Shrek's Carnival Craze

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Your Favorite Shrek Characters - featuring cast favorites from all 3 movies
• 28 Hilarious Mini-Games - including Gingy's Crazy Cookie Conveyor, Mudslide Madness, Three Wheeled Thrills, Rapunzel's Hair Climb and Wild Waterworks
• Intuitive controls designed to take full advantage of the Wii's motion sensing capabilities
• Players can work together as a team or take each other on in head-to-head or group challenges

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001B093QA
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 2.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 28, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,169 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #31 in Video Games > Wii > Puzzle
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo Wii

The twisted fairytale humor of Shrek meets the fun of the renaissance midway as you play 28 hilarious carnival mini-games. Play as your favorite Shrek characters and compete to become the King or Queen of the carnival!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buggy, not so child Friendly!, December 28, 2008

By 

G_Laeken "Mother of 3" (Northeast US) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Shrek's Carnival Craze (Video Game)

Buggy. Few games are unlocked to start with and they ARE NOT EASY for kids. My 6 year old daughter keeps trying and it keeps calling her a "LOSER".

The controls are very buggy for several of the games. Children can't move the controller enough to make the movements work on the game. My husband keeps having to do the bean bag toss for our 6 year old because her arms are too short to register movements on the game. She doesn't have this problem on other games.

There is nothing educational about it either. I expected it to be more friendly for a kids' games.

Overall - It LEAVES a LOT to be desired.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars good artwork & cute for kids, but has bugs & lazy game mechanics programming, November 19, 2008

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LanaFire (NY) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Shrek's Carnival Craze (Video Game)

I rented this & played it for about 90 min. from BlockBstr. (I'm so glad blockbstr & gamefly exist for renting!)
presentation -
artwork was nicely done, graphics done pretty well, the videos cut scenes were fine, the voice overs were good, especially the Mirror (host) & Disney style trash talking from the characters in the game towards each other or at the player controlling them. Such as, "did you fall asleep?", "Great job", "Oh, that was bad" "I'm going to win, donkey" "I'll beat you, Shrek", etc. Unfortunately there is only a limited amount of them & it can get annoying, though better then nothing. In the games there are always 4 characters even if 3 are AI (yes, you can skip the AI turns).
Menu/options -
menu is simple, you choose a character (Fiona, one of babies, charming, etc.). It has multi-player & tournament besides the career/story mode to unlock the games. There are 6 different sections with the last being locked. Each section has about 5 games & 2 or 3 which are locked. The game seems to skewed towards letting the player win over the A.I. Several games have shooting by targeting & then flick of the wrist as well as a lot of running, or even just pumping the nunchuck or wii remote in a game to get power such as hammer throw in strength test.
bugs -
The 1st time I rented, the hoopla which is a javelin game you run & then using wii remote turning you guide it through flaming hoops as it sails to a target pic of prince charming. playing as baby of Shrek, I couldn't win after many attempts, but when I played at fiona, I had no problem wining the first time. in the hammer throw I couldn't get the power meter up & in a tricycle around a track, I couldn't steer, though luckily you can't fall off & I won easily anyhow. In climbing Rapunzel's hair, I had no trouble moving w/baby, but using Fiona it wouldn't register even button pushes. the bowling w/hitting wooden dwarfs w/melons I couldn't do more then a very weak throw. when I was back at the menu, I lost the pointer/IR totally. thinking a fluke, I tried shooting game that beat previously easily & that wouldn't register. I restarted the wii 2x & it still would not work. I took out the disk, but a totally different shooting game disc & that worked fine.
The game does get boring though from repetition, too simple gameplay & it's too easy, though it has a few gem ideas like hoopla/javelin & a pong/soccer game. it is colorful, upbeat, cute w/humor, but the game programing is feels lazily done.
this game would be good for young kids who like Shrek & can get this at a bargain price.

Edit: I rented this again at a diff blckbuster & all the games I didn't play or finish worked fine. The melon bowling was incredibly easy.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth your time, January 2, 2009

By 

Wii Willy (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Shrek's Carnival Craze (Video Game)

Gameplay is poor with very rudimentary controls and repetitive actions. Since the controls for the various competitions are so repetitive, the game quickly becomes mundane. Story line is fairly non-existent. The difficulty level is high for young players. You must repeat the same limited actions over and over (very quickly) in each mini-game to have success. No logic is involved... In a word -> Lame

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