"Pinnochio versus Black Knight! Get ready..."

Set in medieval times, this game takes all the characters from the Shrek movies with their unique personalities and puts them into twisted fighting scenes you could only dream up with an overdose of Jolt and Cheetos. You get your favorite superstars Donkey, Puss-In-Boots, Gingerbread Man, Fiona, Pinocchio, Little Red Riding Hood, Prince Charming, and a whole slew of others – each with their own signature fighting moves.

"Super Slam!"

Your gauge will tell you how close you are to delivering a super slam. Keep cranking up the level by beating the snot out of your opponents. Once the meter is filled to the top, deliver your super slam. Some of the signature moves are the Green Storm, the Juggle Punt, and the Love Stun, and each of them will put your opponent out of commission for a while.

There is an impressive number of artifacts presented in the destructible environment of this game. Slam Juice, Dragon Swords, Giant Ham Hock, Beehives, Magnets, and even a couple cannons lying around are available to my son to help improve my skills on the wiggle stick. It’s unfair, and I became a button pusher just to get a leg up, I tell ya!

“Can we rename this Gingerbreadman Slam?” my son asked as the little brown dude got evil on me and sent me and my red hood flying into a table.

Bodies flew through windows. Innocent inanimate objects were destroyed to the tune of calm jazz singing: pool tables, wagons, stagecoaches, castle towers, the list goes on. And there's nothing wrong with a flying donkey that can shoot flames out of his hindquarters!

“I unlocked G-nome!”

He’s a little gnome who looks a little like Scott Ian. Armed and dangerous, he wears a red hat and carries a trowel main gauche with a backup gardening shovel. It was a daunting task to get him to use his special power, but I believe my son burrowed him underground and emerged from behind Fiona and the Gingerbread Man to ambush them. Oh, and he does fly through the air with his aerodynamic red cone hat to deliver a whomping on Cyclops and the yolk-slinging Humpty Dumpty!

I don’t play a lot of multiplayer games, and not many hand-to-hand combat games. But I did enjoy picking up broken pieces of chairs and tables to sling at my opponents to stun them. Then I moved in for the final attack.

"One minute left!"

You continue to fight your opponents as if in a candyland WWE ring, and the player with the most slams wins the game. This is definitely a game for the younger player, who will enjoy coming back to be an ogre-whooping donkey again and again. Adults may not be such big fans unless they are spending a game day with the kids.

Gotta run now… My son just unlocked the donkey’s offspring and a guy who apparently likes to play very loud music! I can’t wait to see what sort of head-banging attack this character might have.