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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.

too hard

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: April 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was expecting this game to be easy but it wasnt ' i think sonic team at least shouldve added a handicapp mode on story mode where it gets easy but instead they didnt ' the levels are just to hard and annyoying and walkthroughs make it sound like the game is easy when its not

If you liked Super Monkey Ball...Don't get this!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: February 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I got totally addicted to Super Monkey Ball (SMB) and I loved it.
I played the single player story mode game, and never really got
into the party games.

The one thing I didn't really like about SMB was those 60 second
challenge levels. Half of the time they're way too easy, some of
the time they're ok, and every once in a while they're so annoyingly
hard that you swear if you hear that guy say "FALL OUT!" one more
time you're going to smash your gamecube.

You can imagine how I felt when I realized that SMB-2 is nothing but
stage after stage...after stage of those stupid levels!
No more rolling around, exploring at your own free will, and figuring
out which little puzzle to solve next.
This game is fed to you in +/-60 second chunks that will annoy you!

Oh yeah, and every so often, you get to watch episodes in this disjointed
and useless story.

In conclusion, I never play the party games, but I hear SMB-2 is worth it
if you like those. If you like the single player story mode, don't bother!!

monkey ball 2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: March 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i thought this game would be good but really its repetative unoriginal the graphics are terriable laggy and ugly the mini games are terriable

Why oh why....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: June 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I got the impression that this game was the bomb, but when I finally rented it (thankfully) and not bought it, I realized that perhaps the reviews were really trying to say that this game IS a bomb. First of all, do not be deceived by the back of the box... it shows that you can play soccer and tennis and whatnot, but when you finally break open the celophane, carefully take the CD out, place it in your Gamecube, and turn it on, you come to find out that you have to aquire enough points to unlock all the better levels and games! What a rip-off!!! I love games with challenges, but this was a slap in the face to the buyer! Deceiving everyone that you can start right off and play the games you want to play. The game is cute and somewhat addictive, but I am glad that I will never buy it. I am practically irked that I paid $5.99 for the rental! I am sorry, but this game leads you off into deep waters and leaves you there to fend for yourself. I even browsed Action Replay for unlock codes, just so I can play the soccer and tennis games to see if I would at least purchase it... but alas, there were none. As a matter of fact, the codes for Super Monkey Ball 2 didn't even work! Stay clear away from this deceiving game. I am beginning to have second thoughts about my purchasing the Gamecube as well.

Didn't like it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 11
Date: April 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The only thing this game has going for it was how cute the monkies are. Other than that it's STUPID!!

Dissapointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: July 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

After loving monkey ball one me and my girlfriend decided to pick up monkey ball 2, hoping for the same addicting gameplay on such party games as monkey target and monkey bowling, but with a few more stages and such. What we got was a game that somehow totally ruined the franchise. Monkey target all of a sudden requires no skill, they basically throw points at you, and 2 players going at once? Sounds good but it just makes the huge stages harder to see. Monkey bowlings still god though right? No! All of the monkeys now bowl drastically differently, meaning that if you liked gongon in monkey ball one, you now will have to pick a totally different character to bowl like you want to. Oh and the one player story mode.... let me just barf now. Amazingly kiddy ish, it might as well have been designed by 2 years olds who like bright colors and the word poo. Pick up monkey ball one and leave this sad try at a sequal in the bargain bin.

This game is not as good as you might think

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I think the Monkeys at Sega just wanted to make a few extra bannanas when they released Super Monkey Ball 2. It's basically just an update of the original game, with a few new games and a new single player format. It's really not that great, although with all the hype surrounding it, you probably think it is. By the way, I'm not one of those guys that just hates everything Sega. I used to own a Genesis, and I love most of their sports games. But this game and it's predecessor are just ridiculous. When you actually consider this games content, you'll realize how little fun rolling around in a sphere as a primate can be. This is just a warning: don't waste your money like I did. It really isn't worth it.

Why does everyone love this game?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 04, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got persuaded into buying this game by the irresistable monkey characters, but soon found myself playing one of the most frustrating games of 2002. I personally own 14 game systems, and easily over 1,000 games, and this game can't hang with any of them. Yeah, it's fun for about an hour, but lets face it: The game is designed for people that like to be repeatedly killed, often by powers that they can't control. The later levels mostly rely on luck, partially due to the camera (which you can't control or rotate around the monkey). The graphics look like they were designed for the N64, and the "story" feels tacked on and has nothing to do with the game. Many people talk about how great the mini-games are, but they are much less sophisticated than those in Mario Party (and also are fewer in number). I just think Sega can do better.

Sad

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My sister got me this game for Christas, I usually catch onto games pretty quick, and this was no execption. But you keep doing the same thing over and over again, it just wasn't fun.

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