Viva Piñata (Rare's next game) 56k Explodes.

[torso boy]

Viva Piñata™ is a window to another world where wild-roaming, living piñata animals inhabit a growing, changing garden world. You take control of this environment and the piñata within it, influencing its contents to create your very own pet paradise.

Lives of their own: Discover the secrets of more than 60 different candy-filled piñata animals to see them grow, change, fight, and even dance!

Anything can happen: Guide a constantly evolving, vibrant world to keep your piñata happy and protect them from dangers threatening to break them open.

Personalized world: Customize your world and your piñata animals to reflect your style and create a pet paradise unlike any other.

Online experience: Enjoy both friendships and rivalries in a worldwide community of Viva Piñata players.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6146004.html

Love the art style, and it looks much better than PDZ and Kameo, since they were Xbox ports.

EDIT-

More info, screens, and a video:
http://xboxyde.com/news_2653_en.html#

 

[Homless Snark]

It has some awesome looking stylistic direction..


but...... as a game I seriously doubt it will be any good.

 

[smwScott]

My 4 year old nephew might get a kick out of it...

Seriously what happened to Rare? They were my favorite developer. After the N64 they just went to shit.

 

[dream431ca]

Rare's gotta streak of strange games coming out. I wonder what they're thinking.

 

[VirusType2]

LOL that looks awesome.

At first I thought you said this was a Rockstar game. I was like, "WTF?" I thought maybe all the negative things that go along with their violent games got to them


Anyhow, Rare? so this is exclusive to 360?


Im afraid this game is probably going to be really popular.

With the right advertising this could be big like Pokemon

My 4 year old nephew might get a kick out of it...

Seriously what happened to Rare? They were my favorite developer. After the N64 they just went to shit.

What like Banjo-Kazokie was some how more for adults? It's called "you grew up" - something I think you could do a little more.

But this game looks cool. How is this "gone to shit?" This looks like one of the highest quality games I've ever seen. With the massive explosion of spanish speaking citizens in America, this is definately a great idea

 

[Raziaar]

Dude... this game idea is kickass!

I mean... talk about ****ing original premise! Pinata animals!

 

[Alexferris]

Is there a "Pinata hunter" game mode? I want to splode open some pinata ass.

 

[JellyWorld]

Looks really neat. I wonder what the gameplay's going to be like.

 

[Lucid]

Sounds like it'll be sort of like Pikmin, which is awesome.

 

[Loc-Dog]

How about a PC version? It looks interesting. Especially if those animal things can kill people.

 

[Zephos]

What like Banjo-Kazokie was some how more for adults? It's called "you grew up" - something I think you could do a little more.

But this game looks cool. How is this "gone to shit?" This looks like one of the highest quality games I've ever seen. With the massive explosion of spanish speaking citizens in America, this is definately a great idea

Well Banjo Kazooie was a great game, so was Goldeneye, so was Perfect Dark, Conker and Starfox. But then they switched to Microsoft and we "Grabbed by the Ghoulies" (wtf???), a remake of Conker (Great game still) and Perfect Dark Zero (which couldn't hold a candle to the original).

Sure Kameo was good, but they were of course better off with Nintendo.

 

[Warbie]

wow - that looks great. Visually it's a little similar to smw2, but instead of being drawn in crayons this looks like it's been made out of plastersine (sp?) and painted. It also looks a little bit like material, sewn together. I'm a sucker for visually stricking and original looking games - Viewtiful Joe, Ico, Killer 7 etc all float my boat. Hopefully the gameplay can match the looks

oh, I think the 360 could be Rare's comeback. Being a HUGE fan of Rare over the snes and n64 years I was as disappointed as anyone to see them decline after joining MS. Things are starting to look better now - more games are being produced and some of the old charm is coming back. Kameo isn't isn't as great as their advneture games on the snes/N64, but there are some flashes of genius, and it's good solid fun. PDZ may not have been a patch on the original, but what is these days? It still offers 100's of fun in co-op.

I shall remain optimistic about Viva Piñata.

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

I have one question only...Will you be able to bust those open!? otherwise there's no fun in this game...I wnna crack those pinatas open and eat their guts...

 

[Gargantou]

I have one question only...Will you be able to bust those open!? otherwise there's no fun in this game...I wnna crack those pinatas open and eat their guts...

Ewww! You sick bastard! My brother is a pinata, and I can't remember the amount of times he's had kids try to bust him open with a baseball bat! You disgust me!

 

[OCybrManO]

What like Banjo-Kazokie was some how more for adults? It's called "you grew up" - something I think you could do a little more.

Four words:

Conker's

Bad

Fur

Day

 

[VictimOfScience]

Holy crap--get the LSD ready!

 

[kupocake]

Cute

 

[Reginald]

My 4 year old nephew might get a kick out of it...

Seriously what happened to Rare? They were my favorite developer. After the N64 they just went to shit.

Doctor Doak left. D:

 

[Chris D]

My 4 year old nephew might get a kick out of it...

Seriously what happened to Rare? They were my favorite developer. After the N64 they just went to shit.

Rare went downhill as soon as they lost the Bond franchise. Funnily enough the Bond franchise went downhill when Rare lost it.

 

[JNightshade]

That's craziness. I just hope it's not another Grabbed by the Ghoulies


Also, didn't a bunch of programmers leave Rare to work on the Timesplitters games?

 

[Dr. Freeman]

so can we expect 'the big boo' to make an appearance in this game?

 

[ChiChi]

Rare went downhill as soon as they lost the Bond franchise. Funnily enough the Bond franchise went downhill when Rare lost it.

They went downhill after making Perfect dark[which is much better than Goldeneye]. Kameo and the xbox Conker were fun, PDZ too, but it doesn't hold a candle to the awsomeness of N64 Rare.

 

[Gray Fox]

wow - that looks great. Visually it's a little similar to smw2, but instead of being drawn in crayons this looks like it's been made out of plastersine (sp?) and painted. It also looks a little bit like material, sewn together. I'm a sucker for visually stricking and original looking games - Viewtiful Joe, Ico, Killer 7 etc all float my boat. Hopefully the gameplay can match the looks

oh, I think the 360 could be Rare's comeback. Being a HUGE fan of Rare over the snes and n64 years I was as disappointed as anyone to see them decline after joining MS. Things are starting to look better now - more games are being produced and some of the old charm is coming back. Kameo isn't isn't as great as their advneture games on the snes/N64, but there are some flashes of genius, and it's good solid fun. PDZ may not have been a patch on the original, but what is these days? It still offers 100's of fun in co-op.

I shall remain optimistic about Viva Piñata.

Hey you probably know this, but just in case. There is a game called Okami comming to the ps2, it's made by the people who made vieftiful joe. Visually it's stunning, probably gonna be one of the most original and stunning games on the ps2. http://ps2.ign.com/objects/678/678618.html

 

[Warbie]

yeh - i've been watching Okami for a while, it looks sweet

 

[SimonomiS]

It's because they left Nintendo.

YUO DONT LEAVE NINTENDO WITHOUT PERMISHENS!!

Does actually look interesting though.

 

[JNightshade]

Nobody double-crosses Nintendo.

*pumps shotgun*

 

[kupocake]

Nobody double-crosses Nintendo.

Except perhaps Squaresoft. Sure they went crawling back in the end, but Nintendo practically jumped and humped them when the GC failed to have much of an impact.

 

[Venmoch]

YUO DONT LEAVE NINTENDO WITHOUT PERMISHENS!!

I was under the impression Nintendo sold Rare, and Microsoft thought it'd be a good idea to get them to develop for them.

 

[smwScott]

What like Banjo-Kazokie was some how more for adults? It's called "you grew up" - something I think you could do a little more.

But this game looks cool. How is this "gone to shit?" This looks like one of the highest quality games I've ever seen. With the massive explosion of spanish speaking citizens in America, this is definately a great idea

Banjo-Kazooie was a damn good game, even now it holds up better than their current stuff. They haven't made anything of substantial quality recently. Kameo was an ok platformer, and Perfect Dark 0 was a decent game, but also the most disappointing game ever made. Seriously the original is such a classic, for the sequel to be just a "good game" is ridiculous.

And they went downhill immediately after Conker was released. They made nothing worthwhile on the Gamecube or X-BOX, and now just above average games for the 360. This coming from one of the best development teams in the industry. Yeah, they went to shit, and thats putting it nicely.

If you ask me Free Radical is the closest thing left to what Rare used to be. Second Sight was a good and innovative game, and the Timesplitters series is the closest we'll ever get to continuing the Goldeneye/Perfect Dark games.