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Category: Video Game Reviews

  • 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…

  • Review: Tork: Prehistoric Punk (XB)

    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…

  • Review: Mercenaries (XB)

    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…

  • Review: NFL Street 2 (XBx)

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Review: Blinx 2: Masters of Time & Space (XB)

    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…

  • Review: The Legend Of Zelda: The Minish Cap (Game Boy Advance)

    The Legend Of Zelda: The Minish Cap (GBA) Developer: Capcom / Flagship Published by: Nintendo Genre: Action RPG Release: 11/12/04 (Europe), 01/10/05 (USA) Ah, Nintendo. How, when most games companies would KILL for a distinctive mascot character, does one company come up with an entire stable of them? It defies belief, it really does. And…

  • Review: Prince of Persia: The Warrior Within (XB)

    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…

  • Review: Feel The Magic: XY/XX (Nintendo DS)

    Game: Feel The Magic: XY/XX Systen: Nintendo DS Genre: Mini-Game Compilation Developer: Sonic Team Publisher: Sega Released: 11/21/04 At one time, Nintendo and Sega were bitter rivals. All of us 16-bit generation gamers can recount the titanic battles fought between these two giants. System VS system. Mascot VS mascot. Brother against brother. (Well, maybe two…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Review: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2)

    Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Publisher: Konami Developer: Konami Platform: Playstation 2 Konami had a problem on it’s hands following the release of Metal Gear Solid 2. While it was critically acclaimed and sold in bunches, there was a huge number of people who didn’t like the unadvertised switch in protagonists. People wanted to…

  • Review: Super Mario 64 DS (DS)

    Super Mario 64 DS Publisher: Nintendo Developer: Nintendo Genre: Action System: Nintendo DS Finally, the Nintendo DS is upon us. We’ve been waiting for months and months to get our hands on this system, and it’s finally here. With its two screens and unique features, it shows the most promise out of any new system…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Review: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (PC)

    Genre: RPG Platform: PC ESRB Rating: Mature (Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Sexual Themes, Strong Language) Developer: Troika Publisher: Activision Release Date: 11/16/04 Official Website: VampireBloodlines.com For the uninitiated, Vampire: The Masquerade was a popular pen-and-paper RPG by White Wolf involving, you guessed it, vampires. The concept is that there are vampires all around us…

  • Review: Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 2 (XB)

    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…

  • Review: The Urbz: Sims in the City (XB)

    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…

  • Review: Karaoke Revolution (XB)

    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…