About Genre Adventure Summary Monkey Quest is Nickelodeon's new free-to-play, massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) set in the amazing World of Ook. In it you create your very own Monkey and set off on exciting adventures to explore mysterious lands, battle ferocious monsters, and discover the secrets of the lost Monkey King.As you play, your Monkey grows more powerful, unlocking each new Monkey tribe by completing quests, defeating monsters, solving puzzles, and proving your worth to the powerful tribal Monkey leaders. If you are successful, each tribe will grant you new powers and abilities that you can specialize in to become a tribal master, or that you can mix and match to create a style all your own. Will you be the Monkey that saves Ook? Join the adventure today!
Parents need to know that Monkey Quest is a massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORG) in which kids create and customize a monkey avatar to go on adventures in a fantasy world. This is a side-scrolling platform puzzler with some mild combat. The violence is cartoony and on par with what kids would see in a Mario game. This game is played through a browser but requires the Unity plug-in, and parents will have to allow pop-ups from the site as the game launches in a pop-up window. The game also requires a moderate to high-end computer and fast Internet connection (minimum computer specs called for include an ATI Radeon 9600 or NVidia FX 5700 or better video card and broadband connection). Parents also need to know that although quite a bit of the game may be played for free, there's a substantial amount of the game to be unlocked by a monthly subscription or through buying NickCash to open the areas up for play. Ook, the world of MONKEY QUEST, is a wild and exciting land.
Long ago, the Monkey King had defeated the Shadow Demon, Ka, and then disappeared, leaving five ruling monkey tribes to run Ook. Now, evil Shadow Monsters are once again threatening this world and the monkey tribes. You, young monkey, with your friends (other players in this online game) have agreed to go on quests to discover the secrets of the evil and join the fight against it. Players become stronger the longer they play, and the world they are exploring expands. Monkey Quest is a graphically pleasing and well-designed MMO with a theme that appeals to kids, with platforming action that also makes use of foreground and background space to create more 'platforms' onto which to jump. Most kids who have played console games will be familiar with this game action, which makes use of arrow keys to move, the spacebar to jump, and combinations thereof for special powers. Besides questing, players will find there's also simple crafting in the game and as players advance, they will unlock better weapons and abilities.
Kids will also find that playing together with friends (it's simple to make friends in this world) provides a 'banana' multiplier, increasing the number of bananas - the in-game currency - that they earn. There are also special quests where kids need to join up as a 'team' so that they can take on quests that can only be done with two to four kids playing together.The game is fun and appealing to kids, but only for kids playing on high-end computers.
Unfortunately its rather high computing requirements mean that kids with older computers and slower internet connections will find the game less fun with long load times between scenarios and graphic glitches. For kids with fast enough computers, this a delightful romp - on par with the fun found in.Online interaction: The chat function is white list chat where a dictionary is employed.
Which is to say, kids can only use words that are in that dictionary. Any attempt at bad words are blocked. There is 24/7 monitoring and a function available for reporting abuse.
May 10, 2011 Nickelodeon took a cue from the free-to-play and Facebook games markets by playing up paid transactions in Monkey Quest. One that, with that many players, will serve it well. Angry and warlike monkeys will try to harm your monkey and do not let it reach the finish line and find the treasure. In the beginning Monkey Quest you can play only one monkey, but once you collect fifteen hundred thousand monkey coins with the image of delicious bananas, then you can choose a new player.