Reviews, page 453

Neo Contra review

The third mission, for instance, places your character in a fortified canyon filled with knee-deep water and a shitload of opposition. Missile launching cretins rest in floating platforms, shielded soldiers with rocket launchers and sniper…

John L · November 7, 2004

Reader Sega CD

Cobra Command review

Gaming vultures (Cathartes bokosuka) love to peck at the defenseless corpses of perished consoles, gouging out the most nauseous remnants of inhumanity. With its library of full-motion video games, some of which lack enough frames of…

lilica · November 6, 2004

Reader PlayStation

Suikoden review

Good, but not great – this is the tragic theme that pervades Suikoden, a competent game that has received more praise than it deserves. Many of the features Suikoden fans purport as its most distinguishing aspects are actually its greatest…

radicaldreamer · November 6, 2004

Reader Genesis

Truxton review

Back when I was younger, I remember seeing Truxton in an arcade. After wasting a few quarters on the lonely coin-op, I was in love. As a lad used to the stale, poorly-ported crap on the Atari 2600 and 7800, this vertically-scrolling game…

overdrive · November 5, 2004

Reader Saturn

Soviet Strike review

There's a crisis going on in Eastern Europe. Shadowman, an ex-KGB general, is in the midst of raging war against Russia, and he's got enough firepower to obliterate the entire country. That's where STRIKE comes in. Consisting of a…

dementedhut · November 4, 2004

Staff Nintendo 64

Harvest Moon 64 review

Harvest Moon 64 is an underrated masterpiece.

Branden Barrett · November 4, 2004

Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive

Basketball review

The “Launch 20” for the Atari 2600 contained 5 sports titles (6 if you consider Flag Capture a sport). 25% of the initial release catalog was dedicated to sports gaming. That’s not a surprising number here in 2004. We can go back to the…

ddsilver · November 1, 2004

Reader Xbox

Fable review

Hype. It inevitably entangles us in every single aspect in the confinement of the gaming world. It is usually triggered by droughts of quality games on a system or just an orgasmic display of an incredibly innovative looking title. Now…

destinati0n · October 31, 2004

Reader PlayStation 2 Review of the Week HG exclusive

Star Ocean: Till the End of Time review

The thing with some of these battles is that you’ll either get through without breaking a sweat, or you’ll find yourself totally destroyed within a few moments. This boss just happens to be one of those enemies that obliterates me really…

jerec · October 30, 2004

Staff Xbox HG exclusive

Metal Slug 3 review

Press toward the right, mashing the button furiously as livid crustaceans emerge from ramshackle shanties. If they get too close, swipe your knife across them and return to your main quest: survival. Buildings explode into flame and melt…

Jason Venter · October 28, 2004

Reader Game Boy Advance

Golden Sun review

Golden Sun should have been perfect. On the surface, this early Game Boy Advance role-playing game has everything a person could want. Huge dungeons with tons of brain-bending puzzles that bring back fond memories of Lufia II, vibrant…

overdrive · October 28, 2004

Staff PlayStation 2

R-Type Final review

How do you uphold a legacy and follow one of the best games ever made? Final is inferior to Delta, there's no doubt of that. The actual gameplay isn't on the same level: Delta boasted seven ideally crafted stages with beautiful music and…

Marc Golding · October 27, 2004

Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive

Air-Sea Battle review

Kicking off my series on the Atari 2600 “Launch 20”, we lead with Air-Sea Battle. Now, in order to be objective when reviewing Atari 2600 titles, you have to become somewhat of a time traveler. That is to say that it’s not fair to compare…

ddsilver · October 27, 2004

Reader Atari 2600

Math Gran Prix review

Atari made up for their edu-tainment disaster ''Basic Math'' with the excellent ''Math Grand Prix.'' This title takes the premise of ''Basic Math'''s quiz structure and applies it to an auto race. The auto race itself is a board game style…

ddsilver · October 26, 2004

Reader Atari 2600

Fast Eddie review

Delving down into the 2600 catalog, we chance upon ''Fast Eddie'', a sophomore effort from the somewhat impressive 20th Century Fox catalog. While Fox never had a ''Frogger'' or ''Donkey Kong'' blockbuster smash during their tenure as a…

ddsilver · October 26, 2004

Reader Atari 2600

Color Bar Generator review

Long ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth and I was in elementary school, consumer electronics were not as reasonably priced as they are now. For example, my father bought a 19'' console color TV (''console'' means the whole unit was…

ddsilver · October 26, 2004

Reader Atari 2600

Bridge review

Activision had a wildly successful launch catalog for the Atari 2600. It is surprising that a company with such a keen understanding of the marketplace would release a game like ''Bridge''. The bridge playing crowd and the video game…

ddsilver · October 26, 2004

Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive

Air Raiders review

I've written a great deal on the subject of M-Network games. It was a minor secret that M-Network was really an arm of Mattel that existed to port Intellivision hits over to the Atari 2600. However, there was one M-Network title that was…

ddsilver · October 26, 2004

Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive

The A-Team review

There is nothing spectacular or remarkable about Atari's un-released prototype "A-Team". Nothing I can say about it that would recommend it as a superior game. In no way does it stand out or distinguish itself from countless other titles…

ddsilver · October 26, 2004

Reader GameCube

Spider-Man: The Movie review

Just how hard is it to make a Spider-Man game? You'd think it would be relatively simple to pull off. Let's face it - you've already got an extremely cool character and the choice of dozens of cool enemies, a wide variety of moves and…

mariner · October 25, 2004