20.2.2010

The principle of 'Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep' remains the same as its predecessor; you take the role of a diver who must explore, excavate and discover various seas and oceans and their contents. The story follows your quest for the mysterious 'Song of the Dragons' with fellow divers Jean-Eric and Oceane. Although most features of the game remain the same as 'Endless Ocean', there are many major changes:1) The most noticeable difference is the massively increased range of play. Unlike the first game, in which you could only explore one large area, you can now explore seven medium-sized areas, all in different locations including the North and South Poles, the Amazon River,the Red Sea and Aegean Sea.2) The method of salvaging and collecting objects has now been hugely improved. At first, you can only pick up coins scattered around the sea bed, but as you progress through the game, you gain the ability to scan the sea floor for various objects. These objects are then appraised and you recieve money depending on the value of the objects. This money can then be used to buy new equipment and tools.3) Your main base is at Nineball Island, a tropical island in the Pacific Ocean. You can then customise this island using the money you have collected by placing totem poles, sunbeds and other decorations onto the shore.4) Apart from the main story line, you can now carry out other mini tasks. These tasks include photo and guide challenges (like the last game), as well as salvaging objects for paying clients and finding various fish and animals.5) You now have the ability to not only walk around Nineball Island, but to get up out of the water during dives and to walk around small islands.6) Unlike the last game where you had to find a creature three times to view its full information, you now can view all the creature's information when you first find it. However, you can view a special trivia page about the creature if you put it under certain conditions (e.g. blowing a whistle near a dolphin, or giving a fish to a penguin etc.).7) The game also includes much more characters, all with various abilities. One character might give you the ability to salvage more objects when you dive with them while another character may give you the ability to track various animals' movements.8) Like the last game, you have the ability to own and visit an aquarium. However, you can now place much more fish in this aquarium, and you can also add land animals and small fish into different parts of the aquarium. Also, this aquarium can open to the public. The better the aquarium, the more people will visit.9) A new tool introduced in the game is the 'Pulsar', a tool that sends out electric waves which heal and calm down fish and animals.10) Another clever concept with the game is the new danger involved when swimming near dangerous animals. You may get attacked by sharks, pirhanas or electric eels if your not careful, however, you can defend yourself using the 'Pulsar'.All in all, 'Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep' is much better and more advanced then its predecessor, with improved graphics and many new areas and fish to discover. Like the last game, you will only enjoy it if you like animals and the natural world. If you like these killing and shooting games, you will find this game boring, uneventful and dull. However, if you do fit the required description, you should think highly of this game and find it entertaining and relaxing.

6.3.2012

Maybe it's just me, but I actually get a bit of an adrenaline rush when I see a shark coming at me with its mouth open, before it whips round and lashes me with its tail...First of all, I really love this game. I borrowed it from my cousin almost a year ago, and because there's so much to do on the game, I just can't seem to finish it to give it back to him! I thought there would just be the main plot, of the 'Song of the Dragons' - which was very good and really made me think of how to solve the mysteries. Then, once the Cavern of the Gods had collapsed, basically finishing the main plot (for now), I needed to raise 1,000,000 points to excavate it again.This can be gradually achieved by fulfilling the other side-missions in the game.For example, you can accept salvage requests and go and find treasures in the sea, then get paid for them. If you love salvaging, like I do, you can also go and find other items for yourself in virtually every place on the map (you'll see a pattern emerging if you continually go back to the same places - for example, I go to the temple in the Cortica River a lot because I can always find about 10 salvage items there alone without any risk of being bitten by piranhas or crocodiles, stung by electric eels or chased by sharks). If you give them to Nancy later, she'll appraise them and give you money (points) for them. Some of the items can be worth 10,000 points or more. You'll know when you salvage a valuable item, because as you pick it up, a lightning flash will go horizontally across the screen. Make sure you salvage those items and give them to Nancy for mega-points!You can accept photo requests - a magazine or a person asks for a photo of a particular fish or sea animal, you take the photo, develop the best one and send it to them, then get rated and paid (I'm pretty rubbish at this one, I've only got a C-rating at best).You can go and cover all the maps (so that all the squares on the maps aren't grey anymore) and you get paid for your 'good cartography work'.You can train dolphins and eventually put on shows with them, for which you get paid.When you're chosen to be the curate of the Japan Aquarium, you can change the displays with the animals you've met on your travels in the oceans, to suit what the customers are wanting to see at the time. The next time you go back to the aquarium and speak to the Professor, you get paid for your help with the Aquarium (more or less depending on how long it's been since you were last there and how good your work was last time round).So far, I still haven't reached the 1,000,000 points, but I'm getting closer. I can't wait to find out what happens when I finally get to excavate the Cavern of the Gods.My advice is to buy this game if you love sea animals and/or a bit of a challenge and/or don't mind being chased by sharks. It's not just a game that has a short plot and then is left on the shelf, it's something you can keep going back to again and again. And once you've finished the game, you'll probably have forgotten what the main plot was all about, so you can go back and start again.Thank you for reading my review of 'Endless Ocean 2 - Adventures of the Deep'.

13.2.2010

'Dive into a mysterious underwater world! Embark on an epic journey through the waters of the world to solve the mystery of the 'Song Of Dragons', said to be the key to a magnificent treasure. Dive in Pacific reefs, a South American river, the intense cold of the Arctic, the darkness of the ocean depths and more!'After purchasing the original 'Endless Ocean' for the Wii, a year ago, I was hooked instantly! I had no idea there was going to be a sequel to the first until the day before 'Endless Ocean 2' was released. As soon as I found out I purchased this fantastic game in a heartbeat. The first one was great, but this is superb. There are far more things to do in this game, that will keep you playing for hours.You start as an amateur diver, who is then hired by the local diving company. The game has a great storyline, which you further unlock as you progress in the game. Also, as you progress, you unlock new diving areas throughout the world, unlocking more and more side quests. The thing I like most about this one, is the fact you can salvage items & treasure from the sea floor using your multi-sensor. You then appraise your finds when you get back to your home base, 'Nineball Island'. You receive a certain amount of points, more for rare finds, which you then can buy new upgrades for diving equipment and so on.There are far more sea life and shore life than the previous game, and you can view the creatures you have come across in your Marine Encyclopaedia. There are dangerous creatures in this game too, which will attack if you get close enough. Use your new pulsar to calm them. You can also use this new pulsar to heal the marine life. This game also has a lot of achievements that you unlock throughout the game, as well as certificates and titles, for completing various tasks or getting a certain amount of 'whatever'.This game carries on the photo and diving requests, with the added salvage requests now, too. Which gains you points and 'fame'. You can also train dolphins and whales just like the first game, and use them as your diving partner. You can also take your fellow diving co-workers who give you 'certain' added bonuses when diving.You also eventually get an Aquarium, with which you stock the creatures you come across. The difference with this one, however, is that not only do you have a main tank for the larger sea life, but also a terrarium and smaller tanks to house the shore life and small sea life. You also get a daily income, and the Aquariums popularity increases overtime. As well as this, you receive your very own 'Private Reef'. This allows you to create your very own little ecosystem, attracting different species according to which coral/plants, you have placed there. Once your 'Private Reef' has attracted 200 animals, you gain points, and can release them into the surrounding coral reef. You can repeat this process over and over, attracting different species of fish and other fauna every time! Pretty cool I thought.This game is definitely a must for everyone, and I only hope that the developers make an 'Endless Ocean 3'!! HahaI hope this was helpful, you wont be disappointed!

5.8.2010

We're lucky to have the majority of popular consoles in our house (Xbox Playstation etc.) and have found the Wii to be the best for children's fun and family games. However, there are only so many zombies that you can slaughter on Xbox and Playstation before one's palette becomes jaded, therefore I looked at this game as a means of putting the children back on track with something about animals - in this instance sea creatures.Of course I was wasting my time as far as they were concerned. They looked at it once and, just like showing anybody under 30 a black and white movie, they immediately turned their noses up at it. But that is their loss,because this software is the next best thing to sitting in front of your own (we don't have a really big screen TV but this game deserves one) deep sea aquarium and having the opportunity to noodle about in it and look at everything in 360 degree rotation. You get to look at and swim with every kind of fish, shark, rays, whales - you name it, everything is included here. As the story unfolds you actually get to include many of the fish that you identify in your own public aquarium.It really is a very relaxing software (it's hard to call it a game) to play around with and in typical Nintendo fashion nobody dies. However, you will eventually become bored with it because it is actually a bit of a `non game. There is no real `action' or thrills to be had, although I do get a kick out of finding deep sea treasure and salvaging items and so forth. The graphics are great but so much detail has gone into the diving portions of the software (as it rightfully should) that there has been no room left for speech dialogue and as such everything is simply printed up on screen for you to read your way silently through. Hence children will soon be bored by it.I played it for hours as a way of cleansing my jaded gaming palette before launching into Red Dead Redemption on Xbox. I'm almost finished with RDR and am really looking forward to getting back to my deep sea quest once more as the lure of the deep beckons and I feel the need to simply sit back with a cold beer and something cool to smoke while lazily noodling around beneath the oceans of the world.Here a couple of important closing thoughts. If Enya and other Celtic type of chill out music isn't your idea of a good time you can actually turn the music off (by turning the volume control to zero) in the audio options section. You'll be glad I told you about that. It's far more enjoyable to dive the oceans of the Nintendo sea world with just the sound of your air regulator bubbling around you as it totally adds to the chill out vibes.Finally, I bought this on Amazon because it's as rare as hen's teeth to find in a mainstream game shop, and when I have seen it second hand it's been more expensive than Amazon because of its retail rarity. Buy it now and be prepared to make it your `go to' software for when you fancy kicking back and doing nothing for a while. You'll be glad you did as it's a very worthwhile addition to any gamers software collection.

29.12.2010

after playing and really enjoying the first game I really couldnt wait for this one and I have to say it didnt let me down.WARNING: it is completly addictive and even though some people found the storyline 'fluffy' being a peaceful person myself I found it captivating although I did guess what the'song of dragons' really is rather early on. Accsess is much easier on this game than the first EO and i really like having an island as a base rather than a piontless boat. But by far the best new feature of this game is the abilty to go to a number of different locations as you get a much wider view of sea creatures rather than just tropical ones, and you dont end up finding a polar bear on the deck of your boat (!!!)Another massive change to that of EO1 is the element of danger, even though i understand most people will love shooting sharks with a gun (that makes them better and calms them, but still,same princable)I really didnt enjoy this part (hey im scared of pixels that hit me with there tails!) and I found that to get along in the game you do have to at some piont no matter how much you try to avoid it you do have to 'pulsar them' and not chicken out like i did and return to the wii home screen in a blind panic screaming "OMG the giant goblin shark is comeing towards me and im stuck in between to statues waiting for my stupid pulsar to recharge, Ellie get your butt over here and help me" quote. But I DO UNDERSTAND THAT SOME PEOPLE DO LIKE THIS so keep that in mind.On a calmer note another great new(ish) feature was to propperly scavenge for stuff, in the old game I found this activity exctreamly tedious and game up after only finding a mere 15 objects, however on this game with the help of GG i found scaveging in ciceros straight one of the best features of the game and a really easy way to earn money and improve your diving equipment (i didnt spend much on improving my pulsars you can probally guesss)Training your dolphin(s) is pretty much the same as on EO1 with the same tricks (tad disapointed)however you can only do one trick at a time which is rather gard work until you unlock free training which really is a god send at this piont.as well as the main story line there are also a number of mini quests which are as fun as the main one, and as they dont link to the main storyline if you cant complete them, you can just leave them, follow the main storyline and come back latter, hopefully an improved diver.The only thing I can comnplain about (other than my panic attack) is in the old game you couyld choose between a number of beautiful relaxing songs where as this you have to put up with the defult or non at all, but a small price to pay for such a great game! I would recomend it no end, and if you have doubts, dont, I can garrenty this game will captivate you and your family (youll learn a great deal as well, which is always a bonus)

11.8.2010

For those of you who have played the first one, I can tell you that this is a great improvement. They've kept the best bits but made the game a bit more linear, which is actually a good thing.This game gives a great sense of value for money as the game is so large, lots to do and unlock. (I'm about 40 hours in and there seems as though there's quite a bit more to do.)The great thing about this game is that the tasks can be tackled in pretty much any order you want and eventually you'll unlock more and more. Including quite a few varied locations. Careful thought has been put into how to keep track of them all so you always know what has / hasn't been done.

5.2.2010

I pre-ordered this game via amazon as the I really enjoyed the first one, I recived it today and couldnt wait to get started from the great introduction and title sequence it looked amazing.Once into the game I found it easier to control and think anyone with basic knowledge of a wii remaote could use it.from what i have seen so far this game has a good main story running through it and if like me you love exploration and finding new things you will love it.I have always loved the ocean but as im not a confident swimmer its a a great way to see a virtual ocean teeming with life.The game is graphiclly superb and to keep things interesting their is loads to do.

11.2.2010

Ever since I watched those old 80's Jacques Cousteau documentaries, the idea of one day snorkeling myself never left my mind. So far I never had the opportunity to dive but I often catch myself daydreaming about underwater excursions. Until I can add a check-mark beside that item on my before-I-turn-forty-list this game offers an excellent substitute.Dive & Relax. Leave the world behind you and become on with the underwater realm.The locales are beautifully designed, the fish, whales, dolphins and the rest of the marine life move in a very realistic fashion. The missions are pretty simple and most have an educational parameter but it is mostly about exploring at your own pace. Well,

7.2.2010

My dad got this game for me a few days ago(i'm on his account) already i am loving it and can hardly leave it.I would recommend it to anyone.At the start you make yourself as a diver and go off into different oceans to do different tasks. You get to help sick sea animals and interact with them too! Then you can find out about them as there is a piece of information about almost every different fish you find along you travels. Then after a long day diving you finaly get to relax on your very own island where you will find a very special friend,a house to rest in and some other things to check up on.The graphics in this game are fantastic and so realistic.

25.11.2010

We played the original "game" a lot but it suffered from being a bit aimless, and kind of fizzled out towards the end. This sequel builds on it and makes a lot of improvements - the controls are better thought out, there's a lot more variety of locations; most importantly, there is now a purpose to the game, with lots of tasks to do from salvaging for treasure, guiding on dives, healing fish, training dolphins etc. It still suffers from classic Wii-related (it seems) limitations like no audio speech, short waits for loading screens etc, but you can forgive them that when the overall experience is very good. The only initial dissappointment for us was the music - we were expecting more Hayley Westenra tracks like the first game,

13.6.2010

Had mixed thoughts about buying this - very contrasting reviews!Have had about 5 hours playing time with it now and I love it...Hilariously, in small print on the back of the CD-ROM packaging comes the warning "Basic reading ability is needed to fully enjoy this game".Not quite sure how you could possibly play this game at all without an ability to read!This is because all the character dialogue is written out and not spoken.Initially this was a major disappointment, but soon got used to it and found the 'cartoony' qualities of the graphics to be a delight.When I say 'cartoony', that is not meant to demean the quality in any way - the sound and picture of the gentle waves lapping on the beach

29.5.2016

Wonderfully relaxing, the sound and visuals are so pretty and charming. The previous game has been greatly improved: it looks better, there's far FAR more to do (it feels about ten times bigger than the first EO) and there's a very strong storyline alongside the usual ambient free diving. A really laid back game for people who want to spend time in another world without being shot at or stressed out.There are also some moments of real beauty, such as the sequences where you befriend various sea mammals. It gets across how pretty and valuable the sea is without being preachy or political. It's also nice to find a part of the real world that can be just as interesting to explore as any made-up alien planet.If you enjoyed EO 1 but thought it was too short,

4.2.2011

I origianally bought this game for my mum for Christmas this year. We're both very avid divers and both love this game! She's not been so attatched to a game since tetris! I love how you can choose to either do tasks or just explore the oceans. Some of the places I've even dived myself and are pretty accurate. This game has reminded me of why I wanted to become a dive instructor and the amazement it brings to novice divers. The more you play the longer you can dive for. I've been at uni since Christmas and my mum has got so far that she can stay underwater for up to 40 minutes now. I'e got some catching up to do! If you've ever dived, or want to, buy this!

6.2.2010

After playing the first one, I couldn't wait for this second one, and it didn't disappoint. Great graphics, beautiful scenery, actually has dangerous sea creatures like sharks, electric eels, etc and even a river to dive in, which makes a change from the sea. I love the playability, wii control is easy enough in this game, compared to some other games I've played, and overall, I'm impressed.I admit, I wish it were like the first one with Hayley Westenra songs on it, which made the game more relaxing, but that's my only slight critiscm of an otherwise brilliant game.

23.11.2010

This game is amazing it's realy relaxing and has a great story the only problem with the game is the difficulty getting money on it I've had it about 3 weeks and already put 30 hours of gameplay into it the story itself is about 12 hours if you take your time on it but can probrably be done in less time the graphics are good for the wii controls are good wen using the classic controller pro I have not tried it just with the wiimote on it's own overall if it could be given more stars I'd give it 10/10

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