Um, by the first one.
Hudson actually made a little story to Fuzion Frenzy 2 kind of. Four years ago, Fuzion Frenzy was one of the most popular events ever. But due to its competitiveness, the leaders of Earth have banned the show. Four years later, Earth has been have problems with over population. There were beginning to be too many people on the planet. To solve this, the leaders have brought back the show, Fuzion Frenzy. But, with a change. Battles would take place in different planets. The leaders of Earth hope that this will make people migrate to other planets. The people of Earth were greatful about the news. Best of all, the leaders of Earth have brought back the people that participated in the first Fuzion Frenzy. They've returned with a brand new enthusiasm also.
When you start the game, you have three modes to choose. Main Battle, Online Battle and Options. Main Battle has three modes. Tournament, Mini Game Frenzy, and Custom. Tournament is the main mode. You select the amount of planets you need to win in order to win the tournament. I suggest just doing two. Mini Game Frenzy is just being able to select any mini game you want to play. Like in the first one. Custom is a new addition where you can select some mini games and play them all in a tournament. Which is a very nice addition. Online Battle has the same choices, only that you are playing online with other people. Which is a very nice addition. Options of course just change your options.
There are seven planets. The Machina planet has, in my opinion, the funnest mini games. It's a planet full of lots of machines obviously. The air is so polluted cause of all the gases from the factories and machines. Moisture is a planet where 99% of its surface is covered in water. Earth, well, I think you know what it is. XD Eternite has very harsh climate and is at the edge of a black hole. Very interesting planet. Blazer, one of the coolest looking planets in the game is a game full of fire. Amuseth is a very fun looking planet. It's a gigantic casino. So many lights but the mini games in it are hard. Icicle is, you guessed it, a planet covered with snow and frozen ice.
So, enough of the info, time for the review!
The gameplay is pretty good. Alot like the first one. Some of the games are very uncreative though. Mini games are very fun to play. They've changed the orb collecting game into a fighting mini game. In my opinion, the fighting mini games are much better then the orb collecting games. Some of the mini games take lots of time to master. Also, they shouldn't have added games like Power Supply that makes you need alot of strength to master. So people like me, can never master that. The controls for the mini games are very simple. They usually contain only three buttons for you to press. If there are more buttons to press, they probably are optional. Though, there are more controls in these mini games then in the first one. But, most of the mini games don't have duplications of them with different rules. The first one had alot of those. The new addition, the cards, just makes me have to bring the gameplay score to a seven. The cards are pretty much used to even the score. A swore loser can use a six times cards to get in first place. If you are in first place and use a six times card, you pretty much win the planet. It's very unfair. Overall, the gameplay has its fun moments but is overshadowed with things like more controls and stupid cards.
Graphics have improved mildly from the first game. The characters look alot more detailed then the first one. Though, they're not the most impressive graphics. But they get the job done. The environments have improved from the first one. Blitz were horrible at graphics. Hudson on the other hand have made great graphics. The environments are very colorful and are very detailed. But, like the character models, they're not the most impressive graphics on the XBOX 360. There are other games with better graphics like Sonic The Hedgehog and Viva Pinata. But of course, graphics usually don't matter in games. There really isn't much to say about graphics since I am not a graphics master. So overall, graphics are pretty good, but not the most impressive graphics. Ugh, sound. I'm not saying that the soundtrack is bad, it's the voices that bring the score down. The background music for the mini games are very good. Much better then the stupid hip hop music in the first one. No annoying lyrics in the background. If there is a third sequel, the developers have better keep the music like this. The voices are okay. The voices for the characters playable are okay. But the ones in the first one were better in my opinion. The DJ's voice was one of the worst voices I've ever heard. His voice is so annoying, makes me want to throw up sometimes. Even worst, you can't skip the DJ in the little cutscenes during online play. But you can offline. Overall, great soundtrack, horrible voices.
So, what to say to sum up what I think? Overall, Fuzion Frenzy 2 fails to live up to the first one. Microsoft should really get Blitz back. They're the ones that made the great first one.