Staff reviews
4,733 reviews · showing 2,941–2,960
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen review
Dragon Quest IV was always about those five stories and they were always interesting, but never to the current extent. Maybe the old translation job was handled poorly or perhaps I was too young at the time to appreciate such things…
Jason Venter · October 22, 2008
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Staff Atari 2600 HG exclusive
Airlock review
Well, actually, the play control's probably the real obstacle. Let's face it, with good control, this game would be nearly as easy as playing Sneak 'n Peek against yourself. Here, you're controlling a character that has barely enough…
Rob Hamilton · October 21, 2008
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Staff Wii HG exclusive
Game Party 2 review
In November 2007, Game Party hit the Wii as a collection of seven simple minigames. Ten months later, six of those games return to a roster of eleven activities in Game Party 2. The major improvement: this time the motion controls work…
Benjamin Woodhouse · October 21, 2008
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
World Heroes Anthology review
World Heroes Anthology makes no excuses for itself: its a simple, brutal fighting game optimised for the multiplayer experience. Comparisons between it and the Street Fighter series are inevitable, especially since the latter has released…
Freelance Writer · October 20, 2008
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Staff Wii HG exclusive
de Blob review
The developers wisely threw in some hazards and puzzles to mix things up a bit, but these don't help nearly as much as they should. Early on, there just aren't enough enemies to challenge you. Even when more of them enter the picture…
Jason Venter · October 19, 2008
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
PDC World Championship Darts 2008 review
No one held their breath in anticipation, robbing me of a sense of clichéd drama. Their loss. The 360 version doesn’t really try to innovate or reinvent the original game; it simply builds upon it, gives you a create a character system of…
Gary Hartley · October 19, 2008
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Staff Arcade HG exclusive
Violent Storm review
Playing this game was all too bizarre for me, like watching the adapted version of your favorite show or movie for a foreign audience. Only the version your watching is an adapted version of an adapted version of an adapted version… it’s…
Jackie Curtis · October 19, 2008
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Bangai-O Spirits review
This is how you make shooting games mean something again. Bangai-O Spirits puts so many twists on the genre formula it's hardly recognizable, yet all the more fun for it. Just be prepared to die a lot until you get the hang of it all.
Jason Grant · October 18, 2008
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Staff Wii HG exclusive
World of Goo review
World of Goo is a stunning example of how to build a simple physics-based puzzle game into something truly epic.
Jeffrey Matulef · October 16, 2008
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Staff PC
The Witcher review
There's a lovely quality to The Witcher's atmosphere, stemming from a combination of lush art design and the gripping plot on offer. It suffers from occasional pacing issues -- chapter one in particular requires a horrific amount of to-ing…
Lewis Denby · October 16, 2008
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Final Fantasy XII review
After beating the game's final boss, I remembered a fight with one of those trophy enemies — a zombie mage named Disma. That dude was rough, able to take off obscene amounts of hit points with both his physical and magic attacks while…
Rob Hamilton · October 15, 2008
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Staff Wii
Mario Kart Wii review
Nintendo should be commended for making genuine improvements to its classic formula, but my resulting goodwill vanished the minute I was reminded that rubber band AI is the devil.
Jason Venter · October 15, 2008
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Geo-political Simulator review
Getting things back into the green through changing the budget is like playing Operation with shaky hands – doable, but difficult and pointless. All this makes for an experience that is essentially unfriendly to the causal player or…
Freelance Writer · October 14, 2008
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Staff PC HG exclusive
The Political Machine 2008 review
The presidential race is split into forty one weeks. This gives you forty one turns to play out in the same time as your opponent to fly all over America and convince as many states as you can to vote for you. By any means necessary..
Gary Hartley · October 13, 2008
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Dead or Alive 4 review
Things haven’t changed a lot, so much as been refined, the fourth time ‘round. The usual suspects are on offer: Ninja Gaiden’s Ryu Hayabusa, the super ninja; Kasumi, the sexy ninja pacifist (I kid you not); Hitomi, the hot German kareteka…
Marc Golding · October 12, 2008
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Ankh: Curse of the Scarab King review
Ankh remains a game worth playing. Just not in this form.
Gary Hartley · October 12, 2008
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Staff Saturn HG exclusive
Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru review
Once you get past the quirky control scheme, this game — the tale of a psychic monk gorily slaughtering feudal Japanese demons — really is pretty damn cool.
Zigfried · October 11, 2008
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Staff Sega 32X HG exclusive
Kolibri review
Arguably the best hummingbird/scrolling shooter hybrid on the SEGA 32X
Gary Hartley · October 11, 2008
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Staff SNES HG exclusive
Dragon Quest V: Tenkuu no Hanayome review
Your hero might be a standard silent protagonist and his supporting cast isn't really given any motivation for their actions other than utter devotion to your quest, but as I played Dragon Quest V, I felt more of a connection to them than…
Rob Hamilton · October 10, 2008
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Master of the Monster Lair review
The thing that keeps a person digging is the sense of ownership. Once you've crafted a beautiful maze, it's fun to return because then you'll get to see what monsters have decided to inhabit your dungeon. If you just built a few bland…
Jason Venter · October 9, 2008
