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It's official. Viva Pinata 2: Trouble in Paradise has been in the works for a WHILE now. Gamerscore Blog just posted their press release for the game, which confirms that the game is coming this September. That's right, a mere couple of months from now. Someone at Rare has been good at keeping their secrets.
Trouble in Paradise isn't just a rehash of the original game, though. In addition to the same mixture of gameplay that made the first one such a darling for families and casual gamers, the new release offers a Just For Fun mode, where you're able to play in a free world setting, as well as co-op gameplay and support for the Xbox LIVE Vision camera.
You can find more information at the Gamerscore Blog press release here. Hit the jump for the fact sheet.
Product Overview: The original Rare Ltd. team behind
“Viva Piñata” has reunited to bring gamers “Viva Piñata: Trouble in
Paradise,” the newest piñata adventure that invites gamers to return to
magical Piñata Island. Unfortunately, not all is well on the island, as
Professor Pester along with his gang of Ruffians have wiped out Piñata
Central’s computer records, which poses a threat to parties everywhere.
To help Piñata Central, players must gradually rebuild the computer
database by sending piñatas at full candiosity to parties all around
the world. While thwarting Professor Pester’s evil plot, players still
build and maintain piñata gardens — using their creativity and
imagination to attract, trap, protect, train and manage more than 100
different piñata species.
Available exclusively on Xbox 360,
“Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise” reinvigorates a colorful and
engaging gaming experience on the Xbox 360 platform. Now with full
cooperative and online gameplay modes, the “Viva Piñata” franchise
opens its doors even wider with a new game that provides hours of fun
for gamers of all ages, fans of the animated series and animal lovers
alike.
Features: Top game features include the following:
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Social. The world of Piñata Island is an inviting and rewarding place
to be. Family members and friend now can share in the joy of creating a
garden by simply plugging in an extra controller. The second player has
access to all tools, actions and activities, but he or she also can
collect magic by helping. Player two can spend magic by tinkering
items, healing a sick piñata or filling a piñata candiosity meter. It’s
a new way to play.
• Customizable. “Viva Piñata: Trouble in
Paradise” allows players’ imaginations to run wild by providing them
with expansive freedom and choice.
o Your garden. “Viva Piñata:
Trouble in Paradise” also offers a vast level of customization within
your main garden. Now, along with planting grass, trees and flowers,
and digging ponds and lakes, players can place sand and snow in their
garden to make exotic species of piñata feel more at home. Players also
can choose to enhance their garden with themed object packs — make your
garden into a space center, a pirate cove or a haunted graveyard. Buy
objects to change the weather, or new toys for your piñata to play
with. You have total freedom to create any kind of paradise you want!
o
Your piñatas. Thirty-two new species of piñata can run, crawl, fly and
swim into your garden in “Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise.” Large,
small, fierce and cute, the new piñatas will join all your favorites
for thriving activity throughout your garden. Among these new species
are sour piñatas that will infiltrate and wreak havoc in the garden. In
“Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise,” players can choose to either tame
sours, or feed them candy to keep them sweet.
o Piñata Vision. A
never-before-seen feature called Piñata Vision allows players to plug
in an Xbox LIVE Vision camera and interact with the game through the
use of printed cards that feature a unique barcode. With Piñata Vision,
gamers can simply flash a piñata card up to the Vision camera, and the
content will drop directly into the game.*
• Accessible. “Viva
Piñata: Trouble in Paradise” reinvigorates the franchise with
additional game modes and features that make it even more accessible to
players of all ages and skill levels.
o Just for Fun Mode. Designed
for beginner players, kids and those just looking to explore Piñata
Island, this mode allows players to jump into the garden and interact
with the unique piñata world. In this mode the difficulty has been
turned down and the fun has been turned up. Sour piñatas stay away,
resident piñatas remain healthy, weeds don’t plague your garden and you
have an infinite chocolate coin bank account, allowing you to turn your
garden into a veritable utopia of colorful creatures.
o Standard
Mode. Presenting a challenge for experienced piñata gardeners and
dedicated gamers, the Standard gameplay mode provides a more tricky
option, where players must keep a watchful eye on their garden. Sour
piñatas, feuding species, weeds, illness and limited money call for you
to exercise problem solving and creativity to build and maintain an
environment where piñatas can flourish and grow.
o Player Guide
System. Replacing the traditional tutorial, the optional Player Guide
System directs players through a series of loose goals to help them
master the fundamental aspects of “Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise.”
o
Show Off. Using the new photo mode in “Viva Piñata: Trouble in
Paradise,” you can snap, print and upload pictures of your unique
garden or customized piñatas showing them off to your friends. You also
can photograph your piñata and turn it into a piñata card, share it
with your friends so they scan it and put it into their own garden
using the Xbox LIVE Vision camera.
o Piñata and character
interaction. All your residents are now capable of performing dazzling
tricks, which you can teach them using the new trick stick tool. Watch
as piñatas play together, perch on each other and interact in new ways
to make them more appealing.
• Spontaneous. “Viva Piñata: Trouble in
Paradise” is a constantly changing world where anything can and does
happen. Rivalries, injuries, illness and fights — if you turn your
back, who knows what your piñatas will do?
o It’s happening outside.
Pester knows where your garden is, and he’s got a few nasty tricks up
his sleeve to make piñata life difficult. Foil his plans by sending
your piñata around the world to save parties everywhere. Also, you must
deal with new, untamed sour piñatas with bad attitudes and more
troublesome Ruffians who will try to spoil your creation.
o It’s
happening inside. Pester will try to block piñatas from ever reaching
your garden, but you can break the blockades and teach him who is in
charge on Piñata Island. However, don’t underestimate Pester — he’s
likely to make some personal appearances to attempt to put you in your
place.
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