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Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 60 months Binding: Video Game Brand: ACTIVISION EAN: 0047875757073 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Activision Inc. Manufacturer: Activision Inc. Model: 047875757073 Platform: Nintendo Wii Publisher: Activision Inc. Release Date: October 28, 2008 Sales Rank: 2040 Studio: Activision Inc.
Features:
Your Favorite Shrek Characters - featuring cast favorites from all 3 movies
28 Hilarious Mini-Games - including Gingy's Crazy Cookie Conveyor, Mudslide Madness, Three Wheeled Thrills, Rapunzel's Hair Climb and Wild Waterworks
Intuitive controls designed to take full advantage of the Wii's motion sensing capabilities
Players can work together as a team or take each other on in head-to-head or group challenges
Product Description: The twisted fairytale humor of Shrek meets the fun of the renaissance midway in Shrek's Carnival Craze. This game includes 28 hilarious carnival mini-games. Play as your favorite Shrek characters and compete to become the King or Queen of the carnival.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Not great for kids
I bought this game thinking it would be fun for my 5 and 7 year old boys as they love Shrek. Not so much. They could only get a few of the games to work even when using the remote actions they showed. It was very frustrating and the boys lost interest quickly. Even my husband and I had difficulty with some of the games. This will be traded in for something more child-friendly.
Rating: - Not worth your time
Gameplay is poor with very rudimentary controls and repetitive actions. Since the controls for the various competitions are so repetitive, the game quickly becomes mundane. Story line is fairly non-existent. The difficulty level is high for young players. You must repeat the same limited actions over and over (very quickly) in each mini-game to have success. No logic is involved... In a word -> Lame
Rating: - Buggy, not so child Friendly!
Buggy. Few games are unlocked to start with and they ARE NOT EASY for kids. My 6 year old daughter keeps trying and it keeps calling her a "LOSER".
The controls are very buggy for several of the games. Children can't move the controller enough to make the movements work on the game. My husband keeps having to do the bean bag toss for our 6 year old because her arms are too short to register movements on the game. She doesn't have this problem on other games.
There is nothing educational about it either. I expected it to be more friendly for a kids' games.
Overall - It LEAVES a LOT to be desired.
Rating: - Great Game
Overall this is a fun game, some of the controls, for the individual games, are a little are to figure out and they don't give you any detailed instructions for them.
Rating: - Fun, very easy to play, but buggy
rented this & played it for about 90 min. from BlockBstr. (I'm so glad blockbstr & gamefly exist for renting!) The videos were fine, the voice overs weren't bad at all. The voice overs were done well, the videos cute. The menu is simple, you choose a character like Fiona or even one of the babies & you are stuck with them unless you delete/make a new profile. There is multi player. You go to different 5 different sections & a 6th is locked. Each section has about 5 games & 2 or 3 which are locked. To unlock them, you have to get 1st place, or at least 2nd place after 2-3 attempts. If a game doens't unlock another game, it will unlock more videos or conception art. The game seems to skewed towards letting the player win over the A.I. The games are cute & colorful, several games have shooting by targeting & then flick of the wrist as well as a lot of running (pumping the nunchuck & remote) or even just pumping the nunchuck or wii remote in a game to get power such as hammer throw. (Strength test to hit bell in normal carnival.) My arms got tired from pumping & with the presentation, cuteness, etc. I really liked it. EXCEPT, this game is buggy. In the hoopla something which is a javelin throw, you run & then using wii remote turning you guide it through flaming hoops as it sails to a picture of prince charming. playing as baby of Shrek, I couldn't win after several attempts to unlock another game. when I played at fiona, I had no problem guiding it & the movement registering. the hammer throw my arms just got tired & couldn't get the power meter up. in a tricycle around a track, I couldn't steer, though luckily you can't fall off & I won easily anyhow. In climbing Rapunzel's hair, I had no trouble moving with baby, but Fiona wouldn't respond until I clicked several times, though won anyhow both times. the last thing was hitting wooden dwarves w/melons as bowling. normally the simple picture movement directions & text instructions worked & easy to understand (except above I had issues with), but that game I couldn't do more then a very weak throw. when I was back at the menu, I lost the pointer/IR totally. thinking a fluke, the next game which was more shooting & targeting did not work at all. I went to a game I played before flawlessly & that game suddenly didn't register. I restarted the wii 2x & it still would not work. I put in ghost squad a on rails shooter game & that worked flawlessly.
this game would be great for kids, it's amusing, but with the bugs, I suggest renting it.
- Not worth your time
- Great Game
