

The lack of diversity is quantified when you realize that collecting green orbs - which you in turn spend to upgrade your move set - is moot as you can never really tell if a new perk you unlock is useful. You end up finding your favourite heroes with combos you feel comfortable with and plow through. You’ll occasionally need to switch in order to progress up a cliff side or go through a small door, but combat-wise having Heatblast doesn’t give you the ability to burn anybody or Grey Matter to solve puzzles for you.

While there is a variety of characters to choose from, none of them seem imperative to any given situation. The combat feels a bit loose, there’s a lack of weight behind your attacks and a delay in enemies flinching that makes it feel as if you aren’t always connecting.

By pulling up a wheel with a shoulder button you can cycle through Ben’s alien cohorts, all of whom have their own move sets including different traversal options and ultimate moves that’ll clear the screen of enemies when you build up a meter. He travels around in a beat up RV with his Grandpa Max and sister Gwen, where they happen to stumble upon super villains left and right naturally Ben then tackles them with his superhero multi-tool.īen 10 the game takes the 3D beat ‘em up route by sending our stalwart hero towards small town city streets, forests and junkyards to battle the likes of Zombozo, Queen Bee and her Bug Gang and the Weatherheads. The Cartoon Network show stars a young boy named Ben Tennyson who surreptitiously discovers an alien wristband called the Omnitrix, which gives him the ability to change into ten different beings that he’ll freely change into when certain situations arrive - based on their different powers.

Some, like Ben 10, feel conceptually designed as if it were a game to begin with, so the kernel is already there. Regardless, sometimes the stars align and you get a title that does right by both video games and the license it’s based on. You’d like to believe that developers and publishers are going about them from a good place obviously there’s something there that people love, so why not make an interactive experience of it? A devil’s advocate would say they’re nothing but a shill, a way to prey on somebody’s fandom and put minimal effort into it for maximum revenue.
