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Brain Challenge

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 7 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Developer: Gameloft
Genre(s): Trivia, Edutainment
Players: 4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Release Date: March 12, 2008
Summary
[Xbox Live Arcade] Get your brain in shape with fun daily exercises - these challenging and entertaining puzzles act like a vitamin boost for your brain. Brain Challenge is your personal coach for mental fitness. Twenty different games in five categories (Memory, Visual, Logic, Math, and Focus) train all areas of your brain. Keep track of your progress every day, and easily evaluate your level of brain activity. Brain Challenge is the easy and enjoyable way to keep your brain alert. Challenge friends with four-player offline and online multiplayer modes. Thirty games are broken down into different categories—Memory, Visual, Logic, Math, and Focus. Training room: Play all the mini-games within each category freely. Creative mode: Relax by exploring your brain's creative abilities through five games. Stress mode: Test your abilities under stressful conditions. Personal coach: Choose your favorite coach to accompany you through all your brain development steps and develop a unique relationship with him or her. Brain charts: View your overall performance and progression with detailed stats and graphs. [Microsoft]
Cheat Codes & Hints: Cheat Code Central
Also On The Web: Official Website
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
GamePro
Only Stephen Hawking and a few select Nobel Prize winners will ever unlock the 100% Brain Usage Achievement. Load mechanical pencils in your pocket protector and tape those glasses because Brain Challenge lives up to its name.
Read Full Review >IGN
If you have a puny, atrophied brain, spending some time with Brain Challenge will make you feel better about it. The graphics aren't much to look at but the menus are sharp and easy to navigate, and the controls are intuitive.
Read Full Review >Talk Xbox
The puzzles are original, difficult and entertaining, with the sight for improvement ever so addicting, making Brain Challenge a greeted addition to Xbox Live's Arcade for a fit eight hundred points.
Read Full Review >Worth Playing
Brain Challenge is the kind of game that you can play every day or once a month, and you'd still get the same enjoyment from it.
Read Full Review >NZGamer
While being the first brain training title for the 360, it does little to enhance the genre, or make itself stand out from the portable brain training crowd. However, it does provide a solid test of your mettle, and for the paltry price you could do much, much worse.
Read Full Review >PALGN
Brain Challenge is a decent game, with numerous brain-teasers to keep you entertained for weeks. However, a few flaws leave the game less polished than it should be.
Read Full Review >Eurogamer
For all my reservations about the format, there's definitely an audience for this sort of thing out there and while 800 Points puts this in the upper price bracket for Live Arcade, it still makes it the cheapest brain game option around. In that regard at least, it gets the job done.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
The brain-training experience comes to Microsoft's console, but it's unlikely to pass the test for most players' hard-earned dollars.
Read Full Review >Gameplanet
A decent (albeit uninspired) title which, while hardly pushing the Xbox 360 - or your IQ - to its limits, offers pretty good value for money.
Read Full Review >Official Xbox Magazine UK
Easy to play, but not a whole lot of fun. [June 2008, p.79]
Official Xbox Magazine
You could pursue worse habits than giving your noodle a mild workout, but Brain Challenge provides little incentive to keep the appointment. [May 2008, p.76]
Planet Xbox 360
Despite its flaws, many of which are correctable with a patch, it does an admirable job of sharpening your mind in an entertaining fashion.
Read Full Review >Xbox World 360 Magazine UK
Simply not at all comfortable on 360. [June 2008, p.96]
Team Xbox
While the developers obviously tried to make the most of switching from a phone keypad to a game controller, they still missed the mark. The thumbstick on the Xbox 360 controller in particular is overly sensitive, causing the player to overshoot too easily. Racing the clock is hard enough, but losing time by moving back and forth between the right answer through no fault of your own is infuriating.
Read Full Review >X360 Magazine UK
It's a complete knock-off, filled with bland mini-games. [Issue#32, p.118]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 5.8 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Scott gave it a0:
Not worth the money by a long shot.
