Category: Xbox

Street Fighter Anniversary Collection Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Genre: Fighting Release Date: 2/22/2005 I’m a recovering Street Fighter junkie. I admit this freely. I used to spend countless hours in the arcades playing as each character figuring out who had double re-dizzy combos and what the frame rate for invincibility during certain moves were and…

Top Gear RPM Tuning System: X-Box Publisher: Kemco Developer: Kemco Genre: Racing Release Date: 2/15/05 Well, it’s a budget title. It’s a racing game. That’s all I’ve got. Wait… this isn’t just a racing game. This is a street racing game! Awesome, freaking awesome. This is high octane, pulse-pounding racing. Top Gear RPM is the…

Chicago Enforcer Publisher: Kemco Developer: Touchdown Genre: FPS Release Date: 02/22/05 Ah budget titles. The price is right, but often times the game is lousy. Sure there are exceptions. Oh GOTY, Katamari Damacy is one such game that proves you can be cheap and yet an amazing wonderful game. Arx fatalis is another, but on…

Winning Eleven 8 International Soccer Publisher: Konami Developer: KCET System: X-Box Players: 1-4 Release Date: 02-02-05 In this recent era of sports license exclusivity, there has been one franchise that gamers have heralded as proof that you don’t need to pay the leagues millions to make a great game. That franchise has been Winning Eleven…

Game: Dai Senryaku: Modern Military Tactics System: Microsoft XBox Genre: Modern Turn-Based Strategy Developer: Kemco Publisher: Kemco Release: 2/15/05 There are a lot of different genres of games on the XBox in this country today. Platformers, sports, FPS games, puzzle games, party games, racing games, RPGs, etc, etc, etc. However, we haven’t seen any sort…

Genre: Action Platform Platform: Microsoft Xbox Rating: E (Everyone) Publisher: Ubi-Soft Release Date: 01/18/2005 Once upon a time in the world of video gamedom, the action platform game ruled the land. Halfway through the first decade of the 21st century has seen the once mighty genre head the way of the 2d side scrolling shooter…

Mercenaries System: Xbox (Also On: PS2) Developer: Pandemic Studios Publisher: LucasArts Players: One Release Date: 01-11-04 LucasArts and Pandemic Studios makers of Full Spectrum Warrior are broadening the playing field, as it were, for their next military tactics action game. Banking on the appeal of its wholesale destruction, does Mercenaries have enough legs to create…

Game: NFL Street 2 System: Microsoft XBox [Also On: PS2, GC) Genre: Extreme Sports/ Football Developer: EA Sports Publisher: Electronic Arts Released: 12/26/04 Last year, EA released their first “extreme” football game entitled NFL Street. It took the 32 teams of the NFL, brought them outside the rules and regulations of organized sports, and threw…

Platform: Microsoft Xbox Category: Third Person Shooter Developer: Day 1 Studios Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Release: 12/29/04 Ya know. I really tried to steer clear of games like these. Games where (I was under the impression) you were just randomly shooting at whatever came across your screen with little rhyme or reason. It just seemed…

Blinx 2: Masters of Time & Space Publisher: Microsoft Developer: Artoon Genre: Action Platformer Release Date: 11/16/04 I’m not a born skeptic. You have to make me one. After the first Blinx, I was not expecting a great deal out of the sequel. In fact there were a few times I asked myself, “Why are…

Prince Of Persia: The Warrior Within Developer: UbiSoft Montreal Publisher: UbiSoft Genre: Action Adventure Players: 1 System: X-Box (Also on GC, PC and PS2) The Prince of Persia has had a very storied career in the videogame industry. Many of his early exploits were looked at as being some of the best action adventure games…

Backyard Wrestling 2 Platform: Xbox (also available on PS2) Genre: Wrestling Rating: Mature Publisher: Eidos Release Date: 11/16/04 Eidos returns to the world of Backyard wrestling again with the recent release of Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood. Is the game able to capture the chaos of…you know what, screw this. In fact skip…

Game: Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2 System: Microsoft XBox Genre: Music/Rhythm Developer: Konami Computer Entertainment Hawaii Publisher: Konami Digital Entertainment America Released: 19, November 2004 For those who know me, you know that I am probably the biggest DDR fan on this site. I gush on it in my columns, I gush on it in…

Game: The Urbz: Sims in the City System: Microsoft XBox Also On: PlayStation2, GameCube Genre: Strategy Developer: Maxis Publisher: EA Games I remember first getting hooked into sim games with Sim Earth in middle school. Since then I’ve been adding to the experience with Sim Ant, Sim City and The Sims. When I heard of…

Karaoke Revolution (XB) Publisher: Konami Developer: Harmonix Music Systems Genre: Music Release: 11/09/2004 I’m a karaoke fan. Maybe it’s from growing up going on car trips and my mom trying to keep my siblings and me occupied with singing songs. Or maybe it’s just a love of music. Or it could be that I enjoy…

Halo 2 System: Microsoft Xbox Developer: Bungie Publisher: Microsoft Players: 1-16 (Via X-Box Live & LAN Party) When the X-Box first launched, there was really just one game that was considered must have. Sure you had your niche games that satisfied fans of whatever genres you wanted, but only one game on launch day could…

The Kliq Comics: 11/17/04 Starring: Alex Williams & Bebito Jackson (w/ The Rumor Monkey!) Game: Dead or Alive Ultimate System: Microsoft XBox Genre: 3D Fighting Developer: Team Ninja Publisher: Tecmo Release: 10/26/04 Okay, I know what you are all thinking right now: “Whoever reviewed THIS particular game was influenced by the fact that half the…

X-Men Legends System: Microsoft Xbox Published by Activision Developed by Raven Software Players – 4 player Co-operative They are Marvel’s superteam, rivalled only by the Avengers and DC’s Justice League. They are also the underdogs, mutants in a world where superpowers are common but mutants are hated and feared. They are the Uncanny X-Men. Led…

The Bard’s Tale Platform: Xbox (Also On: PS2) Developer: InXile Publisher: Vivendi Universal Genre: Action RPG Release Date: 10/27/04 Ah the Bard’s Tale. Thank you Brian Fargo for bringing this back to me. For those of you that don’t know, a lot of us here at Inside Pulse, chiefly Eric S and myself are ga-ga…