CSM Writes:
"The developers tried to mix things up a bit by giving each of the four main characters, whom you can switch between at will, specific abilities. Scamper, for example, can jump extraordinarily high but has weak attacks, while Brain can hardly get off the ground but fires powerful rockets from his mechanical arm. However, the limits of these abilities are explored in the game's first couple of levels. Since the game has a very small number of levels, gung-ho kids will be able to finish the game within a single night. And there's little in the way of replay value, save trying to achieve higher scores. Younger children who enjoyed the movie will undoubtedly have fun taking on the roles of their favorite characters in the game, but everyone else would do well to take a pass."
411mania writes: "You know movies games have a bit of a bad rap, they are often buggy, half assed, cheap, and not very fun at all. The sad thing abut this is that video game movies usually earn every single point of their bad raps. Game developers aren't even trying to hide the fact that these games are mostly just made for cash-in purposes and half of the time they are just slapping the name of the movie onto another game and changing the characters.
This is the exact same case with Igor, a game that pretty much has little or nothing to do with the actual movie outside of the setting and a needlessly complex "gotta catch 'em all" aspect. Once you strip all of that away you have a very mundane and much slower version of Super Puzzle Fighter II."
Igor the Game DS really swung for the fences, but it struck out nonetheless. The puzzle fighting is sloppy and extremely slow paced. Grinding is essential to progress, so expect a lot of long and boring battles. The story sequences are just long enough to irk you, and the interesting upgrade system is simply overpowered by the terrible gameplay. At the end of the day, Igor the Game (like a real corpse) should be left in whatever ditch you found it in.
Presentation - 4.0
Graphics - 3.5
Sound - 4.0
Gameplay - 4.0
Lasting Appeal - 4.0
Overall -
Monster creation is a matter of bolting together limbs, but the graphics are so poor that even if you try to build something graceful it'll end up looking like a pile of boxes. Monster-battling is carried out via the Dr. Mario bits – clear colored blobs in a grid to fill boxes for punches and kicks; tap a box to do the move and your creature lumbers into life.
These encounters don't half go on, and GamesRadar lost one fight even though they were sure they didn't see the opponent hit theirr creature once. It doesn't help that the cutscenes are pretty lame, too.
