Source: videogamesblogger.com

The original Rare team behind Viva Pinata has reunited to bring gamers Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise, the newest pinata adventure that invites gamers to return to magical Pinata Island. Unfortunately, not all is well on the island, as Professor Pester along with his gang of Ruffians have wiped out Pinata Central’s computer records, which poses a threat to parties everywhere. To help Pinata Central, players must gradually rebuild the computer database by sending pinatas at full candiosity to parties all around the world. While thwarting Professor Pester’s evil plot, players still build and maintain pinata gardens — using their creativity and imagination to attract, trap, protect, train and manage more than 100 different pinata species.

Now with full cooperative and online gameplay modes, the Viva Pinata franchise opens its doors even wider with a new game that provides hours of fun for gamers of all ages, fans of the animated series and animal lovers alike. Family members and friend now can share in the joy of creating a garden by simply plugging in an extra controller. The second player has access to all tools, actions and activities, but he or she also can collect magic by helping. Player two can spend magic by tinkering items, healing a sick pinata or filling a pinata candiosity meter. It’s a new way to play.

Trouble in Paradise also offers a vast level of customization within your main garden. Now, along with planting grass, trees and flowers, and digging ponds and lakes, players can place sand and snow in their garden to make exotic species of pinata feel more at home. Players also can choose to enhance their garden with themed object packs - make your garden into a space center, a pirate cove or a haunted graveyard. Buy objects to change the weather, or new toys for your pinata to play with. You have total freedom to create any kind of paradise you want! Thirty-two new species of pinata can run, crawl, fly and swim into your garden. Large, small, fierce and cute, the new pinatas will join all your favorites for thriving activity throughout your garden. Among these new species are sour pinatas that will infiltrate and wreak havoc in the garden.

If only real animals had candy inside. Find out all about the it in this Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise video review.


Key Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise features are:
* The world of Pinata Island is an inviting and rewarding place to be. Family members and friend now can share in the joy of creating a garden by simply plugging in an extra controller. The second player has access to all tools, actions and activities, but he or she also can collect magic by helping. Player two can spend magic by tinkering items, healing a sick pinata or filling a pinata candiosity meter. It’s a new way to play.
* Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise allows players’ imaginations to run wild by providing them with expansive freedom and choice.
* Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise reinvigorates the franchise with additional game modes and features that make it even more accessible to players of all ages and skill levels.
* Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise is a constantly changing world where anything can and does happen. Rivalries, injuries, illness and fights — if you turn your back, who knows what your pinatas will do?

To quote the video review: “Viva Pinata Trouble in Paradise is a satisfying experience and should appeal to gardeners of all ages. And although Rare is not presenting anything remarkably new, it has added nearly everything many gamers found missing from the previous game, thus creating the definitive Viva Piñata experience. If you’ve never played the original, this is definitely the version to buy. If you already own the first Viva Piñata game, then whether or not to buy the sequel depends on what you found missing from the original. If you’ve been dying to play online with friends or on the couch with your kid, then the multiplayer modes in Trouble in Paradise will be reason enough for a purchase. Otherwise, it’s really just more of the same, much of which could have been handled through an expansion rather than an entirely new game.”

Presentation — 9.0
Graphics — 8.0
Sound — 8.5
Gameplay — 8.5
Lasting Appeal — 8.5
Overall — 8.5