Game Reviews
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Soul Bubbles Published Date: Jul 24, 2008Soul Bubbles opens with the Mekensleep logo and a black screen displaying the following disclaimer: [b]THIS GAME DOES NOT DEPICT ANY OF THE FOLLOWING OBJECTS OR EVENTS: *LICENSED RACING CARS* *POST-APOCALYPTIC SOLDIERS* *ELFS, ORCS OR MAGICIANS* *GANG FIGHTS* PLEASE DO NOT PANIC! ITâ€...
Genre: Puzzle Action Platform: Nintendo DS
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Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution Published Date: Jul 16, 2008I have been playing Civ since it arrived on the Amiga (remember that?) back at the dawn of time. It’s a testament to the quality and popularity of the franchise that it is still going, stronger than ever, 17 years later. For its console debut, Civ has been stripped down to its essential core, maki...
Genre: Turn-Based Strategy Platform: Xbox 360
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Super Smash Bros Brawl Published Date: Jul 11, 2008Hands up everyone who wants to knock the stuffing out of that annoying little yellow rat Pikachu? Well boys and girls, here’s your chance to vent all of that bottled up rage and, quite literally, knock him (or his wimpy trainer) out of the park. Welcome to Super Smash Bros. Brawl (SSBB), the new W...
Genre: Action Platform: Wii
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Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure Published Date: Jul 2, 2008“Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure” for the Playstation 2 is a joint collaboration between National Geographic and DSI Games, the product of a marketing blitz surrounding the “hype” of their eponymous new IMAX movie. (In case you still haven’t gotten your fill of Sea Monsters after wat...
Genre: Adventure Platform: PlayStation 2
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Speed Racer Published Date: Jun 26, 2008It’s a strange feat, no doubt, to create a narrativeless videogame upon the back of a plot-laden television show-turned-movie. Like a child more interested in the box than the toy that came in it, the producers of Speed Racer have kept the superficial husk of the show and discarded more or less an...
Genre: Racing Platform: Wii
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Sega Superstars Tennis Published Date: May 11, 2008There was something almost accidental about the release of Wii Sports. More demo than full-fledged game, Wii Sports exhibited all the strengths of a bare-bone presentation—yes, one was forced to acknowledge, the Wii’s motion sensitivity transposes realistically onto sport after sport—while e...
Genre: Sports Platform: Wii
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Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity Published Date: Apr 21, 2008At an abstract level, it all sounds so run of the mill: 18 characters, 60 vehicles, 16 tracks. But then again, even the particulars sound generalized, its publisher, Sega, promising if not novelty, then the always-comforting familiar. Thus you’ll be treated to “futuristic tracks, including solar...
Genre: Racing Platform: Wii
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Sins of a Solar Empire Published Date: Apr 8, 2008As Douglas Adams once wrote, “space is big”. Just how big? Really, really big, a fact which is often sadly neglected or unsatisfactorily faked by game designers. While fun, Freelancer felt more like driving on an invisible road between soccer ball-sized celestial bodies than exploring a limitles...
Genre: Strategy Platform: PC
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Samurai Warriors: Katana Published Date: Apr 3, 2008Combining redundancy with monotony, Samurai Warriors: Katana proves only the most recent, and maybe most languid, incarnation of both videogame-designer malaise and the increasingly belaboured Dynasty/Samurai Warrior series. Redundancy, like monotony, is often not thought of as a virtue. But fo...
Genre: Sports Platform: Wii
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Super Mario Galaxy Published Date: Apr 3, 2008Over the last few years, nothing has made us more silly with anticipation than the latest installment of Nintendo’s Super Mario series. Now the wait is finally over, and the reward is a game that has already become a fixture on the firmament of the “Best Games Ever.” Super Mario Galaxy is the ...
Genre: Platformer Platform: Wii
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