Too often in the game you have to adjust the view manually so you can see what you're doing, both in the story and in the miniature golf mini-game. It is really annoying to play a penguin trying to fight a lizard, and to lose a life because your view of the lizard is blocked by a cargo crate.
MADAGASCAR 2 PC GAME MOVIE
The cut scenes looked about as crisp as the movie did on the big screen, but the game had occasional blipping and I was annoyed by the "camera" failing to move logically in many cases.
Now, I played the game on the Wii, which is of course noted more for its gameplay than its graphics, but I was a bit disappointed at some of the rendering. This isn't a huge deal, but in a game aimed at kids, I don't understand why they would make it sound like the player did something wrong. And some of the things he says are needlessly negative-for example, if you get a bogey in mini golf, he will sometimes tell you that that's "not good" in a chastising tone. This is usually a lot of fun, but I must say does get a bit annoying (at least for this adult). The mini-games, like the tutorial section of the story game, are narrated by Julien the lemur. The arcade also offers a Tournament Mode which allows you to play several randomly-picked games head-to-head. My kids and I have had an absolute blast playing diving, soccer, mini golf, and several others. Playing the mini-games from the "arcade" offers the ability to play them in multiplayer mode. The penguins are handled very well, with a lot of derring-do to find things to repair the plane-I was laughing at both the game and the cut scenes. The story game is single-player (with multiple saved games available, so several people can play separately), and includes a lot of basic platforming and puzzle-solving, but also some very creative bits involving the movie's main characters-from Marty the zebra having to kick suitcases into cargo containers to Melman the giraffe rolling a spherical boulder back and forth to squash scorpions and knock other boulders to cover steam vents. There are quite a few mini-games, all of which (I believe) are incorporated into the game and also available from an "arcade" selection on the game's main menu. The story starts before the movie does-spending an entire (tutorial) section on preparations for the flight from Madagascar, whereas the movie starts with the plane about to take off. There are two ways to play the game: play the story, or go straight for the mini-games. This one, fortunately, doesn't fit that mold. So often movie-based games seem only to exist because every kids' movie and action movie has to have a videogame, and you can tell they were rushed to market because they're barely playable. The videogame based on *Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa *is the first movie tie-in game I've played that would actually be fun to play even if weren't based on a movie.