CRASH BOOM BANG! (NINTENDO DS) (U) IN SOUTH AFRICA

Crash Boom Bang! (Nintendo DS) (U) Platform: Nintendo DS Condition: Pre-Owned/Used in Very Good Condition This Title Also Available As: New: Brand New and Sealed games available Please get in touch for information on these options. Pre-owned games supplied with applicable serial keys. However - please note: Any single use keys or activation codes may have already been used/redeemed. Product Information Revolutionary "Touch Panel Communication" multiplayer gameplay Communicate with players through never-before-seen touch panel message in-game feature (speech, sounds, characters) Use wireless LAN to send customized messages mid-game and have fun teaming up with friends or distracting other players' gameplay 40 Wacky Action-oriented Mini-games Taking Full Advantage of the DS Platform 3D graphics, touch screen, microphone, wireless network Unique Betting Feature - Take player interaction to a new level by betting on outcomes of multiplayer games and earning points to purchase items that can enhance the gameplay experience Item Collecting & Trading - Up to 80 items to collect, trade or use to alter gameplay scenarios Enjoy Crash's wacky and zany sense of humour and play as one of 8 of your favourite characters including Crash, Coco, Crunch and Neo Cortex Product Description Multi-player Mayhem... Crash-style! Roll the dice and dive into one of the 40 multiplayer action-oriented mini-games, where you can communicate with other players through the revolutionary DS Motion Panel Communicator. Review In a nutshell: Crash has another bash at throwing his own mini-game party, with plenty of games and four player action - even if it is all about quantity rather than quality. The lowdown: With every video game mascot worth their salt appearing in a Super Mario Kart clone, a second port of call for jobbing platform stars tends to be a riff on the popular Mario Party games. None ever seems to have got the balance between mini-games and board game action quite right though, with too much emphasis on the board and too few mini-games of any worth. Although there are 40 mini-games to play here, few are any fun and having to travel round a pretend board game to get to them only makes things worse - especially if you havent got four people to play with. Most exciting moment: Not all of the mini-game are rubbish and the one where you have to shoot basketballs into a moving hoop is a lot of fun, as is the one where you have to paddle a canoe and grab fruit at the same time. These also happen to be the games that make the most interesting use of the touch screen, something many of the other games fail to do. Since you ask: This isnt the first time that Crash Bandicoot has been "inspired" by the Mario Party series. The game Crash Bash for the original PlayStation owed a considerable amount to Nintendos game, although it wasnt quite so blatant a copy and included less mini-games. The bottom line: Crash just doesnt seem to be much of a party animal in this limp Mario Party clone.- HARRISON DENT