Viva Pinata Party Animals launch today

Its Viva Pinata Party Animals launch today. So far there are two reviews:

Team x-box who appraised a kiddies/family game with 8.0
and IGN - 5.6 -

The IGN reviewer made it clear that the adult reviewer found the kiddie family game too easy and moaned that it was a kids game. Shock! Horror! Really - a kids game you say. For mums and dads to play with their 6 year old! You mean it ISNT Halo or Bioshock!!!

Go figure IGN. Its supposed to be played by little kids. Give the controller to a 6 year old and they'll love it. I know. My soon to be 6 year old son is obsessed.

Oh and for the record IGN - rather than assuming that the in game assets were verbatim from Rare, it would be wise in future to confirm if that truely was the case with Krome. The two incarnation of VP are very different engines and called for a rework of every facet. And I'll defend both companies here...since I've worked for both - so lets be fair huh, and stop the assumptions?

So. There you go.

ps. Additionally - these comments do not reflect the position of either company.