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First Viva Pinata Vision Card goes online

6:40 PM on 08.07.2008, Jim Sterling 19 comments

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Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise is a matter of weeks away, and to pave the way for the colorful Xbox 360 sequel, Rare has revealed the first of its Viva Piñata Vision Cards. If you don't quite remember what these little trinkets are, let designer Ryan Stevenson remind you, because I'm too lazy to explain it myself:

You don’t have to have a Vision Camera to play VP2 and you still get all the same content. The Vision Camera just adds a new dimension to Piñata and how you can interact with the game. Vision cards are really versatile, by showing one of the cards to the Vision Camera you can affect the weather, the time, garden items, piñatas, you can do just about anything.

The most interesting part of the Vision Cards gimmick is that (camera aside), it's free. Rare is stating that the cards won't cost us one thin dime, and demonstrated this point by revealing the very first Vision Card, which can be downloaded and scanned using the Vision Camera. 

"The team has had so much fun with the vision cards we’ve created our own team set, so you’ll have to see if you can find them all," stated Stevenson. Okay! I'll do do just that!


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ScreamingScarab's Avatar
ScreamingScarab at 08/07/2008 18:52
DO WANT WITH A PASSION!

I cannot wait until I have little scorpion pinata running around my garden.

And a walrus!
HarassmentPanda's Avatar
HarassmentPanda at 08/07/2008 18:52
This is pretty interesting. I loved the first game, but wish I had played it more.
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LarkOhiya at 08/07/2008 19:10
Less viva pinata more SC4 costume contest winners!
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Necros at 08/07/2008 19:18
Am I the only one who would actually be interested in buying these to collect?
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Zanch at 08/07/2008 19:40
Can't wait for this game. The first game caused me to put Gears of War back on the shelf!
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Dexter345 at 08/07/2008 19:43
Oops, I still have Workman's deck. When will I see him again to give it to him? Also, the deck?
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ScreamingScarab at 08/07/2008 20:07
@Zanch:

You made the right decision. Pinatas are way cuter than locust hordes any day.
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Triox at 08/07/2008 20:11
Really must get arse in gear and play the first one more. Got the bundle with controller + forza + viva and have never really got into them. Humm, me senses a weekend binge coming up...

And free, yes please :) Although still need a camera. Dont suppose the psTriples EyeCam will work?
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xe-cute at 08/07/2008 20:12
But it is not free... You need a vision camera to use them don't you?

I see there is no bar code to input so that you must have to use a vision camera?

Cheap crappy gimmick to make peeps buy the vision camera, just like PS3 gimmick with little big planety to upload your own pics into it.

P.S. I am also guessing peeps with vision camera don't really need to play the game then if they can simply scan a card and get it for no in-game work?
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jimmcq at 08/07/2008 20:30
@matt247:

Your Professor Pester cards are at http://pinataisland.info/viva/Category:Pi%C3%B1ata_Vision_image


These are hardly the first... there have been some online since the month of May.
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Triox at 08/07/2008 20:31
@xe-cute - the barcode is actually a grid code and runs down the right hand side of the cards. Much more info in similar space. You're right about cheap though, I mean "Free" is as cheap as it gets... ;)

*yes, I realise that you are saying it is a marketing tool for the camera but as above, you dont need to use the cards, all content is already there. Probably just "cheats" to alter weather or time skip etc. No biggy*
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teach4food at 08/07/2008 21:23
Definitely will buy. I hope they fix all the weird things that went wrong in the first one.
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xe-cute at 08/07/2008 21:57
@triox, I did see the code, all i mean is there is no numbers beside it so that you could enter them via keypad/controller instead of being forced to use the camera to scan it.

Also as I say, where is the fun in this? I'd rather play the game for my in-game content than take 5secs to scan a piece of cardboard in front of a cheap crappy camera.

I already have a decent webcam for my PC, so like feck am I paying for a shitty one for Xbox or PS3 no matter what gimmicks each try to throw at me with there games.
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Professor Pew at 08/07/2008 21:59
Gotta print them all!

And erm, excuse me? That isn't Hootyfruity, that is fucking Jim Sterling as a pinata.
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mistic at 08/07/2008 23:29
free is surely the right price :-)

also epic comment from Pew :-)
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stellap at 08/08/2008 04:03
this is a nice game we do not need to have a visson camera to play VP2 game. if u want to add a new dimension to Pinata than you can use visson camera.
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Fusiontr at 08/08/2008 07:04
Evidence that Jim Sterling will be an in-game PiƱata, monocle and all
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