Reviews
11,291 reviews · showing 9,101–9,120
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Reader PlayStation 2 Review of the Week HG exclusive
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time review
The thing with some of these battles is that you’ll either get through without breaking a sweat, or you’ll find yourself totally destroyed within a few moments. This boss just happens to be one of those enemies that obliterates me really…
jerec · October 30, 2004
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Staff Xbox HG exclusive
Metal Slug 3 review
Press toward the right, mashing the button furiously as livid crustaceans emerge from ramshackle shanties. If they get too close, swipe your knife across them and return to your main quest: survival. Buildings explode into flame and melt…
Jason Venter · October 28, 2004
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Reader Game Boy Advance
Golden Sun review
Golden Sun should have been perfect. On the surface, this early Game Boy Advance role-playing game has everything a person could want. Huge dungeons with tons of brain-bending puzzles that bring back fond memories of Lufia II, vibrant…
overdrive · October 28, 2004
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Staff PlayStation 2
R-Type Final review
How do you uphold a legacy and follow one of the best games ever made? Final is inferior to Delta, there's no doubt of that. The actual gameplay isn't on the same level: Delta boasted seven ideally crafted stages with beautiful music and…
Marc Golding · October 27, 2004
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Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive
Air-Sea Battle review
Kicking off my series on the Atari 2600 “Launch 20”, we lead with Air-Sea Battle. Now, in order to be objective when reviewing Atari 2600 titles, you have to become somewhat of a time traveler. That is to say that it’s not fair to compare…
ddsilver · October 27, 2004
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Reader Atari 2600
Math Gran Prix review
Atari made up for their edu-tainment disaster ''Basic Math'' with the excellent ''Math Grand Prix.'' This title takes the premise of ''Basic Math'''s quiz structure and applies it to an auto race. The auto race itself is a board game style…
ddsilver · October 26, 2004
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Reader Atari 2600
Fast Eddie review
Delving down into the 2600 catalog, we chance upon ''Fast Eddie'', a sophomore effort from the somewhat impressive 20th Century Fox catalog. While Fox never had a ''Frogger'' or ''Donkey Kong'' blockbuster smash during their tenure as a…
ddsilver · October 26, 2004
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Reader Atari 2600
Color Bar Generator review
Long ago, when dinosaurs ruled the earth and I was in elementary school, consumer electronics were not as reasonably priced as they are now. For example, my father bought a 19'' console color TV (''console'' means the whole unit was…
ddsilver · October 26, 2004
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Reader Atari 2600
Bridge review
Activision had a wildly successful launch catalog for the Atari 2600. It is surprising that a company with such a keen understanding of the marketplace would release a game like ''Bridge''. The bridge playing crowd and the video game…
ddsilver · October 26, 2004
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Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive
Air Raiders review
I've written a great deal on the subject of M-Network games. It was a minor secret that M-Network was really an arm of Mattel that existed to port Intellivision hits over to the Atari 2600. However, there was one M-Network title that was…
ddsilver · October 26, 2004
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Reader Atari 2600 HG exclusive
The A-Team review
There is nothing spectacular or remarkable about Atari's un-released prototype "A-Team". Nothing I can say about it that would recommend it as a superior game. In no way does it stand out or distinguish itself from countless other titles…
ddsilver · October 26, 2004
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Reader GameCube
Spider-Man: The Movie review
Just how hard is it to make a Spider-Man game? You'd think it would be relatively simple to pull off. Let's face it - you've already got an extremely cool character and the choice of dozens of cool enemies, a wide variety of moves and…
mariner · October 25, 2004
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Reader GameCube
Pikmin review
I can't be the only one who has had dreams of hordes of fanatics who eagerly do whatever I say. I can see myself, standing on a platform high above them, row after row of soldiers, knives in hand, slowly chanting my name over and over…
mariner · October 25, 2004
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Reader Arcade
Metal Slug 2 review
For a lesson in genuine gaming rapture, see Metal Slug 2 -- the follow-up to the phenomenal Metal Slug, a marriage of gruesome warfare and peculiar, cartoon-like attitude and atmosphere. It was an ideal example of competent, silly…
dogma · October 25, 2004
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Staff GameCube
Animal Crossing review
Nevertheless, time is always progressing, and even if you are constantly occupied in life, your virtual world awaits you on the other side.
Branden Barrett · October 25, 2004
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Reader Atari 2600
Battlezone review
Every reviewer has a different set of standards he or she applies to a game when giving it a rating and writing a critical evaluation. Graphics, sound, play control, and replayability are some of the criteria they use in deciding how to…
ddsilver · October 25, 2004
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Reader Atari 2600
Basic Math review
During the development of the “Launch 20” for the Atari 2600, it seemed any programmer at Atari could get a project greenlighted. This was both a good and a bad thing. Some programmers came up with some innovative games in this era, like…
ddsilver · October 25, 2004
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Staff Game Boy Advance
WarioWare: Twisted! review
Luckily enough however, the first sequel to last year's smash hit Made in Wario (aka Wario Ware Inc) isn't your average flogging of a dead horse. In fact if the truth be known, it's about as far from Nintendo's atypical money grabbing…
Michael Scott · October 25, 2004
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Staff X68000 HG exclusive
Fatal Fury 2 review
Who wouldn't want to control lone wolf Terry Bogard on a quest to topple a ruthless opponent? Believe it or not, some people didn't. This time, those people had seven other options. They could play as ninja girl Mai Shiranui, spinning…
Zigfried · October 24, 2004
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Reader PC
MDK review
Innovation is the name of the game. Actually the name of the game is M(urder)D(eath)K(ill), but don’t be mislead by this macabre repetition – there’s plenty of death here, but probably not in the sense you’d expect. Surely, games such as…
radicaldreamer · October 24, 2004
