34 reviews · showing 21–34
Reader PC HG exclusive
If there's a genre that 2007 has been kind to, it's the first person shooter. The market has been absolutely flooded with shooters and many of them have been very good, making it that much more difficult for a new game to stand out…
Daisuke02 · December 17, 2007
Staff PSP HG exclusive
Perhaps in an attempt to further the futuristic setting, the gameplay has fallen out of a time warp. From 1996.
C J · October 30, 2007
Reader PSP HG exclusive
Classic game compilations are an oddity. You plunk down cash for them while fondly remembering the “glory days” in which the included games were made, and often realize after ten minutes of play that your favorite games of yesteryear were…
Daisuke02 · October 28, 2007
Reader GameCube HG exclusive
“This game looks stupid. The Zelda series is ruined.” The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was a revolutionary game and is still heralded as one of the best games of all time. Fans clamored for a sequel, and Nintendo delivered Majora’s…
Daisuke02 · October 21, 2007
Reader PC Review of the Week HG exclusive
Rainbow Six Vegas is not a Rainbow Six game. Sure, it shares the same title, but Ubi has thrown out pretty much everything that defined Rainbow Six. Instead, this entry is more akin to Splinter Cell than anything. Bad move, right?…
Daisuke02 · September 28, 2007
Reader PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
There was a time when Capcom was the uncontested king of rehashes. In the ‘90s, Capcom managed to produce a seemingly endless string of re-releases with Street Fighter II. Yet, Arc System Works has stolen that title from Capcom, or at…
Daisuke02 · September 23, 2007
Reader NES HG exclusive
Ryu Hayabusa is a ninja with a dark past from which he can never escape. This has nothing to do with the storylines of the Ninja Gaiden series that Ryu stars in, though. Ryu's tragic history is, in fact, his first NES outing, known simply…
Daisuke02 · September 18, 2007
Reader SNES HG exclusive
Metroid is one of those series that's infallible as far as Nintendo fans are concerned. They perceive a single negative utterance regarding the series as the most heinous crime imaginable. The reverence fans hold arguably has nothing to do…
Daisuke02 · September 12, 2007
Reader GameCube HG exclusive
In 2002, then-unknown developer, Retro Studios, completed the first 3D Metroid game, Metroid Prime. Despite rampant skepticism on the part of critics and series fans alike, Retro succeeded in delivering what was heralded by many as one of…
Daisuke02 · September 10, 2007
Reader Wii HG exclusive
Nintendo’s number one priority with the Wii has been to make gaming accessible to the masses, including those who have never played a game before. To accomplish that, Nintendo introduced Wii Sports, a bundle of very simplistic games, as a…
Daisuke02 · September 8, 2007
Reader SNES HG exclusive
If you’ve been playing games for any length of time, you’ve probably heard of the Castlevania series. If you haven’t… well, that’s absolutely tragic, because aside from being one of the most memorable franchises from the NES era…
Daisuke02 · September 7, 2007
Reader Xbox 360 HG exclusive
At the beginning of 2004, Starbreeze Studios was an almost entirely unknown developer. When word got out that they were at the helm of a game based on the movie, The Chronicles of Riddick, the response was one of almost complete…
Daisuke02 · July 3, 2007
Reader PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Rogue Galaxy is the latest, and most likely last, Playstation 2 RPG from Japanese developer, Level 5. The game takes a number of the action RPG elements from their past series, Dark Cloud, refines them, and throws them into an outer space…
Daisuke02 · June 29, 2007
Reader PC HG exclusive
Tomb Raider: Anniversary is Crystal Dynamics' reimagining of the original Tomb Raider. Whether Tomb Raider's greatest contribution to gaming was its generously portioned main character, Lara Croft, or its unique platforming gameplay, very…
Daisuke02 · June 26, 2007
