Product Description

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa features the four famous zoo animals: Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, and their entire madcap Madagascar crew take you on a whole new action-packed journey to help save the African savannah. Assuming the roles of all your favorite characters, including those crafty penguins, you must work through 12 distinct levels featuring a variety of wild adventures and fun mini-games. In addition to the diverse single-player game play, the Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa video game delivers an enhanced multiplayer tournament mode allowing you to participate in outlandish competitions alongside or against friends and family. Experience a host of diverse & original game play capabilities with friends & family including soccer, hot durian, dancing & racing

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1546 in Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Model: 047875833050
• Published on: 2008-11
• Released on: 2008-11-04
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .61" h x 5.41" w x 7.51" l, .36 pounds

Features

• Rediscover each character's unique abilities & combat skills, learning new & special moves along the way
• Experience a wide range of fresh, exciting game play as you work through 12 distinct levels & numerous mini-games featuring a variety of quests that include swimming, driving, racing, playing soccer, & safari photography
• Non-linear structure - each evolving level takes you on missions that offer platforming, exploration, collection & combat challenges
• Game exclusive environments including the Watering Hole, the African Jungle & Savannah, the Hippo Mud Pit, the Volcano, & an open area that's been expanded for the game
• Twice as many multiplayer mini-games than before as you team up to overcome enemies or challenge each other in the enhanced tournament mode

Customer Reviews

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
This game is awesome. I bought this game with my daughter and we wanted to check the reviews, but there were none. My daughter decided to open it anyway and she played it for 5 hours straight, no breaks. OMG! She says that it's really addicting and that even at the hardish times, she says that it's still fun for a challenge. And just a tip, when you are done playing and want to stop and when you go to "exit to map" or "exit to menu" it will say "every thing that wasn't saved will be gone", when it saves-a hippo's head wil spin on the left, that's when it's saving.

Funny and mildly challenging
This is another decent movie-based video games aimed at the younger generation. Your objectives are multifold but aimed at saving animals in the African Savannah from 'human predators'. You play one of the animals in the Madagaskar crew, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo and others such as the penquins through multiple levels.

The animation and dialogues are humorous. The game play is mildly challenging (kids under 5 might need some occasional help) and has a number of very different objectives. Due to variety in action and gameplay, it is not boring at all. There are mild onjectives like taking pictures of animals/finding stuff around or a path to go to the next objective. There are also some challenging ones such as navigating through a path of scorpions, eagles and deep valleys or chasing human guards away by throwing soda cans at them etc.

There is also multi-player mode (upto 4 players) for some of the minigames most of which are quite a bit of fun. Do keep in mind that these games are aimed at kids under 10.

One bad aspect about the game is the camera angle. It does not change intuitively - sometimes it does, but is very slow. So you end up falling off cliffs or boxes when you try to turn around or go back. could be frustrating for kids. You can change the camera angle with the keypad though.

great wii game
This is a kids game my kids enjoyed this and they are not the gamers that I was (8years and 5 years) It was easy enought for them but then I was playing great too .I would recomend this to a non gamer kids along with all the gamers but geared to kids.