A handful of gameplay modes litter Rio’s menu screen, though as the game is playable by up to four players offline – no online multiplayer is available whatsoever – a player can jump in at any point during any game, so it’s really just a choice of what fashion to play your mini-games in. The Story Mode offers sequences introduced by various characters from the game as players progress along a map, beginning in Minnesota and working your way to Rio de Janerio, playing a new selection of mini-games at each new location along the way. It’s hardly inspiring stuff, but with the occasional clip from the film and plenty of speech samples, it’s not exactly poorly produced.
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Birds of a feather party together
Rio from the makers of Ice Age is a movie tie-in party game from the same name which includes over forty mini-games using six playable characters, Blu, Jewel, Pedro, Nico, Raphael, and Eva in a brightly coloured action packed Carnival theme. Although also on PlayStation 3 and Wii, the Xbox 360 version has three additional exclusive mini-games.
Given the game’s reliance on competition, it’s a great shame that Rio doesn’t include any online gameplay. Though it offers drop-in gameplay for up to four players on a single system, the only use of the PlayStation Network Rio makes is that of the now essential Trophies.
