11,288 reviews · showing 9,841–9,860
Staff Genesis
Area three takes us back 'outdoors', over Earth perhaps, high enough to skip through the clouds, but low enough to witness clearly the wake of alien conquest. Surely this 'ravaged metropolis' scene is shooter cliché, but decent execution…
Marc Golding · February 10, 2004
Reader Dreamcast
Zombies are the greatest videogame villains of all time, with the exception of those darned Nazis. Whether they are chomping some flesh or just moaning erotically, you just can’t resist killing them. Sure, they have become a bit…
djskittles · February 10, 2004
Reader Xbox
''Tennis? Boring.'' That is the response one might get when talking about Tennis. It's really not the most popular sport out there to watch, or play. If you give it a chance though, it is a lot of fun to play, like a really advanced…
icehawk · February 6, 2004
Reader Xbox
The original Shenmue was a pretty big hit for a Dreamcast game, considering the lack of owners, so naturally a sequel was highly anticipated. American gamers got a nasty shock though, when they found out Shenmue 2 would be coming out only…
icehawk · February 6, 2004
Reader NES
''Why am I still playing this game?'' I asked myself as I slowly trudged through enemy after enemy, desperately trying to build my level, and gold so I could cross a bridge and do it all over again. Despite the voices in my head pleading…
icehawk · February 6, 2004
Reader Sega Master System
In the early 1990s some very imaginative game designer noticed that both the fictional Dracula story and the real-life case of Jack the Ripper took place in the 1880s and 90s, and decided to bring the two together. AT LAST! Thus begins…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader Sega Master System
If you wish to study the phenomenon of 'binary gamer polarisation', one of the classic case studies is the 1988 cross-platform fantasy adventure Heroes of the Lance. There are gamers who will tell you that 'Heroes' is undeniably the worst…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader Sega Master System
Bees and bears today they're chasing me, oh no! Play in my garden I love to watch the flowers grow. Such a sunny day there's something you should know, and that is Life's a girl's garden after all! Yes, it was I who wrote these lyrics to…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader Sega Master System
'Eeeee ee Eeeee eee ee eee EEEEE!' That's Dolphin talk for, 'Oh my gosh, I can't believe what a WONDERFUL surprise this game turned out to be when I finally experienced it for the first time via emulation.' (Note -- Previous line may not…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader Sega Master System
--------- Note to readers: All chapter headings used in this review are quotes from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel 'Dracula' --------- Jonathan Harker's Journal There is a fair bit of irony in the whole enterprise that became the cross-platform…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader NES
Fear. Dread. BOKOSUKA. In some circles, The Worst Game Of All Time. I'd heard rumours that to even whisper half of this game's title aloud would cause all gamers in a 30 mile radius to instantly drop dead from an acute dose of existential…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader Sega Master System
Many Sunny Sundays in my adolescent years were spent at friends' houses after a sleepover just playing games on the Commodore 64 all morning. (Don't worry, I'll get to the MasterSystem in a moment.) You could wag your finger at me and say…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader Sega Master System
Altered Beast in all its forms has always worried at my psyche. It's a game for which I have strong pangs of contrary feeling. I say to myself 'I admire this game! It's very nasty and I like it!' But whenever I play it again, I'm never…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader PC
There's a casino-bar where all the big movers like Mr Sidewalker go, where the playboys about town don't have to bet money (or anything apparently) and where half the staff seem to be enslaved by the other half. Playboys who win at…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader NeoGeo
The Deer Hunter Apocalypse Now Platoon Full Metal Jacket NAM 1975 Why does the Vietnam War haunt and fascinate us all so much in a manner entirely different to the bigger World Wars? Maybe because it was so recent. Maybe because it was a…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader NeoGeo
''What imprudence, you human being! Face your trial by god!'' SCREECH... Imprudence? If you thought that was a pretty strange insult to be flinging around, well, you're righter than rain. The moustached villain in Magician Lord is always…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader Mac
Preface -- Just like the game it describes, this review is recommended for Mature Audiences only (15+). Both game and review are unsuitable for younger gamers, and will bore and confuse younger gamers, so if that's you I'm just trying to…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader Mac
The Oath of the Vidmaster (from the Marathon Level Bypass dialogue) I pledge to punch all switches, to never shoot where I could use grenades, to admit the existence of no level other than Total Carnage, to never use Caps Lock as my 'run'…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader Mac
Assembly lines are a necessary and largely invisible evil of our time. Ever since the industrial revolution, people have had to reluctantly man those unforgiving conveyer belts to perform such repetitive tasks as assembling greaseburgers…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
Reader Mac
The Diablo phenomenon had already flowered profusely amongst PC gamers by the time the game found its way to the Macintosh realm in 1998. The Mac demo version of the game was only shipping on the cover CDs of computer magazines halfway…
bloomer · February 6, 2004
