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February 1, 2010

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa

Filed under: Nintendo Wii — Tags: , , — ndesigns @ 2:38 am

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa
Binding: Video Game
Manufacturer: Activision Inc.
Product Description:
Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa Wii
List Price: USD 29.99
Lowest Used Price: USD 12.97
Lowest New Price: USD 13.99
Price is accurate as of the date/time indicated. Prices and product availability are subject to change. Any price displayed on the Amazon website at the time of purchase will govern the sale of this product.
Average Rating:
Features:
  • Rediscover each character's unique abilities & combat skills, learning new & special moves along the way
  • Experience a wide range of fresh, exciting game play as you work through 12 distinct levels & numerous mini-games featuring a variety of quests that include swimming, driving, racing, playing soccer, & safari photography
  • Non-linear structure - each evolving level takes you on missions that offer platforming, exploration, collection & combat challenges
  • Game exclusive environments including the Watering Hole, the African Jungle & Savannah, the Hippo Mud Pit, the Volcano, & an open area that's been expanded for the game
  • Twice as many multiplayer mini-games than before as you team up to overcome enemies or challenge each other in the enhanced tournament mode
Brand: ACTIVISION
Model: 047875833050
Release Date: 2008-11-04
Languages:
Unknown: English
Customer Reviews


Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa for the Wii: Jolly good fun!
This is one of the best video games for the entire family that I've ever seen for the Wii platform. It's a true delight.

Unlike some of the Wii games ties to movies, Escape 2 Africa does not take you though the movie, recreating the adventure from the point of view of various characters. This game has you manipulating the main characters in different challenges ranging from taking photographs to recovering various things the penguins need to fix up the airplane from the humans, to attempting to cure various animal ailments with carefully applied potions, to playing a game of soccer; and many, many more.

There are about 12 different levels in the game, with miniature games and levels in each one. They range from simple enough for a six year old to work, to games that will try the patience of adults. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa packs more games onto one disk than any movie-related video game we've ever purchased. This one was the winner of the video game Christmas sweepstakes going away.

If you have small children and they have seen the movie, by all means buy this game for them. You will be guaranteeing them days of video game enjoyment. I don't see this one getting old for my son any time soon. Neither will you.


Not too impressed
Got this game 1 year ago and the kids have played it like 3 times - they don't really like it. They play the Wii lots but this game is not impressive enough for them to be interested!


Madascar 2 Escape Africa Wii game
This is a great game. I enjoy playing just as much as the kids. Very addictive, fun mini games, excellent graphics. The accessories you can purchase for the characters are very cute.


Funny and mildly challenging
This is another decent movie-based video games aimed at the younger generation. Your objectives are multifold but aimed at saving animals in the African Savannah from 'human predators'. You play one of the animals in the Madagaskar crew, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo and others such as the penquins through multiple levels.

The animation and dialogues are humorous. The game play is mildly challenging (kids under 5 might need some occasional help) and has a number of very different objectives. Due to variety in action and gameplay, it is not boring at all. There are mild onjectives like taking pictures of animals/finding stuff around or a path to go to the next objective. There are also some challenging ones such as navigating through a path of scorpions, eagles and deep valleys or chasing human guards away by throwing soda cans at them etc.

There is also multi-player mode (upto 4 players) for some of the minigames most of which are quite a bit of fun. Do keep in mind that these games are aimed at kids under 10.

One bad aspect about the game is the camera angle. It does not change intuitively - sometimes it does, but is very slow. So you end up falling off cliffs or boxes when you try to turn around or go back. could be frustrating for kids. You can change the camera angle with the keypad though.


it's a good one
Good game. Fun, easy, but still challenging. It's not life changing but it also doesn't have any major flaws, it's rated E for everyone and it has the cast of madagascar in it. The one thing already noted I'll say again, the game saves all over the place so don't worry about all the "progress will be lost" notices. Also don't worry about finding every monkey, not necessary, we won the game with only 60 monkeys. So, I say it's a buy.

Product Information and Prices stored: March 12, 2010, 0:23

July 1, 2009

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa

Filed under: Playstation 2 Games — Tags: , , — ndesigns @ 3:12 pm

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa
Binding: Video Game
Manufacturer: Activision Inc.
Product Description:
Play as your favorite Madagascar characters in an attempt to save the African Savannah in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa.
List Price: USD 39.99
Lowest Used Price: USD 18.96
Lowest New Price: USD 14.54
Price is accurate as of the date/time indicated. Prices and product availability are subject to change. Any price displayed on the Amazon website at the time of purchase will govern the sale of this product.
Average Rating:
Features:
  • Rediscover each character's unique abilities & combat skills, learning new & special moves along the way
  • Experience a wide range of fresh, exciting game play as you work through 12 distinct levels & numerous mini-games featuring a variety of quests that include swimming, driving, racing, playing soccer, & safari photography
  • Non-linear structure - each evolving level takes you on missions that offer platforming, exploration, collection & combat challenges
  • Game exclusive environments including the Watering Hole, the African Jungle & Savannah, the Hippo Mud Pit, the Volcano, & an open area that's been expanded for the game
  • Twice as many multiplayer mini-games than before as you team up to overcome enemies or challenge each other in the enhanced tournament mode
Brand: ACTIVISION
Model: 047875833012
Release Date: 2008-11-04
Languages:
Unknown: English
Customer Reviews


So much FUN!
My whole family loves this game. My daughter is 7 and it is easy enough for her to play, but me and my husband play it with her alot and there are challenging areas too. There are so many different levels to this game. We really got our money's worth!


Good game for young kids...or they might read a book...
As a fan of Joseph Chilton Pearce (author of The Magical Child) and various other doctors who feel that tv/fast moving images at an early age slow a child's brain development and permanently damages their cortices, I wouldn't recommend any video game for very young kids. But, if you're one of the majority of American parents who see your tv as a babysitter, this is a good game for your kids.

The action here is for 6-8 year olds, I'd guess, and is unlikely to keep the jaded 10 year-old crowd interested for long; these are kids who are killing thousands of people an hour in most other video games, or selling women on the street in Grand Theft Auto, and so on. It's a long way from Kansas these days, Toto. But for good wholesome brain-numbing politically correct gaming fun for kids, this one works fine.

Most of the tasks are very simple, easily learned, and pretty fun. The games in the extras section are very easy and might delight very small kids. Not that they might be better served reading a book or anything. Gee whiz, are my biases showing up here? Sorry to be so honest.

In any case, Mad 2 is a fabulous promotional tie-in to the movie which you already bought, and will keep your toddlers busy and probably help them encourage you to buy more Mad 2 toys and other endless Madagascar products. So hey, your kids are happy, you don't have to take much care of them, and the studios are making a mint.

Win/win/win. What a great era we live in!

Sigh. Tom Sawyer wouldn't find any one to whitewash the fence any more. They're all inside watching tv.


Family Fun in Far-off Africa
My daughter and I played the first Madagascar and had a ball. It's nice to see that the second Activision movie tie-in is also lots of fun. Both movie games take the tack of not trying to walk you through the movie but instead focusing on the basic plot elements and wrapping them around fun things to do.

In Madagascar 2: Escape from Africa, you take the role of each of the main characters in the movie. You wander around the landscape fairly openly, switching from one to another at will. As you interact you can decide to help various other characters, and that's what drives the gameplay. For example, Alex the lion scares off a series of other lions by roaring at them, one at a time. Gloria the hippo tucks herself into a ball and "bowls a strike", trying to knock over all ten pins. The games get more complicated--you play the penguins driving a jeep, and have to ram each car in a convoy in succession, and each needs to be hit a number of times.

The biggest success of this game however, is that it plays to its audience. Escape from Africa brings something to the table for children small and not-so-small. Tough quests aren't necessary. Failing a game gives you the option of going and doing something else. As I watched my 10-year-old daughter play, I also noticed that if she had a bit of trouble with a game--but tried it again--the game made itself progressively easier. Imagine the difficulty being like a "Pitch til U Win" game at the carnival.

This might also be its downside: older children highly experienced with these games might say, "That was too easy"...but still get a giggle or two. Younger children will be happy to have something they can play that also surrepetitiously gives them a helping hand. Either way, I can say that the content is perfect for families not only because nothing's inappropriate, but also because nothing is boring. Highly recommended for fans of the movie.


Cool game
I'm loving the madagascar 2 game It's so fun I play it all day long.I even can't stop playing it.I can't live without it!.I would even want to say it's my favorite entertainment in the world.


Great for younger crowds
I picked this up wanting a game that wasn't about killing and fighting and something that young kids (7-10) could both master and enjoy. I'm not disappointed.

The game is obviously platformed for kids. It's not too difficult and actually acts as an excellent tutorial on working the controller's many buttons and levers.

Aside from the actual game, there's also a mini-arcade, which consists of several stand-alone games which can be played one by one or on a tournament basis. Up to eight players can play at one time.

The game allows you to chose between several characters and pick your own musical selections and locations, keeping it from getting too boring. If you're looking for something the whole family can enjoy, this is a good bet.

Product Information and Prices stored: March 12, 2010, 0:23

February 28, 2009

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa

Filed under: Playstation 2 Games — Tags: , , — ndesigns @ 5:38 pm

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa

Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa
Binding: Video Game
Manufacturer: Activision Inc.
Product Description:
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa features the four famous zoo animals: Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, and their entire madcap Madagascar crew take you on a whole new action-packed journey to help save the African savannah. Assuming the roles of all your favorite characters, including those crafty penguins, you must work through 12 distinct levels featuring a variety of wild adventures and fun mini-games. In addition to the diverse single-player game play, the Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa video game delivers an enhanced multiplayer tournament mode allowing you to participate in outlandish competitions alongside or against friends and family. Experience a host of diverse & original game play capabilities with friends & family including soccer, hot durian, dancing & racing
List Price: USD 19.99
Lowest Used Price: USD 10.99
Lowest New Price: USD 13.80
Price is accurate as of the date/time indicated. Prices and product availability are subject to change. Any price displayed on the Amazon website at the time of purchase will govern the sale of this product.
Average Rating:
Features:
  • Rediscover each character's unique abilities & combat skills, learning new & special moves along the way
  • Experience a wide range of fresh, exciting game play as you work through 12 distinct levels & numerous mini-games featuring a variety of quests that include swimming, driving, racing, playing soccer, & safari photography
  • Non-linear structure - each evolving level takes you on missions that offer platforming, exploration, collection & combat challenges
  • Game exclusive environments including the Watering Hole, the African Jungle & Savannah, the Hippo Mud Pit, the Volcano, & an open area that's been expanded for the game
  • Twice as many multiplayer mini-games than before as you team up to overcome enemies or challenge each other in the enhanced tournament mode
Brand: ACTIVISION
Model: 047875832992
Release Date: 2008-11-04
Languages:
Unknown: English
Customer Reviews


A fun game for children
I like this game because it force the children to think, to resolve problems and puzzles, and for old people still is funny.


10 Year Old Thumbs Up
I brought this for a gift for a 10 year old girl and she loved it.


Lots of Fun
My overall review about this game is :It's family oriented I purchased an
additional controller so that I could play with my nephews and they really
enjoyed themselves.Thank you so much


My son loves this game and he plays it all the time.
I like the game and my son likes it too. I just feel it should be made for two players.


Fast start, but little staying power
I bought this for my 10 year old daughter for Christmas. She liked it a lot initially, but as time has worn on, she has played it less, she seems to much prefer wizard101 on the internet.

Having been dragged in to handle some of the more challenging parts, it seems to just a bit difficult for a 10 year, but then they should not have everything handed to them, should they?

Product Information and Prices stored: March 12, 2010, 0:23

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