£24.99, PS3 ★★
This began life as a Super Mario 64-battling platformer back on the PS1 and was the first game to make use of the then-groundbreaking DualShock controller’s twin analogue sticks.
Version 3 for the PS3 pretty much apes every lightgun game that’s gone before it, being an on-rails blaster that swaps shotguns for slingshots and nets. As the title suggests, a whole gang of anthropomorphised monkeys have escaped and it’s your job to round them up, using the Move controller to bring them under control. This is obviously aimed at kids and seasoned gamers will blast through it in a sitting or two.
Not that there isn’t fun to be had here. Wrangle the apes into the onscreen net can be good fun, and when a whole gang of the cheeky fellows simultaneously dive towards the screen, it’s genuinely exciting.
However, considering how the original Ape Escape was a great demonstration of the potential of the DualShock, here it feels as though Sony’s developers have nothing new to bring to the table.
Although a single player game for the most part, there’s a handful of multiplayer mini-games to play through with pals. However, few of them are worth more than 10 minutes of your time, and none benefit from repeated playing.
The cartoony visuals of all game modes have a cutesy charm to them, and the apes are brought to life with delightfully humorous movements, but it’s far from a graphical showcase for Sony’s console.
In fact, Ape Escape 3 feels more like an escaped budget download title than a full retail release.
This began life as a Super Mario 64-battling platformer back on the PS1 and was the first game to make use of the then-groundbreaking DualShock controller’s twin analogue sticks.
Version 3 for the PS3 pretty much apes every lightgun game that’s gone before it, being an on-rails blaster that swaps shotguns for slingshots and nets. As the title suggests, a whole gang of anthropomorphised monkeys have escaped and it’s your job to round them up, using the Move controller to bring them under control. This is obviously aimed at kids and seasoned gamers will blast through it in a sitting or two.
Not that there isn’t fun to be had here. Wrangle the apes into the onscreen net can be good fun, and when a whole gang of the cheeky fellows simultaneously dive towards the screen, it’s genuinely exciting.
However, considering how the original Ape Escape was a great demonstration of the potential of the DualShock, here it feels as though Sony’s developers have nothing new to bring to the table.
Although a single player game for the most part, there’s a handful of multiplayer mini-games to play through with pals. However, few of them are worth more than 10 minutes of your time, and none benefit from repeated playing.
The cartoony visuals of all game modes have a cutesy charm to them, and the apes are brought to life with delightfully humorous movements, but it’s far from a graphical showcase for Sony’s console.
In fact, Ape Escape 3 feels more like an escaped budget download title than a full retail release.
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