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I only borrowed an Xbox for a short period, but Fable was one of the best games I had played on that system. Microsoft's Fable, the very RPG that's been touted by its creator Peter Molyneux (that same guy behind Black and White) many times for being the greatest RPG to ever grace its way into gamer's aspirations for the evolutionary genre. Known even before the Xbox's time, Fable once went by the name of Project…
One of the reasons that PC gaming remains as strong as it does is because it is almost impossible to port certain games to consoles. You can quite easily push over a first-person shooter, but real-time strategy and MMORPGs are awkward at best. The most difficult, however, are turn-based strategy titles that require obscene amounts of micromanagement, where a keyboard and a mouse are almost required to play the game…
Here's how the pitch went in the Acclaim office on this game: "Hey boss, did you see that Nintendo's Mario Party is selling pretty well. Good reviews too..." "Great. Make one. Get it out by Christmas." Panicked, that guy went rummaging through Acclaim's vast collection of licenses, and after a few weeks of R&D with Jeremy McGrath party games (after getting nothing out of the Olsen twin design), he finally turned to…
The story behind Galaxy will come as no surprise to anyone who has played a Mario game before, basically Mario receives a letter from Peach to come to the castle as she has a special gift for him, however once Mario arrives at the castle he finds Bowser and his son causing chaos with the aid of a fleet of airships and before his very eyes a UFO picks the Princess’s castle from the ground and sets off into space.…
If you’ve never heard of Resident Evil 4 before then you’ve been living under a rock. There’s simply no need to bother you with the obligatory introduction, as this is a game that needs no introduction: it simply rocks. Whether or not you’ve played Resident Evil 4 before doesn’t matter. The bottom line is this. If you loved the game on either the GameCube or PlayStation 2, then you’ll love it even more on Wii. And…
Alone in the Dark (AITD) for the Xbox 360 is the latest installment in the long running survival horror franchise, which began way back in 1992 on the PC. The original Alone in the Dark has often been hailed by many as the original survival horror game. So, 16 years on, does the franchise still have life, or should it just be buried in the dark? Read on to find out. The game starts you off by throwing you straight…
Capcom is a very odd company when it comes to developing games. They pretty much blanked the original Xbox in favour of the PS2. Sure, we got a few bits here and there but Marvel Vs Capcom does not really make up for Resident Evil does it? If the 360 was going to make a name for itself, it needed to get Capcom into bed and start making some sweet zombie love. [Thanks for the great mental image - Ed]. Several months…
Volition, the PC developer responsible for Descent: Freespace, shocked the gaming media when it announced that its next project would not only be a console game, but an RPG to boot. The result is Summoner, an amazing departure from the traditional nature of console RPGs. Summoner has a passionately ambitious nature, and even though the game doesn't realize all of its lofty goals, it has the potential to change the…
Mario Kart Wii is chocked full of fun tracks both new and retro. The retro list reads like a Rolling Stones' greatest hits album and the new courses are so good that I was blown away by their creativity and playability. The same can be said for the Battle arenas: unlike the GameCube's mostly unimaginative battlegrounds (don't worry...I still loved them), these arenas do a far better job of testing your ability. In…
Mass Effect's storyline is actually very well thought out. A driving storyline and plot makes for a very user-involved experience, and each choice in the game affects how the game plays. Different choices lead to different responses from different characters, and there's a multitude of choices to be made throughout the game, making it very replayable. I can't really say much more about the game's story, because it's…
It's not often that you come across a game that redefines the sector it operates in, but to put it quite frankly, Tekken: Dark Resurrection is absolutely staggering. With its very first PlayStation 3 E-Distribution Initiative title, Namco has effectively annihilated just about every preconception you might have about budget downloadable games. This isn't a decades old arcade port looking to sneak a few quid out of…
Assassin's Creed gives gamers the opportunity to explore a vast wilderness of characters through various cities in a quest across the “ Holy Land ” in the 12 th Century. Each of the cities you explore features unique characters that can be interacted with and ultimately assassinated. You play as Altair, an elite assassin chosen to reduce the powers of the Saracens and the Crusaders in the 12 th Century. Part of a…
Orange box has Half Life 2, HL2: EP1, HL2: EP3, Portal and Team Fortress. Orange Box is a steal for having all these games but how do the games compare? Half Life 2 is the same game released in 2005, but sadly the Xbox version and not the better PC counterpart. When playing Half Life 2 I felt closterphvx because of how the player moved and the tight platforming game. This applies to Episode 1 and 2. However the…
Portal is an amazing revolutionary game. It's a puzzle game which requires you to make portals to advance. You have to use the law of physics to guide you as you get through a set of 3-D levels. It's addictive, fun and well compelling. The game is with out doubt one of the funniest games ever. The robot in the game is hilarious and it combines intense puzzles with some hilariously brilliant dialougue. The gameplay…
Bioshock is pretty much an interactive storybook. It's a game that is only faithful to it's single player campaign. The game stars a man who enters a undwerwater city of rapture were horrible things have occured that causes its citenzens to go crazy and attack each other, you must try to escape with help from engineer Atlas. The game is extremelly addictive and there is a mix of magic and weapons in the game to help…
Call of Duty 4 is without doubt the best Call of Duty game ever made. From its' jump from WW2 to Modern Warfare to its dynamic and powerful single player this is one shooter that is essential to get. The single player campaign is short, however depending on what difficulty you choose to play the game on. If you play it on normal then expect to play for 4-5 hours before completing it. However this is doubled if you…
Resistance is a solid shooter for the PS3. There are some problems with the game. The guns are weak. There are two types of guns; Chimera and Human. Since this is a world war 2 shooter the Human guns feel outdated and old and to make it worst the chimera guns sound like toys and don't feel right when shooting with them. The single player syory line isn't interesting and a lack of cutscenes greatly bring it down.…
To be honest, Unreal Tournament 3 is a big letdow n for any die hard Unreal Tournament fan. While the content is stripped down from Unreal Tournament 2004. With no real additions added to the game which calls it self " a true sequel" you're left realing from how everything is structured. Regardless UT3 is still a great game. There's now a single player mode, with an okay story some twists which aren't presented as…
Halo 3 three is the final installment in the Xbox's most famous trilogy. Halo 3 improves on the orignal with having smoother gameplay, graphics and having a better storyline. For thos who were dissapointed with Halo 2's dissapointed storyline then you'll be pleased to know that Halo 3 delivers a compelling story from the begining to the end. The gameplay has been modified to be a little smoother but no dramatic…
Imagine getting items and throwing them at people. Imagine that you can get an item that: turns you into a bullet and makes you invincible, hit players so hard that they hurt themselves. Imagine that you have a 3-D game with graphics to match the GCN. Imagine if you can take this perfect game with you, anywhere. Imagine that you can play people around the world... Mario Kart DS is an adaptation from Super Circuit.…
You start off with a creature riding a horse. Hitting a little boy in the rain. First you think ouch, then that’s evil on that kid. The poor ole bloke. Kill the man! Burn him alive! However little do you know that's the kid you will be playing... Even though you start off in a forest it's still an ass load of fun. You have to save the deku tree from a virus. By using you're skills and smarts. Then you learn about a…
PS2 REVIEW: Sims2 is an adaptation of Sims. You have 2 modes: Free play and Story. Free plays is where you choose/make a family and control their lives. If you die you can turn into a ghost and puke on people. Also challenge death which is all fun. Story mode is a little bit boring. You unlock stuff in story mode which is good. But you have to keep you're Sim happy or he/she would go angry. Also you can get an alien…
NINTENDO DS REVIEW: When I first brought the game and saw the cover, I thought, wow! I The Game was brilliant on the ps2 so I expected the same from teh DS. Then I play it. First I think, GREAT! Brilliant! But then, it becomes rubbish. You first start off as a street person trying to make a living. You have to play mini games like: Clean the windows, Doctor etc. You then have to talk to people and chat up the police…
You buy the game, thinking it’s an okay game. You get out you’re DS pen, because, well you have to! Then it shows a story. Of how Wario gets a DS and learns how to play. Then he eats some garlic and he gets a broken tooth. He then goes into the dentist and gets a check up. Then he runs off and has to do mini games. The first time ever were you have to use you’re DS pen and use it. Pop the balloons, Pour the ketchup…
The darkest Zelda game out. It has a moon falling on the earth, a crazy kid with magical powers, a mask man after you and the good old ocarina/epona what more do you need? Zelda Majora's mask starts off where Zelda: Ocarina of Time end's off. With Link loosing Navi, he sets off with Epona into the dark. There he gets mugged by a flying kid with two fairies around him. It was a skull kid wearing a strange mask. Link…
I first brought this game thinking that I will be playing a great adventure story. However I was shocked to discover that the game was hard,,, It took me 5 goes to defeat the three headed dog. The story starts with Dante and his bro fighting in the rain. Swing giant swords at each other. Then Dante looses leaving his brother to turn to the darkside or something. Then a load of creatures come after Dante. Leaving you…
Spiderman is the most famous superhero in the world. He is a Man-Spider thing. I own a bunch of his comics. I love Spiderman but how? How does he make crap games? You start off seeing a movie that's like wow! They made it into a half movie half comic prologue, it was magical. At that moment I thought it was going to be legendary. But I was wrong. Straight after you fight Venom. It's just crap! Yes you can go saving…
Given that Epic had already reached a sweet, sweet point with the original Unreal Tournament, and some would argue with UT2003 , it was fair to wonder what more they could do with the next iteration of the series. Well, it's easy to say they've delivered, and then some. A huge selection of new maps, gorgeous graphics, improved game play, and the return of Assault are generous enough. But the addition of Onslaught,…
At first America's Army looks like an excellent shooting game, for a free online. But once you're settled in, it's a whole lot worse! Usually army games have to have a tutorial. But this game just takes the piss. They claim that "to complete the game, you've go to complete basic training. First you've got to do a shooting obsticle. Pretty easy, completing that is the time that a usual game would take, but then…
Usually when Nintendo tries to make all star gaming hero, Mario, into a sport player it fails miserably. Tennis, golf you name it. But for the second time, first was basketball, Mario is good at another sport, football (or soccer) First you've got to choose a team captain. The captains are: Mario, Wario, DK, Peach, Daisy, Waluigi, Luigi and Yoshi. The best ones are: Mario, DK and Waluigi. Now I know you're wondering…
Dragonball Z Tenkaichi holds the record for the most number of characters in a Dragonball game! This game has a poor multiplayer option but is great with its single player options. The game includes all the characters that you would expect in a DB game, with some you wouldn’t. From the hero, Goku too the infamous Janemba. The arena's are as good as ever, well most of them. The world tournament sucks. You can now…
The best Dragonball Z game ever created is here! Budokai 3 is just wicked! The story mode starts off with Goku meeting with Raditz and you have to fight him. Easy, but when you have to use Special beam cannon with Piccolo, it becomes challenging. In this game you've got something called "Dragon Mode!" where you can perform your final move onto your opponent. Goku has Genki Dama, and so on. If you complete story mode…
The aim of the game is to... erm... so, there isn't an aim. Just kick your mates asses. You've got a bongo drum. There is two drums. And a sensor in the middle, to clap, off course. There are over 30 songs too choose from, they're all random and odd songs. But here is a good thing: there are classic songs, so this is an excuse to make your parents let you play. Don't get too carried away, they'll start playing along…
In 1996 the N64 was out, with it was the first, successful 3-D Mario. When it was out on the DS, people where going crazy. This is one of the games that made the DS the biggest and best-selling handheld in the world. This time you've got four people to play with, Yoshi, Luigi, and Wario and off course Mario. But you start off with Yoshi. The rest are captured by Bowser. You've got to save them all! Each player has…
On December 2001, Nintendo Miyamato (The Legend behind Mario and Zelda) made a game about kiddy aliens. What we didn't know was that their destination point is our world, and they're extremely tiny! Another fact is that this was set in his own Garden! Pikmin 2 sets off after the first Pikmin. After escaping from the strange planet, we call Earth; Captain Olimar goes back to his home planet. When he lands there, he…
Grand Theft Auto takes place in San Andreas, a bigger version of Compton. You play gangster, Carl Johnson whose mother was murdered. CJ has been on the run and has been living in Liberty City (Where GTA 3 took place). After his mother was killed, he returns home to find that the cops are still hunting for him. He must now take control of San Andreas and become the best he can... The map of San Andreas is three times…
In God of War you play as Kratos; a bad ass guy who, to get rid of his sins, has to defeat Ares. So you go to Athens and fight many Greek monsters that appear in mythology. God of War is a brilliant game. They have made all the gaming features equal. For example the puzzles aren't easier than the gameplay etc. It's all the same. Also it isn't too hard/ too easy which is a perfect combo. There is blood in the game…
Kingdom Hearts 2 is the sequel to Kingdom hearts one, which was one of the best Square Enix game. One year after Kingdom Hearts one; Sora, Donald and Goofy awake from a deep sleep after the events of chains of memories. Now awake, they embark in one final adventure to find the king, and Riku. You travel through Disney Worlds and original, hoping to find them however you stumble across and organization called:…
All consoles have their special shooting games, X Box has Halo, PC has Unreal Tournament, and Gamecube has Metroid Prime and so on... But who knew that the DS' Metroid Prime (its Special shooter) would have Online Play! This Metroid game famous for: The best handheld shooter ever, one of the best games on the DS, its cut scene graphics are nearly 'real like', good controls and so on... You take the role as Samus: a…
Animal Crossing has finally come to the DS. But this is the best Animal Crossing compared to the other ones. I'll tell you why... You arrive at your destination, you're broke you need a house when suddenly a man gives you an offer. You can have a small house, and pay him back 18,000 bells when you have the money. That's all dandy, but then there's another alternative, you don't ever have to pay him back, you can…
James Bond: Everything or Nothing is the latest decent Bond game. EA takes another shot at a James Bond game. It's a good game, but not the best bond game. There are many things wrong with this game; however there are many things good with this game. It's like a movie, a James Bond movie. This game is in third person. I wanted a first person Bond game. You've got to do a series of missions, some are repeated again…
25 years ago Mario was released. And for the past 25 years it has been the biggest gaming franchise ever! The game that sold millions was the original. Now he’s back. This time it’s the game that sold millions, updated. The New Super Mario is the first one but it’s updated, but could this Mario beat the original Mario? Mario is the most recognised character in gaming history. He’s appeared in over hundred games;…
Shadow of The Colossus comes from the makers of ICO. It's said to be the next ICO but people think that its dark story is different from ICO. You play a heartbroken warrior, who takes a princess to the temple. The warrior asks the gods to bring back the princess. They tell him that he can, only is he could defeat the 16 colossi that rule the land. With his loyal steed, the warrior goes off to a journey to bring back…
NBA 2K7 is a basketball game that came out a little after the other versions. It’s your typical basketball game; it has seasons and off season, mini games, licensed teams and perfects them. In the seasons you choose a team and you play through you can have your own developing team which your team will get better and better. It gets boring after a few months, that saying maybe about 20 hours, but that's the season…
Gears of War is one of the latest shooters on the 360 and you play as Marcus Fenix, an ex soldier who was sent to prison because he refused orders when earth was getting attacked; to save his dad! Only to find out his dad already died. 14 years and earth is in war with the locust, a group of monsters previously referred to the boogey man. Dom, a delta squad soldier who breaks into prison and frees Fenix. With the…
There's nothing to this game. It's around 20 bucks and is one of the worst games ever made. All you;re doing is shooting targets and even that sucks. People will buy this because the cover looks like an interesting shooter or because it's cheap. Those are the people who don't bother with video games. but even they'll feel like crap after playing this crap. Solution don't buy it. Buying it will poison your ps2 and…
Nintendo's epic 3D fighter series arrives on Wii as the best iteration yet. It's true -- there are a few minor quibbles to be made about the sometimes-repetitive single-player mode, unexplored third party character additions, lacking online communication options, or the largely familiar content inherent to sequels. But the moment you gather together with friends for a multiplayer match only to find, several minutes…
sees what are arguably the biggest changes in the franchise's history, with nearly every single aspect of the game having seen some sort of shift in design. Some of it works really well, and some of it not so well, but what we wind up with still remains an intense, blazingly fast and perfectly controlling racer, one that you shouldn't miss. The biggest change introduced in Burnout Paradise is the move to an open…
