Despite how lousy Viva Piñata: Party Animals is as a game, the quality of the visuals keeps it afloat for far longer than it probably ought to. The game aims for the same bright, glowing look as the original Viva Piñata, and though it's not as meticulously detailed, it's mostly quite successful. The piñatas look great, and virtually everything in the environments has a look that equally recalls confetti and candy--there's also lots of confetti and candy. The backgrounds are nicely detailed and filled with activity, and it's not uncommon to see other piñatas leaping around enthusiastically during the various contests. The music is as aggressively upbeat as the visuals, and despite how overzealous some of the piñata voice acting is, it fits the game's overall tone.
Minigame collections and kart-racing games are two of the most obvious, thoughtless ways to cash in on a video game franchise, and considering how daring and unusual Viva Piñata was, it's disappointing to see the franchise go down this path so quickly.
Gamespot is sooo biased!!! They hate the 360!!!
lol! I think this game looks more like a 2/10.
Everyone go spam their forums and complain. This game is easily a 9.5 EASY. Gamespot is just owned by Sony I guess. They suck I am going to go cry on their forum plz come help everyone. This is such an outrage. Nobody should ever go bacck to gamestop they suck this is BS!
Most of the doubters of the 360 have in common the idea that all of its good games are shooters and this is a steryotype that needs to be broken in order to acess the larger gaming demographic. The wii so far has the best variety of games (with the exception of shooters) and Sonys has shown a lot of plans for games and functions outside of shooters i believe that for the final sucess of the xbox it is necesary that they encourage and promote non shooter games in order to reaquire the lead or keep themselves in second place.
As the owner of a Wii, you are plain wrong.
We have no games, no variety, and often use the machine as a silent friend to converse with when things get tough late at night.
at least the graphics are shiny...