Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid suffers from dated visuals, poor presentation, and a serious lack of content, unable to hide its low-budget shortcomings. At its core is something of a slick and wholly-accessible fighting game. Yet without the visual pizazz of the brand, a full, varied roster of characters, or a glut of exciting content to dive into, Battle for the Grid ultimately feels like the unfinished prototype of what could have been a very special release.
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With its decent animation and inoffensive combat, it’s safe to say worse Power Rangers games do exist. Battle for the Grid emulates familiar, old-school video game fighting, but once you've seen all there is to see in combat, you’re done. Playing online or through the limited arcade mode isn't rewarding and the roster isn't varied or substantial enough for Power Ranger fans to get excited.
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid suffers from dated visuals, poor presentation, and a serious lack of content, unable to hide its low-budget shortcomings. At its core is something of a slick and wholly-accessible fighting game. Yet without the visual pizazz of the brand, a full, varied roster of characters, or a glut of exciting content to dive into, Battle for the Grid ultimately feels like the unfinished prototype of what could have been a very special release.
The near perfect mechanics of Battle for the Grid aren’t enough to make this a game worth playing. You’ll have a few fun nights with your buddies partaking in some ranger on ranger violence, but you’ll quickly find yourself returning to other mainstream fighting games.
The best way to explain Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is that it has the potential to be great, it just isn’t close to being there. Perhaps the best example of it falling short are the character introductions. If you watch the video above, I included four, which is about half, of the characters introductions, and outside of Drakkon, they’re silent, awkward and just feel unfinished (Drakkon could pass off as complete and really gives you an idea of what the others are missing).
A Marvel vs. Capcom-inspired Power Rangers game is something that arguably needed to be made for fans and hopefully, given time and effort by the developers, Battle for the Grid will become the Power Rangers experience fans have been waiting for. It's just not there yet.