Digital Spy writes: "Marbles, Top Trumps, Pokémon. They all conquered the playground in their time - kids were battling and collecting at every chance they could get, hassling parents so they could keep up with their mates. Well, guess what - it'll be happening all over again. Enter Bakugan, the latest assault on children's attention, capturing the essence of previous toy fads and making its own. With an anime series and card game that made it the best selling US toy at the end of last year, and an identical multi-platform game on the way, it's something that will undoubtedly dominate UK sales this year. But what exactly is it?"
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."
