Beautiful Katamari
- Rolling in 720P Katamari leaps into the next generation with an upgrade into the HD era with increased visual depth and seamless Katamari growth All new soundtrack New levels and objects present the player with more craziness to conquer
- New Characters New cousins join the fun to bring the total to over 50 playable characters each with their own quirky animations and style
- Offline Multiplayer Share the experience with another player as you race to collect more objects than each other Tired of battling it out Make peace and work together in co op mode to roll the same katamari
- Online Multiplayer for the first time Compete with your friends to roll up everything or as many specific objects as possible As you wait for more online players take part in the mini games that populate the lobby and spread the world of Katamari Damacy
- Downloadable Content The world's ever changing as your game will continue to give you joy through downloadable content ready to give you a fresh experience very time you fire up your system
Product Description
The King of All Cosmos and the Prince have returned in their newest video game adventure for the insanely popular Katamari series - this time rolling into your Xbox 360! All your favorite relatives from the previous games have come along with you, as well as brand new cousins you've yet to meet! Play as the Prince or one of the cousins to roll up objects in all-new stages and missions as you explore this brand new creative exploration. All the gorgeous, psychadelic graphics you've enjoyed are even better than ever in HD with increased visual depth. Beautiful Katamari features an all-new set of presents to find in the different levels (now they're animated!) as well as a completely new soundtrack to keep you rocking while you roll. In addition to the original, challenging offline game modes, there's now online play too! Challenge and roll against players around the world, as well as play enchanting minigames and download additional content for your game. What are you waiting for? Pick up a copy and get rolling! Share the experience with another player as you race to collect more objects than each other. Tired of battling it out? Make peace and work together in CO-OP mode to roll the same katamari! For the first time ever, the Katamari franchise rolls into the online world. Compete with your friends to roll up everything or as many specific objects as possible. As you are waiting for more online players, also take part in lively mini-games that populate the lobby. The world's ever changing, as your game will continue to give you joy through downloadable content for a fresh experience every time you fire up your system. ESRB Rated E for E for Everyone
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Beautiful Katamari
- Video Game: 0 pages (2007-10-15)
- Platforms: Xbox 360
- Publisher: Namco
- Label: Namco
- Studio: Namco
- Our Recommended Age: 12 - 20 years
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 38 reviews
- Sales Rank in Video Games: #2848
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Summary: A Brilliant game, underrated 2008-10-15
Comment: Beautiful Katamari is a brilliant game, albeit a heavily underrated one. It's exactly what the gaming industry needs: a light-hearted, old-school, psychedelic, child nostalgic game that reminds us of why we love games in the first place. With the charming sound track, the classy, "Beautiful" presentation, and the cute and amusing story line, what's not to like? With all that's before you, after you play once, you'll find rolling up katamaris to Japanese psych-pop is strangely satisfying.
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Summary: Dated, and too short 2008-09-15
Comment: I'm going to fully explain why this title deserves what i've given it, a 2 star.
First of all, i'm not a fledgeling roller, i've played and beaten the previous two katamari games on the playstation. and i have to say this one simply does not do them justice.
-the game gets a star for the menus, and ease of play, the game is directed in a different manner than most hardcore games while maintaining a nose to the grindstone type of play.
- it also gets a star for replay value, while not as high as previous katamaris, If you're really into it you keep trying to beat your times and sizes. Also this game has enourmous amounts of unlockables to find and outfit your cousins with.
-Now is where i'll explain why its lacking,
-It loses a star because of its overall play. The 360 controller feels odd with the sticks so far apart and the ability to quick dash is harmed. That is a vital component to speedily beating the challenges. The game is also very very short, only a few levels are brought to the 360 with loads of cousins and presents in each making the game get very repetitive as you must play the levels large amount of times before finding sometimes upwards of 10 unlockables.
-It loses a star for innovation. Being the third in its series, the game fails to innovate much, the second game brought snoballs fireballs, and even a sumo wrestler to the game for some odd but very challenging missions. This game focuses mainly on rolling stuff up, its much faster too, the katimari moves at a much faster clip and as such the timer is reduced, making the game obscenely quick. you don't roll for long and you have to get to rediculous sizes quite often within a small time limit. The story in this also is quite underthought and has more of a boring quality. The other two were boring as well but in a way they kind of made up for it by making a bit of an inkling where the game was going or just providing a backstory like the second one.
-If i could i'd remove 2 stars for this, in previous games, the king of all cosmos would speak to you in game to say random things as wow or something to indictae the game was moving on. In addition he'd make quick comments about cousins. His head shows up on the screen and he speaks rap sound text for a few seconds then goes away. In this game he commonly shows up and drones for sometimes a minute or two, blocing your vision and speaking so much nonsense that while funny the first few times it becomes so irritating i found myself "telling"(loudly) him to shut up. Especially with the large amounts of presents and cousins, over half of any given objective could have his head in the center of your screen. It wouldn't be so bad if he was in a corner or a ticker tape but he's dead center and takes up about 1/4 of the screen. that's a lot in a game and it really takes a lot from the experience.
-Overall the game felt unfinished, and not complete, namco didn't push the game to even attempt to be better than the previous one and mostly seemed to target fans for their hard earned money rather than giving them a good time. Its a good rental but its not even worth owning, the game can be completed in a few hours with little to no replay value. Buy we love katamari for the ps2 instead.
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Summary: Exciting and fun, but kind of hard 2008-09-09
Comment: I really enjoyed this Katamari game. It's pretty much the same as the other Katamaris but I think it may actually be just a little bit harder to accomplish the goals. They ask you to roll up katamaris but ask for certain kinds of items and sometimes your katamari is really big but you get a poor score because you did not collect enough of what they asked for. Also, they added MORE cousins! There is a new soundtrack but I didn't feel it was as good as previous ones. Overall, if you truly love Katamari, like I do, you will enjoy this game anyway.
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Summary: Katamari Fever once you figure out how to get everywhere 2008-08-28
Comment: Starting the game was a little challenging. Had to use the manual to try to figure out where we wanted to go (multi-player). When we accidentally "flew" off course we couldn't find our way back to the planet and had to restart the game to get our footing.
Sounds like it wasn't great and it wasn't. BUT, once we actually got to start playing it was fun. Still trying to figure out the pool table action but it's still cool.
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Summary: overlooked Katamari title on your favorite next-gen console 2008-08-13
Comment: Beautiful Katamari is the only Katamari title available for next-gen consoles and luckily (for me at least) it's exclusively on the 360.
Graphics are HD sensory overload in the most wonderful, cohesive way you can possible imagine. Lots of cultural winks for those of us obsessed with Japan or familiar with their popular culture.
Level design is dope with plenty of places to explore and keep coming back for more~!
Its all-new soundtrack is worth the admission price alone. Tons of cameos from 80's J-Pop stars coupled with that really nice beat production that we've come to expect from the Katamari series.
Great intro for those of you who never played Katamari before and a great new addi(c)tion for anyone who's already played the series.
Get it. You won't regret it.
And that rhymed.
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