iPad users! Get ready for some crazy monkey action as Other Ocean Interactive (the guys behind Dark Void Zero on Nintendo’s DSIWare), in partnership with Sega of America brings you Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition for the iPad.

Unlike most iPad launch titles, SMB 2: Sakura Edition is an iPad exclusive title which updates the original SMB 2 with new graphics, 4 new mini games, and 10 iPad levels set in the Far East. Check out the following press release for further details and screen-caps!

Other Ocean One of First to Roll its way onto iPad. Develops SEGAโ€™s Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition

CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI, CANADA โ€“April 3, 2010 – Other Ocean Interactive, leading developers of iPhone and iPod touch games and applications, partners once again with Segaยฎ of America to bring you Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition available exclusively for the highly anticipated Apple iPad.

โ€œWe are very excited to be part of the iPad launch with this great franchise.โ€ said Andrew Ayre, Other Ocean CEO. โ€œAnd are very proud to be one of the first developers to have shipped an iPad exclusive title.โ€

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Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition brings all the fun of the immensely popular console and iPhone hit to the iPad plus 4 new mini-games: Monkey Bowling, Monkey Target, Monkey Golf and the iPad exclusive mini-game Monkey Base. Monkey Base lets up to 4 players fight it out on the same iPad by launching orbs at each other to try to be the last monkey standing.

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And if all that wasnโ€™t enough, players can now experience 10 iPad exclusive levels from the Far East World, in stunning graphics!

โ€œThe iPadโ€™s hi-res screen and multi-touch makes an amazing differenceโ€ says Other Ocean Technical Director, Gordon Wood, โ€œEverything thatโ€™s great about Super Monkey Ball 2 can now be played in Sakura Edition, only on a bigger screen and with even better graphics, new mini-games and more levels. Fans are in for a real treat.โ€

The iPad exclusive Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition is now available on iTunes for just USD 9.99 (click here and do hurry as this is a launch-sale).