Advantages: Smart looking scooter. Sturdy and well made. My son loves his! Disadvantages: Secret fold out drawer and little alien figures are a little bit of a gimmick
My six year old son is obsessed by the Ben10 cartoon series, currently showing on the Cartoon Network TV channel. The programme itself features a boy (Ben) who can transform himself into alien super-heroes by using his omnitrix (a sort of watch) and defeats villians using his special powers. As with any successful children's programme, there is an abundance of spin-off products available designed to part parents from their cash - little figures (got them), DVDs (got them) and now even a scooter emblazoned with Ben10 images.
As far as tv programme merchandise goes, this scooter is actually of surprisingly good quality and, to be fair, not badly priced. We did some price comparisons before buying this for our son's birthday last September and found the cheapest stockist then to be Argos (at £34.99 compared to the RRP of £39.99.) Yes ...
Advantages: Highly playable, good progression and compilation Disadvantages: Occasional movement control, frustration
Normally, we try to restrict presents to special occasions, but as our son had been so good and had done marvellously at school recently, and we had a bunch of games to trade in and a gift card for Game, we decided to preempt Christmas, and get this Wii Ben10Alien Force game ahead of time.
Our son, Will, is 5, and absolutely mad on Ben10. We restrict when he watches TV and plays on the Wii, and he is happy enough with this agreement. When he does get a chance to play on teh Wii, it's pretty much always this game he goes for. Essentially, it is a basic platform game with not really anything special about it. You control a character, who must negotiate an area, with enemies, and defeat an end of level boss. Along the way, your character can acquire extra things to help defeat more powerful bosses.
It's a standard format ...
Advantages: great value for money and very good game 4 kids Disadvantages: none
This is what all the kids are into, Ben10 they will love this game they will sit hours on end playing this game. There different level's and different aliens to fight and the further you get into the game you can change into different aliens yourself also the futher you get into the game can start to get harder but it's all worth it with this game. It's a good shoot em up /fighting game well worth the money it a must buy if your kids are into ben10 the kids will love it and you will to it never get's boring. ben10 is a outstanding game.In my own opinion its a great game to get the kids they wont be disappointed. ...
