will be one pin missing in each lane. The missing pin will be counted towards the player's score and where the missing pin is placed will vary in each frame. Strike Rule has ten pins for each frame but you'll only have one throw each frame in a 20 frame game. There is also Special mode where each of the lanes will be oddly shaped. Challenge mode lets you select pin arrangement and give a limited number of tries to knock all the pins down. Monkey Billiards DX The style of Monkey Billiards DX is similar to the game Billiards. This game can be played for up to three players. The different rules that these party games can be played are US Nine-ball, Japan Nine-Ball, Eight-ball or Rotation. One player can also play Tournament mode where the player plays a series of games incorporating each rule system against the computer. Each player turn uses the cue ball to knock colored monkey balls into pockets. Which colored balls that the player can pocket depends on which rules that player is using. If the player pockets the cue ball or hits the wrong colored ball first then the player is given a foul, giving the opponent an advantage. If a player pockets the correct colored ball the player is given another shot instantly. Characters Super Monkey Ball Deluxe features four playable characters: AiAi, MeeMee, Baby, and GonGon. AiAi is the main protagonist and the only playable character in Story Mode. He is accompanied by MeeMee, his girlfriend; GonGon, his friend and former rival; and Baby, his and MeeMee's future child who travels back in time to aid them. The game's main antagonist is Dr. Bad-Boon, an evil, genius scientist from the future. In the future world, he had fallen in love with MeeMee and asked her to marry him, but was rejected due to her marriage to AiAi. Subsequently, Dr. Bad-Boon went back in time before AiAi and MeeMee were married, and makes attempts to keep them from marrying. Dr. Bad-Boon in turn terrorizes the rest of the land's inhabitants as well. He also has a nameless assistant, who, no matter how badly Dr. Bad-Boon treats him, remains loyal. Reception Super Monkey Ball Deluxe has been given positive reviews, particularly for the Xbox version of the game. On the review aggregator website Metacritic it has an average score of 81/100 for the