Segas hit GameCube series rolls onto Xbox and PlayStation 2, in a Deluxe version that includes the levels, modes, and options of both original Super Monkey Ball games, as well as new content. As in earlier editions, players tilt increasingly complicated platform game boards in order to cause clear balls containing cute, cartoonish monkeys to roll across the course and through a goal marker. Super Monkey Ball Deluxe contains a total of 300 single-player stages -- 114 taken from the original Super Monkey Ball, 140 from Super Monkey Ball 2, and another 46 that are new to this version of the game. All 12 party games featured in earlier editions are included here as well, along with 6 new multiplayer competitions.

This game is basically a fusion of Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 for the PS2 and XBox. All of the levels from those two games are available in this collection, and all of the minigames are already unlocked and included. Formerly only available to GameCube players, the Super Monkey Ball series has made it to the PS2 and Xbox after a wait of almost 3 and a half years.

The game itself plays very much like the old arcade game Marble Madness. You control a monkey in a ball, and you have to navigate it through many perilous labyrinths to the finish. In the previous two games you had limited lives/tries, but here you have infinite lives, which makes it all the easier.