Product Description

In Super Monkey Ball 2 you'll enter the most unusual and fun game worlds you've ever seen!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3564 in Video Games
• Brand: Sega Of America, Inc.
• Model: 10086610123
• Released on: 2002-08-27
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: GameCube
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .75" h x 5.50" w x 7.75" l, .38 pounds

Features

• Your little monkey friend is trapped in a ball, and you must tilt the maze he's trapped in to get him out!
• You'll have hours of fun in over 150 mind-bending stages
• Go nuts in ten different game worlds, each with their own challenges and rewards
• There's all kinds of great minigames you'll have to see to believe -- Monkey Boat Race, Monkey Shot, Monkey Dog Fight, Monkey Billiards and more
• Compete with friends in four-player matches for hours of party game fun!

Amazon.com Product Description
With 150 new game stages, Super Monkey Ball 2 provides hours of slipping and sliding through colorful environments with the same tricky gameplay moves as before. You still tilt and angle the board to maneuver your ball-encased monkey through courses that range from easy to wildly complex and fraught with peril. Super Monkey Ball 2 provides background info on its characters with a new story mode that includes 10 monkey worlds. You will see what these persevering primates are made of when they are forced to face up to a big ape who steals their bananas. Information about the characters appears throughout the game, so you'll learn more about them as you play. Super Monkey Ball 2 includes six brand-new party games, including Monkey Boat Race, Monkey Shot, Monkey Dog Fight, Monkey Tennis, Monkey Baseball, and Monkey Soccer. One to four players can team up or compete.

Customer Reviews

MARRY ME?
SUPER MONKEY BALL was a the kind of sleeper hit that the GAMECUBE needed when it launched. It was easy to pick up, quick to master and the mini-games added hundreds of hours of replay value to boot. Now SEGA has brought us SUPER MONKEY BALL 2, and for those that loved the first, this updated and expanded edition will delight as well. Brighter graphics, new and catchy backgrounds (there is so much to look at in some levels you will find your eyes drifting from the level to catch all the odds and ends... my favorite is the city of New York after it's been eaten by a whale), a story mode that finds our Monkey's making like the Power Rangers to save their world, and a whole slew of new levels, SUPER MONKEY BALL 2 is a must have for any GAMECUBE owner... but there is a downside. For younger fans who found the first game graded on a easy learning curve, this new game assumes that you already know how to play, and not only that, but you already play like a master. There are some levels that require percise moves, require that you follow a perfect path, require you to have eyes in the back of your head (because there is no camera control here, if you loose sight of something - you're dead). Even those raised on the expert puzzles and levels of MARIO will find themselves grinding their teeth in serious frsutration, and clawing at their controller with desperation as you are thrust into some seriously CHEAP levels that require nothing but perfection to complete. It's because of this that S.M.B.2. may frustrate more than entertain younger gamers. Be warned. Other than that - S.M.B.2. is pure delight and is a must for your GAMECUBE collection.

New to MonkeyBall
I had never played or even heard of MonkeyBall. With our new Gamecube I was just looking for games suitable for my 5 year old. We bought MonkeyBall 2 and it's now one of my favorite games. Someone before posted a review that recommended getting the first monkeyball because this second one would be too difficult to learn without the MB 1 experience. Well, all I can say is not in our case. We love this game and didn't find it difficult to learn at all. There are instructions and tips for each game. We love to have tournaments with our family when they're all in town (all 12 of us). Great game! Not all that overwhelming graphics, a million buttons to push kind of thing. Just simple fun with enough challenges to make it interesting!

Surprisingly Good
This was surprisingly good. When I first heard about it, I passed it off as another failed kids game. The second time, though, I downloaded some sample movies and reviews. They looked good, so I gave it a try. I was glad that I did.

The mini-games are fun and range from easy to difficult, with most of them at the lower end (difficult enough to try new ones, but not so much that you throw the controller and sell the game).

The graphics are good. The sound is so-so (it can get monotonous). The gameplay is the key and this one is a key-per.