CapsuleComputers.com writes: "Admittedly, this could be really fun. Consider this: “Alien monkeys are attacking earth and you must fight them off to save some hot chicks and find the ultimate monkey.” That actually sounds pretty cool, but in this case, it can make one literally feel brain dead."
PlayStation Move Ape Escape is the type of game that you’ll either burn out on quickly or become hooked on like a monkey fiending for bananas, and since a demo version is available it is recommended that you download it first to see how it suits your taste. If you’re hungry for more monkey mayhem afterwards, you will get your $20s worth from the full game.
GameSpot: Move Ape Escape keeps the charm but loses the fun from its goofy predecessors.
This could've been PlayStation Move's killer app, but was ruined by making it a rail shooter.
Eric of VividGamer.com writes:
"July is notorious for being a slow month in the gaming industry and this year was no different. There weren’t the big AAA titles that we saw last month but that doesn’t mean there weren’t any good games to play this month. Let’s take a look at which games were the best and the worst for the month of July 2011."
sad about the ratings of Ape Escape and Call Of Juarez..definitely a great month for downloads though!
I was a big fan of Ape Escape back in the day, it's a shame to see its current incarnations doomed to be watered-down on-rails Move shooters. There's so much interesting stuff that could have been doing with the Move controller and an Ape Escape game - get back to the platforming of the original!!!
I think this month's lists are even more interesting than they were last month. I hadn't realized how badly Call of Juarez had done, for example.
Where is Move's killer must have app???? This is EyeToy and PS3Eye all over again.
i hope u didnt think ape escape would be the killer app.
I played the demo, and I really think it deserves waaaaay higher then a 3 out of 10. For real, this is a bs score.
Edit:
After reading the review...you can tell he's never played an ape escape game before, and it seems that he's a shooter fan because he puts down everything about this game, even after he claims the cutscenes "look like very high quality anime" then continues and says it's terrible cutscenes. This shouldn't have been approved.
3 out of 10 is a broken game with absurdly unfriendly controls and frustrating gameplay. I haven't played this game, so I don't know if that applies to this game or not, but I honestly don't see how it could. I mean, it's a Sony first-party developed game. I would be very surprised if it doesn't at least use the Move controls accurately. Is it really so shit that it deserves scores like this? I need to play it for myself to find out, I think.