Viva Pinata (Platinum Family Hits)

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Welcome to Pinata Island, the Fantastic and Magical Place Where Pinatas Live, Play, and Dance!

Viva Pinata is a window to another world where wild-roaming, living pinata animals inhabit a growing, changing garden world. Take control of this environment and the pinata within it, influencing its contents to create your very own pet paradise.

Once you have resident pinatas, begin to personalize your loyal community. Pinatas can be individually named and given their own personally designed tag to put on display as a declaration of their home turf. The customization doesn't end there. Make the colorful critters more distinctive by customizing them with all kinds of costumes and accessories.

"...a game that anybody with an open mind can get into and have fun with. Erik Brudvig, IGN
"...a uniquely addictive and pleasantly colorful change of pace... Gabe Graziani, Games Radar

Features

	Interact with the characters: Decide how much help you want from the local guides, shopkeepers, and work force. Go it alone or get them involved—you choose
	Watch them grow: Discover the secrets of more than 60 different candy-filled piñata animals to see them grow, change, fight, and even dance!
	Anything can happen: Guide a constantly evolving, vibrant world to keep your piñata happy and protect them from dangers threatening to break them open.
	Tend your garden: It’s not just new piñata species that are drawn to your world—untamed sour piñatas with bad attitudes and troublemaking ruffians do their worst to spoil your creation and must be dealt with.
	Maintain harmony: Maintaining harmony within a growing community isn’t always easy when rivalries, illness, injuries and even candy-spilling fights occur. If you turn your back, who knows what their piñatas will do?
	Personalized world: Customize your world and your piñata animals to reflect your style and create a pet paradise unlike any other.
	Interact online: Via Xbox Live, contact other gamers to lend a hand, lay down a competitive challenge, or trade items.
	Interact with the pinatas: Getting to know and understand the personalities and requirements of your pinatas is essential if you want them to stay happy and thrive. Make your world their ideal paradise, and they’ll want to raise a family and expand your community.

Tech Specs

	Product Type	Software
	Manufacturer Part Number	S75-00095
	Manufacturer Website Address	www.microsoft.com
	Manufacturer	Microsoft Corporation
	Product Name	Viva Pinata
	Brand Name	Microsoft
	License Pricing	Standard
	License Type	Complete Product
	License Quantity	1 User
	Additional Information	Player 1
	Compatibility	Dolby 5.1 Surround HDTV 1080i Xbox Live
	Distribution Media/Method	DVD-ROM
	Platform Support	Xbox 360
	Features	Interact with the: Getting to know and understand the personalities and requirements of your is essential if you want them to stay happy and thrive. Make your world their ideal paradise, and they'll want to raise a family and expand your community Interact with the characters: Decide how much help you want from the local guides, shopkeepers, and work force. Go it alone or get them involved you choose Watch them grow: Discover the secrets of more than 60 different candy-filled pinata animals to see them grow, change, fight, and even dance! Anything can happen: Guide a constantly evolving, vibrant world to keep your pinata happy and protect them from dangers threatening to break them open Tend your garden: It's not just new pinata species that are drawn to your world untamed sour pinatas with bad attitudes and troublemaking ruffians do their worst to spoil your creation and must be dealt with Maintain harmony: Maintaining harmony within a growing community isn't always easy when rivalries, illness, injuries and even candy-spilling fights occur. If you turn your back, who knows what their pinatas will do? Personalized world: Customize your world and your pinata animals to reflect your style and create a pet paradise unlike any other Interact online: Via Xbox Live, contact other gamers to lend a hand, lay down a competitive challenge, or trade items
	Language Support	English
	Package Type	Retail
	Software Name	Viva Piñata
	Software Sub Type	Action/Adventure Game
	Upgrade Information	Not Applicable
	Software Main Type	Game
	ESRB Rating	E (Everyone)
	PEGI Rating	Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews

	Xbox 360 Review: Viva Pinata By: Matt Paprocki Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 12/26/2006 12:05 PM
Okay, follow this: You make a garden, breed living pinatas and smack them with a shovel. Oh, and it's fun. Blaring its embarrassingly catchy theme song from the opening cinematic, Viva Piñata is truly "filled with fun" -- sometimes creepy, sometimes addictive, and sometimes quirky fun, but it always lives up to its billing....read the full review

Professional Reviews

GameSpy 9 of 10
Describing the Viva Pinata experience lends itself to comparisons with non-violent farming simulations like Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing, as well as the "god games," like The Sims and Populous. Viva Pinata absolutely deserves to be mentioned alongside such lofty company, as the game mechanics are just as deep and equally satisfying...I had a great time playing Viva Pinata, and even now, with all the other excellent games available on this platform and on others, I can see myself playing it for months to come. You can always come up with better ways to design your garden, and take your newfound gardening knowledge in new directions to see what would make for a more fulfilling experience. - Gerald Villoria

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