Ooga Booga

Once you get a load of Visual Concepts? online multiplayer Polynesian frenzy, you?ll understand that shrunken heads are no laughing matter.

One day, in the not-too-distant future, The Last of the Great Dreamcast Games? will have trickled out, Sega?s journey to the software side will be complete, and the Dreamcast will be remembered?fondly, by many?as Sega?s last hardware hurrah. One title that hopes to join the likes of Seaman, Space Channel Five, and Samba de Amigo in the hallowed halls of the DC?s immortal, inspired, left-of-mainstream weirdness is Ooga Booga?a quirky multiplayer online frenzy that cashes in on the recent retro-Polynesian Tiki-god Funk craze.

Shrunken Heads, Inflated Egos
Ooga Booga, the self-doubting volcano goddess, needs validation. In order to bolster her own waning sense of self-worth, she creates a series of islands where four of the land?s tribes can duke it out over who worships her the most. Each tribe then sends their Kahuna?or lead witch-doctor?to the island to do battle with the other tribes? representatives. The four tribes include the beast-friendly Twitchy Tribe, the dumb-and-portly Fatties, floating-and-foul tempered Hoodoo, and the lovely maidens-only Hottie Tribe.

To make things more interesting, Ooga Booga has laced each island in her voodoo archipelago with a series of spells, creatures, and shrunken head projectiles that the Kahunas can use to beat the living mojo out of their competition. The result? A Power Stone/Super Smash Brothers melee of epic proportions.

Joe vs. The Volcano vs. Javier vs. Missus Buttonsby vs. Akira
Though you?ll be able to play through Ooga Booga in a single player campaign to unlock the game?s hidden characters and secrets, the game obviously is designed for multiplayer play to take the forefront. Online play will be one of Ooga Booga?s big features, with 2 players able to compete from the same Dreamcast. Offline, friends will be able to voodoo vittles out of one another in a 4-player split screen mode. Play modes will range from straight-up deathmatch to creature-wrangling rodeos to a variation on polo starring the islands? native giant boar.

Ooga Booga is coming to us coutesy of Visual Concepts, and is one of the few non-Sega Sports titles to come out of the prodigious studio. The game is currently slated for a mid-September release, right around the same time that Phantasy Star Online Version 2 hits stores. ?Til that time, check out these exclusive screens?and, in case you?re thinking the goddess don?t need your lovin??remember what happened to poor people of Pompeii.

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