Upstart Magazine

The Kiwi kids' mag with EVERYTHING! We have two copies of (Xbox360) up for grabs. To enter, simply tick the box on the entry coupon, page 60, and send it in OR enter at the Upstart Friendship Club, www.upstartmag.co.nz. Entries close 31 March 2012. 2 to win! PLATFORMS: Xbox360, PS3, Nintendo Wii Marvel Super Hero Squad Comic Combat RATED: PG This is a great little game, which is also a uDraw game. It has some of your favourite Marvel characters including Wolverine, Iron Man, Hulk, Scarlet Witch, and more. It starts with Dr Doom attacking the squaddie air carrier, prompting you and the rest of the squad to fight back and destroy his weather machine. You have a 'Pen of Power' and must collect ink to draw certain things. As I mentioned before, I was a little fuzzy on the uDraw controls, but it's fun when you make them attack. To make them walk, you tap the player with your onscreen cursor by moving the pen along the uDraw tablet, then you tap a place where you would like them to walk to. To make them attack, simply do the same thing, except instead of tapping where you would like them to go, tap your enemy! A trick you learn later in the game is all-out frenzy. You activate this by holding the cursor on the character and dragging it around the screen. My favourite is the bomb. When you draw an X, a bomb will appear. I usually use this to help the squaddies battle the forces of evil. 10/10 for that! The music is awesome. It feels like you're helping to create a movie because the music is so comic book/ super hero – like in the movies. But you're not – it's a comic book series! It has a real action-y feel to it and I liked it a lot. One thing that might bug It has a real action-y feel to it and I liked it a lot. some people though, is that although the music is awesome, there isn't much of a selection, so the repetition might annoy some people. The characters are very cool. I really like the unique attributes that each character has. For example, Wolverine, Thor, and Hulk have only melee attacks, and Iron Man and Scarlet Witch have only ranged attacks. And even when you only tap the enemy once, they continue to attack them until they are defeated. Also, if there is more than one character on screen, you can make one of them attack, and then the other squaddies will help him out! 9¾ 10/ Hey Upstart, I love WW'12! It's the best game EVER! It's got a new ring, new matches and new people! It's BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER! – JAMES, 10, Maheno School, Oamaru Why does history keep repeating itself? Because we never listen in the first place – LACHLAN DOUGLAS, 12, Ponsonby Intermediate School, Auckland – TOM KANFONONGA, 9, Goldfields Primary School, Cromwell www.upstartmag.co.nz 63 Super Her o Squad Comic Combat Marvel

• Cover