Last year, Cartoon Network brought Bakugan: Battle Brawlers to North America. A mix of Pokemon and Magic the Gathering, Bakugan follows a kid named Dan and his friends as they try to restore balance to the universe and prevent its destruction by rival battlers wielding evil monsters. Of course, everything from DVDs and toys to a card based strategy game were made, and the popularity of the series led to the development of a video game. Developed by Now Pro and published by Activision, Bakugan: Battle Brawlers will be released on October 20 to give fans a taste of what it's like to control your own creatures.
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."