Reviews
11,218 reviews · showing 9,841–9,860
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Reader Xbox
Halo: Combat Evolved review
Launch. Game. Roll those words about in your head for just a moment. What springs to mind? Recent history dictates that it will probably be thoughts of lacklustre efforts like Ridge Racer V and it's ilk - games that certainly looked very…
tomclark · February 3, 2004
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Reader Xbox
The Simpsons: Road Rage review
Take one of the best games of the last five years. Add one of the best television shows of the last ten years. You should have yourself a pretty fine game, should you not? Such is the thinking behind The Simpsons: Road Rage. The basic idea…
tomclark · February 3, 2004
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Reader Xbox
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 review
Tony Hawk is a bit of an odd man. While normal people spend their spare time reading, watching TV or taking healthy walks in the fresh air, our Tone prefers to spend his days travelling around on a skateboard, doing his very best to smash…
tomclark · February 3, 2004
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Reader Genesis
NBA Jam review
Most of us get wrapped up in our nostalgia and daydream about it to our own detriment. The programmers of NBA Jam took notes on their sporting fantasies and produced an immensely addicting game. I suspect they, too, had nerf hoops slung…
aschultz · February 3, 2004
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Reader Sega Master System
Aerial Assault review
At first glance, a horizontally-scrolling shooter such as Aerial Assault may be thought of as a pretty generic offering, giving the player a bunch of things they’ve seen many, many times before. Locations stretching from overseas to an…
overdrive · February 3, 2004
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Reader Xbox
Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain review
People like vampires. It's true, they do. Understandable, really - they have really dapper capes, cool superhuman abilities, and, well, if it wasn't for vampires the world would never have been introduced to Buffy. So , yessir, people like…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Reader Xbox
Prisoner of War review
... Information. That's all they ever wanted. They didn't say about what. They didn't say who they worked for. They didn't say just what the Britney Spears that giant white balloon was. Heck, they didn't even say their names. They wanted…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Reader Xbox
Quantum Redshift review
Quantum Redshift tells the exciting tales of Dr. Sam Beckett. Sam invented a time machine that allows him to move to the past and inhabit everyday folks in order to change history for the better - stopping senseless deaths, saving…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Reader NES
The Adventures of Rad Gravity review
Rad Gravity: A hero blessed with a HAL-style computer with a giant eye, possibly the coolest name ever, a cool spaceship, a, frankly, glorious chin, and a quest to save the Universe (or something along those lines). Hang on, maybe the last…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Reader NES
The Battle of Olympus review
Greek mythology is great. You've got great big monsters, dashing heroes, powerful Gods... it really is top material for a game. It is odd, then, that this vast wealth of inspiration has very rarely been tapped by developers - I guess it's…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Reader NES
Kung Fu review
When developing a game, there is one very important, very difficult choice to make. A choice that may well affect the sales of the game. The choice of what to name the game. Some people may ask what's in a name. Would a rose by any other…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Reader NES
Lemmings review
There are certain games that you have to have on one system or another. I'm fairly sure that it's some kind of legal requirement or something. Tetris is one such game. Lemmings is another (although you'd probably guessed that hadn't…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Reader NES
MC Kids review
Burgers: Recycled pieces of old meat bundled together with other unidentifiable pieces of.... something, to make one, greasy, whole. This game: Recycled pieces of old platformers bundled together with something original to make a very…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Reader NES
Mega Man 4 review
Mega Man has been a part of gaming for longer than some of the younger gamers have been alive. For over a decade and a half the little blue guy has been running around 2D levels blasting evil robots and making pixel perfect jumps. It's a…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Reader NES
Ninja Gaiden review
There are moments that define your video gaming career. The first time you play a game in an arcade. The first console that you ever own. The first time you complete a game. And, for many veterans of the NES days, the first time you beat…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Reader NES
Super Mario Bros. 2 review
Call it destiny. Call it fate. Call it ka, if you will. But something was obviously at work in Nintendo Towers on the day they decided not to release the original version of Super Mario Bros. 2 in the western world, choosing instead to…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Reader NES
Super Mario Bros. 3 review
There are certain games that become legends. Games which become the benchmark by which all others of their genre are judged. In the heyday of the NES, Super Mario Bros. 3 was such a game, and although facing fierce competition from it's…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Reader NES
Time Lord review
Time Lord was released in the Milton Bradley range of games (that included the similarly under-appreciated Digger T. Rock), and received only minimal attention when it came out. I too was among the crowd who really didn't pay this game…
tomclark · February 2, 2004
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Staff Genesis
XDR: X-Dazedly-Ray review
XDR stands for X-Dazedly-Ray. I couldn't have made that up if I tried. I mean, dazedly? What the hell is that all about? And I love how designers Unipac hyphenated the parts, as if that makes the whole somehow make sense. They would have…
Marc Golding · February 2, 2004
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Reader PlayStation 2
Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht review
Remember all those excellent PSone and SNES RPGs we were blessed with? When I think of my PS2 I wonder where the hell all the good RPGs are. Sure, we’ve had some solid games like Suikoden III and Final Fantasy X, but the PS2 has nowhere…
djskittles · February 1, 2004
