![]() ![]() ![]() These outfits are powered from a slowly refilling bar, boosted with pick-ups from around the levels, and the balance is handled pretty well. The new outfit is just the first of a selection of enjoyable getups including a wild west suit with long distance rapid fire pistols, a samurai with the ability to walk on walls Prince of Persia style and a genie summoner who can make enemies dance uncontrollably - even the coins around the level bob to the beat. However, for this installment we lucky gamers actually get a genuinely new gameplay feature - dressing up.Īfter a few rather dull levels of standard jumping, netting and whacking the cute little enemies, your mentor hands you a magical power - an otherworldly costume change that turns you into a mystical knight complete with shield, powerful area attacks, a slow but powerful melee attack and even a neat monkey catching move allowing you to round up several at a time - and all these abilities are still launched with the right stick. This is done via the tried and tested method of right analogue stick controlled gadgets, including all the traditional favourites like the 'stun baton' (light-sabre), the hula hoop and the remote controlled car. Therefore your character (either a boy or a girl, both neatly designed, although its a shame the choice is so immaterial to the experience itself), has to hop through the monkeys' studios, catching the pesky primates so the show will stop broadcasting. This time round the monkeys are planning to hypnotise the world by hijacking television networks, broadcasting a crazy show which turns viewers into drooling fools, powerless to move - surely broadcasting endless episodes of Friends would have had the same effect? The monkeys have all escaped (again), the dastardly Specter is leading them on a quest for world domination (again) and its down to a team of plucky Japanese tweens to sort everything out (again). ![]() The plot is as barmy as one might expect. So why have I enjoyed it so much? Because few games on the PS2 are quite so charming, sweet and funny as this little effort, and if you, like me, have a soft heart and a sense of humour you will fall in love with it. A long time has passed since then, and Ape Escape 3 is really the same game with shinier graphics, and is near identical to Ape Escape 2, only if anything a little shorter. When the Ape Escape series debuted back in PSone era it heralded a revolution (of sorts) in the platformer genre, with high production values, innovative analogue stick based control system and minigames which were better than most full games. ![]()
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