Author: Matt Yeager
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Review: FlatOut (PS2)
Game: FlatOut Platform: PS2 (also available on Xbox) Developer: Bugbear Entertainment Publisher: Empire Interative Rating: T for Teen Let’s face it, even if racing purists don’t want to admit it there is one defining reason to watch Nascar: Someone might crash. People love car crashes, it’s why we slow down traffic to gawk at some…
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Review: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (PS2)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith Platform: PS2 (Also available for Xbox) Genre: Action Publisher: Lucasarts Inc. Developer: The Collective Release Date: 05/05/05 Star Wars games are notoriously hit or miss. For every great game like Knights of the Old Republic and Rouge Squadron game there is Obi-Wan and Rouge Squadron 3. Over…
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THE TRIBUNAL: Jade Empire (Microsoft Xbox)
THIS SESSION HAS NOW BEEN CONVENED Order! Order in the Tribunal Court! *Looks for gavel* Well it looks like I forgot to borrow the gavel from Alex. Anyway, welcome one and all to the Tribunal Hall, we gather here today to take a second and third look at the newest RPG on the Xbox. Jade…
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Review: Narc (PS2)
NARC System: PS2 (Also On: X-Box) Developer: Point of View Publisher: Midway Genre: Action Release Date: 3/22/05 When the original N.A.R.C arcade game came out in 1988 it was controversial for the ability to let you play as a futuristic cop who mowed down armies of dealers and addicts and let you collect drugs and…
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Review: Resident Evil 4 (Nintendo Gamecube)
Resident Evil 4 Platform: Gamecube Genre: Survival Horror/Action Developer/Publisher: Capcom Rating: Mature Release Date: 1/11/05 I remember back when the first Resident Evil game came out I used to sit around with friends passing the controller back and forth among ourselves taking turns killing zombies and all of us jumping at things like when the…
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First Impressions: Resident Evil 4 (Nintendo Gamecube)
As a fan of the series there’s just something satisfying about waiting in anticipation for the game to be released then booting the game up to hear that deep voice say “Resident Evil Four“. You’ve got to give the guy who does the voice credit for being able to make the number four sound like…
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Preview: Gran Turismo 4 (PS2)
Publisher: SCEA / Developer: Polyphony Digital / Genre: Driving / Release Date: 1Q 2005 With the game set to come out soon, Gran Turismo 4 is right around the corner and will be driving over the competition. GT4 is projected to be one of the highest selling games this year, an impressive estimate considering that…
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Review: Mario Party 6 (Nintendo Gamecube)
Genre: Party Platform: Gamecube Rating: Everyone Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Hudson Soft Like every other year over the past 6 years Mario decides to hold yet another Party. In fact it was a year ago when I sent in a submission review to the 411games section that would eventually move over to insidepulse, so this more…
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Review: WWE Smackdow! vs Raw (PS2)
WWE Smackdown! vs Raw Platform: PlayStation2 Genre: Wrestling Rating: Teen Developer: Yukes Publisher: THQ Release Date: 11/02/2004 Another year, another Smackdown game. THQ and Yukes are back with the sixth game in this long running series, and possibly the last WWE game that we will see from that team. The last Smackdown game provided some…
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Review: Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood (XB)
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…
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Review: Jak 3 (PS2)
Jak 3 (PS2) Genre: Platforming/Action Platform: PS2 Publisher: SCEA Rating: Teen Developer: Naughty Dog Release Date: 11/09/04 So many trilogies have come to end over the last couple of years, The Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, and finally the storyline of Jak and Daxter. The end to what started off as a light hearted…
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Review: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas System: PS2 Genre: Action Developer: Rockstar North Publisher: Rockstar Games Release Date: 10/26/2004 Color me biased, but I have always been a big fan of the Grand Theft Auto series. My friends and I used to stay up all night passing the controller around in the top down game just…
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GTA San Andreas-First Impressions
Welcome to the first impression for GTA: San Andreas. A review will be up as soon as possible, but a game like this takes time to play and explore so until the review goes up I’ll be updating this site with impressions of the game. Had the day off of work yesterday (lucky coincedence, though…
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Preview: Area 51 (PS2, XB) Hands-On Impressions
Publisher: Midway / Developer: Midway-Austin / Genre: FPS / Release Date: Q1 2005 Slated for a first quater 2005 release the not so secretive government base Area 51 returns to video games. For those that may be unfamiliar about the original title the original Area 51 game was an arcade light gun game. That doesn’t…
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Review: Crash Twinsanity (XBX)
Crash Twinsanity Genre: Platforming Platform: Xbox (also available on the PS2) Publisher: VU Games Developer: Traveller\s Tales Release Date: 9/28/04 Back in 1996 Naughty Dog released the first Crash Bandicoot to a skeptical audience and harsh judgement aimed at the game that was for awhile Sony’s mascot and competition to N64’s Super Mario64. It held…
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Review: Star Wars: Battlefront (XB, GC, PC)
Star Wars: Battlefront Platform: Xbox (Also On: GC) Rating: Teen Publisher: LucasArts Developer: Pandemic Studios Release Date: 9/20/04 If I made a list of the things I wanted to be when I grew from when I was a boy near the top would have been X-Wing Pilot. I’ve always been a huge Star Wars fan,…
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Review: ESPN NHL 2K5 (Microsoft Xbox)
ESPN NHL 2K5 (Xbox) Genre: Sports – Hockey Platform: Xbox Rating: Everyone Publisher: SEGA Developer: Kush Games Release Date: 8/30/04 I used to love to play hockey games before I ever even started to watch hockey. I remember with a specific game a friend and I used to just bash into each other over and…
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Review: WWE: Day of Reckoning (Nintendo Gamecube)
WWE Day of Reckoning (GC) Platform: Gamecube Genre: Wrestling Rating: Teen Publisher: THQ Developer: Yukes Before I even bother getting down and writing the rest of the review let’s just get the real question out of the way: Is this game better than No Mercy? No. As much as I enjoyed and still like to…
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Review: Test Drive: Eve of Destruction (PS2)
Test Drive: Eve of Destruction (PS2) Genre: Racing-Miscellaneous Platform: PS2 (also available on the Xbox) Rating: Teen Publisher: Atari Developer: Monster Games, Inc. The Destruction Derby, one of the few backwater American traditions that I love. There’s something that is just fundamentally entertaining in watching cars smash into each other, preferably at high speeds. Destruction…
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Review: Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow (XB)
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow (Xbox) Genre: First Person Shooter Platform: Xbox Rating: Mature Publisher: Ubisoft Release Date: 08/04/2004 Press A to Respawn– A line I saw way too many times in the original game, and it’s time already for me to see that screen over and over again with the sequel to…