Fusion Frenzy 2

Fusion Frenzy 2 comes recommended, really good games, you may be dissapointed with the characters though. This still is a great game for the XBOX 360 in my opinion though.

overall the game is quite average with great mini games....the only thing i find annoying is the announcer >< (green hair?) but yeah

Fusion Frenzy 2, the second of the FF offerings, (see also my review of the former version) promised so much if you had played the first. The problem was it just didn't deliver.

The game comprises a futuristic setting in which you, playing as 1 of 6 characters, competes against 3 opponents (friends where playing multi-player, AI on single player) in a number of mini games based on 1 of 7 planets (including earth)

The set up is a simplistic one. Playing in a fixed screen arena you charge around completing a set task per mini game. mostly these are skills like, get the button press combination right the fastest or avoid the spikes, the depth of mini games is impressive the first few times around. During the game you have some player cards granting things like double points (those awarded at the end of each mini game). After a course of mini games the decider is fought between players. This is always the same format. Be the last man standing.

The controls are often very basic. using just a thumb stick and a few buttons. The different games keeps your joypad fingers moving though. its easy for person unfamiliar with Xbox controllers to get the swing of after a short practice

I would advise against playing the game as a single player because the fun to be taken from this is limited and after once or twice through its nothing very entertaining.

The main annoyance, and I mean that whole heartedly, is the in-game announcer. The constant inane comments and the shear ear insulting tone of his voice is fortunately able to be de-activated in the game options.

The best way to play this game is to get some friends round, have a beer and a pizza and then sling it on. it passes a few hours but doesn't offer much more