Bakugan!  Have you ever heard of it?  Saw the show?  See the toys at Toy’s R Us?  Well they’re finally here in a game.  Now you too can duke it out with giant real-life bakugans.

For those of you who don’t know what bakugan is it’s kinda like a marble strategy game.  Since there is no strategy section, I’ll just put this game in the multiplayer Simulation games section since it’s a “simulation” of the real thing.

Pro:	Play it like the way you seen it on TV (giant monsters brawling it out) + more Over 200 cards to use and 40 bakugans to put in your team Make your own character with your own deck to challenge your friends. You get to choose your own element! Lot’s of cut scenes/ fighting scenes
Con:	The cut scene/ fighting scenes will become repetitive and will prone you to skip everything Extra skill required mini-games are time consuming and not fair. It bugs me to see that the bakugans are all the same and that some are just recolored versions of each other to fit in other elements

Bakugan Battle Brawlers Gameplay

Controls

The game only requires the Wiimote, but it’s still complex:

• Use the D-pad or just the Wiimote sometimes to select things
• Press the A button to select things
• Press the A+B button to grab your bakugans
• When you’re throwing your bakugan press A+B and tilt the Wiimote to control it

And that’s about all to the controls.

Gameplay

You start out as yourself wandering around the park wishing for your own talking bakugan, but then somehow one manages to fall from the sky and land in your hands.  You answer his questions and partnered up to conquer the tourneys.

Besides the odd introductions the game is still a highly quality game, which focuses a lot in graphics.

You can buy gate cards, ability cards, and bakugan with money you get from fighting other people.

The game is very unique.  In fact the battle system is a bit complex, but I’ll do my best to explain:

• You start out Brawls with a gate card.  These things will give special affects to the bakugans who fight there based on their element.
• Afterwards you can throw more gate cards or throw your bakugan.  You have 3 to use per battle.
• When you select and throw your bakugan you have to roll it to a gate card whether it’s yours or your opponent.  Be careful, if you miss you skip your turn. Also you can roll it around the stage and collect power ups and other special affect cards.
• That’s it for you, and then your opponents does thier turn.  If they put a bakugan in the same card as yours you battle.
• In a battle you can use ability cards to boost the power of your bakugan.  After you’re satisfied you play a mini-game.  Depending on how well you do on the mini-game the more power your bakugan gets.  The bakugan at the end with the most power wins.
• When you win a fight you get a card, get 3 of these and you win.  Another way of getting a card is to throw 2 of your bakugan on the same gate card.

Really once you get it, it’s very easy to play.  Tip: You should try upgrading one of your bakugan’s 5 stats.  Trust me it’ll help a lot.

Bakugan Battle Brawlers Multiplayer

Multiplayer

There’s no Nintendo WFC, but you can duel with your friends and family.  Playing against friends is unlikely, because they can’t use their own deck.  However you can play with characters from the TV show.

You can load your own deck, but you have to load it from the save.

Conclusion

Bakugan Battle Brawlers is a very fun, intuitive game.  There are a whole bunch of gate cards and ability cards to use.  Combined with the 3-d battling monsters you’ll have a blast increasing your bakugan’s power trying to decimate your opponents.

if you want a great card strategy game, you should buy this game, but you can rent it first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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