Reviews by ceredig

Metal Gear Solid review

Stealth games – all the fun of sitting still, being quiet and generally trying to be as anti-social as possible. Metal Gear Solid’s token good guy, Solid Snake, certainly won’t be invited to any parties after infiltrating someone’s house…

ceredig · July 15, 2005

Reader GameCube

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem review

Turn on your console and you’re greeted with a grainy, evil-voiced quote from Edgar Alan Poe. As this rather cheerful quote suggests, Eternal Darkness takes its influence from that of the great literary horror novels, especially those of…

ceredig · April 7, 2005

Reader PC

Circle of Blood review

Holiday in Paris – Itinerary for the day. - Buy paper. Check. - Have coffee in nearby cafe. Check. - Get blown up by suspicious-looking clown with a bomb in his accordion....*sigh*...Check. - Attempt to foil international…

ceredig · January 18, 2005

Reader Sega Master System

Action Fighter review

Action Fighter was always going to be a success in the arcades. For its time, it was bright, colourful, had great highscore potential and it had great appeal for the steering wheel that you would use to control your almost suicidal…

ceredig · November 25, 2004

Reader Game Gear

FIFA International Soccer review

A good handheld football game is about as common as Wales qualifying for a major Championship (and I should know, I still have nightmares about the Romania and Russia play-offs). Strike that, it’s rarer. There isn’t one portable computer…

ceredig · November 24, 2004

Reader PC

The Curse of Monkey Island review

Ah, the point-and-click adventure! As primitive as they may seem in the days of analogue control and full-3D environments, there’s no denying the enjoyment of a nice, slow-paced, puzzle-driven adventure. The Monkey Island series has to be…

ceredig · November 24, 2004

Reader Game Gear

NFL Quarterback Club review

Back in the day, NFL Quarterback Club was one of the daddies of American Football. Many of its incarnations were mightily superior to its Madden equivalent. But now on the Game Gear we see one of Acclaim's earlier attempts at cornering the…

ceredig · November 24, 2004

Reader Game Gear

Columns review

If asked what your favourite puzzle games are, most you would probably reply mentioning at least one version of Tetris. Be it Tetris Worlds or Tetrisphere, the Russian puzzler is by far the world’s favourite computer game puzzle. There…

ceredig · November 20, 2004

Reader GameCube

Second Sight review

Second Sight’s sudden release was a bit of a surprise really. Not even the few expectant forum gamers (having already waded their way through Psi-Ops) would have foreseen this third-person action-adventure being released at the beginning…

ceredig · November 18, 2004

Reader GameCube

Metal Arms: Glitch in the System review

A game like this is a rarity. It's clearly taken a lot of effort, it's a beautifully crafted title and it's very apparent that publisher Vivendi Universal have splashed out on trying to make this a full-blown robotic romp of an…

ceredig · November 15, 2004