The GameDaily One-Minute Review

Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast should have been a fun kart-racing game. It has the DK crew racing around on barrel-shaped jets, lobbing animals and other weapons at each other. Unfortunately, the game's clunky control scheme drives us nuts. The Wii remote and Nunchuk simply don't work well at all, forcing you to constantly build up speed and perform frustrating motions to do even the simplest of maneuvers like dodging on-track objects and jumping. Avoid this bottom of the barrel release.