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Reader PC Review of the Week HG exclusive

Fallout 2 review

World War III nearly destroyed all life on Earth. No one bothers to remember the specifics now; they’re trivialities, unimportant details. What is remembered is that lances of nuclear fire descended from the sky and boiled the oceans…

viridian_moon · January 20, 2006

Reader Genesis HG exclusive

Splatterhouse 2 review

I don’t like Splatterhouse 2. I was planning to mock its sloppy control and limited moveset. I was planning to attack its stricter-than-Altered Beast linearity. I was even planning to poke fun at the sanitized pastel ichor that bursts from…

lilica · January 20, 2006

Reader PC HG exclusive

Cave Story review

Cave Story is definitely the right game, but it's in the wrong place, at the wrong time. If you time-warped (again) back to 1990 and released it on the Mega Drive, the time you returned to wouldn't be the rubbish one we know. It'd be an…

autorock · January 20, 2006

Reader DS HG exclusive

Animal Crossing: Wild World review

A long, long time ago on the Dreamcast there was a game called Shenmue. Not many people remember much about Shenmue, but it was a game where you played as a young Chinese man attempting to avenge his father's death by buying furniture for…

timrod · January 20, 2006

Reader PC HG exclusive

Fallout review

Until now, there were no dreams of the future. The world as you know it has been confined to the massive bunker, Vault 13. Inside the redundant maze of sterile hallways and fluorescent tubes, all that mattered was keeping the vault running…

pup · January 18, 2006

Reader DS

Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy review

Fullmetal Alchemist has become a somewhat popular anime and manga series on American soil lately. However, it is far more popular in Japan, as is obvious by the movie released that has yet to obtain an American release date, as well as the…

sayainprince · January 16, 2006

Reader Xbox

Street Fighter Anniversary Collection review

In a sense, Street Fighter Anniversary Collection should be the ultimate 2-D fighting experience. Not only does it include Hyper Street Fighter 2, a compilation of all of the SF2 versions into one but, it also contains one of the best…

goldenvortex · January 16, 2006

Reader Genesis

Sonic the Hedgehog review

You can imagine my surprise when I played this game for the first time since I was a kid. You mean this was supposed to be Mario's biggest rival? This was the game the Nintendo haters trumpeted? Well, ok, I take that back. This isn't a bad…

mariner · January 15, 2006

Reader SNES HG exclusive

Super Metroid review

While I may not enjoy them, I at least understand why other people like certain games that I can't stand playing. The Otogi series' simplistic brawling has always rubbed me the wrong way, for instance, yet I see the allure of exploring its…

fold4wrap5 · January 15, 2006

Reader PlayStation 2

Resident Evil 4 review

Call it astonishing. Call it mind blowing. Call it the game of the week, the year or maybe even the decade. Call it the best Resident Evil yet; no one is going to argue. While Capcom may have only clawed at the face of the survival horror…

True · January 14, 2006

Reader Xbox 360

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie review

As I stood in front of the Xbox 360 section at the store, King Kong’s menacing mug shot on the cover of Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (what a terribly messy title) stood out amongst the covers of the other games…

asherdeus · January 13, 2006

Reader Xbox

GunValkyrie review

You know what we need more of in video games? Hot, flying chicks with big guns that get naked at least once during the game. Yeah, yeah, we have Steam Hearts, but we need more, damn it! Well, someone over at Smilebit thought it was a…

dementedhut · January 13, 2006

Reader DS

Feel the Magic: XY/XX review

You bought this game? Are you crazy? You absolutely are not! You just made the best move in your whole life. This game will be the game of the year. Now Feel the Magic is a really unique game, and it really takes use of the DS’s abilities…

mslpanthers · January 13, 2006

Reader PlayStation 2

DDR Extreme 2 review

I used to walk by those kids playing Dance Dance Revolution and I just could never figure out how those kids could go so fast and move their feet quicker than anyone in that game. I would never play it for I was to embarrassed, but then I…

mslpanthers · January 13, 2006

Reader SNES HG exclusive

Mohawk and Headphone Jack review

Over the years I’ve played a countless amount of bad videogames. In the matter of fact I’ve played so many terrible ones that I don’t have the slightest clue of which one is the worst. But Black Pearl’s Mohawk and Headphone Jack is the…

grassroots · January 12, 2006

Reader GameCube HG exclusive

Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix review

It was only a matter of time. Mario has infiltrated a great number of wacky genres in his quest to spread the empire of Nintendo, and it was indeed only a matter of time before he started shaking his ass on the dancefloor. Your enjoyment…

atra_vortex · January 12, 2006

Reader PC HG exclusive

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge review

Freedom is the taste of grog early in the morning, that fuzzy feeling you get making nobles walk the plank and even the joys of countless veneral diseases as you play with the cabin boy. Not having to worry about hygiene since there is no…

darketernal · January 12, 2006

Reader Game Boy Advance

Lady Sia review

Even being a girl, I tend to avoid "girls-oriented" games, but when you see something like Lady Sia, it's hard to resist. A fantasy world, a blond chick with a ponytail, a sword, magical powers -- and that's all it takes to catch my…

wishingtikal · January 12, 2006

Reader PlayStation 2 HG exclusive

Castlevania: Curse of Darkness review

Poor Konami. When they designed the PlayStation game, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, did they have any idea that all of their future vampire slaying epics would have trouble living up to it? Hey, it is possible. SOTN is gold; a…

atra_vortex · January 12, 2006

Reader GameCube HG exclusive

Killer 7 review

Killer 7 is a game that I had my eye on since it was first announced. A highly stylized schizophrenic contract killer game from the guy who has had his hand in the better parts of the Resident Evil series? Yeah, it was always an exciting…

atra_vortex · January 12, 2006