PlayStation Move Ape Escape

In conclusion, Ape Escape provides a relatively short game for the gamer and doesn't add anything new to the franchise nor makes good use of the Move capabilities. It's unfortunately one of those stock standard Move games that seems to be the go at the moment.

A disappointing game, that although succeeds in being a game for all types of public, is too repetitive and has a very limited cooperative gameplay.

It still manages to feel hackneyed and ignorable. [Issue#208, p.89]

Long-term Ape fans will be disappointed. [Sept 2011, p.92]

It feels like Ape Escape is a curio from times past. [Sept 2011, p.111]

It's a shame where the series has headed lately, and fans should skip out on PlayStation Move Ape Escape altogether.

With a super-casual experience Japan Studio ruined the name of Ape Escape. Game feel funny only for a couple of minutes and then sink into a spiral of boredom and frustration.

The return of the apes could be fun, but the problem is that the gameplay is way to repetitive, the game is also pretty quick completed and it doesn't really have any variations in the gameplay. The PlayStation Move support, which is working perfectly, could have been used a lot more, but the developer failed to do it.

Ape Escape Move is actually a mini-game because even for an on-rails shooter this game is short. The gameplay is way too easy, creating a very boring experience. After a few hours you'll toss this out of the window and play one of the better Move games available.

The slow, frustrating and difficult ride that is Ape Escape is another in a long line of failures of titles trying to moot the need for PlayStation Move.

Not even nicely suited apes are able to save this repetitive, visually obsolete and boring game. You better get drunk before trying this ape hunt. [Issue#207]

Move Ape Escape keeps the charm but loses the fun from its goofy predecessors.

A wasted opportunity to show off Move control. [Sept 2011, p.102]

Despite it's name and lineage, Ape Escape is just a simple and boring "on-rail shooter" that doesn't deserve your attention.

Short, boring and not very inspired. This is exactly what we feared about Move: a rerun of Wii's worst mistakes.

An embarrassing, shovelware shooter that feels more like a bargain bin Wii title than a first party affair.

Ape Escape was the first game to require the use of a DualShock controller on the original PlayStation, but this new PS3 episode won't be as important to PlayStation history as his illustrious predecessor was. It's a repetitive rail shooter where you switch from butterfly net to catapult to fan in order to capture monkeys and get as much bananas as possible, but it's mainly aimed at younger kids. With its nice animated sequences and a fair game mechanic, parents can offer it safely, but the lack of a multiplayer mode to share the experience and the overall lack of variety are hard to forgive.

As it is, this feels like it could just be a re-skin of any one of a dozen poor quality Wii shovelware titles that we all feared when Sony's Move controller was first showcased and we would have difficulty endorsing that kind of product to anyone but the youngest, most easily amused.

An acceptable enough lightgun game, but a poor Ape Escape title. More importantly it's still no reason to own a PlayStation Move.

Even at a budget price point, this is one slip-up that can't be blamed on banana skins. [Issue#112, p.120]

Ape Escape for the PS3 is a title that turns your Move into a fan and the avid fan into a disappointed person. A year ago, Sony promised us that they would not just use Move for braindead titles where we just wave it around like fools. But this is precisely one of those titles, and even though Ape Escape with its 15 levels is quite short, it's still terribly boring.