Reviews by Masters
386 reviews · showing 141–160
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Baja: Edge of Control review
But it's the Baja race that makes this game unique; this is where the game does its best to shine. In this mode, you take on the Baja 1000, a real-life test of racing endurance that takes place annually in Baja (Peninsula of Mexico) and…
Marc Golding · October 30, 2008
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Commando: Steel Disaster review
Commando is a completely generic clone of the Metal Slug blueprint, giving us nothing new, except for its own unique list of problems.
Marc Golding · October 22, 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 Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Rumble Roses XX review
The perv ideas begin with the outfits, which range from form-fitting hot pants to your basic wrestling thong. Once you’ve selected your hottie and dressed her as skimpily as you like, choose an arena and get to fighting. Even while duking…
Marc Golding · October 7, 2008
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Amorous Professor Cherry review
As Kouta, the overanalyzing, virginal lead character, you’ve got to choose between these three ‘ladies’ (lucky guy). There are several decisions you have to make along the way that will impact which stream the game takes you on, and which…
Marc Golding · September 1, 2008
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Staff PSP HG exclusive
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas review
We know that special-ops missions must often be unromantic, behind-the-scenes dirty work, but the developers must have forgotten that Vegas is a game. Because nothing is so disappointing about it as the fact that it never feels like we’re…
Marc Golding · August 26, 2008
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Staff DS HG exclusive
MYST review
Sensibilities and expectations have changed over the last 15 years, but not much else has. The game is still a collection of wondrous locales which we must navigate in the crudest of ways—through a poverty of frames such that turning…
Marc Golding · August 15, 2008
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Space Invaders Extreme review
Each boss battle is pretty clever, but one in particular is especially so: the boss will actually move back and forth along the bottom of the lower screen, while you take up a new position, along the bottom of the top screen. There, you…
Marc Golding · July 9, 2008
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Staff PSP HG exclusive
Capcom Classics Collection: Reloaded review
Amazingly, I remember finishing Ghouls ‘N Ghosts, and Super Ghouls ‘N Ghosts in their heydays. I would have two questions for my old self were able to ask him now, a good one, and an even better one: how, and why?
Marc Golding · July 2, 2008
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Staff PSP HG exclusive
Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX review
You’ll see the usual flaming uppercuts, 360 degree spinning pile drivers, and upside-down hurricane kicks – yup, the usual fare. But because this is a Street Fighter game of the SUPER COMBO (or ISM) era, you’ll also bear witness to the…
Marc Golding · June 27, 2008
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Staff PSP HG exclusive
SNK Arcade Classics: Vol. 1 review
Magician Lord is still gorgeous. Its backdrops are utterly otherworldly; its foregrounds brim with fantasy book life. Long-armed, bipedal beasts and gaggles of skeletons patrol the outer realms framed by unearthly mountain range and sky…
Marc Golding · June 20, 2008
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
World Heroes Anthology review
The two main Heroes are SNK’s answer to Street Fighter II’s Ryu and Ken, right down to the fact that the ‘alternate’ choice is the guy in red. Even their moves are rip-offs – a rising uppercut, a spinning attack, and a projectile attack –…
Marc Golding · May 22, 2008
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Staff Turbografx-CD HG exclusive
Last Alert review
Last Alert's 'advanced speech' is in stark contrast to its visuals: the game uses an overhead view (much like the one employed by Guerrilla War) to chronicle the adventures of our favourite Guy, who happens to be a bruising special forces…
Marc Golding · May 1, 2008
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Unreal Tournament review
Consider UT’s enviable balance. Imagine a map where beginners can seek rocket launchers to run amok, while pros can deign to gun them down armed with only a pair of pistols.
Marc Golding · March 31, 2008
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Staff PSP HG exclusive
Ultimate Ghosts 'N Goblins review
Ultimate’s thesis is a simple one: all things conspire to kill and frustrate, all roads lead to death – which, admittedly, seems in keeping with the spirit of the series.
Marc Golding · March 7, 2008
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Staff PSP HG exclusive
Rainbow Islands Evolution review
For starters, the new-and-improved premise is really, really stupid. In action-puzzle games that should not matter. But it does, because controlling a sombrero-wearing, hurdy gurdy-wielding imp against the evil forces of the despotic…
Marc Golding · March 4, 2008
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Taito Legends 2 review
A Taito shooter showcase would not be complete without representation from the Darius series of shooters. The side-scrolling fish-featured mainstay makes two welcome appearances here: in the shmup fan favourite Darius Gaiden, beloved for…
Marc Golding · February 13, 2008
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
MX vs ATV Untamed review
There seem to be scores of cookie-cutter ATV racing games to choose from these days, all of them involving taking the four-wheelers through winding, bumpy courses, endeavouring to both win races and earn big points for pulling stunts along…
Marc Golding · January 27, 2008
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Sega Genesis Collection review
I especially appreciated the wonderful Ristar, one of my favourite Genesis games, which I was unable to unlock in the Sonic Mega Collection, despite doing what was ostensibly necessary to unlock it. The little star-bodied mascot with the…
Marc Golding · January 25, 2008
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Staff PSP HG exclusive
ATV Offroad Fury: Blazin' Trails review
Even on normal difficulty, on countless occasions I've had a race all but wrapped up, taking care to play it safe as the game allows in the home stretch, only to land a jump on a barricade and get tossed violently from my vehicle while the…
Marc Golding · January 15, 2008
