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Please please someone tell me the last good game D3 put out. Please? Sometimes in very rare cases a game like this might be good, but that really depends on the publishers and developers WHO MADE? WHO PRODUCED IT? Just give the publishers a look through at Wikipedia and see all releases, this can be a good indicator if you've got 'Fool's Gold' or not.
My brother won this game as a door prize For the Wii.. he knew I watched the show, so he gave it to me. Turned out.. it's a co-op game. Someone please tell me if its different on the other consoles. i know the Wii has its limitations but.. wow. bad.
The problems are varied and consistent.
1st of is the rendering, the animation is somewhat decent, Backgrounds and levels look believable. But the way the characters emote is just pure awful tasty goodness. when you emote, the whole face is suppose to change.. seriously. Go look at yourself in the mirror and watch as the muscles in your face change and shift when you smile or grin. In this game, the eye brows move and the lips change shape, but it doesn't mean they emote. The brows and lips shift, but the rest of the characters faces remain stiff to say the least. the Mii's do a better job at emoting. for shame.
A BIG problem is the Co-op for 2 players, My brother wanted to play as 'Gwen' so we looked at the manual.... i said Uhhh... who's your plan B? Guess what? We hit 2 players.. and we're both Ben. ... Ben. sometimes what some games will do when you pick the same character(BY CHOICE) you get a different colored rendition, or at last a different color saturation! Not this game. it said nay nay. Both Shall be identical! same color, shading and tinting an all! And it will be good! But what happens instead is figuring out which Ben you are, Punching this Knight's butt! Nope, that's the other player and you're stuck in a corner punching nothing! Another problem that kept making my mad was that fact that both you'd couldn't move forward unless both characters are ready. Not like the good old days with SONIC 2. As we all know and love, 'Tails' was just an AI that followed you unless a friend picked up the controller and tagged along. and thats just it! They tagged along! Sonic didn't need tails to be with him to proceed, Either you'd leave him in the lurch or you can even let him catch up! (but that only leads to you and 'Tails's' operator arguing, but its all in good fun right?) Neither of you could proceed unless both were headed in the right direction. Occasionally will happen is if one player gets lucky enough to proceed the other character will jump the others current position. It doesn't always work this way. Best way I can describe how is in the 2nd level, you have to climb some cliffs. My brother missed a jump and feel down to the bottom of the level. while i was stuck on top. and the Camera, was stuck in the middle. Where am i?! Where are you?! the camera toggles and shifts up and down like an ADD kid on a sugar rush! eventually i just started jumping up and boom, he was jumped to my position. How hectic is this?
Now let me tell you the bigger issue that this game has.. An identity Crisis. It looks like a variation from an Hack and Slasher, but it feels as it RPG elements are thrown right in. Is it an RPG? is it a fighter? is it a hack and slash? I honestly believe the game itself doesn't know. The Omnitrix itself has 3 separate bars, one for health, exp and how long you can use the Omnitrix for. So that's up for you to decide if Ye be brave enough to place this not-so-sacred relic into thy divine machina.
If you do, I pray your machine is smart enough to spit it back at you and say Dude, no! Now as i said earlier about the backgrounds, they are good, in fact, they're almost too good for this game, some of the elements on the level are intractable, but that only goes for stuff like benches, cotton candy carts etc.. My main problem with the levels is that they're... too long. or there aren't enough enemies. was trotting along for about 3 minutes before I found a knight to beat up. Most of the early levels have water, and for whatever reason, Ben Ten Can't swim. Either he never learned or the water is just that polluted. Boom instant death. But it's not instant death. Here's a problem that's existed since the early 80's with cartoons that are imported and edited to suit American tastes. The Hero Never dies, They can be defeated, but they don't die. when you jump and accidentally fall in the river, it doesn't say game over, it says defeated and asks you if you want to continue. Now here is a nice thing, when you hit continue you start just a bit before where you jumped off and fell in the water. It doesn't send you back to the beginning. Which I found to be a nice treat. That slowly lead me to realize the biggest problem this game has. You can't die. You can continue over and over and over til the cows came home.! Its needlessly generous with lives and continues. Heroes can't die! For the kids!
In conclusion, if you get this game without paying for it. do yourself a favor and trade it in. The Best part of Ben 10 Alien force was that i got 15 bucks for trade in credit towards pokemon platinum. so there's my silver lining. Its a bad game that will taunt you into never stop playing with endless continues and bad camera fixtures. Just breathe deeply, and walk away!