Super Monkey Ball Adventure

by Sega Of America, Inc.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B000EMGH9C
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: August 1, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,734 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: GameCube

The five Monkey Kingdoms are troubled. Mistrust prejudice and generally suspicious monkey business have led to deep divisions between Jungle Island Zootopia Kongri-La Moonhaven and Monkeytropolis. The proverbial tea party has gone properly sour. But despite the feud between their kingdoms Princess Deedee of Monkitropolis and Prince Abeabe of Kongri-la have met and fallen inlove. Seeking refuge on Aiais home of Jungle Island the prince and princess plead with Aiai to help them end the feud between their kingdoms. If Aiai can restore joy to Monkey World the princeand princess can marry and unite the kingdoms! Aiai must travel the five Monkey realms in a grand platform adventure helping monkey-folk beating puzzles and taking on the shadowy Naysayers - four miserable creatures sucking Monkey World dry of its happiness.With more than 50 new characters to meet a host of new ball abilities and PSP-exclusive features Super Monkey Ball Adventure promises more balls for your buck than ever. * All-new expansive platform-adventure gameplay brand new to the Super Monkey Ball series! * Five kingdoms with 60 quests 50 puzzle trays and nearly 50 non-player characters to meet and help. * 20 playable characters in Party Game mode. * Try out 10 new ball abilities - sticky bounce speed hover wood tether scalar glide boxing and invisible. -- SPECIFITCATIONs --------------------------------------ESRB Rating: RP for Rating PendingGenre/Category : Action/AdventureSystem : GamecubeNumber of Players : 1On-Line Compatible: Nowww.nintendo.com

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NOT the SMB we all know and love..., June 28, 2007

By 

Jim Snyder - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Super Monkey Ball Adventure (Video Game)

The first Super Monkey Ball was a surprisingly fun game. Super Monkey Ball 2 was an even better follow-up, with bigger, faster levels and more party games. With such a good track record, I picked up SMB Adventure the day it came out. I wish I hadn't.

The idea behind Adventure is, on the surface, a good one: the traditional (and challenging) courses of SMB have now been integrated with a true story mode, where you have to help other monkeys complete tasks in order to save the Monkey Kingdom. Unfortunately, the game itself is truly frustrating. To begin with, the load time for each level - and even within the levels - is excruciatingly slow. Once inside, you must find various monkeys who will give you your tasks. While some of these challenges are quite fun, their setup is annoying. For the most part, tasks must be performed in a certain order, so if you are having difficulty with one, you cannot simply skip ahead to a different one. In addition, if you die ("fall out") during a task, you do not get the option of automatically retrying the mission; instead, you have to find the monkey and have him explain it to you all over again. Finally - and most importantly - Adventure has wasted the monkey ball courses that were so good in the previous games. Although the courses in Adventure are important - they open up doorways to different parts of the levels - the game is so frustrating that the courses seem more like chores here. All of the fun has been sucked out of completing the courses.

If you do not want to play them in Story mode, you can try your hand at all of the individual courses in Challenge mode. Once again, however, this section is a disappointment. There are beginner, advanced, and expert modes, but you do not have the ability to choose individual courses, whether you have beaten them or not.

Adventure's party games are a redeeming factor. The ability to buy new characters to use is a great feature. The racing game is truly fun, and the option of racing against extra computer monkeys can create glorious mayhem on the track. Target is again an excellent game, as is fight. Cannon would be much more fun if there was not an automatic AI player (for games with fewer than four human players). Tag is a so-so game. Bounce is pointless.

All in all, SMB Adventure is a thoroughly disappointing game. Sega tried to fix what wasn't broken, and it came out much worse in the end.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This game sucks! Save your money., September 28, 2006

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Me - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Super Monkey Ball Adventure (Video Game)

This game was a huge letdown. I bought it on release date, having spent hours enjoying the previous monkey ball releases. I thought it also looked cool that you could fly and jump in this game, but there is nothing cool or fun about this game. Please save your money for something else. I am hoping the Wii Banana Blitz is better. This game sucks. It sucks because you have to play through the lame story mode to unlock the party games. It sucks because of the horrendous loading times. It sucks because the timed stages get very difficult very quickly, where the others in the series had a progression to the more difficult stages. And, it sucks, because that is the sound that is made when you realize that you wasted $50 on a really horrible game.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Monkey ball Adventure., February 6, 2007

By 

Gary W. Story - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Super Monkey Ball Adventure (Video Game)

My grandkids enjoy it. It does take reading, so real young kids have a challenge playing it.

I don't think it is as good as the first two monkeyball games.

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