Dec. 18, 2008
A Review By tashi in PlayStation 3 » Action
Sonic has been spiraling out of control since Sonic Adventure 2, or even earlier depending on who you ask. I have loved Sonic since I was a child, and have tried to be faithful, but it is becoming so hard these days. Sonic the Hedgehog, better known as Sonic 360, is awful.Story:Impressive cutscenes tell a story of the present, the future, and peopl...
Read More »Nov. 5, 2008
A Review By badbadleroybrown in PlayStation 3 » Action
Hype is a funny thing. There’s a good kind and a bad kind. The good kind can come from many different places, such as a game coming out of nowhere to sell oodles of copies because of word of mouth or fantastic reviews (Sins of a Solar Empire comes to mind). Then there’s the bad kind: the artificial hype shoveled into our senses by m...
Read More »Oct. 26, 2008
A Review By Shodan2020 in Xbox 360 » Action
Volition, the same developers who brought you the most excellent Descent: Freespace, and Red Faction games (ok, not so much, RF2). Have given us Saints Row, a gang-oriented sandbox game in the fictional city of Stilwater. You play the role of a poor schlub in the city's Mission Beach district who almost becomes a casualty of gang-related vi...
Read More »Oct. 7, 2008
A Review By Ox in PC » Strategy
Firaxis's latest offering, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization (hereinafter "Col2"), is a revamp of the 1994 turn-based strategy classic Sid Meier's Colonization. You command the first small clutch of Europeans to discover the New World in 1492 and must guide them through Indian raids, colonial wars, and a Revolutionary War ...
Read More »Oct. 5, 2008
A Review By alienmastermind in Xbox 360 » Action
Well, I must say that a lot has kept me from writing about video games. Namely, writing and drawing Dipswitch for the site. But, I digress. The latest in the Star Wars branded video games, The Force Unleashed, is a masterpiece. I've wanted to dismember this damned game. But each time I play, it reminds me what happens when George Luca...
Read More »Oct. 2, 2008
A Review By Tel Prydain in Xbox 360 » Strategy
I first played Civilisation on our family’s XT PC in the early nineties - you had the option of playing it in 16-colour EGA or 256-Colour VGA; and it ruled a significant part of my childhood. This is not an uncommon scenario and since then the franchise has sold over eight million copies. And that’s not including the ‘Call to Po...
Read More »Oct. 1, 2008
A Review By Tel Prydain in Nintendo DS » Role Playing Game
Since their early work with Black Isle, I’ve been a Bioware fanboy. They have created epic scale RPGs with the Baldur’s Gate Series, amazing online experiences with Neverwinter Nights and licensed games that are actually good with Knights of the Old Republic. As a fan of Western RPGs, I look to them as the last bastion of a dying ge...
Read More »Sep. 20, 2008
A Review By H1PO in Xbox 360 » Action
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed had so much potential. I'll admitthat I have been watching this game since the first concept arts were uploadedonto the official star wars website. As a Star Wars fan, what more could Iwant? A next gen jedi game supposed to take the force to the next level?Awesome!However, the game does not live up to its potent...
Read More »Aug. 24, 2008
A Review By DurkaDan in PlayStation 3 » Strategy
Ah yes! My first review! I don't have much review experience so I hope my style doesn't offend you or the gods. Enjoy! Civilization. I have barely known thee yet for a few one-nighters with your classic games. I don't play much of the RTS games these days as my taste in games has changed tremendously since the Age of E...
Read More »Jul. 9, 2008
A Review By Wakash in PSP » Action
Thirty years after the original Space Invaders, Taito has resurrected the popular game and made it better than ever. Of course, after thirty years and with the technology we have these days, the game should easily be better than ever. Although I wasn’t even born when the original Space Invaders was released, I can still say that i...
Read More »May. 8, 2008
A Review By PathMaster in PC » Strategy
The first part of 2008 saw relatively few PC releases. Luckily, a new developer, Ironclad, teamed up with Stardock to give us Sins of a Solar Empire. Sins is a 4x strategy game (eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate). Does Sins live up to the grand design? The game allows you to play as three very different factions: ...
Read More »May. 8, 2008
A Review By StinkyCheese in Wii » Puzzle
Solomons Key Any fan of my reviews will notice that the games I have featured are less known than more popular titles, despite being very good. Solomons key has got to be the least well-known- but still enjoyable title on the NES, perhaps even the VC. You are cast into the shoes of Dana, a hero bent on recovering Solomons Key t...
Read More »Apr. 29, 2008
A Review By StinkyCheese in Wii » Action
Sin and Punishment Is this on-rails shooter worth the $12 Nintendo expects you to? Why should you spend more money on an N64 game thats over 6 years old? find out Sin and Punishment was never released outside Japan, despite including english voice-acting. It was a great chance for i...
Read More »Apr. 28, 2008
A Review By King3567 in Wii » Action
Of all the games arriving on consoles this year, the game I was most excited for was the third entry in Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. franchise. Something just always appealed to me about the series of all these characters coming together for the first time. With unimaginable hype, did N...
Read More »Apr. 28, 2008
A Review By grognard66 in Wii » Action
SSBB represents the latest example of the Nintendo-generation of journalists over-rating a solid, but hardly spectacular game. The game offers good graphics and sound for a Wii game as well as solid controls. There are a plethora of levels and characters and the game is definitely targeted to revival-tent Nintendophiles with a wealth of fan-service...
Read More »Apr. 28, 2008
A Review By Jack Random in PlayStation 3 » Action
I've recently worked my way through Stranglehold, the video game sequel to the John Woo 'Heroic Bloodshed' classic, Hard Boiled. 'Worked' is a literal term at times, as the game has an oddly schizophrenic difficulty level that threatened to bitchslap my sanity into oblivion, but by that point i was firmly entrenched and wasn't going to give in unti...
Read More »Apr. 10, 2008
A Review By Doctor Setebos in Wii » Action
I'm going to make this very simple for you: you should never, under any condition, subject yourself or those you care about to this game. For those of you that require more content upon which to base your gaming decisions, I'll offer you this: Sonic and the Secret Rings is absolutely horrendous and entirely unplayable. Below is a list of the gam...
Read More »Apr. 7, 2008
A Review By Doctor Setebos in Wii » Action
You can call it "partaking in a bit of fan service" if you want; some would call it "pandering to the user base". But any way you slice it, the Smash Bros. series of fighting games featuring Nintendo mascots old and new is one of the most popular franchises in Nintendo's history. And on its third iteration, Super Smash Bros. Bra...
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