Category: Sony PS2

Game: Guilty Gear Isuka System: Sony Playstation 2 Genre: 2D-Fighting / Side-Scrolling Adventure Developer: Arc System Works Publisher: Sammy Release: 11/03/04 Once again, I must say that Sammy’s Guilty Gear franchise is miles above most other 2D fighters of its kind. It’s lightning-quick speed and addictive gameplay makes me look at other fighters and say…

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…

Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne Developer: Atlus Publisher: Atlus System: Playstation 2 Genre: RPG So, here it is. After seemingly years of waiting, Atlus have finally given us a new PS2 Megaten game. Better still, it’s the special-edition Director’s Cut of the original game. But will the game live up to the hype, and join Disgaea…

The Nightmare of Druaga Developer: Arika Publisher: Namco Genre: Dungeon Crawl RPG Release Date: 10/27/04 The Nightmare of Druaga is a sequel to an old Arcade game made by Namco over 18 years ago. It’s so obscure I only first heard of it When Namco released it on the PS1 as part of one of…

Neo Contra Developer: KCET Publisher: Konami Genre: Scrolling 3D shooter Release Date: 10/19/04 Contra! Quite possibly one of the most famous “brand names” in video gaming. The original Contra for the NES was one of the most popular games of all time. But each game after it has slowly fallen down the ladder of popularity…

I know, I know. A 3D King of Fighters! What is going on here? Never in my wildest dreams did I think that such a thing would ever occur. Mortal Kombat moving to 3D makes sense. That series was always about style over substance. Street Fighter tried a 3D series in EX and well, we…

Shadow Hearts Covenant Genre: Turn Based RPG Developer: Nautilus (Previously known as Sacnoth) Publisher: Midway Release Date: 09/27/04 Yes, it’s a bit late. But look how many reviews I’ve been doing! One thing I do want to point out is that YES, Nautilus IS Sacnoth. I have seen so many reviews and reviewers saying Nautilus…

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,…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Echo Night Beyond Developer: From Software Publisher: Agetec Genre: Survival-TERROR Release Date: 7/27/04 The Echo Night series. Although each of the three games in the series are completely separate from each other, they all have two things in common that bear mentioning here: The main character is always named Richard Osmond and the plot always…

Game: Karaoke Revolution Volume 2 Developer: Harmonix Publisher: Konami of America Released: 7/13/2004 Genre: Music/Rhythm Okay, Konami has officially supplied me with a new addiction involving music. The first game in the form of a mock-dancing game. And now, it’s singing really badly to popular songs! I don’t know HOW they do it! Seriously, the…