how this new controller is going to work, but I have faith in Nintendo when I hear about games like this. I guess my inability to understand the appeal of the new controller probably reflects more on how pioneering and imaginative they're being.
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sir_tripod
26/04/06 @ 08:15
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I don't get it. This is Super Monkey Ball. How can you play whack-a-mole? Spanking Monkeys would be far more appropriate.
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kangarootoo
26/04/06 @ 09:01
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"Spanking Monkeys would be far more appropriate"
I can hear that high pitched nasal voice right now, announcing the game with a call of "Monkey Spank!". So long as I can play Monkey Target stood on a chair with my arms held out like wings (controller discrteetly sellotaped to head) I will be sound as a pound. |
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YESSSS!!!!111
At first I was worried about the jumping ability (because a big part of the fun in the originals was trying to figure out how to jump without a jumping button) but seeing how in SMB, you don't control the monkey but rather the level itself, it would make sense that the ball would be thrown if you "flick the level" upwards. Ah, I really hope that it will amount to more than just a jump button, instead alowing you to throw the monkey around all naturally 'n stuff. This also puts to rest my concerns about the controller "only" having depth, jaw, pitch and roll detection, because none of those that aren't already used for controlling the tilting would be suitable for jumping. That would have to mean the controller also senses horizontal and vertical location in space as well as depth. I hope, at least. |
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