Ape Escape (Ape Escape (PS))

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Product:	Ape Escape (PS)
Date:	12/12/00 (0 review reads)
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Advantages: Great tutorials

Disadvantages: Simple and cartoon

A month or two after the Dual Shock Analog controller hit store shelves, the guys at IGNPSX all sat around thinking how much more interesting games would feel and play. Baseball would feel better when you hit a home run, fighting games would be more arcade-like, and…well, the future looked a little brighter as the PlayStation started its third year and reached middle age. Unfortunately, no software company actually utilized it to any real extent, except to make sure it worked in conjunction with the digital pad. And we felt that with the exception of some racing games (those that use both analog controls for steering and acceleration), the analog pad was essentially a nice addition but nothing worth writing home about. No game fulfilled the potential it initially promised.
Apparently, Sony Japan felt the same way, and in a first for PlayStation, the company created a completely analog-controlled platform game, Ape Escape. For an industry that likes to push the technological barriers in theory, but only occasionally in practice, Ape Escape not only used the used the analog controller, but the game requires it. Ape Escape is a big step in the evolution of the modern platformer. It's a bold step. It is not only a more interesting game because of its analog control, it's a genuinely mesmerizing and inventive platformer that uses the analog in ways no one has ever seen before.

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