Bakugan Battle Brawlers

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Over 200 player cards, including 12 never seen before.
• Create-a-Brawler: Create and customize your own Bakugan Battle Brawler with unique attributes and features that will separate your Brawler from all others on the planet.
• Epic storyline of good vs. evil: take your side in a brand new adventure and fight with Dan to defeat evil, save Vestroia and rescue Earth from total destruction.
• Play with 16 characters and 40 Bakugans across 24 action packed levels.
• Includes 4 unique characters and 2 unique Bakugans only available in the video game.

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00291C04M
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 3.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: December 10, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,949 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #47 in Video Games > Wii > Action

Product Description

Platform: Nintendo Wii | Edition: Standard

Amazon.com Product Description

Based on the wildly popular card game and television show, Bakugan: Battle Brawlers, is a video game experience requiring skill, strategy and imagination. Featuring a fierce assortment monsters, uncanny powers and amazing environments in an alternate dimension called Vestroia, the game lets you and your own unique Bakugan join forces with Dan and his fellow Brawlers as they battle to save Vestroia and ultimately, Earth from destruction. Story The story of Bakugan: Battle Brawlers revolves around a set of metallic cards that mysteriously fall from space. On finding them, kids from around the planet discover that the cards also provide access to a variety of monsters that can be pitted against each other and so develop a game based on the cards and monsters and set up tournaments. One group of these kids, who name themselves the "Bakugan Battle Brawlers" and who are led by Dan, find that the cards also serve as a link to a parallel dimension known as Vestroia. Here they discover that the game and its monsters that they are dedicated to mastering is tied to an imbalance of positive and negative energy in Vestroia. This imbalance must be corrected to avoid unspeakable consequences for Vestroia, and since a link has been made to the Earth, eventually the kids' home as well. Roll with the Battle Brawlers. View larger. Gameplay Those who have played the popular Bakugan card game might already have an idea of how gameplay works in Bakugan: Battle Brawlers, but the video game adds several new elements. The game is something of a cross between marbles and a live action card game. To get started you'll first need to enter your name, select an attribute and create your character. Then you'll be ready to explore the world of Bakugan. If you can't wait to start battling your friends, then head straight to the Battle Arena, but if you want to be the best you have to learn the rules. The goal of Bakugan: Battle Brawlers is to win the game by collecting three "gate cards." Gate cards are collected by winning battles against opponents. As a starting move each player sets down one metallic gate card. Then you're ready to roll your Bakugan, which is in the form of a ball. After throwing you can steer your Bakugan around the environment so that it lands on the perfect card and collects powerups. The aim is to get your Bakugan to stand on a card, and that happens when they roll over it slowly. Once the Bakugan stands, it will transform into Battle Mode. Now you're ready to battle. A battle begins when two Bakugan from different players stand on the same gate card. The gate card then opens and both bakugan transform into Monster Mode, and are ready to fight. The gate card can add "G-Power" to a Bakugan according to its world attribute (color) and can also change the rules of the battle. Players can also boost their G-power by doing well in battle. The Bakugan with the highest G-power at the end of the battle wins. After battling, you can also use the points you have won to upgrade your Bakugan, acquire new in-game items, engage in Tag Team or Battle Royale action, or hone your skills by practicing your moves and strategy with Dan. Additional Screenshots: Hybrid gameplay. View larger. Collectable Bakugan. View larger. Multiplayer action. View larger. Defend the Earth. View larger.

Product Description

The world of Bakugan comes alive! The 6 unique arenas burst with incredible action, and new play mechanics take the Bakugan experience beyond cartoons and board games to a whole new level!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

74 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun game for kids, and the parents who play with them. :-), October 25, 2009

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Lobsta Johnson (Bruttenholm, TN) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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My kids love the Bakugan spheres...it's a kind-of mashup of the classic game of Marbles and some of the new anime-based games like Pokemon or Yu-Gi-OH! The "live" game is cool because the engineering behind the spheres is really cool. Roll them onto a metal card and a magnetic switch activates, popping open the thing to reveal a robotic character. Some of them are really intricate and amazing; my kids have played with them for a year or more now and still not a single malfunction.

Anyway, one downside to the "real" Bakugan game is that all that engineering comes at a price; I figured the video game would allow us to buy one thing and all the collectables would be included in the game, and so far I was right.

Basically there are a couple of modes of interest...story line (where you have to defeat an increasing level of computer opponents in order to see the whole story unfold), and arena (where you can just play the game against the computer or against up to 3 other friends).

My 6 year old can play it, though it took a little practice to be able to grasp the sphere and throw it accurately. Steering it is something new that you couldn't do in a "live" game and it's pretty cool. The game otherwise plays just like the "real" game except there is a skill-based element at the very end of the battle that allows you to boost your models's GP a bit to break a tie (or win a close match). It really helps to be able to read. A 6 year old can noodle around by himself/herself, but an adult will have to help navigate the storyline. An 8 year old could probably figure it all out, and a 10 year old or older should have no problem. My 4 year old likes to watch, but just isn't ready to put it all together.

My one complaint is that the instruction manual is VERY basic. You basically have to figure out how to do things like edit your deck, swap out your Bakugan, and even how to set the game up so you can play against a friend instead of a computer opponent. This seems to be a trend in videogaming these days...give you the structure and force you to figure out the rest as "part of the fun". It is, kind of, but it's also a bit frustrating at times.

Anyway, we've had the game for 2 days and we've played the heck out of it. It's a lot of fun and something I can do with my kids and everyone has a good time.

I think it's essential that you've either watched the Tee Vee show or played the actual game before. Getting dumped into this universe cold will simply lead to confusion.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great game, October 13, 2010

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K. Saylor - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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I bought this game for less than ten dollars with free shipping for my almost 7-year-old son. He loves it! He plays it non-stop and I don't even know what he's doing. He picked it up pretty quickly and has gotten way more use out of this game than most of the expensive ones. Seems pretty simple and repititious, but he loves it anyway!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT FUN!, April 13, 2010

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Susan Davis (Sherman, Texas) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Bakugan Battle Brawlers (Video Game)

My 7 year old daughter got this as a gift and between her and my 11 year old son the game barely gets turned off. It is a great fun to play alone and with friends, holds good to the shows and seem so far to last a very long time. The game play is very enjoyable.

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