Bakugan: Defenders of the Core is a multi-console game that was released on October 19, 2010 at GameStop, on October 26, 2010 at Walmart and Target and on November 2, 2010 at Toys "R" Us. It is the third Bakugan video game following Bakugan Battle Brawlers (video game) and Bakugan Battle Brawlers: Battle Trainer. Despite its title, it is based on the second series. It was released for the Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, PSP, PS3, and Xbox 360.

Bakugan: Defenders of the Core brings gamers into a fast binding action adventure to save the Earth from Zenoheld, Spectra and their Vexos minions. Players create a new hero and discover new aspect of Bakugan by having full control over the creatures when taking on the opponents. For fans who will be getting the DS version, they will be taking advantage of the dual screens. The game has split-screen multiplayer, head to head battles, and free for all. There is also a Collector's Edition that comes with a figure of a Bakugan, there are many different ones such as a Pyrus Neo Dragonoid, Subterra Centipoid, Aquos Limulus, Subterra Cycloid, Subterra Hammer Gorem, Haos Blade Tigrerra, Darkus Laserman, Ventus Ingram, Ventus El Condor, Aquos Preyas Angelo, Aquos Preyas Diablo, and many more different action figures.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Gameplay 2.1 Story Mode 2.2 Battle Mode 2.2.1 Attribute Advantages 3 Characters 3.1 Protagonists 3.2 Antagonists 3.3 Other 3.4 Bakugan 4 Trailers and clips of gameplay 4.1 Battle Gameplay 4.2 Battle and capture Trailer 5 Voice Cast 5.1 English Version 6 Trivia

Plot

The game follows a story arc from Bakugan Battle Brawlers: New Vestroia not followed in the Anime. When Bakugan Interspace has a malfunction, the player is sent to an alternate Earth. In this Earth, the Resistance lost to the Vexos. After that the Vexos took over Earth. The Resistance has been fighting the Vexos and they got hit with a beam used by the Vexos' newest creation, the Vexos Crystal, which breaks the Resistance's Gauntlets and leaves them unable to brawl. Due to the player not being affected by the beams, he decides to help the Resistance defeat the Vexos and also tries to find a way home. This is also your game character.

Gameplay

Story Mode

In Story Mode you travel the world as the main character attaining stealth to hide from security drones patrolling the cities of earth as you collect Core Energy, which can be used to upgrade the Player's Bakugan. Using your Bakugan as tools you take down laser traps and other security devices to get to the battle scenes and find chests that give the player ability cards, Vexos passes that allow the player to get past the security guards if caught, and collectable metal figures of the bakugan.

Battle Mode

The new Battle Mode uses a new fighting engine similar to that of the "Dragon Ball Z Budokai" games and Ability Cards are now used to make extremely powerful attacks and Bakugan are now able to be captured.

During the battles, the player has to destroy Vexos Crystals to finish the brawl in most cases during the Story Mode or else it will keep re-spawning enemies. The player also has to protect a landmark, which leads to a loss if the enemy manages to destroy it. However, the player can build hologram towers that act as distractions for the enemy and acts as a decoy for the landmarks until they are destroyed. Both the Vexos Crystals and the Landmarks come in the Six Attributes which over certain advantages over other attributes.

Outside of the story mode, there are three different battle modes. There is Duel, which is two Bakugan fighting until one is knocked out. There is Free For All Mode, which is four Bakugan fighting each other for the most points that are earned through hitting and defeating the other bakugan within the time limit. Finally, there is Destruction Battle, which is two players trying to gain more points than the opponent by hitting and destroying Vexos Crystals within the time limit.

Attribute Advantages

• Pyrus: Strong against Darkus and weak against Aquos.
• Aquos: Strong against Pyrus and weak against Ventus.
• Ventus: Strong against Aquos and weak against Subterra.
• Subterra: Strong against Ventus and weak against Haos.
• Haos: Strong against Subterra and weak against Darkus.
• Darkus: Strong against Haos and weak against Pyrus.

Characters

Protagonists

• Player Character The Main Character of the game. He is not the same main character from Bakugan Battle Brawlers: The Video Game. He arrives in an alternate world where the Vexos defeated the Resistance.
• Dan Kuso
• Marucho Marukura
• Shun Kazami
• Mira Clay
• Baron Leltoy
• Ace Grit

Antagonists

• King Zenoheld
• Spectra Phantom
• Gus Grav
• Volt Luster
• Shadow Prove
• Mylene Farrow
• Lync Volan
• Security Drones

Other

• Abyss is the core energy type thing on earth which only the player character can hear and see. When he starts to do this everyone thinks he's crazy. Abyss is a light blue spirit that asks the Player Character to help rebuild the land marks. The Vexos keep on using energy from Abyss for evil.

Bakugan

• Neo Dragonoid
• Maxus Dragonoid/Maxus Cross Dragonoid
• Cross Dragonoid - ball form is Hyper Dragonoid.
• Scorpion
• Elfin
• Minx Elfin - named and ball form is Dual Elfin.
• Tripod Epsilon
• Ingram
• Master Ingram - ball form is Cosmic Ingram.
• Hylash
• Thunder Wilda - ball form is Wilda .
• Magma Wilda - ball form is Thunder Wilda.
• Baliton
• Mega Nemus - named and ball form is Nemus.
• Saint Nemus - named and ball form is Mega Nemus.
• Piercian
• Percival
• Knight Percival - named and ball form is Midnight Percival.
• Falcon Fly
• Cyborg Helios - named "Mechanical Helios" and ball form is the one from the Maxus Helios set.
• Maxus Helios
• Metalfencer
• Elico
• Tripod Theta
• Altair
• Wired
• Primo Vulcan - misspelled as Premo Vulcan
• Hexados
• Mega Brontes - named and ball form is Brontes.
• Dynamo
• Hades
• Fortress

Note: in the Japanese version the main six Resistance Brawlers' Bakugan's Evolved forms use the correct ball forms.

Trailers and clips of gameplay

Battle Gameplay

Bakugan Defenders of the Core - Battle Mode Gameplay(00:00)
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This Video depicts in Depth depiction of the battle gameplay depicting the new use of ability cards.

Battle and capture Trailer

Bakugan Battle Brawlers Defenders of the Core Trailer 2(01:19)
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A teaser video for the game showing several scenes of Battle Mode and Story Mode gameplay and some cutscenes.

Voice Cast

English Version

Daron Jennings as The Player
Awwab Bukhari as Dan
Melissa Hutchison as Marucho
Brian Sommer as Drago
Gavin Hammon as Ace
Stephanie Komure as Baron
Sarah Tancer as Mira
Lea Gulino as Abyss
Amy Rubinate as Gauntlet
Roger Jackson as Helios

Trivia

• All voice actors are replaced with new ones in the game.
• Traps are only battled against in the game and are not used by you and the Maxus Traps just combine with Drago so you don't technically get to use them.
• After Drago evolves, you can choose each Resistance Bakugan that you want to evolve until they are all evolved.
• All of Maxus Helios's Bakugan except Maxus Helios are called Bakugan Traps in the game.
• All of the Attribute advantages are either the opposite advantages (ex. Pyrus-Aqous) or the dual Attributes that belong to the hybrid bakugan (Darkus-Pyrus, Aquos-Ventus, Haos-Subterra).
• Although the game takes place on Earth, there are strangely two moons or two Suns.
• Wired is counted as a core Bakugan, but is unusable.
• Cross Dragonoid's ball form is Hyper Dragonoid's ball form in this game.
• Saint Nemus is referred to as Mega Nemus in this game.
• Minx Elfin is referred to as Dual Elfin in this game and so is her ball form.
• Cyborg Helios is referred to as 'Mechanical Helios'
• For some reason, Altair is on the cover.
• Hydron did not appear in this game.
• It is unknown how it is possible to take away the ability to brawl. This would mean you no longer have the ability to say 'Bakugan Brawl' and throw your Bakugan. It would make more sense for the Bakugan's ability to brawl to be taken away.