Nickelodeon has joined forces with 2K Play, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., to release Go, Diego, Go!: Safari Rescue for Nintendo’s Wii and Sony’s PlayStation2. 2K Play’s first Wii game engineered specifically for preschoolers, the title will be available at retailers in North America on Feb. 12. To celebrate the launch, 2K Play, Nickelodeon and Nintendo World will host a special sneak preview for families on Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Nintendo World Store in New York City’s Rockefeller Center from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
‘For Go, Diego, Go!: Safari Rescue, we’ve created an entirely new interactive experience for preschoolers that is only possible on the Wii,’ says Steve Lux, VP of business development for 2K Play. ‘Nickelodeon’s intensive study of how two- through six-year-olds experience the new technologies offered by the Wii helped us create an all-new play pattern that extends beyond current games. Physical activity is an integral part of the fun and the new title is perfectly suited for the younger gamer.’
Nickelodeon conducted research with preschoolers and their families to determine how the Wii’s motion-play capabilities are absorbed by younger children and designed the game with 13 intuitive motions that make the most of the engineering of the Wii Remote. Taking on the role of Diego in a race across Africa, young gamers stomp to scare away lions, jump with Baby Jaguar, paint stripes on zebras, climb up ladders and swim across the jungle river by mimicking those actions with the remote.
Also available on Feb. 12 is 2K Play’s Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Mermaids for PlayStation 2. In the game, Dora and Boots need help bringing a Magic Crown to Marianna the Mermaid. By swinging, sliding and bouncing through the game, players travel over tropical land and sea to save Mermaid Kingdom. Along the way, Dora magically becomes a mermaid herself.
Both games feature the same voice actors as the popular Nick Jr. animated TV shows. Go, Diego, Go!: Safari Rescue was developed by High Voltage and will be available for a suggested retail price of $39.99 for Wii and $29.99 for PlayStation 2. Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Mermaids was developed by TotallyGames and will be available for $29.99 on PlayStation 2. For more information on these and other 2K Play games, go to www.2kgames.com/2kplay.
