Digimon Rumble Arena

"It's good,but not good enough."

Graphics:8
Controls:10
Diffulculty:10/7/5(Easy/medium/hard)
Replay:8
Extras:5
Overall:6

Pros
+ The Game has many characters
+ It's like SMash Brothers where you run around and fight
+ All special moves are at the press of a button
+ The Digivolving Bar
+ Voices from the show

Cons

- Game's a little too easy,even on hard.
- Only 3 Mini-games
- The games looks really underrated
- not 4-players

Opinion:
This game could've been one of my #1 favourites if the game had alot more to the game.
The game has Digimon & It was a fighting game,but the game doesn't have many things added on except for the cool voices and the Digimon and their moves.If the game had better Mini-games and a 4-player option,it could've been better.But wouldn't the game be a copy of Smash Brothers then? I dunno,because i only read about Melee.

Here's the thing:
This is a Fighting Game featuring the Digimon from the Adventure series & the Tamers series.The Digimon fight in a one-on-one battle to see who's the victor.as you fight,you can run around the arena and use whatever you can get on and start shooting at your opponent or get up close to him and start taking him or her on in close combat.You can also go around the arena and pick up the Digimon Card game Cards to give you special powers (Or make things more diffulcult,too).You also must watch out for the Arena's traps like falling into freezing water or hot lava or even the Danger Boxes(X Boxes.A box named after the X Box that explode?) You can also fill your Digivolving Bar or Special bar as you fight.Rookie Digimon such as Renamon or Veemon digivolve while Digimon such as Beelzemon use the bar to do their Special.

The thing about this game,though.This isn't the first time Bandai has made a fighting game like this.There was A Power Rangers game for the SNES that i recall that was sorta like this minus the Digivolving and the freedom of running around the stage.But the game does got that special bar from the Power Rangers game and the Power Bars and Combo features.

Literally,this game could do so much better if they could add so much more.If they come out with a second one,i hope for more Mini-Games and more Characters & a 4-Player option.and maybe add a story to the characters after you beat the game.For this game can do so much better.However,it is a fun game to play and i suggest that you rent it and play it...buying the game is something i don't recommend unless you're a very big Digimon fan who loves seeing Digimon beat each other senselessly.

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 03/27/02, Updated 03/27/02