Party Animals dated

By Tom Bramwell Published 31 October, 2007

Viva Piņata off-cut in Nov.

Viva Piņata: Party Animals will be trampling all over my memories from 16th November onwards, Microsoft said this week, as the game launched in the US to dire reviews. (Poor choice of w... actually, I'll leave it.)

As you probably don't care, Party Animals is a Krome Studios-authored mini-game compilation, which draws on the Viva Piņata TV show and original game for inspiration.

Up to four players are invited to crowd around the telly or the Internet to take part in a series of foot races, interspersed with Wac-A-Mole, Hot Potato and other fairly generic fare built around bashing, chasing, whacking or button-matching, while characters from the TV show say funny things over the top.

You can expect to see our review of Party Animals in the very near future. In the meantime, why not pop back to our original Viva Piņata review to remind yourself what they're betraying?

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  • Penguinzoot #1 4 years ago

    [...] to remind yourself what they're betraying?

    ROFL. Actually, I quite enjoyed the demo. Not as deep or quietly cerebral as VP, but a bit of fun nonetheless.

  • nickthegun #2 4 years ago

    My wife played the demo of this and is going to buy it for herself this christmas.

    Making that 1 game purchased in her whole life.

  • Darren #3 4 years ago

    God the demo was awful. The Mad Dash Racing-inspired levels were fine, almost fun, but the other mini-games are absolutely dire, requiring little or skill. A waste of a good license in my opinion not that I expected much from the developers of mediocre games like Kao the Kangeroo.

  • jimmyjimbob #4 4 years ago

    Krome Studios?? Hmm, a quick check on their website reveals that all they seem to make is shite games. So, the fact that this sucks is hardly a surprise

    /wonders what rare are doing at the moment....

  • Moogrose #5 4 years ago

    The demo was great with 4 friends around the tele. Its supposed to be simple - most of my friends and mrs don't care much for games, but this they could get into - and loved it.

  • Xerx3s #6 4 years ago

    PD2, VP gfw, VP ds, Banjo3 would be a good guess.

    And hopefully some old gem for XBLa

    /prays for KI

  • Dan_LXIX #7 4 years ago

    Depends more on your age as to whether you like this game or not. My kids loved the demo, and I'm pretty sure MS have not aimed this game at the 18-35 male market :)

  • Xerx3s #8 4 years ago

    I'm going to buy this for my nephew & co. They loved VP but was a bit too complex for them to do on their own. This should be much better suited for them.

  • Stormflood #9 4 years ago

    Am I the only one getting this particular RSS feed numerous times?

    Aaargh! And again today!
    Edited by 1 at 01/11/07 @ 10:59