Unfortunately, the game is designed mostly linear as Swampfire can only really head to the key, which opens a door, which has a key for the next door, etc. The design in each level is pretty much a maze, which scales bigger and more branching in later levels. Making the best course of action to simply jump past and around enemies and attacks, only utilizing attack itself in boss fights. This is a solid concept in theory, but all of the enemies in the game have a lot of health, and many fire back, so trying to kill everything will generally end with be killed unless dodging constantly. In addition to, since playing as Swampfire, the mouse can actually be pointed at enemies and fire fireballs while moving along. The game plays like a standard platformer for the most part, where players get to utilize Swampfire or sometimes even Ultimate Swampfire.
Who knows maybe a flash game for the next Ben 10 series will actually have voice over dialogue.
These are not by any means overly in depth, but each of the characters appears to actually have character, instead of just stating “Thanks, now save the next guy” four different ways. This is actually pretty nice to see in a flash game where many others have maybe a few panels explaining the story in the best case. Unlike other games, Ultimate Alien Rescue features an opening and closing, as well as dialogue in each level albeit incredibly limited. Technically, this happens in the Ultimate Alien series proper, but the way it is executed makes the game pseudo exist between the episodes “Fame” and “Escape from Aggregor”, in that Ben 10 luckily finds out about it and heads up to save them, but in the end as Aggregor puts it “No one escapes me.” What this does is that ultimately what the player does in the game feels unimportant, but on the other hand doesn’t upset any canon of the actual series, so it is really a trade off. The story this time around is that 5 aliens, after having crashed onto Earth, are on their way back to their homes when they get captured by the evil Aggregor.
With Ben 10 being such a hot property does the game live up to what fans of the series would expect? As with most flash games based on a series, it attempts to fit into the story of the series or is based on one or more episodes. Becoming known for being a superhero has it’s downsides though as Ben continues to face bigger threats, but also gains the ability to use improved Ultimate forms of some of his alien forms.īen 10: Ultimate Alien – Ultimate Alien Rescue is an online flash game made for the series and is available on the Cartoon Network website.
Featuring a 16 year old Ben Tennyson, the series sees Ben with an improved Omnitrix, called the Ultimatrix, as well as becoming known worldwide for his power and abilities.