• Is it age appropriate?

  About our ratings

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  Not age appropriate for kids under 8, age appropriate for kids over 10; suggested age 10.

• Is it any good?

  4.0

• Common Sense says

  Action role-playing game has frequent but mild violence.

Why We Rated This for Ages 10 and Up

The good stuff

• Ease of play:

  The controls are explained through an exhaustive series of in-game tutorials. Even novice players should have an easy time figuring out how to play.
• Messages:

  It’s a game about saving the universe from indisputably malevolent aliens. There are also strong themes of equality and cooperation; players can switch at will between the game’s equally skilled male and female leads and can play cooperatively via a drop-in two-player mode.
• Role models:

  The game’s heroes are selfless, providing aid and protection to distressed civilians. They occasionally bicker with one another, but it is clear that they share a mutual respect.

What to watch out for

• Violence:

  Violence is frequent but mild. Players use melee and energy weapons as well as monster-ish creatures called spectrobes to battle oddly shaped alien creatures that vanish once defeated. Players never fight humans, and there is no blood.
• Sex:

  Not an issue.
• Language:

  Not an issue.
• Consumerism:

  Surprisingly, not much, given the publisher. The Spectrobes games represent Disney Interactive’s first original intellectual property, meaning that the story and characters are not based on any existing Disney movies, television shows, or toys.
• Drinking, drugs, & smoking:

  Not an issue.

What Parents Need to Know

This review of Spectrobes: Origins was written by Chad Sapieha

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