Hands-on: Hail to the Chimp
by Emily Balistrieri on March 7, 2008 at 6:04 pm
“Did you know that I approve of this message? Well, I do.” No doubt the candidate would also approve of our enthusiasm for the new game from Wideload that he stars in: Hail to the Chimp.
When the lion is dethroned, the animal kingdom goes animal republic with it’s first presidential election. GRR news covers the campaigns with cute speeches, political ads, and goofy commercial parodies (for Orcah’s talk show and a new drug called Vertebrexstracil, among others) as players party brawl their way to national office.
From the ten different characters, each with their own backstory that comes out in their speeches and ads, I played as Daisy the Platypus, the host of a popular Australian kid’s TV show. Our session started with a game mode about bashing broken polling machines–something we’d all like to do!
Another mode we tried involved dodging bombs long enough to outlast all the other candidates. Often winning depends on who collects the most clams (literally), which determine who the front-runner is. After each individual event, GRR news has some commentary, and then of course there are concession and victory speeches at the end of the process.
Basically, you’re just running, jumping, and whacking each other, but each of the ten stages has different triggered events that mix things up. One we played took place on a dock with cranes players could activate via switches, plus a platform that would sink if everyone stood on it at once.
With these extra details, the sixteen different game modes, and Wideload’s brand of poltical humor we’re hoping to find Hail to the Chimp well worth the $40 price tag when it’s released for 360 and PS3 on May 27.
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on March 7, 2008 7:21 pm
$40?!
I thought this was a PSN/Live Arcade title. I wasn’t sure I’d even spend $10 on this, let alone $40. This is probably gonna be a pass for me…
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