Ape Escape (PS) Reviews

Ever since Mario64, platformers on PlayStation usually don't do it for me. However, Ape Escape is right up there with the best of them. The backstory: Specter, a monkey in a circus, comes across the Professor's Peak Point helmet. Donning this helmet, Specter becomes, well, one bad, smart monkey. With his band of helmetted monkey ...

Beware world! A new menace is facing humanity. Hundreds of monkeys are on the loose, and they are working to take over the world. Why should we be scared you ask? Because they are about the best equipped monkeys that you've ever seen. Some wear dark pants and dark sunglasses and are likely to carry weapons and be aggressive. They are sort ...

Sounds simple enough. Theres a monkey sqwaking at you. You've got a net in your hand . The monkey doesnt like the net . But we want him in the net , yes thats right its a simple pursuit game. But wait why did everybody overlook it? Hmmm could it be the fac that it was made by Sony? nope couldnt be. The fact that it had a revolutionary control ...

Ape Escape is one of those games that’s sometimes gets overlooked because it seems to be a kids’ game, but in fact it is one of the most innovative titles in recent years. You play a boy named Spike and have to round up hoards of rampaging monkeys, in a typically over-the-top platformer plot. At the start you only have a club ...

The gist of the story is that a ravenous band of apes, led by the evil Spector, have captured the professor's time machine. Hell bent on wreaking all kinds of mischief, the apes travel to the past (a la The Terminator) hoping to change the future into a more 'simian friendly' place. Doing his best Princess Leia impersonation, the ...

Everybody loves monkeys! And if you don't like monkeys (you weirdo), I suggest you go join the militant band of malicious monkey haters in Montana. Or join the cast of "Friends." I mean, people even liked the biting, disease-carrying Outbreak monkey. But deep within us all, I believe we secretly fear the monkey. At any instant, those ...

Ever wondered what those new sticks are on the Playstation Controller are for? Well meet Ape Escape. A 3D-platform game of the highest quality, and all will be revealed. The idea of Ape Escape is to rescue A LOT of monkeys for 25 MASSIVE Levels. I stress - massive, it really is big. A Huge fun 3D worlds set in various times in ...

Ape Escape is a 3D platform game from Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. It is a very big game with many levels and sub levels, This game will only work with an analog controller, As it uses the two control sticks as well as all the other buttons on the controller' The game starts with an intro which sets out the game, So I wont give ...

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 ...