![]() Each tool in the game is put to good use, and you're never just relying on one or two tools throughout the game. It's not just the RC car that sees action in Ape Escape 3. The whole affair leads to the RC car scaring a monkey from its hiding spot, allowing you to attempt to catch it. As you make progress with your RC car along a curvy road, your character needs to press and hold down switches to change the direction of the bridges, allowing the RC car to cross them. You can easily see what's going on as the action all plays out under the glass floor your character is standing on. One really cool example of how the RC car is implemented has you controlling the car with the right analog stick through a countryside diorama. There are advantageous tools like a radar that hones in on general locations of hiding monkeys, a ring that when the right analog stick is rotated makes for a speedy way to get around levels as well as a means to take down foes, a slingshot to hit faraway panels and to knock down monkeys from high places, and there is also an RC car, great for getting into small alcoves that either character isn't able to fit inside. The amount of tools is lesser than past Ape Escape games, but what you do get is helpful nonetheless. You're even able to return to past levels to reach areas that you were previously unable to because of a lack of a given tool. However, as you play on through Ape Escape 3, you gain more equipment to help out in tracking down monkeys. Just a stun club and a net to capture monkeys. You start off with a modest amount of tools available to you. Having a monkey on your right side means you should try to flick the analog stick to the right as well in hopes of catching your banana-munching prey. This takes some getting used to, especially with the net. Swiping the stick in a given direction uses the tool in the same direction. While these sections in Ape Escape 3 didn't cause me to curse in frustration due to cheap hits or deaths, they made for moments where I was just befuddled by the fussy and complicated controls.Įvery tool used in Ape Escape 3 is done so with the right analog stick. The decision to utilize a dual analog control scheme and only a dual analog control scheme for vehicles was not the smartest idea by the developers. Furthermore, anything concerning vehicles like tanks, robots, and boats controls horribly. This gave me a few aggravations, as I was thinking I'd have enough clearance to leap over a chasm, only to not have a double jump register because I hit the jump button for the second time a split second too late. Both characters have the ability to double jump, though there is a moment after initializing a jump where you can no longer do a double jump. You don't jump with a face button- instead, you utilize either the R1 or R2 shoulder buttons. If you're looking for a heavy challenge, Dark Souls this ain't.Ĭontrolling your character of choice feels good for the most part, but there is a learning curve to be had. At first you'll enter smaller, more linear levels, but by the end of the game, you'll be traveling through multi-room, multi-level, and hidden area-filled, expansive levels. The goal is to capture a set number of monkeys strewn about more and more complicated levels. You enter a level with a set of tools that increases as you progress through the game. ![]() This is a very kid-friendly game, from its story to its gameplay.Īs for the gameplay, Ape Escape 3 follows the same structure of past Ape Escape games. The movie direction is competent enough, and the voice acting is suitably cheesy, as is the dialogue. With each station under watch by a member of the Freaky Monkey Five, the adventure is going to be no cakewalk.Īpe Escape 3 utilizes full motion video cutscenes, using more intricate character models than what is seen in-game. ![]() Thankfully, not every human is under Specter's television station spell, and heroes Kei and Yumi (you're able to choose between which character you want to play as at the beginning of the game) set out to take down each of Specter's television stations broadcasting monkey mayhem. This time his monkey cohorts have created a series of television stations to put their viewers into a drooling daze. The basic premise of Ape Escape 3 has the main villain of the series and highly intelligent monkey, Specter, coming up with a new plan to try to take over the world. Now, I have reached Ape Escape 3, and with it celebrating its ten-year anniversary in North America next month, there is no better time to get funky with these monkeys. Since playing that game and very much enjoying it, I quickly attempted to seek out the other installments of this underrated Sony gaming series. I came to the Ape Escape series quite late, with my first entry being the PSP port of the original Ape Escape. ![]()
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