4,731 reviews · showing 3,401–3,420
Staff PC HG exclusive
In this game, there is only one winner. Cooperation disintegrates, and the game devolves into a savage contest of every man for himself. LAUNCH DETECTED flashes across the map again and again as enemies open fire and allies backstab each…
Julia Stein · June 6, 2007
Staff PC HG exclusive
If it were a movie, Secrets of the Ark would be an “Indiana Jones” picture. It would be a huge success and earn a lot of money at the box office because it wouldn’t interrupt itself with inane puzzles the viewer had to solve. Secrets of…
Jason Venter · June 6, 2007
Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
You start the game by constructing a likeness of yourself, have him don any number of silly hats or glasses as you wish and start him off in a seedy basement where his poker career will begin. After a few false starts spearheaded by my…
Gary Hartley · June 5, 2007
Staff PC HG exclusive
Then the amount of people on the server dropped and the bots came. Playing Dawnspire with the bots is an exercise in tedium.
Gary Hartley · June 4, 2007
Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
One part shoot-'em-up, one part beat-'em-up, and all parts "old school," this adrenaline-fueled hybrid is a blitzkrieg embroiled in frenetic gunplay and hard-hitting melee combat.
Nicholas Tan · May 31, 2007
Staff Sega CD HG exclusive
Time Gal is a frenetic romp that’s full of action rather than frustration as you hop back and forth along its chaotic sequence of time periods with our title character likewise bounding to and fro in her skimpy outfit – not that I have any…
Sho · May 30, 2007
Staff PC HG exclusive
Remember playing Grim Fandango or The Longest Journey and getting stuck? Remember trying to find that needle in the haystack by moving your mouse and covering every inch of your screen, hoping to come across a hotspot and finding a key…
Freelance Contributor · May 30, 2007
Staff NES HG exclusive
I’m not sure who Emperor is or what his powers are, but if the best he can do is stand in back of a wall of guns and immediately give up the ghost after they are destroyed....well, he’s a pretty sorry excuse for a villain. Usually, boss…
Rob Hamilton · May 30, 2007
Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
That’s not how I want a team under my charge to play, and it’s a shame that you can’t train you team out of such habits; it’s not their fault, it’s LMA 2007’s match engine that spits these problems out.
Gary Hartley · May 29, 2007
Staff PC HG exclusive
You've probably played games in the past where you made a choice and were greeted by hours of dialogue and suddenly found yourself thinking woefully that somehow, somewhere, you were missing out on an orgy. Not so here! Now you simply…
Jason Venter · May 28, 2007
Staff DS HG exclusive
The worth of your brain levels are easy to call into question, too. They never decrease with incorrect answers and, if one set of puzzles prove too hard for you, you can dodge the harder incarnations of them and instead do several of the…
Gary Hartley · May 28, 2007
Staff PC HG exclusive
32nd America's Cup is a sailboat racing simulation, and a sailboat racing simulation by its very nature is pretty much the exact opposite of the white knuckle speed-thrill games (for comparison, the top speed I've seen in this game is…
Josh Higley · May 26, 2007
Staff TurboGrafx-16 HG exclusive
Your ball may rocket about, violently colliding with bumpers and careening off flippers with all the reckless abandon of – well, a pinball – but no matter how chaotic things get it always feels like the real thing. Assuming one could find…
Sho · May 26, 2007
Staff DS HG exclusive
Naturally, placing cards isn’t as simple as sorting through all of your options and proving yourself clever. You are instead the victim of chance. Later matches even mostly come down to who draws the best hand from the start. Each round, a…
Jason Venter · May 24, 2007
Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Numerous customization options also mean that this game is a car fanatics’ wet dream. Those are almost more important than the cars themselves.
Daniel Acaba · May 24, 2007
Staff PC HG exclusive
There is nothing like a good adventure game. Unfortunately, Aura 2 is nothing like a good adventure game.
Lee Weedall · May 24, 2007
Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Odin Sphere is frustrating like that. The threat of exertion and the constant need to snack on restorative items exist throughout the entire game. Button mashing seldom leads to victory over even the simplest of adversaries. Instead, you…
Jason Venter · May 22, 2007
Staff Game Boy
Having two people there to answer questions instead of three really changes the dynamic, and not for the better. A lot of the strategy is removed. All you must do to win is beat out the one guy. That’s actually not too terribly difficult…
Jason Venter · May 21, 2007
Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Such moments rock, but they’re counter-balanced by tedious missions. Early on, those revolve around stopping the various gangs that are battling for control of the city. Later, you have to take on super villains. The problem with these…
Jason Venter · May 19, 2007
Staff Wii HG exclusive
Rather than press ‘left’ or ‘right’ on the d-pad, you hold the controller toward the screen like a wand and turn it toward the left or right. This causes the launch mechanism at the bottom center of the television screen to shift…
Jason Venter · May 18, 2007
