Super Monkey Ball 2
The objective of Super Monkey Ball 2 is to guide a monkey trapped inside a plastic ball through a maze to the goal. There are three variations, story mode, challenge mode, and practice mode. In story mode you…
Super Monkey Ball 2 is an arcade developed by Amusement Vision, released 25 August 2002 on Nintendo GameCube.
What Super Monkey Ball 2 is
Super Monkey Ball 2 is an arcade game developed by Amusement Vision and released in 2002. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only. It runs on Super Monkey Ball Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story shows the Super Monkey Ball team and all the Jungle Island inhabitants happily enjoying their day, when suddenly, Dr. Bad-Boon's airship flies over the land and vacuums up all of the bananas. AiAi demands he give back all the bananas, but he will only do so if MeeMee marries him. MeeMee refuses, so Bad-Boon flies off, and the Super Monkey Ball team jumps into action. Dr. Bad-Boon's first nefarious scheme is to blow up Jungle Island by making a volcano explode with a time bomb. He leaves it floating inside of it, and the team finds it. GonGon says he will destroy the bomb, despite MeeMee's pleas against it. He punches it out of the volcano, and it lands all the way in Bad-Boon's…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and party. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Super Monkey Ball series
Super Monkey Ball 2 is the third of 45 entries we hold in the Super Monkey Ball series. It arrived 11 months after Super Monkey Ball. The next entry was Super Monkey Ball Jr. in 2002. Its critic score of 70 is almost exactly the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Monkey Ball Jr. at 90.
How it was received
Super Monkey Ball 2 holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 2 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Super Monkey Ball 2 launched on 25 August 2002, within three weeks of Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Battlefield 1942, Mafia and Syberia. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, Battlefield 1942, Mafia, Syberia.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Super Monkey Ball 2 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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