What do a monkey and clams have in common? They are what you have to collect in order to get the electoral votes in the new political comedy Hail to the Chimp. This quirky multiplayer game is one of those hit or miss titles that not many people will know about. It is essentially a collection of mini games where you collect clams in order to do something with them. That's about it for game play. You do this for the rest of the game but each level has something special you need to do. In any of the game modes, you can of course fight your opponents to knock the clams they're carrying from their hands. This is done by slapping or jumping onto them or using a power-up. Unfortunately, the fighting system feels cheap thanks to the fact that the computer will take charge and gang up on you so more than one opponent can cripple you in a game. While using these moves you of course slow down your opponents and also can slap out clams. But clams show you in increments of 5, but wont show how many you have total or how many you lose when you yourself get hit. This of course can also make the game too easy with the AI getting stuck in corners or just simply killing themselves over and over again by running of the sides. So of course playing with friends is what they are trying to do but it doesn't always work that way.
The fun part is watching the odd antics of all the political banter that is shown between each segment. it goes through a number of candidates and all have their very own style of what they bring to the party. Who knew that a hippo would totally support that we all go threw life commando style. But you don't get to pick the character you want to be, you have to play as the character in the infomercial and try to get them elected. While there is no big payoff for this game it is kind of funny to watch at some points but overall just has too many failing points to recommend it.
Overall - D
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