Reviews by Jason Venter
947 reviews · showing 461–480
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Staff Wii HG exclusive
Active Life: Extreme Challenge review
Active Life: Extreme Challenge can be described as an exercise game that allows players—children mostly, like the ones featured on the cover—to pretend that they're engaged in fascinating activities such as base jumping, wind surfing, rock…
Jason Venter · September 5, 2009
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith review
Basically, you choose from a few possible rockers—none of them from the actual band—and then you are taken through a scattered recollection of their rise to fame. Between every five or so songs, there's a mess of interview footage that…
Jason Venter · August 29, 2009
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Staff Wii HG exclusive
Metroid Prime Trilogy review
Those who have played through the games before can likely think of a number of places where improved control would come in handy, and they should rest assured that in most cases the experience feels every bit as wonderful as they imagine.
Jason Venter · August 25, 2009
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra review
Instead of copying something like Halo or even a third-person shooter along the lines of Gears of War, two options that surely must have been appealing and may have led to something interesting, the developers went a different route. The…
Jason Venter · August 15, 2009
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra review
Finishing a mission on "Casual" level won't award you as many tokens as the more challenging choices and effectively prevents you from ever recruiting a full team of mercenaries. That's disappointing since one of the game's coolest…
Jason Venter · August 12, 2009
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Ghostbusters: The Video Game review
The plot begins by ambitiously introducing two new central characters—a strange young woman and a rookie member of the ghostbusters team—but after that it almost immediately turns into a retread of familiar adventures. Many of the same…
Jason Venter · August 8, 2009
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-shelled review
Something a lot of fans will appreciate is the ability to chase Krang and Shredder through time as a united team. On consoles, no more than two friends have ever been able to team up for the cause, but now you can gather three other…
Jason Venter · August 6, 2009
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Bookworm Adventures Volume 2 review
You might be wondering how the game could possibly be difficult. The answer is that you suddenly find yourself working with extreme limitations. Besides gaining life meters several times the length of your own, enemies gain the ability to…
Jason Venter · August 2, 2009
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Staff Wii HG exclusive
Little League World Series Baseball 2009 review
The general feel of a set of innings in Little League World Series Baseball 2009 doesn't seem to have changed much. You still control most of the important bits with the 'A' button and furious Wii Remote waggles. You still start a game out…
Jason Venter · August 1, 2009
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
The King of Fighters XII review
The first and most obvious stumble is the limited character roster, which perhaps wouldn't be a problem except that some of the very most important fighters are missing in action. In particular, there's little presence from the female side…
Jason Venter · July 28, 2009
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Dawn of Discovery review
What sets Dawn of Discovery apart from many of its peers is the focus on multiple regions. It's never enough to just settle a single island, since certain resources are always out of reach until you expand to another island. This wrinkle…
Jason Venter · July 26, 2009
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships review
Ransom of the Seven Ships works because it has high ambitions. When you step into Nancy's shoes, you're doing more than clicking through a few lifeless menus. You're arriving at the edge of a hauntingly beautiful island, one that you'll…
Jason Venter · July 26, 2009
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Staff Wii HG exclusive
Dawn of Discovery review
Another feature that sets Dawn of Discovery apart from other simulation titles such as Civilization IV or SimCity is the occasional focus on maritime exploration. Instead of settling a single continent, you'll develop a bunch of smaller…
Jason Venter · July 12, 2009
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Droplitz review
Even on the introductory levels, water drains too quickly from too many locations. It's easy to build up a solid chain of beautiful paths, only to watch it disappear in a flash as you're left scrambling to construct new paths while a…
Jason Venter · July 9, 2009
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Overlord II review
Pastoral scenes and even the menacing fairytale forest are gone, replaced by environs that seem to have been drawn with no discernible rhyme or reason from a hat labeled "whatever was left." The icy village that you once called your home…
Jason Venter · July 5, 2009
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood review
It can be a bit much to take in all at once, but Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood delights in telling its twisted tale in an unconventional and sometimes surprising fashion. The next likely event is seldom clear as the player careens wildly…
Jason Venter · July 4, 2009
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Staff DS HG exclusive
The Legendary Starfy review
In case you're not satisfied with a diet of constant platforming and a steady trickle of new abilities, there are a variety of diversions along the way. For example, one stage finds Starfy rolled into a snowball. He'll barrel downhill and…
Jason Venter · June 27, 2009
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Staff Wii HG exclusive
Mad Dog McCree Gunslinger Pack review
You'll quickly come to learn that timing is everything, which isn't so bad, but there's an unwelcome complication: the exact timing required is never quite clear. You have to aim and shoot before a certain point in any video footage. If…
Jason Venter · June 26, 2009
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Cross Edge review
Because of the haphazard manner in which information is presented, genre-standard processes such as item crafting, synthesis, skill point allotment, shopping, party formation and so forth all require that you dive through two or three…
Jason Venter · June 13, 2009
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Fuel review
Though on the surface the game appears to be just another tour of some established courses where your only goal is to finish ahead of all of your competition, that's not actually the best way to play. Instead, you're expected to chart your…
Jason Venter · June 12, 2009
