Category: Video Game Reviews
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Review: Death by Degrees (PS2)
Death By Degrees Genre: Action Platform: PS2 Rating: M [Mature] Publisher: Namco Developer: Namco Release Date: 02/08/2005 I’m not a fan of Tekken, or any ‘fighting’ games really, so I have no emotional ties to the series. Honestly. Wasn’t expecting much from this game, so I wasn’t disappointed in the end when it turned out…
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Review: FIFA Street (PS2, XB, GC)
FIFA Street Platform: PS2, X-Box, GC Developer: EA Big Publisher: Electronic Arts Genre: Sports I consider myself a bit of a connoisseur of sports that nobody cares about. I set my sleeping schedule every two years for the Olympic sports that no one regularly cares about. Professional table tennis is unbelievably cool. I live for…
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Review: Worms 3D (XB)
Worms 3D Publisher: Sega Developer: Team 17 Genre: Strategy Release Date: 03-01-05 Hi. My name is Geli and I am a Worms addict. Back in the stone age, I played it with friends and family alike. There’s nothing more satisfying than ninja roping yourself over to an enemy only to fire punch him in the…
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Review: Star Wars: Republic Commando (XB, PC)
Star Wars: Republic Commando Developer: LucasArts Publisher: LucasArts Genre: First Person Shooter Release Date: 2/25/2005 Well, if you look at Dictionary.com’s 2nd definition of ‘synergism,’ you might almost think that LucasArts tried to do: “The doctrine that individual salvation is achieved through a combination of human will and divine grace.” Taking one part ‘human will’…
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Review: Tekken 5 (PS2)
Tekken 5 Developer: Namco Publisher Namco Genre: Fighting Release Date: 2/24/05 Ah Tekken. Has it really been ten years since you’ve first popped up in arcades? Time just seems to fly. Now that you’re a teen, we’re going to have to have a talk. First off, you’re going to start noticing girls. Also, you may…
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Review: Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (XB)
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…
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Review: Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga (PS2)
<img src=”http://media.insidepulse.com/old/columnImages/image7934.jpg” align=”right”Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga Developer: Atlus Publisher: Atlus Genre: Turn Based RPG Release Date: 3/22/05 Megaten. Short for Megami Tensei, which then became SHIN Megami Tensei. It’s just finally starting to get noticed by American gamers thanks to Atlus’ recently bringing over Nocturne Maniacs, and word of mouth in regards to…
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Review: Tenchu: Fatal Shadows (PS2)
Tenchu: Fatal Shadows Developer: K2 LLC Publisher: Sega Genre: Action/Stealth Release Date: 02-15-05 Where do I start? Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven was my first experience with any title in the series, and I loved it. It had it’s flaws, yes, but the brutal stealth-kills and the fun-as-hell two-player co-op mode made up for a dumb…
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Review: Shadow Of Rome (PS2)
Shadow Of Rome Developer: Capcom Developer Studio 2 Publisher: Capcom Genre: 3rd-Person Action Adventure Release Date: 2/08/2005 Capcom have somewhat unjustly earned a reputation amongst gamers as being the company to milk it’s franchises to death. What is usually overlooked when this is brought up is just how many franchises Capcom have created in recent…
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Review: Top Gear RPM Tuning (XB)
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…
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Review: Ys: The Ark of Napishtim (PS2)
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim Developer: Falcom Publisher: Konami Genre: Action RPG Release Date 2/23/05 Ah Ys, one of the oldest and most revered RPG series of all time. At least it was until the US had a decade long drought without the Ys (Prounced YEES) series making it over from Japanese shores. Believe…
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Review: Winnie The Pooh’s Rumbly Tumbly Adventure (PS2)
Game: Winnie The Pooh’s Rumbly Tumbly Adventure System: Sony Playstation 2 (Also On: GC) Genre: Adventure Developer: Pheonix Game Studios Publisher: Ubisoft Released: 2/08/05 (The scene opens as Alex Williams walks into Inside Pulse headquarters for his weekly meeting with Bebito Jackson on site progress) BJ: AW, how’s it goin’? AW: Pretty good there, Bebs.…
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Review: The King of Fighters 2002 & 2003 (PS2)
The King of Fighters 2002 & 2003 System: PlayStation 2 Publisher: SNK Developer: SNK Genre: 2D Fighting Release Date: 02/08/05 Ah yes, it’s time for another wonderful release from SNK. After the amazing success Metal Slug 3 had on the Xbox after Sony felt it wasn’t “good enough” (Including winning the Inside Pulse fan award…
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Review: The Punisher (PS2)
Genre: Action Platform: PS2 (Also On: Xbox, PC) Rating: M [Mature] Publisher: THQ Developer: Volition, Inc. Release Date: 01-17-05 Well, well, well. Look who it is. After a month of searching and waiting, Frank Castle finally finds his way on to my PS2. Let me just preface this review with a little note to Rogers…
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Review: WarioWare Touched! (DS)
Game: WarioWare Touched! System: Nintendo DS Genre: Action/Minigames Developer: Intelligent Systems Publisher: Nintendo Released: 2/15/05 The original WarioWare Inc.: Mega Microgame$ on the Game Boy Advance literally came out of left field and became a cult sensation. The game would throw over 200 “microgames” at you, consisting of incredibly simple tasks that had to be…
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Review: Chicago Enforcer (XB)
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…
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Review: Dragonball Z Budokai 3 (PS2)
Dragonball Z: Budokai 3 Genre: Fighting Platform: PS2 Rating Teen Publisher: Atari Developer: Dimps Dimps’ Budokai series has been a high note in the history of anime games. Before they stepped in, the Dragonball Z series had been host to some of the worst fighting games ever. Dimps changed this with their first attempt at…
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Review: Winning Eleven Soccer 8 International (XB)
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…
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Review: Dai Senryaku VII: Modern Military Tactics (XB)
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…
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Review: Playboy: The Mansion (PS2, XB)
Genre: Sim/Strategy Platform: PS2 (Also On: Xbox, PC) Rating: M [Mature] Publisher: Arush Ent. Developer: Cyberlore Studios Release Date: 01-25-05 So, you take a strategy/simulation game engine, based loosely on the hugely popular Sims series, add in a “storyline” that allows users to take control of a younger version of ultra-sleazy Hugh Hefner and his…