Rampage: Total Destruction (Wii, 2006)

My eight-year old son and I love playing this game together. We play together to destroy various cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, London, etc. Each city is eerily similar to those actual cities (with a little twist on their famous sites ~ for instance, Ghiradelli Square in San Francisco is called Chocolate Square).

You have to destroy something like 5 blocks within each city, each within a specified time frame. Your enemies are the police and military who are trying to attack you from airplanes, helicopters, building windows, tanks, and the ground. To get rid of them, you can stomp on them, pound your fists on them, punch them, or if they're on the ground, you can swipe them up and eat them (which actually gives you more power)!

Along the way, you can unlock new monster characters to be, unlock new powers by completing given challenges (i.e. eat 3 cows, destroy 8 trains, find a bag of gold, etc.), and unlock new cities to destroy.

I've found it to be a great way to get out your frustrations from the day. Also, being a huge fan of the old 80's arcade version of Rampage, I'm enjoying reliving my childhood.

The only negative I've found is that it takes a little while to get used to using the controller. Once you get used to it, LET THE DESTRUCTION BEGIN!!!