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Ben 10 is a 10 year old boy who picks up a watch that turns him into alien creatures he uses this to help save the world, every 10 year old wishes they were as lucky as Ben 10, they wish they could find that watch and use it for their own purpose.

Ben 10 The Rise Of The Hex give you a chance to help save your friends by using Ben and his watch in a game full of enemies, puzzles and more. So have Black Lantern Studios made this game a ten year old's dream?



The story remains almost totally unheard of in this game, making it feel like a game that has just had Ben 10 shoved in to give it more interest, the little story of which there is, becomes shown via lifeless text on screen with one or two characters shown doing nothing, this makes the story even worse, as it becomes boring to read and you want to just skip it all with a quick succession of the A button.

When it comes down to gameplay again Ben 10 Rise Of The Hex disappoints, you can’t go too wrong with a side scroller, but this just takes the cake, with a horrible and unclear control system, you are expected to know how to walk and climb ladders and even attack enemies from the start.



Along with the controls, the level layout can leave you amazingly confused, with no indication as to where to go you can easily become lost and frustrated, sure games sometimes mean to make you think about what you are doing, in this game it’s not about making you think it’s about making it almost impossible.

It is mainly fault to the horrible control scheme leading you to fall on a heater pad and killing you or pushing you into a laser beam and killing you. I think you get the idea here; the gameplay is almost impossible and certainly not possible for a 10 year old to get the grasp of easily.



The only thing to be found that is off the borderline of terrible are the graphics, which being a side scroller don’t have a high bar to meet, while they may not meet this bar they can be considered okay, proportions can appear to be out, as you go from one level to a larger one where enemies stay the same size but your character shrinks. Also as said before a misleading arrangement of items in-game lead you to believing this is a game with four directions, but otherwise the graphics appear to be pretty consistent.

While this could have been a good game it has followed the footsteps of most movie/television games of being low quality creations, it probably comes to the same reason as do all of these types of games. Time, it feels as if it was a rushed game, pushed through without thought.

This game is unfortunately given a rather low rating of:

3.0