You pick a dinosaur – carnivore, herbivore or speedy (it doesn't seem to matter which type) – and begin trudging slowly across a map, seeking out the marked objectives, which seem to consist only of locating fossils (time paradox alert!) and beating other dinosaurs to death for golden eggs. With the level complete, you go to the next area, which is exactly the same.
Battles are a massive disappointment. You are 'challenged' to trace over a shape on the touch screen. Do a good job, you attack first. Do a bad job and you'll still win, because it's very hard to lose at this game.
Look, if for some reason you're one of those freak families with sextuplet boys and you only have money to buy a single DS game to keep them entertained for a half an hour, this game is perfect. Really any little boy between, say, five and nine would probably get a kick out of this. Just don't expect it to last very long. Battle of Giants: Dinosaurs is the ultimate fantasy of a third grade class focus group, but it's also extremely repetitive and the novelty starts to wear off pretty quick.
Presentation - 8.0
Graphics - 7.0
Sound - 7.0
Gameplay - 6.5
Lasting Appeal - 7.0
Overall -
SBG:
"So adventure mode is just for leveling up your dinosaur and versus mode is for throwing your dinosaur in a jar. Both involve stylus-tracing. There is a lot of leeway given so that it's easy to beat the computer, but the tracing on some of the figures for the little children are difficult. Even on the easy ones, it's impossible to get a 100%, and even if you were, I'm still persuaded that the fire-station alarm that sets off at the end of every trace as time runs out would not shut up.
It's quite an achievement: it takes literally one minute of playing this game without reading anything about it to figure out what the entire game will play like. The attempts to keep it appealing and easy enough for kids in the midst of taking away their candy is noble, but Battle of Giants remains one-hundredth the game of any edition of Pokemon it imitates."
From N-Europe.com: "You can see what life was like as a dinosaur in Ubisoft's warped prehistoric imagination with the release of a Battle of the Giants: Dinosaurs demo on the European Nintendo Channel. First impressions aren't really all that great, with the combat growing stale and repetitive after a few battles, but we'll leave the final judgement up to you."
