There are only a few things holding Bakugan back from being a great game, not just for kids, but for anyone with a DS. First, the stylus games make the game far too easy and take any sense of accomplishment or anticipation out of experience. Secondly, Wifi support, even if it was just to trade Bakugan and cards, would have been great. In the end though, this ends up being a pretty safe buy. The post game stuff and the multiplayer should be enough to justify the purchase. Diehard GameFAN wouldn't be against playing another one of these games in the future.
Activision is pleased to announce today the fall release of Bakugan Battle Brawlers: Defenders of the Core for the DS, Wii, PSP, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.
Building a team of creatures and ability cards, you take on genero-anime opponents in battles that are a mix of touchscreen minigames, stylus-swiping ball-steering and tiresome animations. The story behind all this may hold some appeal for Bakugan fans but the repetitive scraps will bore most gamers, not least because you don't do much – aside from a few screen taps, things seem to happen around you, making the whole thing incredibly boring. For non-Bakugan followers this is, quite literally, balls.
Crispy Gamerr writes: "0:00 The back of the box promises that "This is Bakugan like never before." That's highly accurate for me, since I'd never heard of Bakugan before receiving this game in the mail. But I like to keep up with the "youth culture" with its "Internet" and its "sexting" and its "industrials" and so forth, so I figured I'd see what this was all about."
