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 Send to email | Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise and Pinata Vision Impressions [Xbox 360 Spring Showcase] in OriginalPinata visionTopViva Piñata: Trouble in ParadiseXbox 360Xbox 360 spring showcase |  By Brian Crecente
el 14-May-2008 |  It sounds like Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise was designed to deal with one big issue the original title had.
"It looked like a kids game, but was quite difficult to play," said a Rare developer walking us through the game. "We kept the basic principal, you're in a garden and trying to attract animals to it."
But the team's done a lot to simplify the game and make it more accessible to a wider audience. Chief among the changes is a co-op mode that lets you play in the garden with friend. They've also added a fun mode which gives gamers the ability to buy just about anything in the game, removes the bad guys and turns the garden into an instant gratification sandbox.
Other tweaks include adding snow and sand and the sorts of pinatas that would like that sort of terrain. You can also now take pictures in the game and have them sent to a website which will recognize which animals are on display and categorize them automatically for easy searching. There's also an easy to use in-game animal finder which makes tracking down your pet pinatas much less of a chore.
The short demo wrapped up with a look at the Pinata Vision system. Using the Xbox 360 camera, gamers can hold up a specially created Viva Pinata image and instantly import it into the game.
"It doesn't have to be a card, it can be an image on your Zune or iPod that you would just hold up to the camera"
While the tweaks look like they could streamline gameplay a bit, Trouble in Paradise is still very much a Viva Pinata game for better or worse and I'm not so sure it's been simplified enough to attract the potential audience that the cartoon has created for the game.
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| Peep this: Viva Pinata card |  Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360
Don't expect to find these Viva Piñata cards in stores; this guy above is just a mockup, made specially for the folks at Microsoft's Spring Showcase [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-May-2008 by Christopher Grant in MGSRareViva-Pinata-2Viva-Pinata-Trouble-in-Paradise
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| If You're In Seattle or NYC This Week ... [Free Crap] | | ? Redmond, Wash.: Microsoft's looking for playtesters and though it's not saying what for, pretty good bet it's Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise. The testing begins Friday (the 13th!) and runs through the following Monday. Participants must be US citizens with a SSN, 18 to 45 years old, and enjoy virt [..] Read complete article | | Published 07-Jun-2008 by Owen Good in AutographsHideo KojimaMgs4NewsPinata islandPlaytestinguniqlo
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| Week in Games: Pinata Colada [New Releases] | | So, Mercenaries 2 is already out as of today. Tuesday has several drops with some anticipation behind them, whether that's Infinite Undiscovery, Facebreaker, or Viva Pinata. If anyone is planning on picking up Vampire Rain for [..] Read complete article | | Published 31-Aug-2008 by Owen Good in New releases Twig Week In Games
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