Reviews, page 224

Knights in the Nightmare review

Once Knights starts, it’s a non-stop struggle that requires constant action in order to win. You don’t simply move your units into range before you can attack. For the most part, your soldiers remain stationary unless their attack leads…

Greg Knoll · November 6, 2010

Reader NES HG exclusive

Defenders of Dynatron City review

Defenders of Dynatron City (DODC) was not as much a game as it was a marketing campaign. It's also a small reminder that the Hype Machine can sometimes falter in its mission to force something to become a hit. LucasArts, JVC, and DiC…

JoeTheDestroyer · November 6, 2010

Reader Dreamcast HG exclusive

Armada review

Metro3D had a great idea. They took the gameplay conventions of a popular game like Diablo and changed the setting from a fantasy world to outer space. This sounds exciting. Who wouldn't want to play Diablo in space? Armada was born from…

JoeTheDestroyer · November 6, 2010

Reader Xbox 360

Blood Stone: 007 review

I'm normally not one to tell someone how they should go about playing a game, but for James Bond 007: Blood Stone, I'll make an exception. Though players may be tempted to approach the game as they would Gears of War or Splinter Cell…

asherdeus · November 5, 2010

Staff PC HG exclusive

Eschalon Book II review

Eschalon Book II picks up right where the first left off, explaining enough as you go along so that you don’t need to have any prior experience with the series to get your full enjoyment out of it. Furthermore, all the qualities that led…

Wolf Queen · November 4, 2010

Reader Apple II HG exclusive

Superstar Ice Hockey review

For a month or two, Superstar Ice Hockey (SIH) pushed my buttons perfectly. I could win regularly--two seasons in an afternoon--but it'd never be too obvious I had it in the bag. Game time was a relative concept that went quicker when…

aschultz · November 4, 2010

Staff SNES HG exclusive

The 7th Saga review

Even on a system renowned for its expansive library of RPGs, successfully completing The 7th Saga is an unforgettable experience. Unfortunately this is solely due to its patently unfair difficulty, because the generic dungeons…

Sho · November 3, 2010

Reader Xbox 360 HG exclusive

Singularity review

Let me set up Singularity’s opening sequence for you. The game is set in an alternate reality in which America and Russia are at war (obviously), and you’ve been sent to infiltrate a Soviet island on which our adversaries have been…

Suskie · November 2, 2010

Reader Apple II HG exclusive

GBA Basketball Two on Two review

Shortly after my friend Aric pasted me in GBA Basketball Two-on-Two on his Apple IIgs--retribution for all the RPGs I'd solved--I found the IIe version cheap at Babbage's. I felt frugal--it probably didn't have all the extras, like the…

aschultz · November 2, 2010

Reader Apple II HG exclusive

Championship Baseball review

"Adjust tint til blue field is green." That's the opening screen of Championship Baseball (CB,) with "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" blaring. I never bothered. Blue grass is just one of the things that aren't true to life in CB but are…

aschultz · November 1, 2010

Reader NES HG exclusive

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde review

The game is both side scrolling action (word used loosely) and scrolling shooter rolled into one. You take control of both Jekyll and Hyde. Playing as the former is dull and boring, playing as the latter is frustrating and boring.

JoeTheDestroyer · October 31, 2010

Staff PlayStation HG exclusive

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night review

Whether as a loving tribute to the series' glorious past or a striking declaration of its subsequent revival, Symphony of the Night will make any 2D enthusiast shed bloody tears of joy.

Sho · October 31, 2010

Reader Wii HG exclusive

Muscle March review

You've likely seen the trailer for this game on a video website. You know, the one where a bunch of confusing sequences are tossed in your face while weird J-Pop music plays in the background? And there was this highly enthusiastic…

dementedhut · October 31, 2010

Staff PC HG exclusive

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines review

These aren't the sorts of vampires who constantly whine about their lost humanity or take annoying teenage princesses to the prom. We're talking about hard-drinking and even harder-dying undead anarchists packing UZIs who'd just as soon…

Sho · October 30, 2010

Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive

Mr. Do! review

Mr. Do has to harvest cherries from his overgrown orchard. However, some Badguys (this is what the manual calls them) are out to not only horribly murder Do, but also eat his cherries. . Were they really that strapped for time? They…

JoeTheDestroyer · October 30, 2010

Reader TurboGrafx-16 HG exclusive

Neutopia review

The Triforce doens't stand for this.

JoeTheDestroyer · October 29, 2010

Staff SNES HG exclusive

Shin Megami Tensei review

For Kazuya, a perfectly ordinary Japanese youth, it had been a perfectly ordinary beginning to a perfectly ordinary day. Then his mom gets eviscerated by a demon from the rather similarly torn bowels of the underworld, he accidentally…

Sho · October 29, 2010

Staff PC HG exclusive

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers review

Whether in the role of silver-tongued conman or paranormal investigator, Gabriel Knight is definitely someone you'll want to know; his career might have begun just as the entire adventure genre was taking those first, faltering steps on…

Sho · October 28, 2010

Staff Saturn HG exclusive

Haunted Casino review

These garments are handed over to the very approving imp in exchange for heaving stacks of chips nearly as abundant as those newly revealed pleasure globes until at last your bankrupt beauty goes down with a hilariously inept video of the…

Sho · October 27, 2010

Staff Genesis HG exclusive

Splatterhouse 2 review

The controls are stiffer than one of its endless supply of corpses, and the average level is a short, uninspired advance from left to right punching identical hordes of muck-encrusted undead while occasionally hopping over a hole in the…

Sho · October 26, 2010