Reviewed by Anise Hollingshead:
"I wasn't familiar with Code Lyoko the television series before I received Code Lyoko: Fall of X.A.N.A NDS for review. I read up on the series, and learned that it is an animated series from France that has been featured on The Cartoon Network for the last several years. The last and fourth episode hasn't actually been shown on TV in its entirety, I'm not sure why. The series features a computerized world where evil viruses run rampant. A super virulent virus, X.A.N.A., is really behind all the trouble, and the Lyoko Team is prepared to defend their world by fighting X.A.N.A. They discover that William (?) has disappeared and apparently has been turned into a X.A.N.A. clone of the real William. The game centers on their search to find the real William and destroy X.A.N.A. in the process.
Unfortunately, this information still didn't really tell me much about the game or the series behind it. The manual gives a sketch of the past history of the story to this point, but not with a whole lot of detail. To make things more confusing, the game doesn't elaborate on the story behind the Team Lyoko, either, but fans of the show will already know the story. Everyone else will just be in the dark. Lots of games either have silly stories, or hardly any at all, but manage to pull players in by the strength of the gaming elements. Unfortunately, this RPG is bland table fare, and doesn't offer any compelling reason to pick this RPG over any other."
