Recently, Sega invited us to hang around its offices to get a sneak preview of the upcoming Super Monkey Ball 3D for the Nintendo 3DS. We went bananas when we got our hands on this fun arcade platform game, which will release at the end of March along with Nintendo’s new handheld.
Super Monkey Ball 3DS (3DS)
Developer: Dimps
Publisher: Sega
Release date: March 25, 2011 (Europe); March 27, 2011 (North America)
Like other titles in the series, Super Money Ball 3D involves the same cheeky characters you love twisting through various courses, collecting bananas from within an orb. Besides having a full game with 80 levels in 3D running at sixty frames per second, there are also two multi-player modes, “Monkey Fight” and “Monkey Race.”
Super Monkey Ball 3D doesn’t vary much from the formula of its predecessors. You play as a monkey in a ball, trying to avoid obstacles as you collect bananas. The multiplayer modes closely resemble Super Mario Kart and even Super Smash Bros Brawl… just with more poo bananas.
The 3D capability does give this game a new and unique perspective, and favors this title more than other games I have had played on the Nintendo 3DS. Each of the modes are fun, and might even hold up as stand alone games. If you are a fan of the Monkey Ball series, this is one to keep an eye on when the 3DS launches later this month.
