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Viva Piñata Soundtrack

Viva Piñata Soundtrack

Viva Piñata Soundtrack, Grant Kirkhope, 2006

There was a time when Viva Piñata was touted as one of the fledgling Xbox 360’s most important franchises, even accompanied by a tie-in television show. Ultimately, Viva Piñata didn’t go down in game history as anything close to a gamechanger or a classic like some of developer Rare’s previous titles. Still, the game’s colourful graphics and relatively novel nature as a first-person life and gardening simulation left a positive enough impression with reviewers and gamers. In fact, the feedback was strong enough for Rare to release a sequel titled Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise, allowing the developers to implement features they had to leave out of the first game due to time pressures.

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Tagged With: 2006, Grant Kirkhope, Orchestral, PC, Rare, Simulation/Strategy, Xbox 360

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