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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Wii) |  | From: Sega
Category: Video Games
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 1479
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: arcade-games
Rating: To Be Announced
Media: Video Game
Age: 3 - 18 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: RVL-RSMP-UKV
EAN: 5060004769353
ASIN: B000IMFNO8
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
- Party Games: Scores of party games have been creatively designed to take advantage of the Nintendo Wii controller.
- Puzzle Levels: A huge number of puzzle levels have been designed for players of all standards. Easy to learn but difficult to master, these puzzle levels bring the classic
- Super Monkey Ball gameplay to the Nintendo Wii for the first time.
- Boss Levels: After completing puzzle levels the game heats up with some serious boss battles. Each of the bosses will challenge you to find their weakness to defeat them.
- Monkey Jump: For the first time in the Super Monkey Ball universe AiAi and his friends will be able to jump using an upward flick motion with the Wii Controller.
Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
The monkeys are back to put the Wii Remote though its pacing, with more puzzles, more features, more party games and, most importantly, more fun (and bananas).The lowdown:
They're monkeys, they're trapped in giant hamster balls and, unlike the recent Super Monkey Ball Adventure, they're super. This is Super Monkey Ball 3 in all but name, with the same mix of single player puzzles and party games as the original two games. As before the puzzle levels simply have you trying to navigate your monkey through a maze without falling off, except you don't control the ball itself but tilt the whole game world around it. The big difference now of course is that get to use the Wii Remote, which is perfect for the extremely subtle movements necessary for game. New features include a jump command (either the 'A' button or by actually flicking the controller upwards) and a number of boss battles that will test your monkey-in-a-ball controlling skills to the limit. Most exciting moment:
As well as seeing the return of party game favourites such as Monkey Target and Monkey Race, Banana Blitz also features brand new concepts such as Monkey Fencing (where you jab into the screen with your remote) and Monkey Hurdles (where you have to pump the Remote up and down as if you were running). There are 50 party games in total and all use the Remote in a different way. Since you ask:
Sega have said that all the characters from the previous games will make an appearance in the new game. There are also new ones planned too, including a female monkey named YaYa and a new simian scientist character. The bottom line:
Super monkeys return to form in their biggest game yet. -HARRISON DENT
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 A nice Monkey game from Sega. December 28, 2006
T. Robertson (Drybridge scotland)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
A follow up to super monkey ball adventure, and it's on of my top 3 wii games at the moment. Super Monkey Ball:Banana Blitz is great. The first world is plain easy. Then Sega cuts the barriers down to size, making them smaller [and to mention easier to bounce, tumble off the 'tray'], and making you laugh at yourself for no reason. Then punch yourself. With 8 worlds and 8 levels [complete with bonus and boss levels], to keep you going. The level design is a more cartoony look now, which I noticed after a few terrifying leaps of FALL OUT!s. The music is kinda amusing. If not that tiny bit anoying. [Example:Turn the Wii on. Go to disc channal, pop the disc in, and there's do do do, do do do, do do do do doo! and repeat.] Some of it is plain catchy.
The minigames are... Great! Some have got ideas from other games, [Hammer throw is related to Rayman's Cow throw, but not with a cow.] Hammer throw will have you coming back for more. In my opinion, that is. The minigames are set at the 8 differnet worlds. For some evil reason. Any way it is still good. No unlockables, which is a shame. But with 50 big ones, next morning you will be giddy with sore arms, legs you name it.
Charaters are the same. Mind the've gone into the cartoon machine and changend. They now own houses. You don't see them. Oh well. Here are the charaters:
Aiai,
MeeMee,
Baby- CAME FROM THE FUTURE!,
GonGon,
And there's 2 more. 2 new ones that is.
YanYan and
Doctor.
Strange thing is YanYan is the only one that has a tail. Sega's gone bonkers.
Gameplay 10/10
Fun Facter:9/10
Last for: as long as your laugh box doesn't break.
Great fun! August 8, 2008
Linda Jones (Wales)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
I bought this game for my 6 year old daughter, when she first tried to play it she found it dificult to control and I thought that she wouldn't want to play it again. How wrong I was, this has become her favourite Wii game and can keep her amused for hours and me too! It's great to have a game that we can play together and enjoy, we find ourselves shouting or laughing when we fall off a ledge, moving bridge, mushroom or whatever we are trying to move over. Other reviewers have commented that it's rather childish, but it is for ages 7 and up - so if you want a more 'grown up' game, then pick something else, there's a large selection! The controls do take a bit of getting used to but once you do, it's great fun. You have the choice of playing the main game or one of the 50 party games. I notice that another reviewer has stated that they finished the main game a their first attempt!!!! I very much doubt this, they probably meant the first world which is mainly to help you get used to the controls. (It is a bit confusing when the credits come up at the end of each world.) There are 8 worlds which get progressively harder. I have to say that my daughter and I really enjoy playing this game.
 Hard To Control, But Good For A Few Laughs May 4, 2007
Alan S. Blair (East Kilbride, Scotland)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Looking for a game that'll keep you busy for a few weeks? Buy Zelda: Twilight Princess. But if it's a party game you're looking for that'll give a large group a few laughs, then Super Monkey Ball is what you want. Just don't expect too much of it.
Broken down into several mini-games, Monkey Ball will give you some laughs, but mostly you'll get a lot of shouting as the controls don't act as expected. The novelty of the Wii is the sensor remotes and the ability to jump about to control the game, however Monkey Ball tends to react in unexpected ways to certain movements which can get annoying in a tight race or battle.
Its a good little game for passing the time, but not as a long term gaming investment.
Decent. Could have been so much better! June 22, 2008
M. Turner
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Super Monkey Ball : Banana Blitz comprises two very different modes. The single player game, much like Marble Madness and true to it's GameCube heritage, and the new multi-player party games, which attempt to capture the spirit of Wii Sports in providing quick and simple gameplay for all the family.
Despite offering around 60 unique party games, the multi-player modes left much to be desired. Between myself and a few friends, we managed to find just two games with any kind of appeal (namely the Sheep Herding and Alien Abduction). The rest seemed crude or uninspired. A few were tedious to control correctly, or seemed broken and unintelligible, like the Simon Says mini-game. The efforts between those two extremes appeared to work and were easy enough to follow, though they seemed largely void of any fun. The Frisbee Golf and Frog Hopping games were so dull that we abandoned any efforts to enjoy them, literally within seconds. For the most part, the party games were crude and difficult to enjoy, though they may hold some appeal for a much younger audience.
The single player game is enjoyable enough. The objective being to roll the Monkey of your choice (encased in a ball), around a maze toward a goal, whilst collecting as many bananas as possible before the timer runs out. It's well presented, charming in it's own innocent way and it does what it sets out to do with admirable competence. Though I can't help but wonder how much better this part of the game could have been, had the developers invested just a little more time and effort to boost replay value.
There's a significant focus on completing mazes within a certain time and plenty of scope for competition between friends in this area, but the game doesn't even try to capitalize on this. How about setting us some bench-mark times to aim for, huh? How about preset gold, silver and bronze record times we should be aiming to beat? How about bonus scores for collecting every banana on a stage? How about making these targets visible on the level select screen, to encourage replay value? How about multi-player modes where players take it in turn to compete against one another's times? How about a maintaining a proper, detailed high-score table? Hell, how about multi-player split screen, huh? Competitive and even cooperative multiplayer sets of levels?
The potential is so much greater than the developer has catered for. Especially with the multi-player focus on other parts of the game. It's such a shame that this was not carried through into the main campaign.
Alas, none of these opportunities are catered for and although I enjoy the single player game and see so much untapped potential in it, I can't help but conclude that Super Monkey Ball : Banana Blitz is simply not work the asking price.
Should of just kept the old mini games May 8, 2007
J. E. Rawlinson (England)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Dissapointing thing about Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz are the mini games. It is obvious that what they were trying to do was pack in loads of choice in the games. However i think that by doing this they have essentially ruined one of the best parts of the previous super Monkey Ball games, such as they Monkey Gliding and Monkey Racing.
Dispite this the main game is very good and works well with the remote, just gets a bit of getting used to. With this new version your Monkey can jump by pressing A and there are obstacles along they way, which makes it very hard in the later levels. This game is worth getting if you enjoy mini games and a challenge, but other wise i would opt for something else.
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