Carnival Island PlayStation 3
  • Publisher: SCEA
  • Release Date: Nov 15, 2011
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  • Summary: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (SCEA) teams up with Magic Pixel Games to bring the fun and excitement of carnivals right into your own living room with Carnival Island. Carnival Island invites you to take a trip to a magic carnival and experience the joy of classic family-friendly fun in over 35 carnival attractions. Utilizing the PlayStation®Move controller’s precise tracking technology, every toss, roll, throw, spin and slam is translated directly into the game for accurate and responsive gameplay.

    Explore Carnival Island alone or with friends, while playing games such as minibowl, ring toss, throwdown, and frogbog to earn tickets redeemable for prizes and collectibles. By completing challenges, players can create their own cheering squad consisting of lovable pets throughout their experience. Players can also have fun by interacting with fun house mirrors, photo cut-outs and upload snapshots of their experiences directly onto Facebook or send to a PlayStation®Network (PSN) friend.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 25
  3. Negative: 3 out of 25
  1. Game Chronicles
    Nov 26, 2011
    83
    Carnival Island is great family fun and an awesome way to experience the PS Move. With so many games and game variations, and so many rewards, prizes, and balloons to unlock, kids and their parents will find countless hours of wholesome entertainment waiting inside this magical playground
  2. Digital Chumps
    Nov 18, 2011
    74
    Quite possibly the best mini-game compilation title I have played on any platform, Carnival Island does a great job of catering to a younger audience but simultaneously keeps things interesting enough for older gamers.
  3. Games Master UK
    Dec 17, 2011
    74
    It's a huge selection of sideshow attractions that makes good use of the Move controller's amaze-o-tech. [Jan 2012, p.90]
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  4. Eurogamer Sweden
    Dec 12, 2011
    40
    Carnival Island uses the Move-controllers in a great way. So it is too bad that the developers seemingly ran out of ideas after creating just a few minigames.

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  1. itsamee
    9
    I think this is a very good party game. If you play this with a group of friends you will really enjoy it alot. You will enjoy it even more if you are drinking... Even playing solo the game is alot of fun and the mini-games are creative and fun. The PlayStation move works well with the game, I had no lag issues or inaccurate movements.… Expand

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