Category: Sony PS2

God of War System: Playstation 2 Publisher: SCEA Genre: Action Greek mythology, like lots of your basic stories in religions, was designed to convey a lesson to the listener. Stories of bravery, love, consequences, greed. All come to mind when I think about Greek mythology. Gods with human emotions and the humans who had to…

Shining Tears Developer: Amusement Vision Publisher: Sega Genre: Action RPG Release Date: 03/23/05 It’s hard to believe that two years ago I was lamenting how there were no new Shining Games. And now, in a span of 2 years, we have 4 games with that title. First there was Shining Soul, which was a good…

Fight Night Round 2 Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: EA Chicago Genre: Sports/Fighting Release Date: 03-01-2005 Once upon a time, there was a barbaric sport that was enjoyed the small and rich elite of society. Entrepreneurs, who operated as either single persons or collaboratively in syndicates, did their best to recruit the strong and the gullible…

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…

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…

<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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…