11,288 reviews · showing 9,541–9,560
Staff Xbox
The moves characters can learn are determined by class. Even within that limiting structure, though, the player is forced to make decisions. Each character will have an assortment of moves available, but you must choose the ones you feel…
Jason Venter · April 16, 2004
Reader NES
When you first load up Casino Kid, you’ll be greeted -- after a little screen introducing you to the tough world of high-stakes gambling -- with a view that will make you think of an RPG. Bear with me. You can move around and talk to…
denouement · April 16, 2004
Reader PlayStation 2
As a matter of political correctness, it’s somewhat taboo to talk about religion in reviews these days, but bear with my tangential introduction, because I have recently come to an important revelation. You see, I was raised as a…
denouement · April 16, 2004
Reader PlayStation 2
Let's just say, this case has a distinct smell to it, a certain paranormal bouquet. -- Fox Mulder, The X-Files. XIII's heritage is that of the spy thriller -- immediately, we feel a close affinity with material like Robert Ludlum’s The…
denouement · April 16, 2004
Reader PlayStation 2
It’s hard not to become interested in Sony’s latest action-adventure game Rise to Honor (RtH) because of the main character, Kit Yun. “Kit Yun” may not be a familiar name, but Kit’s character is built around the ever popular action-film…
asherdeus · April 15, 2004
Reader TurboGrafx-16
Us poor folks in America sure have gotten the short end of the stick haven’t we? Doesn’t it just seem like so many excellent and wonderful games from yesteryear never got released in our country? Sure, you can download ROMs, translation…
overdrive · April 15, 2004
Reader Dreamcast
Do you want to know what’s uncommon? A decent Dreamcast RPG. Do you want to know what’s even rarer? A console RPG with a fun battle system. So many games in this genre have provided us with epic plotlines, lengthy sidequests and memorable…
djskittles · April 14, 2004
Reader Arcade
There's still a small type of disgruntled deluded folks who think that Communism could or should actually work. They overlap well with gamers: lazy slobs who want something for nothing. These amateur politicians who have that perfect…
aschultz · April 13, 2004
Reader Genesis
Shooters on the Genesis have let us pilot just about every form of craft ever conceived. Count the numerous times we have solely saved the galaxy at the controls of some futuristic ship, armed to the teeth with the most advanced lasers…
djy8c · April 13, 2004
Staff Genesis
Welcome Wor. Brace up, you've got a nasty business ahead to be sure. Six levels of side-scrolling shooting action await you. Spread your ethereal wings and steel your warrior's heart, because this Genesis mission offers up more sheer…
Marc Golding · April 12, 2004
Reader Arcade
When I was young, I liked car crashes. In theory. Cars still scared me especially when I had major streets to cross, but I enjoyed signs depicting dangerous conditions on roads and dreamed of participating in an accident one day, not fully…
aschultz · April 12, 2004
Reader GameCube
One ring to rule them all One ring to - Blah blah, you know the drill. It's that freaking ring! It corrupts the hearts of men (we who desire power above all else), and people in thrall of the darn thing are always doing stupid, evil stuff…
bloomer · April 12, 2004
Reader Arcade
In 1980, Midway released into US arcades a coin-op maze game which was to become a cultural phenomenon. It was intuitive to play, cute and brilliantly designed, and was even as popular with the girls as it was with the boys. That game was…
bloomer · April 12, 2004
Staff PlayStation Review of the Week HG exclusive
Yeah, I had seen quite a bit of the TV show, and it was alright. The movie sucked. But the video game, OH MY FRIGGIN' GOD. Call me a "Fist" fan, effective immediately!
Zigfried · April 11, 2004
Staff GameCube
The trouble with The Two Towers, which chronicles the middle chapter (beginning with Frodo still in the care of The Fellowship) of the series, is that it pays so much obvious loving attention to the movie it is borne of, that the gameplay…
Marc Golding · April 8, 2004
Staff GameCube
Finding Nemo alternates between being boring and bad. Lest you conclude simply that I was not the intended target market, consider two things: firstly, the movie managed the enviable task of capturing the attention and imaginations of…
Marc Golding · April 7, 2004
Reader Genesis
Back in the mid-eighties, just as console gaming was being offered to the world. You could bet your life that any arcade you went in had an Outrun machine, whichever one of its few incarnations it may have been. From the standing cabinet…
djy8c · April 7, 2004
Reader Game Boy Advance Review of the Week
In Hot Potato, a group of however many players you want gathers in a circle, with the required equipment being: a small beanbag or ball or even an actual potato, some sort of musical recording and an appropriate playback device, and an…
denouement · April 6, 2004
Reader SNES
I’m sure that horizontally-scrolling Super Nintendo shooter Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius has a plot. After all, if you wait after starting up the game, you will be taken into a cinema scene. While the Japanese words and voice are both…
overdrive · April 6, 2004
Staff Xbox
In one area, for example, the game warned me as I snuck through an alley that I should be careful not to be caught in a crossfire. Good advice, I figured, so I took things slowly and carefully. I made it through the alley just fine, so I…
Jason Venter · April 6, 2004
