E3 2011 Fact Sheet for Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster
Short Version: Play as Elmo, Cookie Monster, Oscar, Grover and others reading a children’s book. Featuring active co-op design for sibling or parent-child play and “important life lessons”.

Full fact sheet after the jump.

RELEASE DATE:                        Fall 2011
PUBLISHER:                           Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
DEVELOPER:        Double Fine Productions
ESRB RATING:        Rating Pending (intend E for Everyone)
GENRE:        Family/Adventure
PLATFORMS:         Kinect for Xbox 360
PLAYERS:        1 or 2

PRODUCT OVERVIEW:
Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster is an uplifting and funny, family adventure game playable on Kinect for Xbox 360.  Players join favorite Sesame Street characters Elmo, Cookie Monster, Oscar, Grover and all new characters as they discover a long lost children’s book titled Once Upon a Monster.  As they read, they join the action to become part of a living storybook adventure, helping new monster friends with their problems by exploring the book chapter by chapter, page by page.  It features active co-op gameplay that is specially designed for sibling and/or parent-child co-play; and teaches social, emotional, and other important life lessons through its colorful and whimsical gameplay.

PRODUCT FEATURES:
Fun Cooperative Experiences:  Every activity is designed to be fun played by oneself, but even more fun with a family member or friend. Drop in/out co-operative gameplay is ideal for parent-child or child-sibling co-play.

Important Life Lessons: Players develop a personal and emotional relationship with the monsters in the world and are motivated to help them solve their problems and make their world a better place. Through social and emotional curriculum guided by Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street, players discover how to make new friends, learn cooperation and empathy, solve problems, face fears and appreciate similarities and differences…to name a few lessons.

Living Storybook Adventure: The game is a guided exploration of a living storybook where players help their monster friends with problems, all while interacting with enchanting and whimsical environments around them.

New and Familiar Characters: Players can interact with their favorite Sesame Street characters as well as make new monster friends as they progress in their adventures.

Broad Range of Games: A variety of entertaining and intuitive activities enable young kids to play easily with natural controller-free motions using Kinect for Xbox 360.

Active Gameplay: Players can engage in fun and physical activities such as monkey-see-monkey-do, playing instruments, flying, and running obstacle courses.