Viva Piñata Trouble in Paradise to feature online co-op mode
Plus the option to share your unique piñata creations with the world!
With E3 around the corner, we keep on getting new tidbits of information from the games that Rare will show next week. For the moment, the most interesting news story of the pre-E3 has come from an interview with Viva Piñata’s Justin Cook made by the guys of Game Focus.
Cook has confirmed for the first time that the already announced cooperative mode from Trouble in Paradise will, in fact, feature online gameplay: “We have a new 2 player mode where you can share a garden with the person sitting next to you on the sofa. I can confirm that there will be multiplayer over LIVE this time.” So, rejoice as we’ll finally be able to share our gardening skills with friends from around the world!
This also finds a connection with the Live Vision Camera possibilities that, according to Cook, will let people “put new content into their game without using LIVE: we allow players to turn creatures in their gardens into cards that they can send to www.vivapinata.com, where others can download them or print them out to use in their own garden.” Clearly, with them, Piñata has now become a truly global experience.
But the new multiplayer options are only some of the several new add ons and improvements to the title, like HDR lighting on the graphical side or the new animal finder tool expanding the gameplay experience.
The last one “skips the cursor around the garden and lets you find the piñata you want quickly, and even makes flying piñata land on the ground.” That way you’ll be able to get some of the new piñata species that will not venture into the garden on their own; that extends to the two new extreme climates, which have appropriately been named Pinartic and Dessert Desert.
Cook also hinted that the discovery of the new piñata tricks “works in a similar way to discovering the color variants” and that each animal will have two tricks that they can learn.
Expect much more to come in the next few days regarding Viva Piñata, and the rest of Rare games, with MundoRare’s full and special coverage during the E3 show!
Somehow related news
- Trouble in Paradise and Pocket Paradise ship to stores in North America ()
- Trouble in Paradise demo hits the Marketplace ()
- Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, coming to Xbox 360 ()
- Pocket Paradise announced by THQ, headed your way this fall ()
- The first Piñata Vision Card goes online! ()
