The mini-games feature clear representations of the movie characters, but their surroundings? Cookie-cutter. At least Lavastorm's King Arthur countered its formula with fast-paced, fun gameplay. The rest of the game is just too formulaic - your basic board game with Shrek 2 elements dropped in. They're not necessarily hard, but at least they're interesting. It says a lot about a game when the best parts are the text-based trivia challenges. Catching potions and eating apples? Shrek 2 could be the first game that cures insomnia while inducing carpal tunnel.
The secret of Mario Party's success was that at least half of the mini-games were incredibly addictive little twitch sequences.
None of these mini-games are very well done. You engage in a food fight with Fiona's kingly father, ride a carriage while Donkey tries to gobble apples, catch potions in a basket at the Godmother's factory, and deal with Puss-In-Boots. In addition to the little trivia challenges, Shrek 2 contains six mini-games derived from the movie. Now, once you roll the dice, your landing spot is a foregone conclusion, but it would still have been nice to actually have a head's up as to what is about to befall your game piece. You roll the dice and move your game pieces around the snaking paths, landing on squares that trigger events, but you never know what you're getting into until you actually land on the square and the game indicates whether you've lost a turn, get to roll again, or play a little trivia game for bonus points. The initial problem with Shrek 2 is that the board is unreadable. Enter Shrek 2, which plops up to four gamers on a winding board and, between rolls of the dice, casts them in mini-games based on movie sequences.
However, the video board game, a category almost single-handedly invented by Nintendo's Mario Party franchise, has yet to really be represented in the wireless world.
Summer 2004 is a turning point for the movie marketing industry - in addition to the requisite lunchboxes, bed sheets, and cereal, these box office behemoths are also supported by cellphone games.
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