Viva Pinata

Rare's newest project, Viva Pinata is another game that is looked to be aimed towards kids. This is not true as a child would not be able to maintain all the complex aspects of a garden. The first time I saw this game, I was utterly amazed by the beautiful graphics. You can see each individual paper piece on the pinatas. For the gamplay, it's much like the sims in which you have to maintain individual pinatas and make sure they don't get into fights. One very furious moment I recall, was I had one of the rarest pinatas, but it got into a fight with another and lost, so it was killed and went away. I had to spend so much time on making fences for different pinatas it really got me sick of this game. It's great to play for the first couple hours, but gets really boring afterwards. I guess this is why it's one of the cheaper xbox 360 titles. Don't pick this up unless you are a die hard simulation fan, and have the time to devote to this game.