Game Reviews
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The Sims 2: Pets Published Date: Jul 21, 2007The Sims, first released back in 2000, was something a quiet if quite strange revolution in gaming. Rather than firm, ends-based objectives, such as killing zombies, winning trophies, or solving puzzles, The Sims focused on the routine awfulness of everyday life. Players--or, better yet, innocuous m...
Genre: Simulation Platform: Wii
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Elebits (Eledees) Published Date: Jul 21, 2007Elebits, Konami’s first game for Nintendo’s Wii, has ‘exclusive title’ written all over it: The game is tailored to fit exactly what the console has to offer, and it is no wonder that Elebits was released as a launch title in Japan. The game manages to masterfully show off the full potential...
Genre: Action Platform: Wii
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Mario Strikers Charged Published Date: Jul 21, 2007For all of its revolting plebeian hooliganism and yobbish idiocy, football (A.K.A. soccer or the groan-inducing ‘footy’) is a wildly entertaining sport in almost all of its semi-professional forms. Whereas most sports solicit fans for there lowlier divisions and farm clubs about as easily as Dav...
Genre: Sports Platform: Wii
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Medal of Honour: Vanguard Published Date: Jul 21, 2007First, the good news: Vanguard is exclusive Wii content, so the game is, as it were, truly “new.” But is it really? Well, here’s an image to help you get a better sense of this game’s predicament: Think back to every WWII shooter you have ever played… good. Now slap a new name on it, and y...
Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: Wii
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Mercury Meltdown Revolution Published Date: Jul 21, 2007In a world of terribly rehashed puzzle games, it’s hard not think the entire genre has gone south. The innumerable Bust-A-Moves, the aged Pac-Mans, and the bleeding eye-inducing Tetrises�"they’re all enough to put you off the whole enterprise. But then new puzzle games are developed, some of t...
Genre: Puzzle Platform: Wii
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Published Date: Jul 21, 2007When does a clever, almost honourary, imitation turn into a cheap parody of itself? For a good example, one might look to Johnny Depp’s once-ingenious Keith Richards’ impersonation, Captain Jack Sparrow. After that, one need look no further for its adulteration than Pirates of the Caribbean: At ...
Genre: Action Adventure Platform: Wii
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Cooking Mama: Cook Off Published Date: Jun 11, 2007Cooking Mama: Cook Off is actually Nintendo’s second foray into the world of digital gastronomy. The original Cooking Mama, released in 2006 for DS, was something of a surprise hit: prior to its release, strangely enough, the gaming community wasn’t exactly salivating for a game in which the onl...
Genre: Simulation Platform: Wii
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Bust-a-Move Bash! Published Date: Jun 11, 2007It’s almost too easy to give updated and re-released puzzle games bad reviews. One hit wonder; you’ve played it once you’ve played it a million times; one-trick pony; a one-off--almost any threadbare cliche will do. And while it’s easy to hate in principle the perpetual haters--those who cel...
Genre: Puzzle Platform: Wii
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Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WW2 Published Date: Jun 11, 2007Does anybody remember Red Baron from the early PC days (I mean really early �" we’re talking 286DX and 386 processors)? That game no doubt was a quantum leap in terms of immersiveness, realistic flight physics, and sheer dogfighting fun. Ever since then, newer games grew to look better and ...
Genre: Flight Action Platform: Wii
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Disney's Meet the Robinsons Published Date: May 14, 2007Meet the Robinsons is in many ways a standard movie tie-in, though it boasts some nifty features and a generally decent (and surprisingly original) narrative focus. Add to this proficient controls and well-executed cut-scenes, and the result is a decent game that tends to appeal to a younger demogra...
Genre: Action Adventure Platform: Wii
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