Battle enemies as guinea pig heroes in 'G-Force'

— -- Disney's newest stars are a bunch of super-intelligent guinea pigs known as the G-Force. Specially trained to be part of a covert intelligence squad for the government, not only do these guinea pigs star in their own movie (opening July 24), but they also captivate you in their own G-Force video game for both consoles and handhelds.

Under the cute little rodent facades are fearless special agents. Equipped with cool spy gadgets and unique weapons, these guinea pigs are a hoot to play with if you like video games filled with combat and tricky environments. The game allows you to drive a rodent exercise ball that rotates at ridiculously high speed while fighting all sorts of household appliances that have become evil.

G-Force immediately grabs your attention with nonstop action. This is a game about infiltrating bad guy Leonard Saber's operations as he tries to take over the world by reprogramming all the world's appliances to do his evil bidding. Between stealth missions of trying to sneak into Saber's mansion and FBI headquarters, and constantly fighting renegade appliances, you'll need to think fast and shoot often to survive.

You view the world from the perspectives of Darwin, the guinea pig leader of the G-Force, and his housefly sidekick Mooch. You can freely switch between the two characters to solve puzzles of how to navigate through the five locations of the game. Darwin carries a variety of weapons and has a hoverpack that allows him to fly for brief periods. Mooch can fly close to electrical things to interfere with their frequencies and has a special ability to slow down time. At times you will need to send Mooch into tiny places to do things to help Darwin, like flying through a fan vent in the wall to activate a switch on the other side of a door.

If your kids like fast action and lots of combat, they will love this game. Each of the 25 missions is about eliminating threats in a location so that you can reason out how to navigate in the environment to get to a goal. At your disposal are a whip, a flamethrower and guns, such as a freeze gun that encases your enemy in a block of ice. You can also shoot an evil appliance with a special weapon that will turn it into an ally.