Megamind: Ultimate Showdown

The player has the ability to play as Megamind by using his De-Gun to vaporize enemies. For the console version, the game contains hidden loot and upgrades acquired by various amounts of B.I.N.K.E.Y. (Blue Ion Nano-Kinetic Energ-Y). If there is a second player, the player can play as a Brainbot that assists Megamind. For the handheld version, players get to level up their weapons and collect ammo from defeated enemies. While most of the original film's cast were replaced with soundalikes, namely Keith Ferguson and Drew Massey replacing Will Ferrell and David Cross as Megamind and Minion respectively, Jonah Hill reprises his role as Hal Stewart / Tighten. ==Plot==

After Megamind retires from his supervillainy career and becomes the new hero of Metro City, his sidekick Minion calls him during a press conference at City Hall to inform him that a group of villains known as the Doom Syndicate broke into their lair and stole both his and his former rival Metro Man's DNA. Megamind must defeat them and save Metro City. He first investigates the city streets, taking down the Destruction Worker, then defeating Psycho Delic in the sewers, and finally Hot Flash downtown. Collecting the parts for his DNA tracker, Megamind confronts the Syndicate's leader, the film's main villain Tighten, at City Hall. Tighten, with his power restored and infused with Megamind's intelligence (as well as gaining the latter's blue skin) as well as Metro Man's brawn, manages to put up more of a fight then their last encounter, but Megamind still manages to defeat him by collapsing parts of the building on him, thus weakening him enough for Megamind use a serum to revert Hal back to normal and send him and the rest of the Doom Syndicate back to jail. Megamind is victorious. == Reception ==

The game received an aggregate score on Metacritic of 43/100 on PlayStation 3 and 33/100 on Xbox 360, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Official Xbox Magazine rated the Xbox 360 version of the game 3/10, calling the graphics the only part of the game that were not bad. Computer and Video Games rated the same version 1.8/10, calling the main game "exhausting inanity" and "the latest in a long line of identikit THQ kiddy platformers". Adam Wolfe of PlayStation LifeStyle rated the PS3 version 4/10, calling it a decent platformer but criticizing the gameplay as "repetitive" and the story "lackluster". ==References==