D3 has some fun new games coming out for younger gamers.  If you’re like me, even if you don’t have kids, you often find yourself mesmerized by some of the new animated shows aimed at kids on Cartoon Network.  Now, you can check out a few games linked with some of the popular shows like Ben 10 and The Secret Saturdays. This fall, you’ll be able to check out Ben 10: Alien Force Vilgax Attacks, The Secret Saturdays: Beasts of the 5th Sun, and Astro Boy: The Videogame all for the Wii, PS2, PSP & Nintendo DS.

In the second Ben 10 Alien Force game: Vilgax Attacks you’ll play as Ben, in what feels like part 3rd person puzzle game and part role-playing game.  For the first time, players will control Ben and 10 of his Alien forms from the Omnitrix.  You’ll take Ben through an original story created for the game, and be able to experience new alien home planets that haven’t yet been visited on the show.  There will be many familiar creatures from the show that Ben will fight, but there’s also been a handful of new creatures created for the game, that will still keep the spirit of the Ben 10 show.

On October 23rd you’ll have a chance to play the tie-in Astro Boy videogame.  The Astro Boy game look like a classic sidescroller adventure game where you control Astro Boy.  But, there’s a lot of depth hidden within the game, where Astro Boy can move around more than characters usually can in sidescrollers that’s being refered to as 2 1/2d graphics.  In Astro Boy: The Videogame you’ll have the use of all of Astro Boy’s cool gadgets and abilities as he works to save Metro City: the finger-tip lasers, the arm cannons and flight.  There is some flying combat throughout the game which gives it a cool new dimension.  Longtime fans of Astro Boy should definitely check this out, and new fans when the movie comes out on the same day (October 23rd) will hopefully love the game as well.

I think my favorite of the three games D3 has coming out this fall is The Secret Saturdays: Beasts of the 5th Sun, in which you’ll get to play all of the Saturdays in order to fight V.V. Argost’s evil plot to control the Cryptids and rule the world.  There’s thirty new Cryptids that’ve been created just for the game, in a story that feels much like watching the TV show, because it’s been written by show creators and is voiced by the show’s cast.  What makes this game my favorite of the three is the mix of both 2d and 3d gaming.  There are parts of the game that feel like a 2d sidescroller, but the techniques you need to use to make it through have 3d elements, like jumping up over the side of a platform instead of bopping up between platforms like most experienced gamers are used to. This makes watching the special abilities of Zak and The Claw he uses really fun.