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Very fun...and very challenging.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I knew I liked this game when I began to play it at my best friend's house. This game had everything to offer. It had immense replay value, a lot of challenges, and fun multiplayer modes too. Thing is, I never played the original Super Monkey Ball before, so I won't be able to compare the two games in this review.

For starters...Monkey Ball is like a puzzle game. A game in which you have to roll your monkey through a series of paths to get to the goal at the end of each stage. Every level has a time limit. And on each level there are a number of bananas--collect a hundred of them, and you gain an extra life.
There are multiple modes you can play this game on. There's adventure, challenge mode, practice, and mini-games. Mini-games are all the simultaneous four-player games you can play, such as bowling, golfing, and racing. I have not played these mini-games much at all, so the only thing I can tell you about them is that you unlcok them by earning "play points," and you earn these points by playing single player challenge mode.
Adventure/Story mode is basically a one player adventure, with a plot (not a very good one though) behind it. Story mode is broken up into many different "worlds," which are then broken up into individual stages.
Challenge mode can be played from one to four players, but only one person can play at a time. You basically take turns playing, meaning you only need one controller for four people to play! Challenge mode is the heart of Super Monkey Ball 2. It is broken up into three difficulties: Beginner, Advance, and Expert. Beginner has 10 stages, Advanced has 30, and Expert has 50. Beginner is something a 6 year old can master. Advanced is something that will take much practice. And expert...well, you gotta be out of your M.I.N.D. if you think you can beat it! Some stages have hidden goals. These hidden goals allow you to skip over the next level. If you beat a difficulty without losing all your lives, you get to play through its hidden stages, which are harder than the normal ones.
I should also add that challenge mode's stages are slightly different from those in story mode. And now for the summary of practice mode...it contains all of the story mode stages you've played before so you can get better at them to your heart's content.

And that is Monkey Ball 2 for you. Very fun. Very addicting. And very challenging. I suggest you play Challenge mode. It's probably the best reason for getting the game.

Super Monkey Ball 2 is so cool!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Your trapped in a ball and you steer around to get to the goal within 60 seconds. Sounds pretty easy but not when you add ramps, switches, bumpers, wormholes, bumps, jumpers, and bananas. Not to mentian you don't hav lots of space to move around like you have to go in a perfectly straight line or you will fall losing yet another life. After you complete all 10 beginner levels there are 10 more secret levels. After 30 advanced levels there are 10 more secret levels. Expert 50 levels then 10 secret levels then if you complete all thoes levels there are ten master stages! SO BUY THIS GAME!

Lots of Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Combine Sonic, Mario Party, and Croc, and what do you get? Super Monkey Ball 2. The main game consists of running around through different areas to reach the goal, with obstacles. You're on a quest to save the Monkey's bananas from the notorious Dr. Bad-Boon. The levels get harder each time. In the party mode you can have hours of fun playing awesome games. You can race, bowl, fight, play many sports, and just have fun. It's awesome. Best of all, you can play the party games with up to 4 players, and 4 players can play the regular game in Challenge Mode (Beleive me it's challenging). So if you enjoy any of the games I mentioned earlier you will love this one. It is very addictive, trust me. The Graphics are great too. So enjoy a great game and have fun playing with everyone. So buy this game now, while supplies last (hahaha). Written by Tom

What an awful game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 17
Date: June 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst video game I have ever been conned into purchasing. (its reduced price and players choice award foisted me into picking it up) Caution: this game is not for kids, but especially not adult, or any demographic for that matter. Sega's target audience for Super Monkey Ball 2 must be the blind. The gameplay and voices are babyish, and the in game text even writes baby talk and rufuses to use articles and prepositions, making kids stupider in the process. Game also not for kids because too hard, me think too hard so must definately too hard to anyone under age of 21. The game also cleverly advertises hundreds of levels-- wrong. First there's story mode, where you play through the 100 levels of monotonous hell hoping for something fun to happen at the end (spoiler: nothing fun ever happens.) Then there's CHALLENGE mode, as if story mode wasn't torturous enough to make your kids smash their gamecube into the neighbor's window. At first glance you seemingly have access to ALL these neat new levels-- WRONG. Challange mode is the same nonsense as story mode (90% of the levels are taken directly from story mode), except in CHALLENGE mode, you're not allowed to lose 3 lives. BORING... and by the way; this is a waste of time if you accidently forget to save after exiting (story mode automatically saves for you, then you forget that challenge mode doesn't urgh I hate this game) The multiplayer party games is where the fun is probably at, but you know what? You dont want your friends to see you playing this crap, you don't want to see your kids playing this crap either. Why? Well besides the reasons I discussed earlier, its not an easy multiplayer game to pick up. Just try playing the minigames in 1 player, it takes a lot of practice just to get the control right (which are awkward, awful, and sloppy). So basically, if you or your child actually tries to get some replay value out of this garbage, they'll have to sit down and teach some other poor soul how to play any of the bland minigames, which may take a few hours to get the feel for the controls. Alright, bottom line: this game is not fun for adults or kids-- if you want a good multiplayer or kids game for the gamecube go for smash bros malee. You and your children will spend much more time playing and enjoying that than Monkey Ball because its far less repetitive, easier to introduce to friends, far less repetitive, more variety, longer replay value, less frustrating, and far less repetitive.

Monkey Ball is back!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Super Monkey Ball 2 is possibly the most entertaining title out there. There are 14 different game modes, many things to unlock, 4-player action and much more.

The 'Main Game' is a marble-madness-style game, where you have to get your monkey ball to the goal by tilting the board. Along the way, you pick up bannanas, hit switches, go through transporters, find warps and much more. There are reportedly around 150 new boards to clear in Super Monkey Ball 2. 80 are available immediately through the Beginner, Advanced & Expert modes; the rest are unlocked by getting through the standard modes within the alotted number of lives.

New to Monkey Ball 2 is a Story mode. This puts a backstory to levels, albeit a kind of weak and weird one. It seems Dr. Bad-Boon has taken all of the bannanas from Monkey Island; our hero, AiAi, is determined to get them back. Basically, you will watch a scene transpire, then proceed to solve a set of 10 levels in order to proceed to the next world. There are 10 worlds, so it takes 100 levels to beat this mode. The levels are taken straight from the Main Game, but are given different backgrounds (ie one world's levels are set in a volcano, so there is a lot of lava & smoke in the background of each level).

In addition to the Main Game, there are 12 Party Games. All six from the first Monkey Ball game are back and are available from the start. The remaining six need to be unlocked using the Play Points you will earn from playing the Main Game.

Monkey Race has 6 new tracks, plus the ability to have 8 total players (1-4 human players plus 4-7 com players). New weapons include a missle that launches at all players around you & a gravity ball that slows players down. Expect to see more bumpers placed on the tracks to slow you down. Monkey Target now lets you use 1, 2 or 5 monkeys at once (depending on the number of people playing; 5 is available in one player only). When playing with friends, you now go at the same time in a split screen, and can knock each other off targets. Bannanas get you points; power-ups are found in the air with the bannanas now. Alas, the Wheel of Danger is gone. Monkey Fight now has levels with walls that get damaged & destroyed, plus a tie-breaking mode where you fight on a crumbling floor. Monkey Golf is less like mini-golf now, at least for the front 9 holes; the back 9 has more obstacles to get around. Monkey Bowling now has a Special mode, where each frame has a different lane, some of them moving! Monkey Billiards has several new game variations beyond 9-ball.

New games include Soccer, a 5-on-5 battle for goals; Baseball, where you try to hit the pitched monkey ball into the right slots in the outfield to get hits & runs; tennis, including singles and the extremely fun 1-4 player doubles (is best with 4 players); Monkey Shot, a Virtua Cop-type shooting game (also 1-4 players, but can get verrrry confusing with 4 players); Monkey Boat, a new Monkey Race variation that uses the L & R buttons to paddle; and Monkey Dogfight, where you take to the air and try to shoot the other monkeys out of the sky.

Play Points earned after unlocking all six games can be used to purchase 'Gifts', which consists of the movie scenes from the Story mode, the credit game from the end of the Main Game and the ability to start off with additional lives in the Main Game. You can purchase up to 99 lives, which will be a big help in allowing you to earn the extra levels.

Fans of Super Monkey Ball will eat this sequel up. Newcomers, this is a fabulous game and the original is absolutely still worth picking up. My friends & I logged well over 250 hours on my copy of the original, this will easily match that. This is a great party game that will keep you & your friends laughing, arguing & gloating for months.

You'd Never Know from the Name.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Behinde the face of a kids game, is the most fantastic and adictive party(with puzzle elements) game ever created! And if that's not enough to convince you, it was made by SONICTEAM.
One thing though, if your not up for a chalenge stick to party mode, some of the levels in the main game are infinently frustrating. But still fun. You almost always know what you have to do, it's doing it that's the problem. exept for a few stages with puzzle elements in which you have to flip a certain sequence of switches in order to get the goal to appear...
Okay, here's the break Down

MAIN GAME:
Story Mode - You play through the story as AIAI and must foil the plans of Dr. BadBoon by completeing the classic "role the ball to the finish by tilting the whole stage".
Challenge Mode - Similar to Story mode exept no story and the stages are in a diffent order.
Practice Mode - Play any of the stages over and over to hone your skills.

PARTY GAME:
Monkey Race - You Race you monkeys on several tracks.
Monkey Fight - Your Monkey Ball gets a fist and you try to knock all the other monkeys off the stage.
Monkey Target - Probably the most fun of them all, you fly you monkey over a target and try to land in the center to gain the most points.
Monkey Billiards - Play some pool!
Monkey Bowling - Knock down those pins and get the high score!
Monkey Golf - Play some golf in Monkey-Ball land.
Monkey Boat - Race your paddle-ball down the river...
Monkey Shot - Shoot the most targets to get the high score.
Monkey DogFight - Fly around and try and shoot the other monkey down.
Monkey Soccer - Play some soccer monkey-ball style.
Monkey BaseBall - Play some baseball.
Monkey Tennis - Choose your court and number of players, and then play some tennis.

Plus, various unlockables in the options menu...

An excellent Christmas present and a great all around game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I remember renting the first Super Monkey Ball game and I had a blast.It was challenging and fun.You steer a ball on tilting platforms and race against other monkeys in a different option with great graphics in the back ground really the graphics are some of the best Ive seen.
This sequel however takes everything good about the first game and makes it new again with an even greater sense of fun with the gameplay mixing new ingredients with all the qualities of the first one and this time around theres more levels and better graphics.
I highly recommend this game.

Super Monkey is super!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The party games in the game are really fun. Especially if you have a brother, sister, or friend that you can play it with. It is one player and multiplayer. The story mode in the game is pretty easy in the beggining, but later on it turns harder and harder. Story Mode is a one player activity. In the game you also recieve points that you can unlock games and other things with.

OUT OF A FIVE STAR SCALE
Graphics: 4.4
Action : 3.5
Boringness: 1.4

Great game for teenagers and ols people too!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I though this game was for little kids, so i bought it for my cousin for christmas. I loved it. I bought it too.

It has a lame plot, and funny looking characters... and the diolague is kind of stupid. but the game is actually very hard when you get farther into it. it's not just for little kids, THAT's FOR SURE!
i'm stuck on like the 9th world! there is so much to do in this game.

Minigames like Monkey Baseball, or Monkey Bowling is really fun.
Any kid/ adult will love this game!

THE best game for the system

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game you'll get for the GameCube. GREAT fun. Multiplayer, easy to pick up, hard to master and good for all ages. One of those 'once in a blue moon' games. Buy it!

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