Author: Bebito Jackson
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The Saturn: Sega’s Greatest Console (Part 2)
System Spotlight: Cartridges Galore! Saturn Feature Index: – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 You know, it’s one thing when a system comes out and you find an expansion port on it. Ah, can’t you remember the one you found on the bottom of every Nintendo system…
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The Saturn: Sega’s Greatest Console
Ahhh the Sega Saturn. My beloved, underappreciated 32-bit Sega Saturn. In time, it would become the first truly successful CD based gaming console to market, although not without its growing pains. Rushed to stores just a few weeks ahead of its rival, the Sony PlayStation, the Japanese Saturn was released on November 22nd, 1994. Following…
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Developer Interview: BioWare Corp – Jade Empire (XB)
Publisher: Microsoft / Developer: Bioware / Genre: Role-Playing / Release: 04-14-05 Jade Empire is BioWare’s latest massive Action RPG set in ancient China for Microsoft Xbox. With gameplay supposedly as deep as Morrowind or KoTOR and letting you have over 30 different fighting styles, Jade Empire has created a lot of buzz before it even…
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The Sony PSP Launch Guide (Part 2)
Gretzky NHL Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Genre: Sports Release: Launch Title With the hockey season itself still in a will-they-won’t-they-play situation (except for the UK national league, which is still going song, and seeing a lot of big-mane talent coming over from the NHL in search of a game), it seems that the PSP…
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The Sony PSP Launch Guide (Part 3)
NBA Street Showdown Publisher: Electronic Arts Genre: Sports Release: 04/25/05 If you haven’t gotten enough of NBA Street after playing Volume 3, get ready for NBA Street Showdown for the PSP! EA Promises to deliver the same arcade-style action games have grown accustomed to on console versions, with a few extras to keep fans satisfied.…
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The Sony PSP Launch Guide (Part 4)
Tiger Woods PGA TOUR Publisher: Electronic Arts Genre: Sports Release: Launch Title For those of you who feel the need to have a Tiger in your pocket have I got news for you! EA Sports is supporting the launch of Sony’s PSP in a big way, bringing many of it’s biggest guns to the party.…
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The Sony PSP Launch Guide
The Sony PSP Launch Guide On March 24th, the handheld gaming world changes forever. With the masses used to handheld graphics and power closely resembling games from a few generations back, Sony seeks to change all that with the Playstation Portable (PSP), a powerful new handheld that comes extremely close to the performance of modern…
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Inside Pulse Games 2004 Year End Awards
2004. It feels very different from the year before. Just last year, the Kliq was complaining about what a horrible year for gaming it was. We had Disgaea, Ikaruga, Pokemon Channel, a new Panzer Dragoon…and well, that was really it. 2003 made us all worry that gaming was starting to suck. But 2004 was a…
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Inside Pulse Games 2004 Year End Awards (Page 2)
BEST TACTICAL RPG Shining Force: Resurrection of the Dark Dragon (GBA) Not really a surprise here. Considering Shining Force has and always will be the measuring stick for tactical RPG’s since 1992, it’s not hard to see why the re-release won this award. Shining Force gives you everything you could want in a Tactical RPG.…
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Inside Pulse Games 2004 Year End Awards (Page 3)
“Well. At least the choices are better than last year. Thank god.” The Reader’s Choice Awards When compared with 2003, the gap between what the Kliq feels and the readers feel has come closer together than ever. Perhaps the true quality titles of 2004 are shining so brightly that it’s easy to see them. Or…
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Review: MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf (XB)
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…
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Inside Pulse Games 2004 Year End Awards Nominees
These are our Nominees for the Inside Pulse Games 2004 Year End Awards. So many great games came out this year that it was overwhelming, for our brains narrowing the field down and for our wallets alike. Come January 3rd the staff shall reveal our final picks, but in the meantime check out what we’ve…
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Review: Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (PS2)
Platform: PlayStation 2 Category: Action – Platformer Developer: Insomniac Games Publisher: SCEA Release: 11/05/04 The big two. Well, actually we should call it the big three now that Sly2 stepped up the game, right? So we’ve got, Jak & Daxter. Sly Cooper. And Ratchet & Clank. It’s amazing that Nintendo used to define this genre.…
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The Nintendo DS Launch Guide
The Nintendo DS Launch Guide Oh Nintendo, implicitly you take us back. I’m not too sure if it’s intentional, but for a person whose age lies way outside the target marketing boundaries laid down for Pokemon, it seems like only yesterday I was playing with what was the DS of it’s day: the immortal and…
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THE TRIBUNAL: Mortal Kombat: Deception (XB, PS2)
Mortal Kombat: Deception has caused quite the stir in the gaming community with reviews from various journalist outlets touting the game as either phenomenal or mediocre. In his Inside Pulse debut our own Aaron Hicks seemed to agree with the latter and gave the game a average score of 5.5. That’s one opinion, but how…
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411 Games Rumor Down-Lo 05.04.04
411 Games Rumor Down-Lo 05.04.04 LOGIN NAME: BEBITO411 PASSWORD: SHINING OF THE HOLY ARK ACCESSING… (411 DOWN-LO ONLINE: BEGIN TRANSMISSION…) Hi, I’m Bebito Jackson, and this… This is the end of an era, ladies and gentlemen. Behold it in all of its retarded glory. :p Greetings everyone. I’m back! Your favorite rumor column is here…
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Review: Pitfall The Lost Expedition (XB, PS2, GC)
Platform: Microsoft XBox Category: Platformer Developer: Edge of Reality Publisher: Activision Also On: PS2, GC The Down-Lo: Welcome to the jungle. We’ve got fun and games. The same old fun and games, but fun and games nonetheless. Ah, Activision. Activision and I have always had a healthy relationship. I suppose my semi-loyalty to the mega-publisher…
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Review: Firefighter FD18 (PS2)
Platform: PlayStation 2 Category: Action / Adventure Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami The Down-Lo: An emotional ride through one unique of a game. Wow, what a busy month for your favorite rumor-mongler. 3 reviews. And I’ve still got Pitfall, Lowrider, Saturday Night Speedway, and a new one-shot edition of the Down-Lo to do. Not to mention…
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Review: Lowrider (PS2)
Platform: PlayStation 2 Category: It’s beyond definition Developer: PCCW Japan Publisher: Jaleco Entertainment The Down-Lo: Shoot me. Please. Just shoot me and get it over with. There comes a time in a gamer’s life when they stumble across something so appallingly dreadful. Something so atrociously malignant. A videogame so ridiculously horrible it causes teenagers to…
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Review: Kirby’s Air Ride (Nintendo Gamecube)
Platform: Nintendo GameCube Category: Racing Developer: HAL Laboratories Publisher: Nintendo The Down-Lo: Bebito tries not to kill himself after playing the worst Nintendo published game in quite a while. Ugh. The things we do for you people. Reviewing these crappy games. Look… You don’t really need to read this review. If you trust Big Daddy…