Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is a video game based on the film of the same name. It was released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, and Nintendo DS in November 4, 2008 in…
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is an adventure developed by Aspyr Media, released 4 November 2008 on PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2. The main story takes about 6 hrs to finish.
What Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is an adventure game developed by Aspyr Media and released in 2008. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Vicarious Visions Alchemy.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is a video game based on the film of the same name. It was released on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PlayStation 2, Microsoft Windows, and Nintendo DS in November 4, 2008 in North America. The video game's gameplay is similar to the first movie's video game with the same characters and moves, although the environment is in Africa. The Nintendo Channel released a playable demo of this game on the week of November 7, which shows one of the side-scrolling, Lemmings-esque levels in which the penguins of the series are the main characters. It was supposed to be released on PSP but it was cancelled.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Madagascar series
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is the seventh of 21 entries we hold in the Madagascar series. It arrived 2 years after 2-in-1 Fun Pack I Dreamworks Madagascar: Operation Penguin + Shrek 2. The next entry was Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa in 2008. Its critic score of 45 is 5 points below the series average of 50. The highest-rated entry is Madagascar at 66.
How it was received
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 20 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 8 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa launched on 4 November 2008, within three weeks of Fallout 3, Dead Space, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King and Gears of War 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Fallout 3, Dead Space, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, Gears of War 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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