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Chimp My Ride: new Ape Escape racer

Posted Aug 11th 2006 1:00PM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News, Ape Escape

(That, loyal readers, is the BEST headline EVAR created for PSP Fanboy. You can applaud my creative genius in the comments section below.)

Anyways, it appears that Sony's branching out the Ape Escape series into the competitive mascot racing genre. While details are scarce, it appears that what separates this game from other mascot racers is that the monkeys don't drive go-karts... they ARE the go-karts. Maybe the development team was inspired by the upcoming Transformers movie, but this diagram should explain it all:

Check out the official Japanese website to get more details and screenshots.

[Via QJ]

Greatest Hits games available now [Update 1]

Posted Jul 25th 2006 9:05AM by Andrew Yoon
Filed under: News, ATV Offroad Fury, Twisted Metal, Wipeout, Hot Shots Golf, Software, Ape Escape

Great news for you bargain hunters. Today, PSP's Greatest Hits lineup will be available in stores. There are five games that'll carry the Greatest Hits tag and be priced at $19.99 at your favorite retailer:

Ape Escape: On the Loose
ATV Offroad Furty: Blazin' Trails
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee
Twisted Metal: Head-On
Wipeout Pure

My personal recommendation is Wipeout Pure: the game features incredible presentation and offers a ton of depth, especially with downloadable content that doubles the content of the game. If you're looking for a real deal, you might want to wait a little while. Circuit City will be having a 2 for $30 sale starting 7/30 for all games $19.99 and under (which includes PSP Greatest Hits and more).

[Via Cheapassgamer]

[Update 1: Sony has said that third-party games will achieve Greatest Hits status later this year. Specifically, Lumines, Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade, Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix, Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition, and Star Wars Battlefront II are all due to go easier on gamers' wallets. Via Gamespot]

Meta Review - Ape Escape Academy

Posted Jan 25th 2006 8:00AM by Rafael Espiritu
Filed under: News, Ape Escape

For once, the monkeys aren't the ones flinging the poop. The first appearance of Ape Escape on the PSP wasn't exactly well-received either, so expectations were somewhat high for the follow-up, Ape Escape Academy. Unfortunately, Sony's zany action puzzler failed to impress the majority of reviewers, some of whom complained of the game's short lifespan and aggravating load times.

We like monkeys, but maybe not at full price. Here's a rundown of the reviews:

GameSpot [6.1] - Despite an abundance of monkeys in funny clothes--a very compelling element indeed--Ape Escape Academy comes off as rather generic. The Ape Escape games have consistently done a good job of supplanting genre conventions and injecting the action with a bizarre sense of humor, but Ape Escape Academy ignores almost all of these tenets.

IGN [5.5] - Ape Escape Academy suffers from a number of issues, namely sluggish control and poor design. While there's a decent number of games to choose from, very few of them will strike you as memorable or worthy of addiction. And the multiplayer modes, while not terrible, feel very limited in scope.

Eurogamer [4.0] - Bad news for Sony: the mini-games are mostly rubbish or badly made, the loading times are atrocious, and apart from issues of quality, design and technical competency, we're also bothered by the need to reset the game every time you want to do as the Apes and "escape" the current game mode. We're not crazy about the ambiguous instructions either.

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