11,288 reviews · showing 9,081–9,100
Reader SNES
When I was a kid, I loved Nickelodeon. It was full of great cartoons like “Rocko’s Modern life” and “ Ren and Stimpy” which were damn funny then and probably are still funny now. Nick GUTS, on the other hand was crap, it always was crap…
goldenvortex · November 11, 2004
Reader SNES
Back in the day, Enix hit on a great idea. For the most part, role-playing games (at least the ones I was playing) were non-linear dungeon crawls like Wizardry and Ultima — where your goal was to collect a certain number of key items and…
overdrive · November 11, 2004
Staff PlayStation 2
A lot of people loved Shrek 2. I wasn't one of those people. I thought it was funny, just the way slapstick scenarios and fart gags are funny at the time, but hardly qualify as enduring humour. And so the Shrek name would not arrest me--a…
Marc Golding · November 9, 2004
Reader PlayStation
Sometimes I wonder whether or not some people know what a truly bad game is like. Every now and then a game comes out that exemplifies everything that can possibly go wrong with a game, the kind of game that makes you question the…
radicaldreamer · November 9, 2004
Reader Arcade
Connoisseurs of minimalism, rejoice - your idol rests here. It is a 24x26 square with openings at each end, and two nameless, faceless, worthless icons squaring off (no pun intended) against each other in a race to the finish. The box is…
snowdragon · November 8, 2004
Staff Xbox
For it's here more than anywhere else that Molyneux has succeeded, not in fashioning a true next gen RPG but in creating a world worthy of the simple joys of role playing itself. And that's kind of what he had set out to do right?. There…
Michael Scott · November 8, 2004
Reader NES
Remember the glory days of the NES, where all games were great and new and so much better than anything since? Unfortunately, these glory days only existed in that fantasy world known as nostalgia. Games we thought were perfect are, when…
mariner · November 7, 2004
Reader NES
You're looking at the original in a series that is extremely well praised, for obvious reasons. I gradually found myself falling in love with Super Metroid, one of the most pristine 2-D games known to man, and very quickly fell in love…
mariner · November 7, 2004
Reader NES
Why did I love this game as a child? For I, like practically everyone else, did enjoy it during the glory days of the NES. And now I sit, an older and wiser person, and I try to remember why it gave me so much joy. I do this because it is…
mariner · November 7, 2004
Staff PlayStation 2
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
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
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
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
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 is an underrated masterpiece.
Branden Barrett · November 4, 2004
Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive
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
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
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
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 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
