Sega announces Super Monkey Ball Adventures

8 Comments by Ross Miller Jan 26th 2006 4:30PM
Filed under: Nintendo GameCube, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PSP

If there's one thing this current generation taught us, it is that putting monkeys in hamster balls is a great idea. Sega today announced another title in their Super Monkey Ball franchise, Super Monkey Ball Adventures, set for release Q3 2006 for the PSP, PlayStation 2, and Nintendo GameCube.

This time out, in addition to 50 new 'classic' puzzle stylings, there will also be a story-driven platformer element to the game - our favorite simian protagonists will have to reform five feuding feral families, or "Monkey Ball Kingdoms." Sega also promises to bring 3 classic party games (our picks: Monkey Fight, Monkey Target, and Monkey Bowling) and 3 new ones (Monkey Kombat? Hey, we can dream).

Super Monkey Ball Adventures is currently being developed by Traveller's Tales (Lego Star Wars). All previous Monkey Ball games - even the N-Gage one - had been developed by Amusement Vision. We're not sure why Sega decided to shift houses, but the screenshots released do look pretty.

[Thanks, JamesO]

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djSyndrome: Jan 26th 2006; 4:50PM

Because TT did such a smashing job with Sonic 3D blast :

Maxi: Jan 26th 2006; 5:29PM

Looks utter sh***. Travellers Tales are failures at game making, look at all their disastrous platforms. SMB is a great game, please for the love of god sega cancel this abomination while it's still in the womb.

Jago: Jan 26th 2006; 5:32PM

"Super Monkey Ball Adventures is currently being developed by Traveller's Tales (Lego Star Wars). All previous Monkey Ball games - even the N-Gage one - had been developed by Amusement Vision."

Well Lego Star Wars was one of the most under-hyped games last year. If they give Super Monkey Ball Adventures the same treatment with the same wacky sense of humor, I'm sure we'll be in for a treat.

tcc3: Jan 27th 2006; 1:25AM

(techno music) Monkey Kombat! (/techno music)

eddie b: Jan 27th 2006; 2:48AM

I *love* these kinds of games! I sure hope this one's good, tho. There's one game I like to play on the PC which is kind of like SMB. It's called Hamsterball. It's really fun, and a lot more like Marble Madness than SMB. It's totally worth checking out if you like these kinds of games: http://www.raptisoft.com/hamsterball.shtml

Sloopydrew: Jan 27th 2006; 3:09AM

Traveller's Tales? It just isn't Monkey Ball without the rolling white and blue AV logo. Still, it's cool a new one is finally being released. I loved the first two and it seems like a pretty hard game to screw up. I'd trade "Monkey Fight" for "Monkey Golf," any day, though. But here's to a new Monkey Target! Best. Mini-game. Ever.

Sloopydrew's XBOX 360 January 7th, 2006 - January 26th, 2006. Aged 19 days. XBOX Live Arcade Gauntlet and Geometry Wars: $10.00. 3 mediocre non-Arcade games: $180.00. XBOX Live Gold subscription: $50.00. A broken 360? Worthless.

Olly: Jan 27th 2006; 6:19AM

"All previous Monkey Ball games - even the N-Gage one - had been developed by Amusement Vision. " Not all games, Monkeyball JR. on the GBA was developed by another party. (if only i could remeber who!)

Anyway, I'm sure this game will be great. TT are a great development studio and have already proved themselves in plenty of titles beofore. Sure Sonic 3D wasn't exactly a highlight of the series, but it was still a damn fine game. Lego Star Wars is a must-play. One of the most fun titles of last year.

Can't wait to play this new monkey ball, it was about time the series evolved a little :-)

Royston: Jan 28th 2006; 1:23PM

How can anybody say it looks sh** based on five screenshots? At the moment it looks exactly the same as smb2.

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