Disney launched its answer to “Pokemon” last year with “Spectrobes,” a sci-fi themed Nintendo DS game about flying around the galaxy, digging up fossils, reviving them and using the ...

Verdict. Spectrobes is way more game than is really necessary. Jupiter has some great concepts and tried to jam them all into one game. Things like the card system and the incubator seemed not ...

Problems are more plentiful than the collectible monsters in Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals, the epitome of how not to make a Poke-clone. By Mitch Dyer on November 4, 2008 at 5:56PM PST.

Disney Interactive sent me an evaluation copy of their recently released Spectrobes: Origins game for the Nintendo Wii. The kids have been giving the game a good workout for the past week and I ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Spectrobes: Origins Spectrobes mixes monster battling with a real-time action RPG experience, so you'll not only be managing which critter is out on the ...

Disney Interactive and Jupiter teamed up to make a new series with a manga feel and collectable monsters. It’s obvious that Spectrobes is inspired by games like Pokemon, but there is a little ...

Tucked away stealthily among this week's releases was Spectrobes Collector's Edition. We thought it was pretty baffling that Disney would decide to rerelease an eight-month-old DS game now, and we ...

Spectrobes: Origins has a decent, if extremely primitive, foundation with fast-paced combat, two-player co-op, and a cute excavating minigame, but it fails to evolve into a more compelling and ...

When Spectrobes comes to the Wii later this year it will bring with it a shift for the monster collecting game from the slow pace of role-playing to button-mashing action.

The second game’s official title is Spectrobes: Beyond The Portals. It continues the story of Rallen and Jeena (who is a playable character this time), two youthfuljourneymenon their excavation ...

Spectrobes: Origins borrows much from Phantasy Star in its atmosphere and plenty from Pokemon in gameplay. It's fun, but it will never be at the level of addictiveness that the little pocket ...

“Spectrobes” stresses exploration and nurturing as much as fighting. After the monsters have been cleared out of an area, it’s time for the videogame equivalent of beachcombing.