Game Reviews
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Samba De Amigo Published Date: Oct 10, 2008Games need not always match their content to their audience’s preferences. Though hardly could we say everyone loves tennis, Wii has found something of a staple in its seemingly endless line of racquet games. Simply put, such games are just plain fun, offering the tennis-pro proficiency that takes...
Genre: Music Action Platform: Wii
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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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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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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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Sonic and the Secret Rings Published Date: Apr 12, 2007A dog’s lifespan seems painfully short to human onlookers. The accelerated aging process�"seven dog years to every human one leaves barely any time in the four-legged fellow’s life for adolescent pranks before creaky joints, interminable naps, and a cantankerous attitude set in. Cats fare litt...
Genre: Action Adventure Platform: Wii
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Published Date: Apr 4, 2007What’s wrong with children’s games? Nothing, with the exception that they are produced for children. Creature from Krusty Krab might just be proof: painfully boring levels, monotonous play, and weak challenges all make for a game that has everything right for children and nothing right for the r...
Genre: Adventure Platform: Wii
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SSX Blur Published Date: Apr 1, 2007Whichever way I look at it, the release date of SSX Blur, the latest Wii installment of the well-known snowboarding (& skiing) franchise, has been perfectly chosen: Odd as it may seem, what better way is there to welcome spring than by reminiscing about all the wintery fun we’ve had in this past s...
Genre: Extreme Sports Platform: Wii
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