Majesco Exploring Wii Nature Photography, Announces Wild Earth: African Safari (Updated)

Update: Majesco has released 11 screenshots of the game, depicting lions, hippos, giraffes, and a dead wildebeest.

Original Story: With the recent Virtual Console release of HAL Laboratory's Pokemon Snap (N64) inspiring a number of Wii-owning wannabe photo journalists, Majesco will soon be allowing players to act as a nature photographer in Africa's Serengeti National Park.

Titled Wild Earth: African Safari, the game is being developed by Super X Studios, which handled the 2006 PC version (demo here). The project bears no relation to Rhino Studios' elusive PlayStation 3-exclusive Afrika, which is thought to be centered around nature photography as well.

Along with 30 different animals and a soundtrack provided by Talking Drum Records--a "world music label," claims Majesco--the game will boast three-person cooperative play and a mini-game that lets players directly control the animals. Wild Earth: African Safari is slated to arrive this spring.

Publisher Majesco is currently riding high on its wave of recent announcements, which include the mini-game-filled Wonderworld Amusement Park (Wii) and an untitled Wii music game from PaRappa the Rapper (PSX, PSP) creators Rodney Alan Greenblat and Masaya Matsuura.