Wii, Duck hunt (Light gun), 6/10
When you buy this game you know what you’re going to get. And you get it. And yes, they went overkill on everything, especially the gore and the clichés and the bad language. The story is entertaining if you like Shaun of the Dead.
I like the gun shop – it [...]
XBox360,FPS,4/10 – Sep 2009
I loved the TV series called “Firefly” and always thought it’d make a good computer game, so it seems Christmas had come early – Mal (Nathan Fillion), the Firefly captain is in the latest Halo game together with Jane (Adam Baldwin), and Wash (Alan Tudyk). I found the trailer REALLY exciting:
It was [...]
XBox360,RTS,4/10 – February 2009
It has been proved, RTS on a console just isn’t possible. You can put as much effort and talent into making it as possible but a mouse is a fundamental requirement of a RTS.
Playing this demo made me doubt whether releasing a demo is always financially advantageous for the game companies? In [...]
XBox360,3rdPS,7/10 – December 2008
I played the game in co-operative mode with Kix – we did have fun but the verdict is: Not even as good as Halo 1.
The best new feature of the game was “Crawl Mode” – When you “die”, you don’t die you hit the ground and get a few seconds to crawl [...]
XBox360, FPS,9/10 – September 2007
I waited for Edge Magazine to review Halo 3 and was surprised they gave it a 10/10 which only 5 other games have got since it was first published in 1993. An Edge 10/10 basically dictated I had to play it. so, we bought an XBox 360 (i.e. Basically Halo 3 [...]
Wii,Microgame,5/10 – March 2007
This crazy game is perfectly suited for getting to know the Wii. It is designed around thinking of all the different ways the Wiimote can be used. Each level is split into 5 second long microgames which begin with asking you hold the Wiimote in a certain way. The main challenge of [...]
Wii,Sports,7/10 – April 2007
Wii Sports comes bundled with the Wii console – It has Tennis, Bowling, Boxing, Baseball and Golf.
It is completely amazing how intuitive it is to use the Wiimote to play the game. You really don’t need to explain the controls to a new-comer, whether they are 6 or 56.
I’m not a [...]
Game Cube,Bongo Rythm,8/10 – February 2007
An excellent game where you have to drum to the beat of on-screen music. A yellow dot means left, a red dot means right, a pink dot means both and a splash mark means clap. There’s 3 difficulty levels which have the same songs but different beat speeds.
It’s a fun [...]
DS,Battle Racing,9/10 – January 2006
This is my first WIFI game. What this means is I can play 3 other REAL people from anywhere in my house. They might be in America, Europe, Mongolia, it doesn’t matter, what matters is that they are a so much more worthy and fun opponent than a AI simulation. It’s [...]
XBox,FPS,6/10 – September 2005
Good simple FPS fun. I say simple because you can’t jump, not a bad thing but a bit old-fashioned. There is a entertaining selection of characters (ninja monkey anyone?) including brilliant undead creatures to mess around with. On the character selection screen, each character performs a move when they are selected and [...]
DS,Platform,5/10 – July 2005
This game is a classic platform beat-em-up. Same old formula, mass-produced so it comes out at the same time as the films. But it is quite well done, with a good use of buttons, a bit of character progression, interesting moves and a nice level of difficulty. It also has a few [...]
DS,Puzzle,5/10 – June 2005
The control mechanism relies purely on the stylus and so demonstrates how quirky and different the DS is from other handhelds. It’s a fresh and original game (if-by-game-I-mean two mini games). The first game see’s baby Mario falling from the sky on the top screen and you have to draw a line [...]
XBox,Strategy Combat,7/10 – April 2005
Think pokemon meets street fighter. This is strategy combat where it’s tactics and planning that win a battle rather than button mashing. Collect mana orbs, cast creature spells, magic spells, enhancement spells; try to do all of this and still evade your opponent’s attacks.
I got to the pen-ultimate level and found [...]
XBox,Adventure,9/10 – January 2005
This game has the most flexibility and scope that I’ve ever come across. To give you a clue about how varied the objects in the game are, you can buy “tofu”. Have you ever seen tofu in a game before? You can get married and divorced, dig, fish, get haircuts, tatoos, all [...]
XBox,First Person Shooter,7/10 – September 2004
Friends ask me what’s the difference between Halo 1 and 2. Halo 2 has more vehicles and the marines can now drive them, you can hold 2 weapons, you get to be a Covernent soldier and thats about it. Except that the multiplayer mode has been boasted with XBox LIVE [...]
