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Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise

The original Rare Ltd. team behind Viva Piñata has reunited to bring gamers Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, the newest and most fun piñata adventure to date. Available exclusively on Xbox 360, Viva Piñata…

75 2 September 2008

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise is a simulator developed by Rare, released 2 September 2008 on Xbox 360.

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What Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise is

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise is a simulator game developed by Rare and released in 2008. It was published by Microsoft Game Studios. It is available on Xbox 360 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise is a 2008 simulation video game for the Xbox 360. It is the sequel to the 2006 video game, Viva Piñata, and the third game in the Viva Piñata series. Developed by Rare and published by Microsoft Game Studios, the game builds atop its predecessor, in which the player tends a garden and the piñata creatures that come to live there. New features to the series include a cooperative multiplayer mode, a new plot, additional types of piñata creatures, Xbox Live Vision Camera support, and two new areas for capturing piñatas.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

Where it sits in the Viva Piñata series

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise is the second of 2 entries we hold in the Viva Piñata series. It arrived 2 years after Viva Piñata: Limited Edition. It is the most recent released entry in the series.

See all 2 Viva Piñata games in release order →

How it was received

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 51% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise launched on 2 September 2008, within three weeks of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Rock Band 2 and The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Rock Band 2, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition.

Cheats and codes

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When did Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise come out?
Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise was released on 2 September 2008 for Xbox 360.

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