Viva Pi?ata: Trouble in Paradise
by Microsoft

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Product Summary

• Teach single or groups of pinatas dazzling tricks using the new 'Trick Stick Tool'.
• Fully customizable gardens and pinatas.
• All new ways to play including the tutorial-based player guide system as well as co-op, standard and 'just for fun' modes.
• Xbox LIVE Vision camera support via the 'Pinata Vision' feature allows players to scan in game content and share it with friends online.
• Game features more than 100 pinata species both tame and wild.

Video Game Reviews of Viva Pi?ata: Trouble in Paradise

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Summary: 4 Stars

Description of Viva Pi?ata: Trouble in Paradise

Return to Pi?ata Island

Play is easy with the Pi?ata finder. View larger.

Team up for co-op play in the garden. View larger.

Pi?atas are fully customizable. View larger.

Teach pi?atas tricks with the 'trick stick tool'. View larger.

There's New Trouble on Pi?ata Island
Unfortunately, not all is well on the island, as Professor Pester and his gang of Ruffians have wiped out Pi?ata Central's computer records, posing a threat to parties everywhere. Rebuild the computer database and thwart Professor Pester's evil plot by sending pi?atas at full candiosity to parties all around the world. Build and maintain your pi?ata gardens using your creativity and imagination to attract, trap, protect, train, and manage more than 100 different pi?ata species.

More Ways to Play
While Trouble in Paradise maintains the gameplay mechanics players of the original game will remember, it also adds a few new twists, giving players more choices on how to make their garden grow. These include:

Player Guide System - Replacing the traditional tutorial, the optional Player Guide System directs players through a series of loose goals to help them master the fundamental aspects of the game.

Standard Mode - Presenting a challenge for experienced pi?ata gardeners and dedicated gamers, the Standard gameplay mode provides a more tricky option, where players must keep a watchful eye on their garden. Sour pi?atas, feuding species, weeds, illness and limited money call for you to exercise problem solving and creativity to build and maintain an environment where pi?atas can flourish and grow.

Just for Fun Mode - Designed for beginner players, kids and those just looking to explore Pi?ata Island, this mode allows players to jump into the garden and interact with the unique pi?ata world. In this mode the difficulty has been turned down and the fun has been turned up. Sour pi?atas stay away, resident pi?atas remain healthy, weeds don't plague your garden and you have an infinite chocolate coin bank account, allowing you to turn your garden into a veritable utopia of colorful creatures.

Improved Co-Op Play - While the original Viva Pi?ata had a simple system where two players could mutually control the single game cursor via different controllers, Trouble in Paradise adds drop-in/drop-out offline gameplay for two players and online co-operative gameplay for up to four players. This allows additional players to join the game at any time to assist the primary player with gardening tasks.

Key Features:

• Customize Your Garden and Pi?atas - Plant flowers, dig ponds, even place sand and snow in your garden to make exotic species of pi?ata feel at home. Buy objects to change the weather, or get new toys for your pi?ata. And nurture the thirty-two new species of pi?ata, including sour pi?atas that infiltrate and wreak havoc in the garden. Choose to tame the sours, or feed them candy to keep them sweet.
• Play With a Friend - Family members and friends can now share in the joy of creating a garden by plugging in an extra controller. The second player has access to all tools, actions, activities, and can help by collecting magic. It's an entirely new way to play.
• Play Multiple Game Modes - Use the Player Guide System to master the fundamental aspects of the game. Then, try the Standard Mode where sour pi?atas, feuding species, and limited money call for you to exercise problem solving and creativity to build and maintain your garden. Or enjoy Just for Fun Mode, which allows you to build a garden full of colorful creatures without worries.
• Experience Pi?ata Vision - Plug in an Xbox LIVE Vision camera and interact with the game through the use of printed cards featuring a unique barcode. Flash a pi?ata card up to the Vision camera, and the content will drop directly into the game.
• Show off to friends - Use the new photo mode to snap, print, and upload pictures of your unique garden or customized pi?atas to show to friends. Photograph your pi?ata and turn it into a pi?ata card, then share it with your friends so they can scan it and put it into their own garden.
• Teach Your Pi?ata Tricks - Pi?atas can perform dazzling tricks, if you teach them with the new trick stick tool. Watch as pi?atas play together, perch on each other, and interact in new ways to make them even more appealing.

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