The arena bursts with incredible action and new play mechanics taking the Bakugan experience beyond cartoons and board games to a whole new level! Take your side in a brand new adventure and fight with Dan to defeat evil, save Vestroia and rescue Earth from total destruction with never before seen material! Create and customise your own Bakugan Battle Brawler with unique attributes and features that will separate your brawler from all others on the planet!Ģ4 action packed levels with 8 battlefield environmentsġ9 human characters with 2 uniques only available in the videogame, each human character is customisable
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Fans of the anime series with a spare weekend should give the game a try. The game lays a solid foundation for future games, but needs more variety. Having said that though, the game does capture the essence of Bakugan and is still a fun game to play. Overall, the game could have used a bit less presentation during the combat and a bit more in the way of actual combat or more varied mini-games. Actual combat is really just mini-game after mini-game. Each battle spends a lot of time building up to the fight, with intros for each Bakugan and a lot of flare around every move. It would have been nice to have a bit of a story to go along with the game, as without it, the game relies strictly on its combat, which, while the combat is good, there really is not a lot of it. The game really just moves from battle to battle with small bits of talking in between. Speaking of the story, well, there really isn’t much of one. The tournments, which feature the same formats, come along during the game and provide a tiny scrap of story progression, though it really isn’t much. The battle royale is a 4 person every-man-for-himself melee. The tag team is a battle between two teams of two. The 1 on 1 is what it sounds like, a battle against one computer opponent. Inside the park is the option to fight 1 on 1 battles, tag team battles, or a battle royale. Park battles provide a great way to gain experience, which is used to purchase and upgrade Bakugan, and the Tournaments do the same, though in a more structured format.
There are two main modes of battle inside the story line: Park battles and Tournaments. Another way to win a gate card is to land two bakugan on the same card. At the end of this 10 seconds, the Bakugan with the most G-Power wins a gate card. During the mini-games, which last for 10 seconds, the player gains more G-Power for doing well. All three have different difficulty settings, but it would have been nice to see more variety. There are only 3 types of mini-games available: button timing, controller shaking or attribute shooting. Once both sides are ready, a mini-game begins. Upon entering the battle, the player is given a view of each Bakugan’s G-Power and can choose cards to boost power. Here is where the game goes into mini-game mode.
To trigger a battle, the player and an opposing enemy must both land on the same card. The controls are not the greatest, and players may have some difficulty moving the Bakugan around the board, but it works for the most part. Players can then hold R2 and move the controller in a direction to guide the Bakugan onto a card. Once selected, players hold the R2 button down and power up the throw, shaking the PS3 controller forward when they want to throw. Next, the player throws down a Bakugan and tries to land it on a card by selecting where to aim, the Bakugan and whether to throw a bouncing or power shot. Players start off by selecting a card to throw down on the ground, and the computer does the same. The goal in the battle is to win 3 gate cards, which can be won by defeating a single Bakugan in battle. In battle, each player stars with a deck of 5 cards and 3 Bakugan. There are also 6 different colors of cards, and each color gives different boosts, like added G-Power or rule changes. The Bakugans acquired through the shop can also be upgrade, giving them a boost to Speed, G-Power (health) and 4 other categories. The same Bakugan is available in each attribute, so players must decide what type of Bakugan and attributes they need for each battle. Bakugans come in 6 different attributes: Pyrus, Ventus, Aquos, Darkus, Haos, and Subterra.