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Cro-Mag Rally for the iPhone/iPod Touch - racing gets really old school
I've been fooling around with Cro-Mag Rally by Pangea Software for a couple of days now, mostly during my commute and I've been very much enjoying it. It's everything Monkey Ball should have been - less monkeys, more fun.
Continue reading...World of Warcraft + God of War = Too Human
8. August 2008
Too Human is a 3rd person action-RPG developed by Silicon Knights featuring a combination of intense combat, in-depth character customization, and a rich, compelling storyline. The mythology of the game (planned to be a trilogy) is based on a modified Norse mythology. The player controls the character Baldur, son of Odin. Baldur is one of the Norse gods – a cybernetically advanced human tasked with protecting the human race. Baldur is considered by the other gods to be less advanced than the rest, thus “too human”.
Continue reading...Quantum of Solace Gameplay Trailer Impressions
17. July 2008
Video game adaptations of movies are notoriously awful, as are movie adaptations of video games. Case in point: the Spiderman games suffered from clunky controls and the Tomb Raider movies were overly dramatized and unfaithful to the video game character designs. Games like these are usually shovelware (that is, games that are produced quickly and cheaply in order to get the game in stores as quickly as possible to take advantage of hype). Even though these games are notoriously bad, affiliation with popular movies usually causes them to receive fairly good sales results based on name-recognition.
Continue reading...Indigo Prophecy: Reviewed by Dawn on PS2
23. June 2008
Without going into details because I want to keep the theme of the site light-ish, let’s just say a surreal Friday had me crawling into a chrysalis state because I needed to hide away so that I could emerge stronger after a two day hiatus from the world. For those who knew what happened, everyone [...]
Continue reading...Ghic Reviews Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots
27. April 2008
Have you ever purchased a game for its simplicity? Or at least what you hoped would be simplicity? A game so simple that when you fail time and time again, you feel like the biggest idiot on the planet? I am playing such a game. Nicktoons: Attack of the Toybots. I bought it because it [...]
Continue reading...Sins of a Solar Empire - easily the best space strategy game in a long time.
3. March 2008
A few weeks back ArsGeek featured a first look at Sins of a Solar Empire. Here’s the full review. Sins of a Solar Empire is one of those rare games that has the ability to really capture my attention, draw me in and keep me in front of the PC for long periods of time. [...]
Continue reading...Puchi Puchi Virus for the DS - for the love of god, I can’t put this down!
26. February 2008
NIS America hauled off and threw me a copy of Puchi Puchi Virus for the DS the other day. Initially, despite the attractive Virus box it showed up in, and the NIS stamped chocolate candies, I was skeptical. I mean, “Puchi Puchi”? Sure, the story features a dashing Anime doctor named Kevin A. Longfellow, [...]
Continue reading...Ghic Reviews LEGO Star Wars II The Original Trilogy
26. February 2008
Yes this game has been on the market for quite some time, but for me it was one of those games I kept passing by. It *looked* interesting, but not interesting enough to rent or buy. I couldn’t take it seriously.Recently I was browsing the Greatest Hit’s section at Walmart- you know, that $19.95 and [...]
Continue reading...SunAge – Old school RTS in the modern age
25. February 2008
Harkening back to the golden age of Real Time Strategy games, SunAge by Lighthouse Interactive takes a a swing at the old RTS using 2D graphics and a fairly pat last bit of the human race standing storyline. Once again we find ourselves in the future, as the last remnants of the human race struggle for [...]
Continue reading...First Look - Sins of a Solar Empire
7. February 2008
This first look is going to be a bit bleary because I was up way to late last night (this morning?) tooling around the galaxy getting my sorry TEC butt handed to me by pirates. It’s been a long time since I can honestly say I’ve been so captivated by a game of [...]
Continue reading...ArsGeek reviews American Civil War – Blue and the Grey from AGEod and Matrix Games
4. February 2008
I have a deep and abiding love of strategy games, stemming from a childhood which was rife with boardgames featuring small cardboard squares and maps of European countries. When computers evolved to the point where they were available at home and could run such games, I knew that I loved computers as well. About once [...]
Continue reading...Universe At War - ArsGeek reviews this PC based RTS.
24. January 2008
If you’ve got a (possibly hidden) fascination with B grade SciFi movies, a love for Anime, Tom Cruise burdened movies about the end of the world and a wish to see western civilization’s gods of yore thriving again, then Universe At War by Sega is the game for you. Provided of course you’re looking [...]
Continue reading...TV Tuner for Nintendo DS
10. November 2007
Hitting shelves in Japan on November 23rd is the WanSeg TV Tuner for Nintendo DS. In order to get more bang for your buck, the WanSeg TV Tuner will allow gamers to watch their favorite shows and bookmark where they are and view the snap shots at another time. One of the other features for educational [...]
Continue reading...Ghic Chic Reviews “Soul Nomad and the World Eaters”
18. October 2007
Finally a game that keeps me busy, entertained and interested (and a little frustrated due to my own lack of skills). I first began this game weeks ago and unfortunately regular life gets in the way so that I may afford the electricity to power up my PS2 and purchase food so that I’m not balling [...]
Continue reading...Ghic Chic Reviews “Spider-Man: Friend or Foe” on PS2
13. October 2007
Peter Parker, I’m breaking up with you. It’s not me, it’s you. Ever since the tepid release of what you call your third installment of a “film” with an equally lame game that came out around the same time, I began to lose interest in you. I love the comics. Your old tv show was [...]
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