By Kieron Gillen on October 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm.
I think I actually reviewed the first Madagascar. These kids videogame translations all kind of blur into one. I recall something to do with the Zebra turning itself into a Shuriken, which sounds pretty nifty now I actually write it down. Anyway – we’ve all a chance to see if my failing memory is working at all by downloading the new just-shy-of-800Mb demo of the sequel. It includes (er) part of the game. This is the sort of incisive journalism you come to RPS for, that’s for sure. Anyway – anyone like animals? RPS loves animals. Our favourites include the Platypus, the sloth and the bearded pig. While you think of yours, there’s a video of the game in action beneath the cut.
I haven’t watched it either though. Hope it isn’t actually mislabelled pornography or something.
Platfomer with minigames film tie in. Nothing we haven’t seen a million times before.
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A sequel of a dimly remembered children’s game and a trailer full of giddy youngsters. If you feel dirty watching all of those Red Alert trailers, this should be a wonderful way to regress back to a more innocent time.
As for a favorite animal, that’s a tough one. How does one choose between tigers, rhinoceri (??), and all of nature’s cute, fuzzy critters anyway?
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Its from Toys for Bob!
Toys for Bob!!
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Pygmy Goats are obviously nature’s best animal.
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BADGERS.
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I almost lold at the safety warnings intro, “BEWARE: SIMULATED GAMBLING”.
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Polar Bear – a top blend of cute and fluffy with base primal savagery.
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And surely it should be “Beware: Simulated Gambolling”
B’dum tish.
/tumbleweeds
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Nothing beats Tardigrades, or water-bears. For microscopic Ecdysozoa these guys are strangely cute, and on top of it are amazingly hardy little blighters. They generally live in mosses, and can survive being dehydrated for years and can survive huge temperature ranges.
I’m also partial to the manatee, which now I think about it looks mildly similar to a tardigrade.
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James G, your choice of favourite animals suck! You don’t have any taste when it comes to the animal kingdom, do you?! Mainstream filth!
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Tardigrades are great, they look just like miniature Lolruses.
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Will the game involve closing a port?
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I love the contrast between marketed Wii play – all that ‘energetic’ motion – while the true one is nothing more than wrist gestures:)
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Is there anywhere that does review kiddie games? It would be good to know where I can check that I’m not buying my 10 year old nephew complete crap.
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FUCK YOU MADAGASCAR!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/09/01/pandemic-its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/
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For kiddy game reviews try here
http://www.whattheyplay.com/
Probably the best gamer parenting site, my advice? Play the demo yourself, if you think its shit? It is.
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Amusingly, that site thinks that The Witcher Enhanced Edition is okay for kids over 9.
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if we’re only allowed to pick animals from the trailer then my vote’s on the penguins
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Kakapos!
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@The Hammer
Gah, not another person with the ‘Tardigrades are for console users.’ I bet you still like the turn-based Onychophora don’t you? Face it, no one likes velvet worms anymore, although at least they don’t have all the DRM you find in the arthropods nowadays. I’m sure the spider I found in our shower the other day was installing rootkits.
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Damn Sony spiders.
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I just pirate all my Tardigrades these days, anyway. They’re not worth paying for, and dumbed-down twats.
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TOYS FOR BOB!
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Rabbits are truly nature’s finest animal.
Tardigrades – if I had a crippling constitution, the sight of them alone would have made me throw up. I’m sure rabbit’s could live a decade without water, absorb radiation and survive space vacuums if they put their asses into gear.
Wikipedia is sometimes useful.
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Fanboys. They think they’re people! So adorable.
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BADGERS?? We don’t need no STINKIN’ BADGERS!
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Penguins!
Although tardigrades seem quite cool.
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Do sharks count as an animal?
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Yes, but squids don’t. Squids aren’t animals.
KG
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