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Super Monkey Ball 2

Super Monkey Ball 2
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North American cover art
Developer(s) Amusement Vision
Publisher(s) Sega
Distributor(s)
Designer(s) Toshihiro Nagoshi
Composer(s) Hidenori Shoji
Haruyoshi Tomita
Series Super Monkey Ball
Platform(s) Nintendo GameCube
Release
  • NA: August 25, 2002
  • JP: November 21, 2002
  • PAL: March 14, 2003
Genre(s) Platforming, party
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Super Monkey Ball 2 (スーパーモンキーボール2 Sūpā Monkī Bōru Tsū?) is a platform/party video game developed by Amusement Vision and published by Sega in 2002 for the GameCube. It is the second installment in the Super Monkey Ball series, and the first installment to have a story-line and to be released exclusively on a home console.

The primary objective of the game is to roll across platforms and obstacles to reach an arch-shaped goal that marks the end of the level, therefore take the player to the next "stage". Each stage is uniquely designed to provide a challenge to players as the player progress through the game.

The stages contain platforms such as slopes, half-pipes, moving platforms, etc. The game introduces new gimmicks such as conveyor belts, teleportation doors, switches which control the speed of a stage, moving platforms, and more.

There are two ways to fail a level: losing your balance and falling off of the stage or running out of time. In most stages, there is a 60-second time limit. Super Monkey Ball 2 has three different gameplay modes: Story Mode (with a storyline and successive levels) and Challenge Mode (Story Mode's stages with progressive difficulty. Within Challenge mode up multiplayer is an option for up to four players at a time. A Practice Mode is available to stages that have been reached within Challenge or Story Mode.

The game won the E3 2002 Game Critics Awards for Best Puzzle/Trivia/Parlor Game.


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