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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6:40 PM on 08.07.2008
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I cannot wait until I have little scorpion pinata running around my garden.
And a walrus!
You made the right decision. Pinatas are way cuter than locust hordes any day.
And free, yes please :) Although still need a camera. Dont suppose the psTriples EyeCam will work?
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?
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.
*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*
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.
And erm, excuse me? That isn't Hootyfruity, that is fucking Jim Sterling as a pinata.
also epic comment from Pew :-)
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