According to director George Andres, Id always go back to him and say Heres some and hed go No, more things. 8 Retrospectively, Andres commented that he should have reined himself in, pointing out that he would have, among other things, liked to unify the color-coded banana system.

As the gorilla Donkey Kong, the player explores the themed levels of an island to collect items and rescue his kidnapped friends from King K.

Rool. The player completes minigames and puzzles as five playable Kong characterseach with their own special abilitiesto receive bananas and other collectibles.

In a separate multiplayer mode, up to four players can compete in deathmatch and last man standing games.

A 16-person team, with many members recruited from Rares Banjo group, finished the game in 1999, when it was published by Nintendo in North America in November and worldwide in December.

It was the first game to require the Nintendo 64 consoles Expansion Pak, an accessory that added memory resources.

The games exceptionally large marketing budget included advertisements, sweepstakes, and a national tour.

It won the 1999 E3 Game Critics award for Best Platform Game, and multiple awards and nominations from games magazines.

Reviewers noted the games exceptional size and length, but criticized its camera controls and emphasis on item collection and backtracking.

Some cited its similarity in gameplay and visuals to Rares 1998 predecessor, Banjo-Kazooie, despite Donkey Kong 64 s mandatory memory add-on.

Critics felt that the game did not meet the revolutionary potential of Donkey Kong Country, but remained among the best 3D platform games on the console.

The rap song from the games introductory sequencethe DK Rap is often cited as among the worst songs to feature in a video game.

Donkey Kong 64 was rereleased on Nintendos Wii U Virtual Console in 2015.

Rool and his reptilian Kremlings invade the idyllic DK Isle and kidnap Donkey Kongs friends, planning to power up their Blast-O-Matic weapon and destroy the island.

After a tutorial, the player embarks as Donkey Kong to rescue the others from their kidnappers and stop K.

Rools plan. 6 While exploring the in-game world and completing puzzle minigames, the player collects two types of bananas: normal bananas, which are colored differently for each Kong character, award the player with banana medals and can be traded for access to each worlds boss fight; and golden bananas, a certain number of which are required to unlock each new in-game world.

The game features a total of 3,821 collectibles, though only 281 are required to complete it.

Minigames include races, minecart rides, and barrels that shoot the characters as projectiles.

There are five such golden banana-rewarding objectives for each of five playable characters across seven themed worlds200 goals in total, in addition to a connecting overworld.

Unlike in prior Donkey Kong games, the objectives can be completed in any order.

The player can fast travel between sections of the level with designated warp pads and can swap between characters in designated swap barrels.

The player also collects banana coins, which can be spent to unlock new weapons and abilities, and other collectibles such as weapon ammunition and blueprint puzzle pieces.

As in other games by the developer, the player often encounters an impossible situation (e.g., an indestructible object or out-of-reach area) and must eventually backtrack to resolve the impasse after acquiring a new ability.

For example, Donkey Kong can operate levers, Chunky Kong can lift rocks, Tiny Kong can crawl through holes, Diddy Kong can fly, and Lanky Kong can float.

The characters are also unique in the projectiles they shoot and the musical instruments they play.

For example, some doors can be opened only with Donkey Kongs coconut projectiles and others can be opened only with Diddy Kongs guitar.

There are more special abilities than face buttons on the controller, so button combinations are needed to trigger some abilities.

Combinations also trigger special modes, including alternative camera angles, a sniper mode, and a snapshot mode which unlocks more in-game secrets.

Playable versions of the original Donkey Kong (1981) and Jetpac (1983) are hidden within the game, and playing through them is required to finish the story.

The player-character can also transform into animals, such as Rambi the Rhino and Enguarde the Swordfish, who recur from earlier series games.

Optional hardware support includes a widescreen mode 5 and Rumble Pak compatibility.

Battle Arena is a king-of-the-hill minigame in which players use weapons and explosives to knock each other off the edge of a platform.

The Nintendo 64 was still new, and at the time Rare did not have a common game engine.

The linear version was developed for around 18 months, before being scrapped in favor of what would be the released product.

While 3D graphics prevented Rare from reproducing the detailed pre-rendered graphics of the Donkey Kong Country series, they allowed the company to make characters more expressive.

Producing satisfactory character models proved to be a challenge; lead artist Mark Stevenson noted that being able to see this character from any angle, youd make an animation, put it in the game, and youd think it looked good side-on, but awful from every other angle 8 Stevenson also noted that as 3D video games were in their infancy, the Donkey Kong 64 models were always going to look worse than the pre-rendered Donkey Kong Country ones.

The models from the Country games were used as reference points, but their use was otherwise limited.

According to director George Andres, Id always go back to him and say Heres some and hed go No, more things.

Retrospectively, Andres commented that he should have reined himself in, pointing out that he would have, among other things, liked to unify the color-coded banana system.

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