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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is a video game based on the film of the same name. It was released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, and Nintendo DS in November 4, 2008 in North America. The video game's gameplay is similar to the first movie's video game with the same characters and moves, although the environment...
Details
- Released
- November 3, 2008
- Developer
- Idol Minds, Aspyr Media, Toys for Bob
- Genres
- Adventure
- Publisher
- Activision
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Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo are still stranded on Madagascar and attempt to leave. Unfortunately, their plane makes an emergency landing in the wilderness of Africa, where Alex meets the rest of his family and has trouble communicating with them after much of his time at the Central Park Zoo.
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa is a generic and rather boring affair. It looks good and sounds great, but the gameplay doesn't do anything original. The stuff that is in there is basic and the game offers no challenge. It does have a variety of things to do and the play time is decent for a movie based game, but the entire experience just feels bland. With so many games aimed at kids out there today developers need to bring a lot more than this to stand out.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is filled with a lot of unnecessary elements - like touch screen mini-games - that attempt to extend the life of a short game. It is perfectly suited to children who enjoyed the movies and can overlook the game's more glaring flaws. Most everyone else should skip what is simply a mediocre platformer that brings nothing new to the genre.
As we’ve already said then, this is only worth buying for an easily pleased, myopic, die-hard Madagascar fan or if there are no other games available. Buy Kung Fu Panda instead. Can we go now?
One of the things you have to consider as an older gamer (well, not that old), is that when you are playing a game meant for families and casual gamers, you have to put yourself in that mindset. Now, I’ve seen the two Madagascar movies and enjoyed them both. The only question that was left to be answered was; is the game going to be anywhere near the quality of the movie? Activision tries to answer that question with Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa.