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Afrika
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$ 32.38
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Item Description...
Product Description
In Natsume's Afrika, your a photo journalist in the wild yonder of Africa in a videogame featuring amazing, realistic animal models and vast landscapes to visit. Africa's animals and plants are all rendered in stunning photorealistic detail. As a photographer, you'll use licensed, real-world photography equipment to complete assignments and capture everything from bathing hippos to a cheetah on the hunt. Explore the land, find new animals, and earn a name for yourself as a professional photographer!
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Item Specifications...
Dimensions: Length: 6.7" Width: 5.3" Height: 0.6"
Weight: 0.270625 lbs.
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Publisher Natsume, Inc.
UPC 719593130017
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Availability 7 units.
Availability accurate as of May 27, 2012 07:28.
Usually ships within one to two business days from Woodland, CA.
Orders shipping to an address other than a confirmed Credit Card / Paypal Billing address may incur and additional processing delay.
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 | Crap programming Apr 21, 2010 |
| Damn thing won't go past the first time you get out of the jeep. Serious bug. Terrible product. $50 price tag, what a joke. | | |  | This is the BEST game EVER!!!!!!! Jan 30, 2010 |
Afrika for PS3 is the absolute best video game I have ever played. I do not like video games too much, I lose interest quickly, but my husband is an obsessive video gamer with multiple systems and internet play...
With that being said be BOTH LOVED this game! It was something we could play together that never got old. We were obsessive about it, until we beat it in a week or two, but it would be a lot of fun to play all the way through again, and again, and again.
This is a game which would be fun for the whole family, especially if you are into animals and/or photography. There is a lot of reading involved, so younger kids may not understand it alone, but it is a great game to play as a family. | | |  | Botched Jan 22, 2010 |
Somebody as Natsume seriously needs to stand up to management and tell them what 'fun' is. Everything about this game drags. The movement is sluggish, the menus are sluggish. Game saves take about 2 minutes. Saved photographs appear about 1/3 of the screen size and cannot be enlarged or zoomed. No thoughtful collision detection among the animals, either. They threw alot of money at studying film footage of real animals, with the downside that all the animal movements seem limited to a 2D (film) scheme with no forethought about 3D collision detection. All the animals in the game do awkward headbutts with eachother, where one will keep moving in the direction it was going, while the other remains stuck, uselessly moving it's legs; realism- zero. The fact that the environments are mostly flat and undetailed doesn't sell photorealism, either. Photography enthusiasts will presumably enjoy the detail of having real SONY cameras to choose from, as well as the National Geographic seal of approval, what value they have in terms of gameplay I don't know.
The gameplay: finding a spot and wait.
If you run or shift your position, any animal close to you will startle and run, but stay still for a few seconds and you're completely invisible again. An animal will walk toward you, you wait for it's behaviors to cycle to the one you're trying to 'get', take picture.
The problem is that different animal behaviors are only unlocked as you get photo assignments to photograph a particular behavior... in other words, the Hippos won't yawn until you take the 'photograph the hippo yawning' mission. The cheetah won't attack it's prey until you pick the 'photograph the cheetah attacking it's prey' mission. This wouldn't be a big deal if movement was fast, which it's not. There no Zip or Goto Area function; everytime you want to proceed to an area you've already been, it's a slow jeep drive across the same flat, uneventful terrain, and everytime you do, the ingame music goes on, an over the top 'Jurassic park'-ish theme, that clashes hard with the mood of thoughful photography.
Natsume would have done well to examine what worked about the gameplay structure in Pokemon Snap! or the photography segments in Beyond Good & Evil, or how African environments were rendered in FarCry2.
As it is, Afrika succeeds neither as a game, nor as a simulation, because it's neither fun, nor realistic. It doesn't even have that 'not great but had potential' vibe going for it. It's just bad. | | | | som zo Slovenska Dec 30, 2009 |
Kupila som hru detom pod stromcek. Som zo Slovenska a do Europy sa hra nedovaza. Deti (12 dievca a 14 chlapec) hraju zatial par dni ale su nadsene. Krasna grafika.
I have buy the game for my children for Christmas.I am from Slovakia and It is not possible to buy this game in Europe. Children (12 and 14 years old) like it very much , graphic is very nice. | | | | Afrika it's awesome Dec 7, 2009 |
Afrika it's probably one of the most underrated games for the last three years. The effort the developers put on this game it's unbelievable, the animals look and move so real, it seems like they use real animals for mo-cap. One of the things that I thought I was going to find on this game it's the animals walking and doing the exactly same thing as the others, but for my surprise I found the animals behaving so randomly, there's zebra walking, other drinking, other eating, others looking on all kind of positions and so on, it's so natural and if you drive towards them, they run on every direction, but they never follow a certain pattern that you can expect with many animals on screen (I gave the example of a zebra, but it's like this with every animal on the game, except one, I'm not saying which, but this animal has a few hundreds on screen at once).
It took me almost 38 hours to complete, but I cheated at the end to get my Platinum trophy, I was ready to go on my last major mission and still hadn't find all the animals (I thought the game was gonna end after that mission), so I looked on a guide online, but only to find out that even after you finish your last major mission and beat the game, you still go back to the camp after the credits and you can find the rest of the animals and finish the lesser important missions that you left behind. So, don't cheat, okay?
I'm hoping for a sequel, maybe on this site. Also, they could make a Jurassic Park just like this, sending you back to the island to photograph the Dinosaurs to see how they are doing and get missions just like Afrika. But it's unlikely, because it got such poor reviews among critics and not to mention poor sales (mostly because of the critics reviews).
P.S. English not my primary language. Sorry if there's switched words or something. | | | Write your own review about Afrika
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