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One Piece: Pirates' Carnival
PlayStation 2
Released On: Sep 12, 2006
47
7.6
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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7 Reviews
7 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
47
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
50% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
50% Negative
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
If party games are your thing and you love the One Piece series, Pirates' Carnival will satisfy your craving for a multiplayer board game.
Kids probably won't mind much, and they're definitely the target audience here. Pirates' Carnival isn't spectacular in any one sense, but the solid mini-games and well-used license are enough to put it near the top of the distinctly uncompetitive party game genre.
The board game concept is novel, and perhaps with a few less randomization events, it could have been more engaging, but with AI that's absolutely relentless on the upper settings, mini-games that fail to deliver the basic premise on the first play-through, and a general sense that things were rather slapped together, Pirates' Carnival lacks the kind of fun you'd expect when you put those two words together.
The gameplay is absolutely textbook in its design, and while a few of the games can be pretty entertaining, the sheer amount of variety is far too small.
Most of the mini-games are either boring or poorly controlled, and there's so few of them that they all get old pretty fast.
One Piece: Pirate's Carnival is the latest game to try to capitalize on the success of Nintendo's "Mario Party" games by giving us another video board game, but it just ends up falling flat. [July 2006, p.86]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
7.6
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Summary Different from the previous One Piece games, Pirates Carnival is a party game featuring over forty mini games. The mini games feature simple controls and promise to recreate well-known scenes from the original One Piece body of work. The game features support for four players, with some games featuring split screen play and others placin...
Rated E
for Everyone
Platforms:
- GameCube
- PlayStation 2
Initial Release Date: Sep 12, 2006
Developer:
- h.a.n.d. Inc.
Publisher: Namco Bandai Games
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