C Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage

• This single-player side-scroller teams up C and ro for a new level of adventure.
• Classic platform-hopping adventure where timing and swift reflexes are everything.
• Use the Bandicoot's skills and power-ups to take out multiple dragon nents and bosses.
• Link with up to 3 friends for wild multi-player action, in modes like Party Games, Wager Games and Card Trading.

Product description ------------------- C Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage is the first true video game crossover for the Game Boy Advance. While passing through a portal, Ripto and Dr. Cortex meet each other and team up for destruction. C travel to the Dragon Lands, to hand out the kind of justice no dragon's ever seen before! Review ------ think that this title and its sister cartridge, ro Orange, are strange amalgamations of really divergent gaming themes. The platforming levels are derivative and uninspired. Though dull, these sections are broken up frequently by minigames that, more so than in ro Orange, are frustrating and not very much fun at all. Certainly, you can play this wide variety of single-level minigames with friends, but the bite-sized bits of classic gaming concepts are poorly executed with inconsistent controls and wildly varying levels of difficulty. Why not just play the originals? Perhaps, instead, you'd like to take a chance with the card game. Well, it's not really a game, but you can collect over 100 cards and trade with your friends that also has one of these two titles. What happens when you trade? Certain "special" cards unlock new characters that can be played in multiplayer minigames. Whee. Unfortunately for each of these platforming stars, this cross-franchise experiment tries to go too many directions at once and ends up being stuck in mediocreland on all counts. Concept: Mix a y dose of minigames into the action/platform soup. Include something about cards – kids love cards these days Graphics: Nice, clean character and enemy models along with better environments make this one more engaging than ro's entry Sound: More ooga-booga inspired than one would guess, but the GBA doesn't really pump out the bass Playability: Weirdly different minigames with horrid control schemes Entertainment: This game is an odd mix of features, and each section leaves a lot to be desired Replay: Low Rated: 5.75 out of 10 Editor: Lisa Mason Issue: June 2004 2nd Opinion: The Bandicoot suffers worse than ro in C Purple (which shares ties with ro Orange), if only for the fact that his last couple of GBA adventures were actually pretty great, and managed to approximate the gameplay of Naughty Dog's PSone C classics. In hopes of keeping the two titles' gameplay and design similar, C Purple now just feels like another watered-down platformer with some mildly amusing minigames. Rated: 6 out of 10 Editor: Matt Helgeson Subscribe to Game Informer ( http://www..com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AN45D/ ) -- Game Informer Review