Product Description

Captain Olimar has returned to the planet where it all began, but this time he hasn't crash-landed, now it's all about business. Captain Olimar's company is going bankrupt, therefore in order to save it, Olimar has to return and salvage the treasure strewn all over the planet. His company's debt is a whopping 10,000 pokos so this task is almost too much for one man to handle.

Luckily, his trusty assistant, Louie, has joined him this time, so if the two of them can delegate their work well, they should be able to repay the company's debts in no time! Of course, they'll need the help of the Pikmin to do that - these two can't do anything by themselves.

Players must give precise orders to their Pikmin in order to defeat enemies, grow more Pikmin and solve puzzles. Players will need to take advantage of the new powerful Purple Pikmin and poison resistant White Pikmin, plus new items as they plan their strategies - with more than 60 different species of enemy characters and randomly generated dungeons that span the planet, Pikmin 2 features much more fun gameplay than ever. And this time around, time is limitless, so players can head straight for the action or spend as much time exploring as they please.

• Team up with your friends to co-operatively play and save the planet, or go against each other in battle mode. These all-new multiplayer functions will support your gameplay experience.
• The Wii Remote pointer is used is used to control the on-screen cursor, which directs where Olimar sends Pikmin as well as where he aims the sound of his whistle.
• The A Button has several functions: it allows Olimar to interact with an Onion (to put in or take out Pikmin) or with the Dolphin (to check the ship's status and to repair his space suit). When next to a part of the Dolphin, pressing the A Button yields information on the part.
• If Olimar is near Pikmin embed

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1865 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Released on: 2009-04-24
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: 2.03 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Captain Olimar has returned to the planet where it all began, but this time he hasn't crash-landed, now it's all about business. Captain Olimar's company is going bankrupt, therefore in order to save it, Olimar has to return and salvage the treasure strewn all over the planet. His company's debt is a whopping 10,000 pokos so this task is almost too much for one man to handle. Luckily, his trusty assistant, Louie, has joined him this time, so if the two of them can delegate their work well, they should be able to repay the company's debts in no time!

Of course, they'll need the help of the Pikmin to do that - these two can't do anything by themselves. Players must give precise orders to their Pikmin in order to defeat enemies, grow more Pikmin and solve puzzles. Players will need to take advantage of the new powerful Purple Pikmin and poison resistant White Pikmin, plus new items as they plan their strategies - with more than 60 different species of enemy characters and randomly generated dungeons that span the planet, Pikmin 2 features much more fun gameplay than ever. And this time around, time is limitless, so players can head straight for the action or spend as much time exploring as they please.

Customer Reviews

Big Improvement
A big improvement over the original - the best difference being the removal of that annoying 30day time limit - you still have the day/night cycle, but now you can play it at your own pace, rushing through it, or slowly building up an army of pikmin.
Plus the addition of 2 player modes, and the Wii controls - make it hard to fault.
If you liked the 1st, you'll love this - if, like me, you were put off the 1st by it's unforgiving nature, then you should find this one a lot more enjoyable.

A most excellent and very cute puzzle/adventure game.
I never brought myself a Gamecube so, Pikmin 2 is a completely fresh and most enjoyable gaming experience for me. You take control of Olimar and Louie who are looking for treasure with the help of many Pikimins which they can command. The Pikmins are very cute and everything is controlled with the most fantastic Wii controls that I have come across. In fact the Wii controls are so brilliant and easy to use that, I can not imagine Pikmin 2 on the Gamecube being as enjoyable to play. How do Nintendo manage to produce so many great games time after time and come up with lots of new ideas too. Pikmin 2 may be a update of an Gamecube game but the graphics still look very good and are very cute too. For me Pikmin 2 is up there with the Mario and Zelda games for it's sheer brilliance.

one of the best wii games ever
this game is truly fantastic I really enjoyed playing through the game. I loved the way that it introduces all the different Pikmin to you for the first time. When I read some of the reviews on here I was thinking of buying the game I have to say, that if your reading this for the same purpose its worth buying.

Game play:
the game play is truly brilliant with excellent additions like the treasure detector which really helps when you you get white (poisonous) Pikmin which can dig up unseen items so if you have that item it really helps. The different planets are all different and have new enemy's on them some of them even have bosses without going into caves they can surprise you but it is great fun.

The camera:
The camera is great, when you press Z you can put the camera behind you which is good if you can't see where you are properly which doesn't actually happen very often because when you do go behind an edge of a wall or something you glow red if Olimar and blue if Louie in short its good.

the enemys:
Most of them get harder as you progress so they always seem just the right difficulty for you. and you don't have to battle the bosses, but it's worth it because they give you good items like the treasure finder (above).

story:
Some people might say that the storyline isn't that fab, buy I think that its brilliant. basically your company space Holocate haul company has taken out a massive loan and needs to repay it when the president says he's going to sell olimars ship the ss.dolphin he reallys the fate of his ship and he drops a peice of treasure and ots worth 100 pokos then you fly back to pikmin planet and start to recover your debt

2 player:
the two player is brilliant, the only down side is that you can only attack one of your opponents Pikmin at a time apart from that getting your opponents marble if good fun. It also has a good variety of maps to play on.

items:
I have mentioned the item finder before in the review but the items called treasure like the battery that i found on the first level is called a courage reactor. Plus a rubber dug is called a rubber ugly. The items are fun to collect.

pikmin:
The pikmin come out of an onion which in itself is brilliant, but they are cute and well graphicated others might disagree put i think that they are. and the flowers that you get pikmin from are a good addition to the game and are fun to use.

Timing:
i never played on pikmin 1 so i haven't experienced the a parentally
really irritating time limit so you have to complete in a set time. but in this game you can complete it as slow as you want of course there's the daytime timer that limits the amount of time that you can be exploring for, but you can just go back the next day and continue where you left off. When you are in a cave the timer stops until you get back out again

in summery this is an absolutely fantastic game, sorry that this was review was so long but i thought when i saw the star rating going down to four i thought that i would defend it and try to get it back up to five, because it deserves it. and i do recommend that you buy it.