Its fun, revolutionary, and it keeps many elements from the original Banjo games

User Rating: 8.5 | Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts X360
Originally the idea of a vehicle based Banjo Kazooie game immediatley made me think the franchise was getting killed. But actually its one of the best games I've played this year. The story is Banjo and Kazooie are stuck in another world with the "Lord of Games" who will return them to spiral mountain once they find enough jiggies. While the story is fairly weak it doesn't matter much because, hey its a Banjo Kazooie game. Creating vehicles is unusually addictive and actually pretty easy to master. You use your vehicles or already created ones to go through different worlds and collect jiggies. It doesn't have many platforming elements, so don't kid yourself, this shares little resemblence to the N64 masterpieces, but it is still an insanley fun game that is a breath of fresh air compared to all the M rated games on the 360. The humor is still there and so are the characters, but now its much more of a GTA-style open world (without the killing of course). The game is great and fun for all ages and introduces a revolutionary vehicle building system. Even if you feel Nuts and Bolts could have been made without the BK universe, its still a game I would gladly pick up.

Graphics: 9/10
Story: 7/10
Fun Factor: 9/10
Gameplay: 8/10