Reviews
11,291 reviews · showing 9,081–9,100
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Reader NES
Adventures of Lolo review
Quick, what's the first thing you think of when you hear the words "puzzle game"? Tetris, perhaps? Yet, if we probe deeper into Tetris and its clones, we see that they aren't really puzzle games at all, at least not by the true definition…
mariner · November 13, 2004
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Reader NES
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link review
It's a sad fact that many people tend to dismiss this masterpiece simply due to the fact that it doesn't play like the rest of the Zelda games. It's the outcast of the family, tolerated perhaps, but often described as "a good game…
mariner · November 13, 2004
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Reader GameCube
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast review
Kyle Katarn is back! Well, yes. Exactly. Of all the Star Wars protagonists who've never appeared in the films, Katarn has been the most generously served by Lucasarts, but that still doesn't mean that I thrill to his approach. Gamers were…
bloomer · November 12, 2004
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Reader SNES
Nickelodeon GUTS review
When I was a kid, I loved Nickelodeon. It was full of great cartoons like “Rocko’s Modern life” and “ Ren and Stimpy” which were damn funny then and probably are still funny now. Nick GUTS, on the other hand was crap, it always was crap…
goldenvortex · November 11, 2004
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Reader SNES
Dragon Quest I & II review
Back in the day, Enix hit on a great idea. For the most part, role-playing games (at least the ones I was playing) were non-linear dungeon crawls like Wizardry and Ultima — where your goal was to collect a certain number of key items and…
overdrive · November 11, 2004
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Staff PlayStation 2
Shrek 2 review
A lot of people loved Shrek 2. I wasn't one of those people. I thought it was funny, just the way slapstick scenarios and fart gags are funny at the time, but hardly qualify as enduring humour. And so the Shrek name would not arrest me--a…
Marc Golding · November 9, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
World Destruction League: Thunder Tanks review
Sometimes I wonder whether or not some people know what a truly bad game is like. Every now and then a game comes out that exemplifies everything that can possibly go wrong with a game, the kind of game that makes you question the…
radicaldreamer · November 9, 2004
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Reader Arcade
The Amazing Maze Game review
Connoisseurs of minimalism, rejoice - your idol rests here. It is a 24x26 square with openings at each end, and two nameless, faceless, worthless icons squaring off (no pun intended) against each other in a race to the finish. The box is…
snowdragon · November 8, 2004
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Staff Xbox
Fable review
For it's here more than anywhere else that Molyneux has succeeded, not in fashioning a true next gen RPG but in creating a world worthy of the simple joys of role playing itself. And that's kind of what he had set out to do right?. There…
Michael Scott · November 8, 2004
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Reader NES
Tecmo Bowl review
Remember the glory days of the NES, where all games were great and new and so much better than anything since? Unfortunately, these glory days only existed in that fantasy world known as nostalgia. Games we thought were perfect are, when…
mariner · November 7, 2004
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Reader NES
Metroid review
You're looking at the original in a series that is extremely well praised, for obvious reasons. I gradually found myself falling in love with Super Metroid, one of the most pristine 2-D games known to man, and very quickly fell in love…
mariner · November 7, 2004
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Reader NES
Blaster Master review
Why did I love this game as a child? For I, like practically everyone else, did enjoy it during the glory days of the NES. And now I sit, an older and wiser person, and I try to remember why it gave me so much joy. I do this because it is…
mariner · November 7, 2004
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Staff PlayStation 2
Neo Contra review
The third mission, for instance, places your character in a fortified canyon filled with knee-deep water and a shitload of opposition. Missile launching cretins rest in floating platforms, shielded soldiers with rocket launchers and sniper…
John L · November 7, 2004
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Reader Sega CD
Cobra Command review
Gaming vultures (Cathartes bokosuka) love to peck at the defenseless corpses of perished consoles, gouging out the most nauseous remnants of inhumanity. With its library of full-motion video games, some of which lack enough frames of…
lilica · November 6, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Suikoden review
Good, but not great – this is the tragic theme that pervades Suikoden, a competent game that has received more praise than it deserves. Many of the features Suikoden fans purport as its most distinguishing aspects are actually its greatest…
radicaldreamer · November 6, 2004
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Reader Genesis
Truxton review
Back when I was younger, I remember seeing Truxton in an arcade. After wasting a few quarters on the lonely coin-op, I was in love. As a lad used to the stale, poorly-ported crap on the Atari 2600 and 7800, this vertically-scrolling game…
overdrive · November 5, 2004
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Reader Saturn
Soviet Strike review
There's a crisis going on in Eastern Europe. Shadowman, an ex-KGB general, is in the midst of raging war against Russia, and he's got enough firepower to obliterate the entire country. That's where STRIKE comes in. Consisting of a…
dementedhut · November 4, 2004
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Staff Nintendo 64
Harvest Moon 64 review
Harvest Moon 64 is an underrated masterpiece.
Branden Barrett · November 4, 2004
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Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive
Basketball review
The “Launch 20” for the Atari 2600 contained 5 sports titles (6 if you consider Flag Capture a sport). 25% of the initial release catalog was dedicated to sports gaming. That’s not a surprising number here in 2004. We can go back to the…
ddsilver · November 1, 2004
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Reader Xbox
Fable review
Hype. It inevitably entangles us in every single aspect in the confinement of the gaming world. It is usually triggered by droughts of quality games on a system or just an orgasmic display of an incredibly innovative looking title. Now…
destinati0n · October 31, 2004
