Review: Rio (360)
When I saw that there was a movie-tie in for the latest animate kids blockbuster film I have to say I was expecting a platform by numbers affair.
Thank god it wasn't, although I was still worried by the 'party games' tag. One thing the whole gaming world has had enough of is party games.
But and it's a very big but, this is an excellent and addictive collection of manic multiplayer games.
The characters of the film and the style of the film are represented brilliantly and rather than just being a cash in this is a well constructed assembly of quirky game ideas.
My kids loved it, genuinely sat there for about three hours playing against each other and making a din.
I like the fact that the game didn't try to hard to be that generic run-of-the mill cash in, it tried something different and it worked well.
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Steve Wollaston - Sunday Mercury games reviewer Steve has been writing about video games for donkey's years. In fact he is probably far too old for it now which is why you will see a lot of reviews been done by kids... He has been nominated three times for Regional Games Journalist Of The Year at the Games Media Awards, but never wins. His major love is sports games and rates Sensible World of Soccer circa 90's as the greatest game ever made - closely followed by Championship Manager 2. Skyrim has currently taken over his life.
