Game Reviews
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MySims Kingdom Published Date: Nov 14, 2008The 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...
Genre: Platform: Wii
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Mario Kart 64 (Virtual Console) Published Date: May 8, 2008If one were to uncover the defining characteristic of the Super Mario Bros. franchise—besides the fratelli themselves, of course—then what would it be? In short, an unflagging willingness to rethink and reinvent everything that has made Mario and Luigi not merely shorthand for videogames but als...
Genre: Racing 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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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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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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Monster 4x4 World Circuit Published Date: Apr 12, 2007Of all of the awards presented yearly in sports�"MVP, Division Champion, or even the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year�"none is more embarrassing than the backhanded recognition Most Improved Player. The kind of prize awarded only to the most mediocre, if formerly terrible, of athletes, MIP seems un...
Genre: Racing Platform: Wii
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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Published Date: Mar 28, 2007Marvel: Ultimate Alliance follows the usual narrative pattern of good versus evil. Dr. Doom is up to his old tricks, having assembled the uninventively named Masters of Evil, a band of not terribly nice super villains that might or might not be interested in Marvel world domination. (Bets should be ...
Genre: Action Adventure Platform: Wii
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