Ape Escape 3
Kei and Yumi take the lead as the new heroes. Their quest is to capture all 400 monkeys. You control either Kei or Yumi. The gameplay involves using various methods and weapons to catch them all. The game has…
Ape Escape 3 is a platform developed by SCE Japan Studio, released 14 July 2005 on PlayStation 2. The main story takes about 10 hrs to finish.
What Ape Escape 3 is
Ape Escape 3 is a platform game developed by SCE Japan Studio and released in 2005. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Kei and Yumi take the lead as the new heroes. Their quest is to capture all 400 monkeys. You control either Kei or Yumi. The gameplay involves using various methods and weapons to catch them all. The game has many levels with different themes, such as a Haunted Castle, a Racing level, Jungle settings, TV studios and other settings. You can slow the animals down with various objects such as a stun club or a slingback shooter, and then you can capture them with a net. New to the series are the morphing abilities, eight in all. You can morph into various characters, like a knight and perform a powerful attack or a gun fighter and shoot em up or a ninja and run along walls. You can also…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Ape Escape series
Ape Escape 3 is the eighth of 16 entries we hold in the Ape Escape series. It arrived 6 months after Ape Escape Academy. The next entry was Saru Get You: Pipo Saru Racer in 2006. Its critic score of 63 is 16 points above the series average of 47. The highest-rated entry is Ape Escape 2 at 78.
How it was received
Ape Escape 3 holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 22% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 4 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 10 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 14 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Ape Escape 3 launched on 14 July 2005, within three weeks of Advance Wars: Dual Strike, We Love Katamari, Ys: The Oath in Felghana and Fatal Frame III: The Tormented. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Advance Wars: Dual Strike, We Love Katamari, Ys: The Oath in Felghana, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ape Escape 3 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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