Ben 10: Protector of Earth

"Pretty good, gets boring after a while"

INTRODUCTION - Ben 10 is a TV show. A boy finds a watch on the first day of his summer vacation. It turns out to be an alien device(the Omnitrix), storing DNA of alien life-forms. There is only 1 Omnitrix. AND he cannot get it off of his wrist no matter how hard he tries. Oooh, spooky. He can turn into a variety of aliens with the watch. He uses it to fight evil aliens, and a few humans, as a hero. Of course, the Omnitrix device is wanted by...A LOT OF PEOPLE/ALIENS/THINGS!!! Vilgax is at the top of the list. He is fought a few times throughout the show. Now, back to the game. They made a game from it. Only, the game has only 5 aliens(That I'm aware of), and the show has 10. And Ben unlocks more aliens throughout the course of the episodes of the show.

GAMEPLAY: 8/10 - Ben has to beat up a bunch of creatures/aliens/robots in the game, just like in the show...OK, that's pretty good. There's somewhat of a challenge to it...That's pretty good...Controls are sort of easy to remember, that's kinda good...But like I said before, only 5 out of 10+ aliens. BOO, HISS!!! Oh well, I've heard of a code to "Unlock Alien Forms," so that might mean all 5, or secret ones. It's...well...a secret. The game is made into a 3-D installment, even though the TV series is 2-D. Oh, yeah, some backgrounds are 2-D. And one last thing, the game gets kind of boring after a while.

STORY: 9/10 - The game starts at the Grand Canyon, U.S.A. Well, while Ben is sleeping that night, a robot-bug thingy comes and sucks out the power of the Omnitrix out. So when he wakes up and something crashes into the ground of the canyon, and he goes to see what it is, he can't activate his alien forms when he tries to do it. Well, when you get control of him for the first time, you only have 2 aliens. You gradually get Omnitrix Crystals, which all restore one alien each. Also, you visit some areas, that if you live in the U.S.A. or maybe even some place else, that should be familiar, like Grand Canyon, Area 51, San Francisco, Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone, and much more.

GRAPHICS: 6/10 - Well, the graphics are pretty horrible for a Wii game. The game is in 3-D to move around, but some parts of the game, it is 2-D. Well at least the backgrounds are. That's all there is to say...Nothing else at all.

SOUND: 8/10 - Nothing special. The sounds are normal. Of course, it gets annoying when you have to keep on jumping. They make it sound like jumping is near physically impossible. That's almost not a hyperbole...

TIME / REPLAYABILITY: 8/10 - Well, it took me about...2 hours to beat about...what, 12-ish levels? Something like that...As for playing it over, well...you should want to play it over, maybe...once or twice...Well, it's not that good that you should want to play it over more that twice.

FINAL RECOMMENDATION: RENT OR BUY? - Rent it first. Of course, if you like it, after you rent it, buy it! And go to some place like EB Games, Gamestop, or EBX(OR SOME PLACE LIKE THEM) to bu this game. Don't be fooled, I bought it for $20.00 at EB Games, and read online that some places sell it for 35 - 40 dollars.

FINAL SCORE: 8
So the average of all those scores is 8.4, and it gets off the .4 for getting kinda boring after a while.

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 04/08/08

Game Release: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (US, 10/30/07)