The mini-games themselves are undeniably a mixed bag, as is usually the norm with games of this genre, but again it's an area where one would have expected super massive improvements from the team for this second entry in the fledgling series. Terrible and his evil minions are used in all sorts of ways to explain why players are taking flight in a helicopter to save people from building tops before a monster eats them, or why robots need to be fixed and cleaned in a large factory and so on. The story is by no means interesting either, but Dr. Frustratingly the voice acting grates considerably after only a short time, so being able to mute the over-the-top chap is a blessing. Terrible threatening a hostile takeover of Mother Earth, taking on the task by using a Move controller and connecting up the PlayStation Eye camera to send him to an early demise through a batch of motion-controlled mini-games included.
Storyline? Yes, Start the Party! Save the World does indeed attempt to draw players in with the premise of the imaginatively named Dr. Introducing every element of proceedings is a slick-voiced American actor, discussing the primary goal of each mini-game, encouraging players to jump into the action if the controller is left untouched for too long, and briefing out the tenuous links between the storyline and the on-screen action. Anyone hoping for customisation, difficulty settings or even something like extras to unlock will be considerably disappointed to find there is simply the chance to view the credits, adjust the screen position or change the volume of the mundane soundtrack and, perhaps most importantly, turn the annoying voice-over off. There's a barebones front-end that presents itself upon loading up the disc, with Options, Group Play and Solo Play as the only choices available. Right from the get-go, unfortunately, the simple answer is no. The key question is, though, whether or not lessons were learned to ensure Start the Party! Save the World is a far superior product, worthy of its price-tag and retail release, as opposed to being a mere snippet of a product that would be better suited to the download market. It was the first project from Supermassive Games, and while it wasn't particularly well-received it clearly sold well enough to warrant the team having another stab at a genre that's proven so successful on Wii. Start the Party was one of the original games announced for the PlayStation 3’s motion controller, launching alongside Move at the tail end of 2010.
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