On paper, How to Train Your Dragon sounds like a good idea for a children's game based on the recent DreamWorks film. Let players collect and customize their own dragons, and then have them battle it out in a standard fighting game.

The island of Berk is your typical Viking community where daily activities include wrestling chickens and sheep, busting barrels, toppling rocks, and of course fighting dragons. Like the title states, you will learn how to train your dragon.

Tons of licensed games come pouring out of development studios around this time of the year, and many of them are forgotten before they even drop. How to Train Your Dragon is probably doomed to such a fate, and what's worse is that it deserves it.

How to Train Your Dragon, released earlier this year, is a good animated film about a Viking boy and how he comes to be not quite a wimp. Also there are dragons. It's a great film, you should see it! The game based on the movie, however, is not as stellar a piece of media.

Lots of visual customization of dragons; challenges are decent little diversions

Combat is dull and lacks variety; no differences in the different dragons' abilities; only one extra dragon that isn't featured in the film

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A Team of Dragons

Game looks great, fun at first, but to train and take care of the dragon is a little challanging for a 6 year old. Overall it's still a fun game.

Great game.

I was told that it's a wonderful game so I wanted for my children. I will also buy and how to train your dragon 2.

good game