Reviews by bloomer
90 reviews · showing 21–40
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Reader Wii
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix review
EA have produced all of the Harry Potter movie tie-in videogames to date. In the same space of time in which J. K. Rowling gave us seven novels using one trusted old technology – that of the printed word – EA gave us five videogames…
bloomer · July 31, 2007
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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 GameCube
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers review
One ring to rule them all One ring to - Blah blah, you know the drill. It's that freaking ring! It corrupts the hearts of men (we who desire power above all else), and people in thrall of the darn thing are always doing stupid, evil stuff…
bloomer · April 12, 2004
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Reader Arcade
Wizard of Wor review
In 1980, Midway released into US arcades a coin-op maze game which was to become a cultural phenomenon. It was intuitive to play, cute and brilliantly designed, and was even as popular with the girls as it was with the boys. That game was…
bloomer · April 12, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Time Crisis: Project Titan review
There's a new kid in town who's come to bring joy to slavering title-starved owners of the Gun-Con 45 for the Playstation. If you'd resorted to pointing the light-gun at your sister and making 'PEOO! PEOO!' noises for the past few months…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi review
The Star Wars Universe is a violent place, in a bloodless kind of way (the occasional piece of lightsaber dismemberment excepted). Through all of the films, we've enjoyed countless spectacular person to person battles, whether the weapons…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace review
The taxation of trade routes to outlying systems is in dispute. The Greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo with a blockade of deadly battleships... Taxation? Was anyone else distressed by the opening…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
South Park review
I rented South Park for the weekend, and I am about to do everything within my power to dissuade you from having even this much (or this little) to do with the game. Yes, I'm an enormous South Park fan too, and it's truly surprising how…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Soul of the Samurai review
The road travelled by the samurai is serpentine. Starting in Japan, moving through America and finally spreading to Europe and the PAL territories of the world, Konami's Soul of the Samurai spent a bizarre one and a half years in…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Shadow Man review
Never before have I been so depressed and disappointed by a Playstation game for which I had high expectations as I was in the case of Acclaim's Shadow Man. In the eye of my personal tastes, this game had almost everything going for it. We…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012 review
Cars, Gadgets and Combat. Three cool things which can be rearranged in a mighty six possible permutations if you lay them end to end, but that's not important right now. What is important is that the transition of this kind of car combat…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis review
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis is the third journey into one of my favourite horror worlds, and like the third instalment of any trilogy whose power has created an increasingly anxious and intense fan base (of which I am a proud member), RE3…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Quake II review
I would like to be able to say that the game I consider to be the greatest across the board technical achievement for the Playstation is actually an original title for the console. I can't, because it is Quake II, a port of id Software's…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Parasite Eve II review
AYAAAAAAAAAAAAA! That's both me yelling out the name of Parasite Eve 2's (PE2's) heroine, and my scream of frustration at this game. Square's full-blown entry into the Survival Horror stakes mobilises tons of technical wunderkind features…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
PaRappa the Rapper review
Before Um Jammer Lammy, before Parappa the Rapper 2... well, obviously... there was Parappa the Rapper! The original adventures of the rappin' hip hop canine hero weirded their way onto the Playstation in 1996. Too original, too insane and…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Mortal Kombat 3 review
Can you remember the first second-hand game you ever bought for your Playstation? For me it was Mortal Kombat Three. This was also the second title I ever fired up on the console, so it's not surprising that it made me 'ooh' and 'ah'…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
MDK review
MDK - It's a tongue-in-cheek acronym for Murder Death Kill, and it's the title of this spectacular 3rd-person shoot-em-up. Playstation MDK is a port from the Mac and PC versions, and if anything this could be the 'funnest' version yet. It…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Loaded review
Picture in your mind the arcade classic Gauntlet. Now remove from the game the wizard and his friends. Replace them with escaped mental patients who are criminally psychotic. Travel to an outer space penal colony of the future, splash…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Koudelka review
A young black-clad woman trots on horseback through the dismal green-grey landscape of turn of the nineteenth century Wales. A soprano cries a monk's hymn in the background. Chimes are struck, and the funereal rumble of a drum suggests…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
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Reader PlayStation
Jupiter Strike review
Jupiter is an exciting planet. I'd go so far as to say it's the excitingest planet in the galaxy. It's an elephantine, reddish gassy giant with a day period consisting of a cracking ten Earth hours and a diameter eleven times the size of…
bloomer · March 8, 2004
