Ben 10: Alien Force (video game)

Ben 10: Alien Force is an action-adventure video game based on the American animated television series of the same name. The game was released in North America on October 28, 2008 and February 2009 in the United Kingdom.^[1]

Ben 10: Alien Force
North American Wii cover art
Developer(s)	Monkey Bar Games (Wii, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2), 1st Playable Productions (Nintendo DS)
Publisher(s)	D3 Publisher
Composer(s)	Michael McCuistion Lolita Ritmanis Kristopher Carter
Series	Ben 10: Alien Force
Engine	Vicious Engine
Platform(s)	Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo DS
Release	NA: October 28, 2008 AU: November 20, 2008 EU: February 16, 2009
Genre(s)	Action-adventure, platformer
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Plot

Ben Tennyson, his cousin Gwen and Kevin Levin encounter the Forever Knights looking for a piece of alien tech at a pier. They also meet an off-world Tetramand Plumber named Gorvan, who is searching for illegal alien tech, and recruits them to help him.

The trio retrieves components from various places and defeating the Forever Knights and Pickaxe Aliens that were guarding them. Gorvan grows increasingly suspicious with each component collected, and the trio decide to keep an eye on him. Eventually, they learn from Max Tennyson that Gorvan is a disgraced Plumber who was thrown out of the organization for hoarding and selling illegal alien technology. Kevin decides to hunt down Gorvan without backup, with Ben giving chase.

Kevin rushes into Gorvan's hideout, discovering that he has been hoarding alien technology at the behest of an unknown customer. Gorvan releases Xenocites, who attack Kevin. After catching up with Kevin, Ben finds him partially transformed into a DNAlien. Ben defeats Kevin and turns him back to normal with the Omnitrix's DNA Repair function, sending him back to Gwen. Ben then finds and defeats Gorvan. He returns to Gwen and Kevin, and they discover that Gorvan was gathering components for a Highbreed, who proceeds to steal a component, and energy source, from them.

They track the Highbreed, who has used the components to build a Highbreed weather tower, which they intend to use to make Earth hospitable to them, in a process which would be fatal for humanity. The team is attacked by a swarm of DNAliens, forcing them to split up. While attempting to shut down the tower, Ben accidentally activates it. Gwen and Kevin disable the tower's forcefields, allowing Ben to destroy the tower.

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	(WII) 45/100[2]

Review score

Publication	Score
IGN	4/10[3]

Reception

Ben 10: Alien Force received "generally unfavorable" reviews for review aggregator Metacritic.