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  • Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-stars
    Published Date: Feb 11, 2010

    When did fighting games become a niche thing? When I was growing up everyone was playing Street Fighter II, but I guess the world moved on. The Western World moved on, anyway, or moved in, to be precise. Back In The Day it was ALL Japanese, but where there’s money there will be America. At ...
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    Genre: Fighting Platform: Wii
    8.8
  • New Super Mario Bros Wii
    Published Date: Nov 24, 2009

    So there’s a new New Mario. The old New Mario was pretty damn sweet, I reckon, and another new Mario is always a good thing. A lot of people don’t reckon, however, they reckon it’s too cutesy, too the-same-as-the-last-one, too old school. I think we’re about to learn that we’re both right,...
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    Genre: Platformer Platform: Wii
    9.4
  • Grand Slam Tennis
    Published Date: Jun 29, 2009

    On a rare occasion, realism is a double edged sword, although to be fair it is a damned rare occasion. You never hear fans of Operation Flashpoint complaining that it was just too hard to play, or Forza 2 racers whinging about the car tweaking you can do. I wouldn’t imagine ...
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    Genre: Sports Platform: Wii
    8.1
  • The House of the Dead: Overkill
    Published Date: Mar 6, 2009

    House of the Dead: Overkill is a brutal, over the top, blood-fest that takes itself as seriously as a school of dead fish. Reminiscent of the worst ham-fisted B movies (that you stayed up watching when you knew you should be in bed), it is as captivating as a car crash. You know you shouldnâ€...
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    Genre: Shooter Platform: Wii
    8.1
  • Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip
    Published Date: Jan 7, 2009

    Sports games are big business, and always have been, even before EA took over most of the gaming world with their annual instalments with a famous name emblazoned across the front. Games based on the snow have also been fun, with SSX still conjuring fond memories with its insane speeds and c...
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    Genre: Sports Platform: Wii
    8.1
  • MySims Kingdom
    Published Date: Nov 14, 2008

    The world of Sims is a strange, strange place for both the unacquainted and the chemically balanced. Here is a parallel universe, populated by zombie-like creatures—or, as they are known in our world, suburbanites—doing mundane, middle-class tasks: earning, buying, building, and busying. And whi...
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    Genre: Platform: Wii
    7.1
  • World of Goo
    Published Date: Oct 31, 2008

    Simplicity in puzzling is key. This, of course, is different from ease. One simultaneously wants to understand a puzzle’s objective without, however, knowing exactly how that objective will be met. Thus classic puzzle games like Tetris found ready-made audiences everywhere they turned, until tryin...
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    Genre: Platform: Wii
    9
  • Wii Music
    Published Date: Oct 27, 2008

    In some sense, games like those from the Guitar Heroes series and Rock Band suffered largely from their strength: they rock, and they rock hard. And while this seems an admirable goal for the KISS Army, it’s something of a disadvantage for those not ready to rock. Indeed, there’s something narro...
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    Genre: Music Platform: Wii
    5.5
  • NBA Live 09 All Play
    Published Date: Oct 20, 2008

    You needn’t be a Dick Vitale or a Marv Albert to know that NBA basketball is a precision sport in which hundreds, if not thousands, of nanosecond decisions are made on the fly by men who’ve spent most of their lives honing those very skills. Of course this is less true of, say, NCAA basketball, ...
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    Genre: Sports Platform: Wii
    5.3
  • de Blob
    Published Date: Oct 14, 2008

    For the most part, puzzle games prove too preference-peculiar to garner wide approval. Puzzle games need to be as addictive as crack, and to that end a crack palate is strangely refined taste: not everyone wants to hit the rock. Platforms, on the other hand, seem well suited to almost any taste, pro...
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    Genre: Puzzle Platform: Wii
    9.2
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