4,731 reviews · showing 3,861–3,880
Staff Xbox HG exclusive
Even in the first mission, a claustrophobic set of buildings your squad finds itself in after an unfortunate enemy ambush, walls melt together. It’s easy to spend a few minutes wandering around, checking doors ten times over, pretty much…
Jason Venter · November 16, 2005
Staff GameCube
But Midway Arcade Treasures 2 wasn’t content to burn my memories to ashes and let them fly off in the wind; no, it had to let them smolder first. It doesn’t just include the one Midway game I liked as a kid, it includes all the ones I…
Zack Little · November 14, 2005
Staff PlayStation HG exclusive
The reason is simple: every place you visit in Chrono Cross feels right. When you leave your home village to gather some shells and make your sexy girlfriend a necklace, lizards scramble across mounds of pale sand while peaceful waves lap…
Jason Venter · November 13, 2005
Staff DS
So if Metroid Prime Pinball has taken its visual presentation a step further than most, does that mean to say its gameplay has been similarly endowed? Flipping Samus' morphball around the screen in search of bonus multipliers and basic…
Michael Scott · November 13, 2005
Staff PSP HG exclusive
Since Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is a faithful Ghost in the Shell product, there's plenty of Kojima-level philosophizing. That's always been a franchise strength, even if the ancient Chinese philosopher name-dropping got a bit…
Zigfried · November 12, 2005
Staff PC
Battlefield 2 is the newest addition to its series with incredible diversity and game-play mechanics brought down only by EA's ridiculous system requirements and sub-par detection system.
Branden Barrett · November 11, 2005
Staff SNES HG exclusive
I didn’t fight monstrous demons in Wolfenstein 3D. Instead, I was confronted by soldiers dressed in tan, blue and white. Scattered through the castles and fortresses also are a few hordes of mutated rats and zombified soldiers. With the…
Rob Hamilton · November 10, 2005
Staff NES HG exclusive
In Zelda, this was no big deal, as you’d simply stroll to the nearest fairy pond and get a free recharge. Here, you have to find a room with a plentiful number of weak foes and regain your strength in increments of five points (20, if…
Rob Hamilton · November 9, 2005
Staff Xbox HG exclusive
If you can stand the notion of devouring brains, watching your victims rise from the ground and stumble about at your will is quite enjoyable. A kid with the baseball bat soon joins your team, and you can whistle to make him shamble over…
Jason Venter · November 8, 2005
Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Then, as your fighters battle across courtyards surrounded by gurgling fountains alive with plant life, or along the deck of a ship while flaming arrows plunge toward the water and other ships in the distance, the magic takes hold…
Jason Venter · November 8, 2005
Staff PC HG exclusive
Muscular, axe-chucking barbarians twice the height of poor Sam... zombified businessmen with shotguns... football-outfitted dinosaurs that sport manly tackles and downright explosive passes... and they'll all be attacking you by the dozen!
John L · November 7, 2005
Staff PlayStation 2
You might not like it, you might not admit it…but humans love pain. Love to watch it, love to inflict it, some even love to take it.
Zack Little · November 7, 2005
Staff Xbox HG exclusive
The line between reality and fantasy blur, the seams come apart, and some small, childish part of your mind actually believes that you’re in real danger, actually thinks that real death might be around the corner.
Zack Little · November 7, 2005
Staff DS
It's taken almost 160 years of women's suffrage for video games to arrive at this moment in time. Princess Peach, perhaps the most insufferably vague ditz ever to grace the Mushroom Kingdom has finally been empowered, and with her parasol…
Michael Scott · November 6, 2005
Staff Game Boy Advance HG exclusive
More secret doors have slide upon, but this time they have done so on floor levels. From one of these doors comes a swarm of Lost Souls, pesky flying skulls that swoop towards you with unpure intentions. From the other comes a stampede of…
Gary Hartley · November 6, 2005
Staff PlayStation HG exclusive
Instead, level your Phase Repeater -- a rapid-fire, tri-barrelled instrument of piercing death -- at them. It emits an unstoppable wave of laser fire which cuts your robot aggressors down with little troubles. The lone survivor of your…
Gary Hartley · November 5, 2005
Staff Game Boy Advance
So, what did Konami do to ramp up the difficulty? If you answered, “Throw in a few obstacle course sections WHILE botching up your ship’s hit detection ever-so-slightly!” you get full credit. I, on the other hand, received nothing but…
Rob Hamilton · November 4, 2005
Staff PlayStation 2
In the end, Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi comes out as an average brawler with the shift still in neutral.
Branden Barrett · November 3, 2005
Staff Atari 2600 HG exclusive
When a vengeful (aren't they all?) maniac named Michael Myers escapes from the mental hospital just in time for the holidays, it's a pretty safe bet that pumpkins won't be the only things getting carved up tonight.
Sho · October 31, 2005
