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Review: Wreck-It Ralph for Nintendo 3DS

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Wreck-It Ralph for the Nintendo 3DS

Back in November Allison, Eva, Andrew and I traveled to New York City for a family trip as well as to attend the Activision Family Game Summit. When we left we left with a couple of crazy awesome swag bags of great Activision titles for families. One of those games was the 3DS version of Wreck-It Ralph.

The Wreck-It Ralph game picks up where the movie leaves off. Things are getting back to normal in the arcade when the cybugs get loose in multiple games and it is up to the team of Fix-It and Wreck-It to save the invaded games. You get to play as Fix-It Felix, Jr and Wreck-It Ralph. Each character has his own unique abilities. Ralph can smash things and is much stronger than Felix. Felix though is faster and can jump higher. Each level has multiple places where you must switch between characters in order to complete the full level. As you make your way through the level there are wide chasms to jump, ladders to climb, walls to break and more. Switching between the two characters is simple.

I was expecting more out of this game. There are three worlds that you travel through and despite the names they are basically the same. There is the world of Fix-It Felix. Jr, Hero’s Duty and Sugar Rush. Each level is essentially the same thing just re-skinned. I would have loved to have seen this broken down more to the types of games they were in the movie. the Fix-It Felix Jr level could have remained as is the old school side scrolling platformer. Hero’s Duty could have been like a first person shooter or even a third person one (build it on the 3DS Skylanders gaming engine would have been amazing, and an Activision property) where Ralph teams up with Sargent Calhoun. And Sugar Rush could have been a racing game with Ralph and Vanellope von Schweetz teaming up.

The game was entertaining but got repetitive quickly. I banged through almost all of the levels easily. The Wreck-It Ralph 3DS game is fun for a while but won’t stand up to repeated play.

Disclosure: I received this game for free. I’m under no obligation to review it. Opinions are 100% my own.

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What are your Family Video Game Policies?

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We decided that in addition to buying the Wii U for Christmas that we’d also get a Nintendo 3DS. I found it for $25 off at Target so I ordered it. We had already received six games from Activision and I had purchased the 3DS version of Skylanders last year and again this year so we have games but haven’t had the system to play them on. The 3DS arrived yesterday and I charged it up. I played a little of the Wreck-It Ralph game today and some of the Epic Mickey game tonight.

I’m going to play and review the games we got from the Activision Family Game Summit before Christmas and then pack everything up for Santa to give it to the family as a family gift. I set up all the parental controls like limiting the 3D ability of the system so that Eva can’t use that (not recommended for children under 7) and some other parental controls.

Eva has been asking for a DS for a while now and I’ve really just wanted to go and get her one but she’s only 5 so I can’t see this being a gift solely for her. We’re working on some family policies for video games. How much time to play and when to play and so on.

What are your Family Video Game Policies?

Earlier this month I went to the Activision Family Game Summit and now the video of that event is online at http://familygamesummit.com/live.php, there are some great tips on selecting age appropriate games for kids and other tips.