Reader reviews, page 153

Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2 review

As long as there are people, there will be an endless line of medical patients in need of surgery. That's good news for Trauma Center hero, Derek Stiles, as this means plenty of new hospital adventures to be had. Even better, his latest…

Daisuke02 · July 4, 2008

Reader DS HG exclusive

Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift review

It’s no secret to most of the world that Square-Enix is a dying company. Their stock price has fallen 20% in the past year and their CEO has issued a memo telling the developers that they will be fired if they attempt to release anything…

timrod · July 2, 2008

Reader Game Boy HG exclusive

Mega Man V review

It would not be improper by this point to simply ignore a review for any game with the words “Mega Man” in the title. Despite being a series with over 100 entries, the elite group of Mega Man games which have been awarded the coveted title…

dagoss · July 2, 2008

Reader Xbox

Project Gotham Racing 2 review

This may come as a surprise to all of you, but my heart is that of a street racer. Yes, like all street racers, most of my waking moments are spent thinking up ways to quickly navigate tight corners with minimal braking, while my dreams at…

disco1960 · July 2, 2008

Reader Wii

Endless Ocean review

Endless Ocean is indeed potentially endless as an experience, though the oceans contained within the game are only endless if we say that they don't 'end' relative to some starting point. In literal terms, they end everywhere they touch a…

bloomer · July 1, 2008

Reader Saturn HG exclusive

Skull Fang review

Skull Fang (Vapor Trail Gaiden) is one of those games that's really hard to recommend because it has an equal balance of good and bad game design and presentation value. It's got everything a shooter needs and everything a shooter doesn't…

newalone4 · July 1, 2008

Reader PlayStation 3

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots review

So, the long-awaited final game in Hideo Kojima's incredible Metal Gear Solid series, and the final venture of the legendary Solid Snake, is at last upon us. Its release is one of those things that doesn't come along too often, like the…

welsh_tom · July 1, 2008

Reader Saturn HG exclusive

Steam-Heart's review

I'll admit I have pretty low taste in games sometimes especially shooters, but that's mostly due to the fact that the shoot em' up genre is sort of like Black Metal music: it always delivers whatever you're seeking and when a shooter…

newalone4 · June 30, 2008

Reader SNES HG exclusive

Acrobat Mission review

Of all the shoot em’ ups on home consoles that have never seen a US release I was surprised to find out that the Super Nintendo had ported 95% of all the Shmups made for the system; the only games that never made their way to the states…

newalone4 · June 30, 2008

Reader Genesis

Michael Jackson's Moonwalker review

If I had to say who my three biggest heroes were I’d say Jesus, Optimus Prime, and Michael Jackson. This list would be absolute if there were video games made about them. Well, the former two appear in games in some shape or form, but I’d…

Ness · June 30, 2008

Reader SNES HG exclusive

BlaZeon: The Bio-Cyborg Challenge review

BlaZeon is one of the many SNES shooter titles that went unnoticed by the majority of the general public and after spending a lot of time with old school shmups I have to say that I agree with most that the experience of bog standard…

newalone4 · June 30, 2008

Reader TurboGrafx-16 HG exclusive

Sinistron review

R-Type clones were really prevalent back in the late eighties and early nineties; it seemed that every company save for Taito wanted to make their own horizontal scrolling space shoot em' up inundated with unique strategic fighting, aliens…

newalone4 · June 30, 2008

Reader Saturn HG exclusive

Metal Black review

Shoot em Ups have had a bad rep for a long time mostly because a lot of them seem rather similar to each other with a good majority of them taking place in space and involving silvery-white space-fighters depending entirely on power-ups to…

newalone4 · June 30, 2008

Reader PlayStation

Die Hard Trilogy review

Hey, remember that part in Die Hard when John McClane killed 25 terrorists in the parking garage with a machine-gun and grenades? And what about that moment in Die Harder when you see him completely destroy the airport terminal with just…

dementedhut · June 29, 2008

Reader NES Review of the Week HG exclusive

Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds review

If you put the first two Wizardry games next to each other, hold a gun to the head of someone who is not an expert on the series, and ask them to correctly distinguish the two before you pull the trigger, they are likely to close their…

dagoss · June 29, 2008

Reader DS

Jake Hunter: Detective Chronicles review

While the PC will always be rightfully known as the king of visual novels, the Nintendo DS began to makes its presence in the genre known with the 2005 release of Trace Memory and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, released only 15 days apart…

darkstarripclaw · June 28, 2008

Reader PC

Oh No! More Lemmings review

Even though Lemmings was one of my long-time obsessions as a kid, I recently concluded it was now actually a bit boring. The learning curve is far too gentle, there’s an unnecessary abundance of lengthy unchallenging levels, and there’s…

bigcj34 · June 27, 2008

Reader DS HG exclusive

Etrian Odyssey review

Dearest dungeon-crawler fan, We are sending you this love letter in order to inform you that we have made a new RPG in the tradition of Wizardry. It will be played entirely in first person, with turn-based navigation and combat, it will…

dagoss · June 27, 2008

Reader Wii

MySims review

If you found Animal Crossing to be a hugely addictive work of genius and cuteness – or even if you just thought it was pretty good – and you’d like to have a similar experience on the Wii, MySims will supply that experience. It’s not as…

bloomer · June 27, 2008

Reader PlayStation 2 Review of the Week HG exclusive

The Bouncer review

On the back of DreamFactory’s The Bouncer (developed by makers of such fine software as Tobal No. 1 and Ehrgeiz), the tagline “Play the Action Movie” is prominently displayed. When I unloaded a whole six dollars on this game, I didn’t…

Genj · June 26, 2008