Category: Video Game Reviews
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Review: Burnout 3: Takedown (PS2, XB)
Burnout 3: Takedown Genre: Racing/Driving Platform: Playstation 2 (also available for Xbox) ESRB Rating: Teen (Mild Violence) Developer: Criteron Games Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: 9/7/04 Official Home Page: Burnout 3 For anyone who has read me in the past, you’re probably aware that I’m not that big a fan of the racing genre. In…
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Review: NBA Live 2005 (XB)
NBA Live 2005 Genre: Sports Platform: XB [PS2/GC] Publisher: EA Sports Developer: EA Canada Release Date: 09/28/2004 Celebrating its tenth anniversary this season, NBA Live 2005 debuts this year on Xbox Live, adds some innovative new features, and makes some gameplay tweaks that may alienate some loyal fans to the series. Let’s Review: Story (Modes)…
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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: Def Jam Fight for New York (PS2)
EA’s hip-hop beat-em-up makes a return to the fighting arenas… but this time we get much more than a simple No Mercy clone with rappers. Genre: Action/Fighting Platform: PS2 [XBOX/GC] Rating: M [Mature] Publisher: EA Games Developer: EA Canada Release Date: 09/20/2004 When EA Games first released Def Jam Vendetta back in March of ’03,…
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Review: Second Sight (PS2, GC, XB)
Second Sight (PS2, XB, GC) Genre: Action-Adventure Developer: Free Radical Publisher: Codemasters Release Date: 9/22/04 It’s interesting to hear a lot of the comparisons between Second Sight and another game that came out a few months ago called Psi-Ops, which I also reviewed. Both feature a main character suffering from Amnesia that happens to have…
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Review: Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (PS2)
Game: Dance Dance Revolution Extreme System: Sony Playstation 2 Genre: Music/Rhythm Developer: Konami Computer Entertainment of Japan Publisher: Konami of America Release: 9/22/04 Dance Dance Revolution Extreme is quite possibly the most unique entry into my favorite video game series to date. All across the online world, the game literally ran through the gauntlet of…
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Review: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (XB)
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 (XB) Publisher: EASports Developer: EASports Genre: Sports Release Date: 9/20/2004 EA Sports’s annual golf-fest has hit store shelves again this September in the form of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005. New to this season’s edition on the Xbox is finally the addition of online play via Xbox Live, mixed with…
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Review: Fable (XB)
FABLE Genre: Action RPG Developer: Big Blue Box Publisher: Microsoft Release Date: 9/14/04 Yes. It’s Fable. The game that has been massively hyped for well over a year. A game that was mentioned constantly by every gaming website that it would revolutionize not just RPG’s, but gaming as we know it. Peter Molyneux promised scads…
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Review: Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves (PS2)
Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves Genre: Action Platformer Developer: Sucker Punch Studios Publisher: SCEA A couple of years ago Sony introduced a series of new mascot games in order to make up for the loss of Crash Bandicoot exclusivity. Those games were Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, and finally Sly Cooper. Of the…
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Review: Guilty Gear X2: The Midnight Carnival (XB)
Game: Guilty Gear X2: The Midnight Carnival #RELOAD System: Microsoft XBox Genre: 2D Fighting Developer: Arc System Works / Sammy Publisher: Majesco Release: 9/15/04 Most people look to Capcom or SNK for their 2D-fighting goodness. After all, with Street Fighter and King of Fighters being the household names that they are, it’s really hard for…
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Review: Gradius V (PS2)
Gradius V Genre: 2D shooter Developer: Treasure Publisher: Konami Release Date: 9/15/04 It’s been a good year for 2-D shooters. R-Type Final, Metal Slug 3. And now Gradius V. How sad is that though, that a good year for shooters is when there are 3 of them? Like the 2D side-scrolling beat ’em up genre,…
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Review: Advance Guardian Heroes (Game Boy Advance)
Advance Guardian Heroes Genre: 2D Side Scrolling Action RPG Developer: Treasure Publisher: UBI Soft Release Date: 9/15/04 For those of you that don’t know, the original Guardian Heroes is my favorite game of all time. I picked it up back in 1996, not knowing what it was really, but enjoying the cover art and the…
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Silent Hill 4: The Room (Microsoft Xbox)
Silent Hill 4 Genre: Survival Horror Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release Date: 9/8/04 I’ll admit it. I am NOT a Silent Hill fan. I disliked the first three games immensely. The controls were poor. The graphics were poor. The story was good, but overall the series got far more hype than other games in the…
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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: Pokemon Fire Red/Leaf Green (Game Boy Advance)
Ah Kanto, land of my youth. Where I was first forced to make a decision between Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle (Charmander, duh). When my first Pokemon team consisted of Charizard, Marowak, Raichu, Articuno, Gyardos, and Butterfree. When I didn’t care about type advantage or trainer vs trainer battles or anything hardcore in the realm of…
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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: Phantom Brave (PS2)
Last year at this time, the entire then 411Games staff was foaming at the mouth for the game that was Disgaea. Disgaea proved to be one of Atlus’ biggest hits ever. It had an amazing and hilarious story about the prince of the Underworld, Laharl, and his attempts to reclaim Hades as his own. It…
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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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Doom 3 (PC)
Doom 3 Developer: ID Publisher: Activision Genre: First Person Shooter Ah Doom. A classic instantly recognizable name if ever there was one. The first one is one of the most famous and ground breaking games of all time. Hell, it’s still used in commercials by the PTC and other censorship groups defaming video game violence…
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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…