An extract from the Jungle Speed review by WiiWare World:
"For those of you out there who aren't familiar with it, Jungle Speed is a unique card game that's recently become quite popular among card game fans. It's essentially one of those "first one to get rid of all their cards" style games and not only requires the players to be very observant, but also to have fast reflexes. So how exactly does this card game translate into a WiiWare release and does it manage to retain all of the trademark game play of the original card game?
Jungle Speed features a very simple set of rules. Every player is dealt an equal number of symbol cards. These symbol cards all feature unique designs on them and each design comes in four different colours. The first player turns over and plays the top card on their draw pile and this continues around the table one player after another. When another player at the table plays a symbol card that matches the card currently face up in front of you, a duel begins. At this point both of you have to quickly attempt to grab the wooden totem statue in the middle of the playing area. The first one to successfully grab the totem wins the duel and the losing player must take all of the cards that have been played between the two players involved in the duel. Occasionally there will be other unique cards such as the "Fast Grab" or "Colour Match" cards that force unique duels. A "Fast Grab" card forces everyone that has currently played at least one symbol card to quickly try to grab the totem. A "Colour Match" card forces any players that have matching coloured symbol cards into a duel. The game ends when one player is able to successfully rid themselves of all their symbol cards."
Ripten: The desolate winter season of new releases continues with such a sparse release week that if I were to not include DLC, would only have a total of three measly releases.
MyWii writes: "Jungle Speed is a card game all about being the first player to get rid of all your cards and having quick reflexes. In many ways it's similar to a game of Uno, with a relatively simple set of rules.
Each player begins with a pile of facedown cards which feature unique designs. Going around the table the "A" button is used to flip the cards face up, when two players flip up cards that match a duel begins between them. These players must swing the Wii Remote to grab the wooden totem statue in the middle of the table, the first to do so wins and gives all of their cards that have been used (flipped face up) to the loser."
It's good, hectic fun if there's a group of you playing and has that unquantifiable 'just one more go' quality. Predictably, it's less fun if you play alone against the AI. The presentation is bright and friendly without being spectacular, and NGamer likes the animal avatars, especially the blue rhino, who they think might be Rocksteady moonlighting from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
