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| Viva Pinata Platinum Hits | 
 enlarge | From: Microsoft
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $12.99
You Save: $7.00 (35%)
Buy New/Used from $10.44
Avg. Customer Rating:  (74 reviews)
Sales Rank: 977
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: S75095
Model: 882224277273
UPC: 882224277273
EAN: 0882224277273
ASIN: B000HCL5QO
Release Date: November 11, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Deep Xbox Live integration allows you to swap tips, items, and more with friends. | | • | Create your own garden and more than 60 types of pinatas. | | • | Use easy, basic tools to develop an enviroment that reflects you. | | • | Regardless of skill level, find challenge in keeping out sour pinatas, perfecting your garden, and keeping your new pinata friends happy. | | • | Choose how much you want to control your pinatas by letting them run free or attempting to control their daily lives. |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Viva Pinata invites gamers to create an immersive world where living pinatas inhabit an ever-changing environment. Beginning with a few basic tools, players build and take control of this environment, using their creativity and imagination to attract, protect and manage over 60 different pinata species that can visit their world and make it their home. Utilizing hundreds of customizable elements, players can create a unique pinata paradise.
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Viva Pinata is a window to another world where wild-roaming, living Pinata animals inhabit a growing, changing garden world. Take control of this environment and the pinata within it, influencing its contents to create your very own pet paradise. The "Viva Pinata" gameplay experience presents a customizable, social and spontaneous world in which gamers play an absolutely crucial role. The world players create is an evolving paradise teeming with fantastic living pinata creatures and vibrant plant life, all determined by the player's choices and actions. "Viva Pinata" boasts the following qualities: 
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Create the perfect environment for your favorite pinatas! View larger. | 
Watch as pinatas adopt to the garden spaces you've created for them. View larger. | 
Both sweet and sour pinatas will enter your garden. View larger. | 
Go online and help other pinata owners like yourself! View larger. | Creating a living garden
It's your very own world. Your choice of contents will determine which of the pinata species are attracted to your world, since they all have individual requirements. Sowing grass, digging ponds, planting flowers and growing trees all affect which of the unique pinatas you will see. It's not just about plants, either; there is a whole range of ornaments and structures that could be decisive. Your reward for creating an appealing paradise is to watch the pinatas visit and eventually reside there, which is where the fun really starts. Getting to know and understand the personalities and requirements of your pinata is essential if you want them to stay happy and thrive. Make your world their ideal paradise, and they'll want to raise a family and expand your community. Players decide how much help they want from the local guides, shopkeepers and work force. Go it alone or get them involved as you choose. Once you have resident pinatas, you can begin to personalize your loyal community. Pinatas can be individually named and given their own personally designed tag to put on display as a declaration of their home turf. And the customization doesn't end there. You can make the colorful critters more distinctive by customizing them with all kinds of costumes and accessories. A thriving community awaits
The "Viva Pinata" community is a rewarding place to be, whether you remain within the boundaries of your own world or venture out into the real world or your friend's pinata world via Xbox Live, the first and only global, unified online console games service. Via the Xbox Live online community, players can contact other gamers to lend a hand, lay down a competitive challenge or trade items. Plus, it's not just new pinata species that are drawn to your world; untamed sour pinatas with bad attitudes and troublemaking ruffians do their worst to spoil your creation and must be dealt with. Maintaining harmony within a growing community isn't always easy when rivalries, illness, injuries and even candy-spilling fights occur. If players turn their backs, who knows what their pinatas will do? Special edition extras
Both kids and adults can break into the two-disc Special Edition "Viva Pinata" Xbox 360 game with added bonuses for the whole family to enjoy. The Special Edition game, available for a limited time, will include playable demos of the season's hottest family-friendly titles and an episode from the "Viva Pinata" animated series. In addition to the "Viva Pinata" game, which will allow players to create their own environment where they can attract and host more than 60 species of wild pinatas and customize pinata-filled adventures in their unique-ever-growing world, the Special Edition "Viva Pinata" game will include playable demos of LucasArts' "LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy," the arcade classic "Frogger," "Cloning Clyde," "Time Pilot," and "Marble Blast." Also included in the Special Edition "Viva Pinata" game will be a sneak peek at the wacky, zany, anything-can-happen animated TV series, produced by 4Kids Entertainment and Bardel Entertainment. With this full-le! ngth episode of the colorful animated series, Kids can experience Pinata Island for themselves, where multitudes of happy, colorful pinatas live the sweet life.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 69 more reviews...
 It's a good way to occupy time, when bored... September 28, 2008
This is a decent game. Not the funnest game, and not very much to do, but it occupies time when your bored and don't have much to do. I would recomend picking it up sometime.
 Great Fun! September 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Picked this game up for my wife who's not a game player but had seen this and wanted it.
So far she has really enjoyed playing the game and having a farm of animals. She has stated it is very similar to Animal Crossing for the Gamecube.
If you like having virtual pets and taking care of them, I'm sure you'll enjoy this game!
Variety, challenge and family fun! September 6, 2008
We have had this game for well over a year now and continue to enjoy it. The depth and variety is great. As a level 55 gardener, I still have 30 levels to go and more pinatas to attract! A must for any family. I have pre-ordered the new version and can't wait!
Never had a game like this! August 29, 2008
This is really a game of it's own kind. I have never had a game like this before, and it is so fun. I have the XBox 360 version, and it works just fine. I have never had any problems getting it to run, work, or doing anything with it. The game itself is perfect, haven't even ran into any glitches.
Someone said they didn't like this game because all you do is mate your pets and build houses, and plant. There is so much more to this game than that! Why not tell people what it takes to get pinatas to mate? Before a pinata can mate, first they have to become a resident. You have to meet all the requirements before a pinata will become a resident. After they are a resident, before you can mate them of course you need 2 pinatas of the same kind. Then you have to meet the requirements for mating. Some pinatas might need to eat a certain fruit before they can mate and have a certain thing. Other pinatas might need to eat OTHER PINATAS before they can mate. The mating process is not as easy as what some of these people say it is. You have a process you have to go by, a certain way to do it, and sometimes you might have to do that every single time before they will mate. Some pinatas need to eat a certain fruit before EVERY mate.
It is not just about mating and building houses, even though decorating your garden is really fun! You don't just plant seeds, you plant what you need. You have to meet the reqirements of your pinatas. So if your pinata needs a blueberry then your not going to plant a pumpkin. So it is not just about planting, it is about doing it in the right way to move up in the game. If you plant stuff you don't need at the time, you can just sell it for more money.
It upsets me that someone would call this easy and not entertaining. You don't just mate your pinatas and build houses, then everything is done and that is it. What about the sour pinatas? They come into your garden and ruin things you have done, they make pinatas sick. Then when a pinata is sick a annoying little man will come and break them. Then your pinata is gone forever. The whole process of making more starts all over again.
If you don't do your garden right, or if too many pinatas get broken then your garden will become empty. Animals will leave, and you have to try and attract more. You also have to try and keep them there.
Some pinatas require certain things before they will visit. I made a river in my garden and finally the frogs came to stay, and the ducks. You need a certain amount of water before they can stay. So I made a large amount of water and finally got the water pinatas.
There are a few things you have to do before mating and making residents. You just have to look at a pinatas information and see what you need. It doesn't always work or it takes a long time before they will become a resident.
The garden starts off with a small piece of land. At level 11 it will get bigger. The more you level up it will get bigger. There are a lot of levels to this game. I heard someone say they are up to level 108. Not even sure if that is the last level. It is a forever going game. You progress more and more as you go. You get bigger more better looking pinatas as you level up.
If your not enjoying this game it is because you haven't gotten far enough in the game & you probably haven't figured out exactly how to do it.
When I first played this, I had no idea what to do. Finally, I figured it out. There is a lot you can miss. If you don't do it right then you can not progress and not really enjoy yourself with it. So make sure you KNOW your doing it right and you haven't missed anything before you judge that it is nothing.
It is a very good game, and unlike any I have ever played. Waiting for the DS version to come out Sept. 8th AND I CAN'T WAIT!!!
Fun game for the kids, but fun for adults as well. August 25, 2008
My daughter (6 years old) loves this game. But she has to fight over it with my wife who loves it as well. If your looking for a good family fun game this is it.
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