Author: Matt Yeager

  • Review: Champions Of Norrath: Realms Of Everquest (PS2)

    Champions of Norrath: Realms of Everquest (PS2) Platform: PS2 Rating: Teen Developer: Snowblind Studios Publisher: Sony Online Entertainment Release Date: 2/10/04 Snowblind Studios made a big splash with the original Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance that was released in 2001. Dark Alliance quickly became of the most definitive hack n’ slash games available for the consoles…

  • Review: Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time (XB, PS2, GC, PC)

    Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Platform: Xbox Rating: Teen Developer: Ubisoft Release Date: 11/23/2003 Thanks to having learned about the middle east almost exclusively from Disney and Video Games, I’ve always wondered why all viziers weren’t just shot as soon as they accepted the job (especially if they are named Jaffar). They’re going…

  • Review: Rise To Honor (PS2)

    Rise to Honor Genre: Action Platform: PS2 Rating: Teen Developer: SCEA Release Date: 02/17/04 Games based on movies generally suck. While there are a few exceptions like Goldeneye and a couple of the Lord of the Rings games, on average the games are just rushed half-assed pieces of garbage to make a few extra bucks…

  • Review: SOCOM 2 (PS2)

    SOCOM 2 Genre: Action Platform: PS2 Rating: Mature Publisher: SCEA Developer: Zipper Interactive Release Date: 11/04/2003 To those who’ve been living in a hole, don’t have the network adaptor, or have just been playing better games, SOCOM 2 is the sequel the highly successful SOCOM game from 2002. The original game was the first online…

  • Review: Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3 (XB)

    Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3 (Xbox) Genre: First Person Shooter Platform: Xbox Rating: Mature Publisher: Ubisoft Release Date: 10/30/2003 Let me get this out first, I don’t like First Person Shooters very much. I don’t hate them, but the majority of them feel the same to me. You walk, you shoot, and if you’re me…

  • Review: Mario Party 5 (Nintendo Gamecube)

    Mario Party 5 Genre: Party Game Platform: Gamecube Rating: Everyone Publisher: Nintendo Release: November 2003 In 1998 Nintendo formed a partnership with developer Hudson games. The first of the games released under this new partnership was a completely new style of Mario Game and that game was the first Mario Party in 1999. Since then…