Category: Archive

  • Gamer’s Hangover 07.21.03

    Welcome to the Gamer’s Hangover for this, glorious, glorious week. Why is this week so glorious? Such as the festival that is Christmas is preceded by the joyous, anticipatory season of Advent, and the celebration of Easter is preceded by the period of atonement, reflection, and preparation known as Lent, there is another near-religious holiday…

  • The Angry Gamer 07.19.03: Shooters Vs. FPS

    Before we go any further, I must warn you: this article will be rife with strong opinions (namely, mine), complaints, and maybe even some harsh language about game developers’ mothers. C’mon, it’s called “ANGRY Gamer” for a reason. So if you’re easily offended, and not prepared to possibly have some of your favorite games torn…

  • Review: Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy Of Goku II (Game Boy Advance)

    Game: Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II System: Game Boy Advance Genre: Action RPG Developer: Webfoot Technologies Publisher: Atari Release Date: 6/17/03 Let’s face it. Fans of the show Dragon Ball Z (Even you. You know who you are.) in the United States have it rough when it comes to games based on…

  • Retrograding Weekend News 07.19.03

    First, let me say I have the most fanatical and best audience on 411. Less than 48 hours after part 1 showed up, I received 20 emails about my breakup with my ex. Sure some of them were downright psychotic and made me glad I’ve never given her last name out to any of you,…

  • Retrograding 07.17.03

    Hey gang. Bottom line is this. I broke up with the love of my life back in the UK Tuesday night, appear to be on my way to my third published book, and life is just totally up-f*cked right now. Thankfully all the columns this week are just glorified mailbag editions, eh? But very popular…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 07.17.03

    Tomb Raider Well, we all know Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness sucked. You even read Bebito’s piece on how the developers knew it sucked. Now, the heads are beginning to roll… some by their own hands. Jeremy Heath-Smith, founder and development director of Core Designs (property of Eidos), has stepped down. Most believe that the…

  • Hump Day Otaku News Report 07.16.03

    Welcome back to another week in my insanity. This week is somewhat special, because it marks my first foray into an anime PREVIEW, and I have a review to boot! Somebody hold me back, or I may get responsible and start throwing a whole buncha stuff in. I’ll raise you two anime reviews, a game…

  • Review: Golden Sun: The Lost Age (Game Boy Advance)

    Golden Sun: The Lost Age Genre: Traditional RPG Platform: Game Boy Advance ESRB Rating: Everyone (Violence) Developer: Camelot Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: April 15, 2003 Official Home Page: www.goldensun-games.com When it was released, Golden Sun was the first RPG available for the Game Boy Advance (not counting previous Game Boy and Game Boy Color games),…

  • 411 Games Rumor Down-Lo 07.15.03

    411 Games Rumor Down-Lo 07.15.03 4 DAYS AGO *Alex Lucard, Lee Baxley, Bryan Berg and Bebito Jackson are all sitting round a table inside of 411 Games Head Editor, Chris Pankonin’s office. It’s uneasily quiet as for seemingly the first time since everyone’s known him, Chris has a hard time finding the words to express…

  • Review: F1 Career Challenge (PS2)

    Game: F1 Career Challenge Platform: PS2 Developer: EA Sports Chemical enhancer: Caffeine, and lots of it. GAMEPLAY Oy vey. Another racing career game. Well, I suppose SOMEBODY is into that sort of thing. You have your basic modes: Career, or single race. Single race is exactly what you think it’d be. Career mode is a…

  • Gamer’s Hangover News Report 07.14.03

    Hello all. I’m afraid bits of this are going to be a little short this week as I am 1: Just returning from my vacation to Kansas City, 2: Preparing to return to work tomorrow, and 3: Celebrating my birthday today. Worry not, gentle reader, there will still be news, there will still be bitching,…

  • Retrograding Mailbag

    Before I begin, you’ve got ONE WEEK before the EWR contest ends. I’ll be sending in the results to be posted while I’m in California on business so hopefully we’ll get a few more in before the damn thing ends. But as always this is the column where you speak more than I do. Hey…

  • Retrograding Weekend News Report

    Hello once again my minions of darkness. This week we’ll be spreading the seeds of darkness amongst the herd that is humanity in a way that is so foul and depraved even the Prince of Darkness flinches at the thought. Using our control over Hollywood, the big show on NBC’s fall lineup will be a…

  • Thank God It’s Thursday News Report 07.10.03

    Hello again. You’ve reached the Thank God It’s Thursday News Report, found every Thursday morning here on 411mania.com. Thanks for checking in this week. Last week’s column sucked and I’m sorry to subject you to that. It was the first time in a long time I wasn’t proud of something I wrote. You people deserve…

  • Cheat! 07.09.03

    Well, here we are in our second week! Once again, the name is Alex Williams, and once again, I’m here to give you access to cheats of recently reviewed games here at the 411. Plus I got a game that hasn’t been reviewed yet, but was recently released. Just to cover all the bases before…

  • Hump Day Otaku News Report 07.09.03

    Well, I hope everybody had a happy and healthy 4th of July. I know I did. I’m always happier and healthier when I’m not at work. It wouldn’t be so bad if the company were more organized. I may not be management, but I know what would help the company, but if they’re content to…

  • 411 Games Rumor Down-Lo 07.08.03

    411 Games Rumor Down-Lo 07.08.03 411 Games Quote of The Week All Bebito did was format . . . er . . . FORWARD me the official 411 HTML guide for Clueless Columnists and tell me how much he liked my work. I will pimp him properly later. — Cory Lafin (Gamer’s Hangover News Report…

  • Review: Unlimited Saga (PS2)

    Unlimited SaGa Genre: Non-Traditional RPG Platform: Playstation 2 ESRB Rating: Teen Publisher: Square Enix Release Date: 6/18/03 Official Home Page: U-Saga.com Squaresoft (and now Square Enix) is known for quite a few different series of games. There is of course Final Fantasy and Seiken Densetsu (the Mana series, in America) for Square, and on the…

  • Gamer’s Hangover News Report 07.07.03

    So I had an interesting week . . . . Scene: CORY sits at his desk, headphones on, bopping happily as he writes yet another game review. Enter BEBITO from stage left, a look of concern on his face. The Rumor Monkey jumps onto his desk and starts to chew thoughtfully on Cory?s Eskimo Joe?s…

  • Review: Burnout 2: Director’s Cut (XB)

    I said I like driving games as long as I don’t have to work too hard at them. When that is the case, there are few things more enjoyable than a good racing game. Hell, my bachelor party consisted of about 20 of my closest friends sitting around my apartment getting drunk and playing Mario…