Game Reviews
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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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No More Heroes Published Date: Feb 18, 2008Mature content might be an understatement. Or an overstatement, depending upon how you feel about videogame gore and absurdist theatre. No More Heroes is a perplexing combination of rote-style videogame developing and radical, ludicrous innovation, all wrapped up in a violence-heavy package. While ...
Genre: Action Platform: Wii
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Ratatouille Published Date: Sep 5, 2007Ratatouille, the game, has much to live up to. More or less acclaimed by every major and minor newspaper and magazine in the world (excluding, maybe, Le Monde and L’equipe), the movie has fared extremely well, both commercially and critically. The game, hoping to capitalize on that success, has it...
Genre: Action Platform: Wii
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Mario Party 8 Published Date: Sep 5, 2007When the first installment of the Mario Party series appeared for the N64 (a looong time ago!), it seemed at first that Nintendo was simply looking for yet another way to capitalize on the successful cast of characters from their older games. But right away, it transpired that wasn’t all that was ...
Genre: Party Platform: Wii
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoeni Published Date: Jul 25, 2007Certain things are simply not surprising. Dogs like bones, nice cars are expensive, and big-name, youth-targeted movie releases are accompanied by a spate of marketing add-ons and tie-ins: figurines, clothing and, more often than not as of late, video games. What is surprising, though, is when one o...
Genre: Third-Person Action Adventure Platform: Wii
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The Godfather: Blackhand Edition Published Date: Jul 23, 2007First of all, this game isn’t just a film adaptation, it’s also a port. So if you’re familiar with any of the Godfather merchandise, you’ll be familiar with the story of the Blackhand Edition. But don’t worry: Even if you come at this game knowing the films and knowing the earlier game ver...
Genre: Action Platform: Wii
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Wing Island Published Date: Jul 23, 2007So far, we’ve had a look at Blazing Angels and Heatseeker. (Check out our write-ups in the review section if you haven’t already.) Between those two, it was kind of a head-to-head race, which was decided in the end only by the fact that Heatseeker has no multiplayer or friend play mode to offer ...
Genre: Flight Simulation Platform: Wii
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Metal Slug Anthology Published Date: Jul 23, 2007What makes a good game? A lame, bravado-laden military motif, light on the narrative but heavy on the guns? A franchise concept, subject to instalment after instalment, with only minor additions and improvements year after year? Slow-moving, lumpy, sneering muscleman characters? Or flattened, cartoo...
Genre: Shooter Platform: Wii
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Wii Play Published Date: Jul 23, 2007Once you begin to come out of your daily Wii Sports fitness training all refreshed instead of all sore, and once it has sunk in that Multiplayer Fun is where the new Nintendo Wii console excels (as long as your living room is big enough, that is), you may find that the time has come to move on to Wi...
Genre: Party Platform: Wii
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