Super Monkey Ball Adventure

by Sega

Product Features

• 3 Gameplay Modes - Story Mode, Challenge Mode, and Party Mode
• 60 new characters - Encounter and interact with 60 intriguing characters across five fun-filled kingdoms
• All-new Spell casting ability - Newfound powers allow you to morph your monkey ball into a block of wood to float, suction cups to climb walls, go invisible, and much more to help you progress through the game
• Multiplayer party games - Unlock party games with bananas and play Monkey Target, Monkey Tag, Monkey Cannon, Monkey Bounce, Monkey Race and Monkey Fight
• New realms - Collect bananas and cast spells in Adventure Realm or solve unique challenges set by the characters of the kingdom in Puzzle Realm

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000F1YGB8
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: August 1, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,433 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #10 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Puzzle

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

From the Manufacturer

For the first time in the series, Super Monkey Ball Adventure will deliver a dynamic story-driven platform adventure in addition to the classic party games and racing elements that made the franchise famous.

What's New:

• Three gameplay modes: Super Monkey Ball Adventure includes a full Story mode for the first time in the franchise that creates a true adventure experience. The Story mode, combined with the Challenge mode and Party mode, provides players a high level of replay value and varied gameplay for an addictively fun gaming experience.
• All-new characters: over 60 new characters will guide players along their quest to restore peace between two feuding monkey kingdoms.
• Proven gameplay: Virtually any player can easily pick up this game for hours of enjoyment. The existing fan base will relish in all new puzzle levels, characters, and party games, while new comers will be attracted to the simple yet addictive gameplay style.

Features:

• The all-new Story mode wraps players in a true platform adventure all in the name of saving the monkey marriage of the century.
• 60 new characters guide players through five new kingdoms.
• Five party games including classic Super Monkey Ball favorites--Monkey Race, Monkey Fight, Monkey Bowling, and Monkey Golf. Two, new, exclusive games including Monkey Castles and Monkey Pinball.
• Up to four players can battle it out in Party mode either as a turn-based game or a split-screen experience.
• 50 new puzzle levels keep the gameplay fresh and fast.
• All-new spell casting ability allows players to morph their monkey ball, cleverly using their newfound powers to progress through the game. These spells will be vital for the monkey's success.

Product Description

Super Monkey Ball Adventure is your chance to use your puzzle and Monkey Ball skills to bring a young couple together. A young prince and princess from opposing kingdoms traveled to Jungle Island and quite accidentally fell head over heels in love. But their kingdoms are unhappy places completely lacking in joy, and thus, their marriage is forbidden. For them to wed, you must guide 4 monkeys across 5 islands, to spread cheer and happiness. Grab some friends for Party Mode, use your newfound spell casting powers to become invisible, climb walls, and much more. Let the adventure begin! Enter Party Mode with up to 4 players and battle it out turn-based style or in split-screen mode Transfer saves between PSP and PS2 -- continue playing while you save

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars MONKEY CHEW, August 27, 2006

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Thomas E. O'Sullivan - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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

The first two SUPER MONKEY BALL games were a blast.

Easy to pick up, easy to learn, easy to handle - and yet, at times, harder than a diamond to master. It provided challenges, worthwhile frustration, and endless amounts of fun both alone and with a group of friends. It seemed that SUPER MONKEY BALL could do no wrong... and then comes SUPER MONEY BALL ADVENTURE. This is my first MONKEY BALL on the PS2 and it's a major disappointment. While the graphics are bright and colorful, and everything is as clear as a bell - from the sounds to the animations - the LOAD times on this game are awful. They seem to take forever. If you're not the kind of person to read the instruction booklet, have it handy to pass the time while waiting for the islands to load... you'll learn something.

Once you're in the game the real horror begins. Instead of just presenting us with a light and tight story mode that moves us from one world of board challanges to the next (ala: SUPER MONEKY BALL 2) - the designers have instead opted for a action/RPG style of game play. The islands are populated with monkeys with troubles - from collecting escaped bees to finding missing children in top hats - you'll find yourself labored with one boring task after the next. And perhaps it wouldn't be so boring, or so frustrating, if they had managed to get the camera to work properly.

But they didn't - be prepared to spend a lot of time falling of edges and cliffs in this game. And it's not so much your handling of your monkey that does it, but the ball itself - it tends to drift a bit, to COAST to a stop more than just come to a complete stop when you move it. It likes to scoot - and sometimes that little scoot can kill you. Each island is populated with a series of quests and story points that you have to meet to bring JOY to the island. Which is all well and good - but once you're in the game it's almost impossible to figure out which way you should be heading and where to go next.

Everyone and everything has a problem - and instead of pointing you in the right direction the game play is so non-linear that whatever task you had first in your head suddenly becomes the last and before you know it... you're lost. This should be a warning to parents with young kids who might have enjoyed the previous games - they will get lost, they will get frustrated, and they will be bored quickly. The designers have tried to amp up the powers of the monkey balls themselves, and some are very clever and fun - but not enough to rescue the game from the sheer pit of frustration you'll fall into over and over again. This direction for the series was a BAD MOVE.

Mini-games help to boost the series - but while most are clever, they're not enough to save the game. Also, what was once the main game - that of solving, rolling and making your way through the very creative board challanges, has been reduced to an afterthought here. There are a series of new boards and they move from too easy to impossible in almost a single bound.

I don't mind a challenge - but in the previous games when you PAUSED the game you would be given the chance to review the board and plan your attack. In SMBA you don't get that - you just get an OPTIONS screen - and there all you can do is QUIT GAME and SAVE. I chose QUIT and haven't bothered to go back to it - and neither will you.

It's a sad end to such a great and creative series. A major disappointment. Avoid.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly disappointing, May 1, 2007

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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

Since Sega's Super Monkey Ball series debuted on the Gamecube way back when, the series has been noted for it's insanely fun yet simple gameplay elements that has always made each installment such a blast to play. Enter Super Monkey Ball Adventure, which finds a new developer attempting to take the series in a new direction, with close to abysmal results. This time around, our favorite ball trapped monkeys are populating an interactive world with platforming elements. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad if the game had a fleck of originality to it, not to mention the incredibly touchy and frustrating controls, lagging frame rate, and painfully long load times. The only thing that saves Super Monkey Ball Adventure from the scrap heap is that the Party Mode mini-games are here, and for the most part they still offer fun, and definitely the most fun elements you'll find overall in this game. If you want a really fun Super Monkey Ball game, look elsewhere at any of the older titles on any other system, because Super Monkey Ball Adventure is definitely not worth your time.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Fun, I only like multiplayer mode., December 28, 2006

A Kid's Review

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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

This game is fun, but the meuns are hard to understand and it isn't easy for my 6 year old younger sister to even stay on the board! She keeps falling off in every race or quest or minigame, and its kind of hard for me (i'm 10),too. The instruction booklet doesn't tell you what each game is or how to play each quest, so you have to try all 60 quests to see what each one is like. One good thing is that it is a 1-4 player game, which is rare for a ps2. It doesn't tell you this on the box, but you can only play multiplayer in one of the 6 different categories you see when you first start the game. I only like the multiplayer games, because if you have to play a game where steering is hard I would like to play it wiht a friend to laugh at ourselves for falling off the course with. This game is 4 stars when playing in multiplayer mode, but 5/6 of the game isn't multiplayer. So, over all it is 3 stars.

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