Viva Piñata 2 details sprinkle out News
Xbox 360 News by Robert Purchese
Viva Piņata 2: Trouble in Paradise will feature drop-in and drop-out co-op for you and a green-fingered friend, as well as fancy Live Vision support that scans physical cards to add unique content such as custom piņatas, fresh buildings and abilities, or even weather changes.
This is according to the forum posters on NeoGAF reproducing the contents of a Game Informer preview as well as divulging secrets from a separate trip to Rare.
The even cleverer part about this Eye of Judgement-like card-scanning system is that you can create your own codes on the Internet. These can be attached to piņata made by you (somehow - presumably uploading pictures using the in-game photo mode) and then shared on forums. The Live Vision camera is even said to be able to scan codes on iPod, Zune or LCD screens.
Trouble in Paradise will introduce better interactivity between your stable of paper pets, which should mimic each other and do things like follow the leader around the garden.
Rare is also apparently adding instruments for your animals to play, on top of themed toys and trains that they can ride around the garden.
There will be 30 fresh piņatas to nurture and coerce into doing the naughty with each other, plus "Pinatartic" and "Dessert" areas where you can travel and lay traps for elusive species such as Rhinos.
All that on top of an improved user interface where you can zoom out and manage your garden like the birth-child of Charlie Dimmock and Michaela Strachan.
Viva Piņata 2: Trouble in Paradise will be out exclusively for Xbox 360 in September.
Head over to our Viva Piņata 2: Trouble in Paradise gallery for the very first screenshots.
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muscleblade
13/05/08 @ 10:42
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September already! Damn. Really looking forward to this. The first one was amazing.
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Britesparc
13/05/08 @ 10:59
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I hereby name 2008 The Year of the Rare. This and Banjo 3 both sound the dog's danglies. Can't wait!
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sanctusmortis
13/05/08 @ 11:26
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*Awaits "they misspelled desert" comments*
Crate labels would be nice - just a pinata picture on the outside that youcould use to identify, and then cursor-over detail tags for further info. Damnit, now I have to consider a Live Vision... |
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ParanoidZombie
13/05/08 @ 11:48
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IMO, Viva pinata1's worst flaw was that the garden was way too small, you should have been able to gather all the pinatas in one single garden instead of having to rebuild it every time you wanted to lure some exotic species. if they fix that, it's AAA all the way.
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The_Inquisitor
13/05/08 @ 12:16
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Yes, fish Pinata would be cool, and a worm Pinata that tunnels underground (since there will be desert areas it would be cool, like having your own pet Dune worm).
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crazyhorse174
13/05/08 @ 12:42
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"IMO, Viva pinata1's worst flaw was that the garden was way too small, you should have been able to gather all the pinatas in one single garden instead of having to rebuild it every time you wanted to lure some exotic species. if they fix that, it's AAA all the way. "
+1 It was for this very reason that I decided to get rid of my copy of VP. The limits on how much stuff you can put in your garden needs to be lifted if VP2 is to better the original. |
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Madafunkola
13/05/08 @ 14:42
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I was expecting a flurry of negative comments on here but everyone seems to be full of praise!
I am also looking forward to this as it is a rare (pun intended) bridge between the casual and hardcore. You have to be pretty serious to breed Chewnicorns! |
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sergeantdisco
14/05/08 @ 07:52
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I got the first one in a bundle when I bought my Xbox and thought nothing of it for about 2 months. Tried it out one day after work and barely turned it off for about 2 weeks. I really should go back and finish off the last few species, I think I got pissed off with trying to get the bloody Eagle to come and live in my garden.
Anywhoo, this looks great, will definately be keeping an eye out for it come September.
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