Viva Pinata 2 and DS

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Well, Viva Pinata 2 was announced and hopefully the DS version either includes most of the features or it will come out for PC in time too, because I'm drooling over it.

From screenshots we can see the biggest features is a new terrain function, which allows you make your garden either more desert-like or more arctic-like to suit the needs of a bunch of new Pinata species. Polarbears, penguins, and lemmings for arctic so far and vultures, camels, and scorpions for desert. There's also a new co-op mode. You can also now build graveyards for your departed pinatas.

Looks pretty keen.
 
Viva Pinata was ported to PC, but it's a little glitchy.

There's also a version called Pocket Paradise for DS coming out. It has several of the pinatas from Viva Pinata 2 in it.
 
It looks pretty neat (VP2), Viva Pinata DS has been in development so long it's hard, but I'm really liking the latest screens I saw of it (from before).

4KIDS really scared me away so much from the property that it's hard for me to get too excited over it, but I still like it. Banjo-Kazooie looks real nice too (graphically) but I don't know how I feel about some of the new gameplay elements. (I don't want Halo/Gears kids, I want Banjo-Kazooie)
 
Viva Pinata 2 Features:
1. VP2 uses the Vision Camera in combination with physical cards sorta like Eye of Judgement. It basically scans a small code on the card, when it's being held up in front of the camera, and this can both insert custom designed pinatas, unlock buildings or abilities, change the weather and many other things. We were told how Rare had designed a moose that got a big, red nose only around christmas time... and this could be passed around with these cards.
2. So the game also got a photo mode. Cool, but that's not the best! This photo mode is able to interpret the pictures and create the above-mentioned code based on the picture. Basically, you will have a card generator available on the internet! Imagine this: you have created this really cool pinata and instead of the tiresome task of sending it only to selected friends on Live, you can take a picture of it, get the code/card generated and share it on a forum. Instantly everyone will be able to get the pinata in their game and since the camera can also read from LCD screens, ipods, zunes etc., there is little to no hassle. Now THAT'S sharing!
* Terrain customization.
* Co-op.
* Now 100 different species of Pinata. 60 old ones and more than 30 new ones.
* Improved interactivity between the pinata's and the environments.
* Pinata's will interact with eachother more, other than fighting and sex, and will play and follow eachother aorund.
* They'll be adding toys for the pinatas to play with like musical instruments, spaced themed toys, and trains that the pinata's will ride around the garden.
* VP2 uses the Vision Cam in conjunction with game-generated codes to share all manner of objects, including custom designed pinatas, buildings or abilities, the weather and more.
* "We were told how Rare had designed a moose that got a big, red nose only around christmas time... and this could be passed around with these cards"
 
In case anyone was wondering, the new Pinatas are as follows:
* Bispotti - Ladybug
* Camello - Camel
* Chocstrich - Ostrich
* Custacean - Crab
* Flapyak - Yak
* Gecko - Geko
* Hoghurt - Warthog
* Hootyfruity - Owl
* Jeli - Yeti
* Lemmoning - Lemming
* Limeoceros - Rhino
* Moojoo - Moose
* Parmadillo - Armadillo
* Pengum - Penguin
* Pieena - Hyena
* Polollybear - Polar Bear
* S'morepion - Scorpion
* Sarsgorilla - Gorilla
* Sweetle - Beetle
* Tartridge - Partridge
* Tigermisu - Tiger
* Vulchurro - Vulture
* Walrusk - Walrus
* Choclodocus - Dinosaur
* Robean - ???
* Smelba - Skunk


We can probably expect a giraffe and kangaroo, too.
 
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