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The game itself is lots of fun, even for the uninitiated, especially if you are playing it on the Nintendo Wii. You pick up your Bakugan balls and throw them onto the field. Using a series of special moves and techniques, you are able to launch your Bakugan into play and pick up huge bonuses while trying to land on your opponents gate card. While the Bakugan ball is rolling, your opponent can shoot at you trying to knock your trajectory off course. There is also a tug of war game, and a shooting gallery style game as well that makes full use of the Wii Remote features.
Battling is simple and easy, though it can get quite indepth. Once you deploy your Bakugan, you use various ability cards to boost its strength, or G Power, and in the end, whichever Bakugan has the most usually wins. The game is simple, yet quite advanced when you start using combos and real strategy. It’s even more fun in the 2v2 tag team battle mode where 4 of your friends can play together.

As you advance through the game, you climb in the ranks of Battle Brawlers. You also collect more and more Bakugans, and get more powerful ability and gate cards. Players get to meet their favorite Bakugan characters and even battle characters and Bakugan from the cartoon. The game centers around your avatar that you build and your special Bakugan that comes to you through the doom dimension named Leonidas. He is mysterious, and nobody knows for sure what his real purpose is on Earth. As you progress through the game, you get tips from the Bakugan Battle Brawlers, and you slowly unlock the story which leads to an epic battle to save Earth and New Vestroia!
The battles are really a lot of fun. Each battle field has different advantages and disadvantages, and you get a home field advantage for your Bakugan attribute types. There are six different attributes, Pyrus or fire, Aquos or water, Subterra or earth, Ventus or plants, Darkus or darkness, and Haos or light. Each attribute also has a special shot that lets you control how you throw your Bakugan in special ways. There is a lot of depth to this game, both from a gameplay perspective and a plot perspective.

Overall, this game doesn’t take very long to beat and unlock all the secrets, but there is a decent amount of replay value in the multiplayer levels, and it will be a huge hit for any kids who are already fans of the toys. It also comes with some exclusive Bakugan balls like the limited edition white Naga that has some pretty cool special abilities. For both the initiated and the uninitiated, the new Bakugan Battle Brawlers video game is fun and exciting.

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Mickey’s job is to clean up and restore this world using a series of artists’ tools, like paintbrushes, thinner, pencils, erasers, etc, which are all mapped to the Wiimote. He can use these tools to make his way through the world, using paint to restore a bridge, thinner to see through a wall, and his eraser to clear a pile of rubble.

It sounds like a very interesting premise. I don’t know about you, but something about bitter, forgotten Disney characters rising up and Mickey having to put the smack down really intrigues me. I wonder if he’ll diplomatically get them to snap out of it, and  become normal and friendly again or if he’ll actually grab a Keyblade a la his Kingdom Hearts persona and just start kicking ass.

One final detail - apparently Mickey himself is getting a “makeover” – and when we do finally get to see his face (all the media so far only shows him from behind) he will have a decidely retro look. So…I guess, Steamboat Willy Mickey FTW?

Source: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/first-epic-mickey-details-spilled

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Well the logical explanation here is to ask those of you who would be participating in this tournament.  What game do you want?  What system?  What rules?  I encourage you to leave as many comments as you feel necessary, if you see an idea leave a comment on how you support it.  We can’t commit to something that won’t follow through because of lack of players so please be involved here!  This tournament will most likely be decided by you guys if there is enough conversation on this post so get to it!

-Ichi

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Nintendo also announced that New Super Mario Bros. Wii comes out here on November 15.

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So, a Wii price drop, just in time for the holiday…with this move all three systems will have had price drops just in the past month. I’d be curious to know how many of them are reactions to sales of their rivals, versus the slowdown of their own sales. In any event, the holiday season showdown has officially begun.

Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/23/rumor-internal-best-buy-memo-confirms-wii-price-cut-this-sunday/

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The price drop would make sense, given the season, how long the Wii has been out, the recent drop in competitor’s prices, and the simple fact that Wii sales right now are down almost 50% compared tot he same quarter last year.

No more information is available for the moment, but we should know more soon enough. This does beg the age-old question I always wind up asking myself when Nintendo does something like this: “Who doesn’t own a Wii yet that wants to own one?” I guess we’ll find out soon enough!

Source: http://kotaku.com/5357766/wii-price-drop-looks-to-hit-first-week-of-october

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After a night-long adventure on tour around the world, I’m back and ready to report on this rock and roll experience. Rock Band: The Beatles is similar to recent Guitar Hero titles that feature Aerosmith, Metallica, and (soon) Van Halen. However, unlike Activision’s titles, this swingin’ 60s spinoff features only the main event. You will spend the entire game as John, Paul, George and Ringo, moving through their career and their music from Liverpool until the end of Abbey Road.

The game features 45 of the group’s top songs, from “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” to “Octopus’s Garden.” All of the tracks sound wonderful, as all were digitally remastered specifically for this game. Every guitar note, every sitar pluck is crystal clear. The auditory experience is then enhanced further by the hordes of screaming teenage girls that flail and faint during just about every track, and the chatter of the band members that can be heard in between. These little touches really give the game a personal feel.

Visually, the Liverpool lads are also given star treatment. In most music game titles it is very hard to watch the characters on screen while you’re in the heat of things, but in this game you’ll be fighting to keep your eyes on your fretboard. The story mode goes through the band’s career. From their early performances across the Atlantic, to their debut on the Ed Sullivan Show, all the way to their final rooftop performance in 1969, you’ll see flawlessly recreated venues. That’s not to mention the band members themselves, who undergo a transformation from well-dressed Brits to long-haired hippies before you can say, “Day Tripper.” Even the fretboards themselves look like magical rainbows out of an acid trip.

The developers really took great care to make sure everything in this game was faithful to the Beatles name. Paul, Ringo, and Yoko Ono were even involved in production, and helped with a lot of the creative choices. You can’t get closer first-hand advice than that.

The tracks themselves are surprisingly difficult for what basically amount to 3-chord songs. The developers blended together several guitar parts, and even allow for the player to finger notes made by different instruments. All this is a staple in the Rock Band franchise, and was done in the name of making the game more challenging. They definitely succeeded. The game’s story mode is not sorted by difficulty, and you’ll be running into a nice mix of easy tracks and hard licks for the duration. Several of the songs left me with cramped hands, and though none of them were exactly “Free Bird,” there is plenty here to keep your fingers dancing the tango.

Now, let’s talk bonus material. You can unlock a bonus photograph of the band in story mode by completing each song with 3 stars,  another for 5 stars, and you get another for completing each venue. As you accumulate photographs, you’ll also unlock other bonus materials, including historic videos of the actual band. The need to get all of this bonus material will keep you coming back to the game and shooting for those five stars, so yay for replay value.

As far as innovation goes, I’m sorry to say there isn’t much. However, that’s what Guitar Hero 5 is out for. I don’t think you’re picking up Rock Band: The Beatles expecting a brand new revolutionized music game experience.  You’re probably getting this for, very simply, the Beatles, and seeing as you will get just that in every feasible sense, I cannot dock points for lack of innovation.

Rock Band: The Beatles delivers on almost every front. It recreates the feel of having been on tour with the group in the 60s, gives you a challenging gameplay experience, and rewards you with prizes that are actually worth shooting for. With the promise of more downloadable material to come, I have to say that this game will hold a very high place on my shelf until Rock Band: Led Zeppelin comes out sometime late next century.

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