EuroGamer - "Daddy!" My daughter is standing in the doorway to my home office, arms crossed, her face bearing the sort of petulant look that only five-year-old girls can pull off. "You're missing all the fun!" Her message duly delivered she gives a haughty turn and runs back to the living room. That'll teach me to check my emails when Happy Action Theater is on.
GameShark - Happy Action Theater is much more a toy than a “game”. You could also certainly look at it as a collaborative version of an early WarioWare, without the unifying elements of scorekeeping or increasing difficulty. At its heart, it’s a big, goofy, minigame collection that encourages people to make complete asses of themselves – and it’s a whole lot of shallow, shiny fun.
Double Fine's Happy Action Theater smashes the wall between exercising and fun without even trying.
Paul Acevedo: "Double Fine proved they had their heads wrapped around the Kinect pretty well with last year’s retail release, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster. That game was perfect for parents and kids to play together, plus it sparkled with the trademark Double Fine charm. The studio’s sophomore Kinect release, Happy Action Theater, is a smaller-scale Xbox Live Arcade game. While HAT (as I’ll now shorten it because I love headware) largely lacks traditional structure or goals, it bursts at the seams with multiperson silliness."
