During battles, play a mini-game where you must wiggle or shoot icons on the screen with the Wii remote to help increase your G-Power numbers and decrease your opponents’. While the ball is rolling, you can tilt the remote to help it steer left and right, and speed up or slow down. To throw your Bakugan ball on the Wii version, point to aim where you throw, and then make a throwing motion with the Wii remote. Up to four players can compete at the same time on one screen on the Wii version, or through local wireless on the DS. Winning battles earns you experience points to level up your monsters, and battle points which you can exchange at the store for new cards, different Bakugan balls, or upgrades for your monsters. At least there are plenty of girl characters for you to compete againstĪfter making your character, you can battle with your cartoon rivals in the park, or compete in tournaments. I know the toys are targeted towards boys, but I’m sure there are some girl Bakugan fans out there, and this game kind of puts them out. You can only pick and design a boy character. For fans of the cartoon, I imagine this would probably be considered “totally rad,” or whatever the kids say now. Your new avatar will befriend, interact, and compete directly with characters from the cartoon, so it’s like you’re in the TV show. You can customize everything from hair style, skin and eye color, and what clothes they wear. In the Bakugan video game, you first create your own anime character that would fit right in the cartoon show. Whoever wins three cards first in this fashion wins the game. Whoever’s monster has the highest number wins the battle and keeps the “Gate Card.” You can also win Gate Cards by rolling two of your own marbles onto one card. Flip over the “Gate Card” to see the rules on how it’ll affect your marbles’ numbers, and you can also use “Ability Cards” to increase your stats as well. If you and your opponents’ Bakugan balls roll over the same card, a battle starts. Actually it doesn’t really look like much of a monster, you just have to think like a kid and use your imagination. ![]() These cards have a little magnetic strip inside, and when you roll your Bakugan ball over the card, the magnet will make them stop and fold out into a monster. Each player puts a “Gate Card” on the battlefield. And now you can enjoy the fun of Bakugan with the recent release of the video game for all major consoles (Wii and DS versions reviewed here).Īnyway, here’s the basic gist of how you play. So what IS Bakugan, anyway? Well, it’s like a cross between a collectible trading card game such as Yu-Gi-Oh or Pokemon, mixed with the classic playground game of…marbles?!? Yup, marbles! Marbles that turn into…monsters! No wonder why it’s so popular with the kids. Right now, Bakugan toys are in McDonald’s Happy Meals and it’s the top game for boys ages 6 to 12. Just like any other popular playthings, Bakugan has its own cartoon show as well. More than 55 million Bakugan toys were sold in 2008, meaning that every four seconds one Bakugan toy is bought in the US. ![]() (We tried the DS version as well and it felt much the same as the Wii edition, only with different battle activities, such as rubbing the screen with the stylus as quickly as possible.As they say in the business, Bakugan is ‘hot’ right now. Should two opposing Bakugan land on the same card a battle starts, with players doing things like seeing who can shake their remotes more quickly or tap buttons in time with on-screen cursors more accurately. The game itself is similar to other fantasy-based card games in that players play cards by tossing them into an arena, then throw in their Bakugan, trying to land them on the cards. One of the good Bakugan, named Leonidas, befriends a boy just learning how to play the card game and joins forces with him. The story involves Bakugan - ball-shaped beasts that transform into monster-like creatures when they touch cards - that have come to Earth and are in the midst of a massive conflict of good and evil.
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