Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is a Nintendo GameCube video game featuring the ape Donkey Kong and played with the DK Bongos. It was released in Japan on December 16, 2004, in Europe on February 4, 2005, in North…
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is a platform developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo Software Development Group No.1, released 16 December 2004 on Nintendo GameCube.
What Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is a platform game developed by Nintendo EAD Tokyo Software Development Group No.1 and released in 2004. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is a 2004 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. It follows the gorilla Donkey Kong as he sets out to defeat a series of evil kings to conquer the jungle. Jungle Beat is designed for use with the DK Bongos, a bongo drum-style GameCube controller created for the Donkey Konga (2003) rhythm game. The player controls Donkey Kong through various side-scrolling levels as he collects bananas, swings on vines, chains combos, rides animals, and defeats enemies and bosses.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Donkey Kong series
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat is the 101st of 190 entries we hold in the Donkey Kong series. The next entry was Mario vs. Donkey Kong Card e+: Nagaai Michinori in 2004. Its critic score of 79 is 4 points above the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 62% of the 2,373 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 9 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat launched on 16 December 2004, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Gran Turismo 4 and The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Gran Turismo 4, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Donkey Kong Jungle Beat yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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