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Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 2 - Siege of Spinner Cay review

It's a thoroughly good, thoroughly traditional adventure game that's sure to please fans of the original Monkey Island series and adventure-savvy newcomers alike. It's nothing remotely special, but it's unlikely that was ever its…

Lewis Denby · August 19, 2009

Reader PlayStation 3

inFAMOUS review

There is a darkness in every man. He can ignore it, he can embrace it. He can struggle all his life against it but the darkness is always there…waiting. This is the basis of PlayStation exclusive InFAMOUS, its focal point and ultimately…

True · August 18, 2009

Staff PSP HG exclusive

Pangya: Fantasy Golf review

This game is a time-killing, cute-girls-dancing golf epic. Using the "tap for power, tap for accuracy" gauge system that evolved across years of video game golfing, Pangya mixes tournament play with versus-mode battles against oddball…

Zigfried · August 16, 2009

Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive

Fat Princess review

Units look like little toy Vikings and they scream defiance and taunts with the squeakiness of cartoon chipmunks. Watching them jump off pirate ships or run through treacherous lava fields brings to mind a nostalgic sense of playing with…

Jonathan Stark · August 16, 2009

Reader PlayStation 3

Fat Princess review

"Behold: the blue team's Castle. The walls are paper thin, as well as jumpable by means of catapult or trampoline. The entrance has revolving doors, and there are hidden shortcuts that reach all the way across the map in every direction…

fleinn · August 16, 2009

Staff Wii HG exclusive

Ghostbusters: The Video Game review

It's got the script, style, and soul of its source material, but fails to build a compelling game around these elements.

Jeffrey Matulef · August 16, 2009

Reader Xbox 360

Afro Samurai review

Afro Samurai is at its best when it just wants to be a simple, 3D hack 'n slash title. The game will try to convince you that it's deeper by giving you such abilities as a parry move, but it's completely useless when you're up against more…

dementedhut · August 15, 2009

Reader Apple II

Ballyhoo review

Infocom's text adventure Ballyhoo turns a circus into a deadly kidnapping mystery, never sacrificing reality for dramatic tension. Chelsea Munrab, the daughter of circus owner Thomas Munrab, has been kidnapped. As a straggler from the…

aschultz · August 15, 2009

Staff PC HG exclusive

Killing Floor review

Killing Floor's amateur origins are uncomfortably clear, and there's no doubting that a little more polish would have gone a long way. Still, when you find yourself scurrying between cover in an open field at night, carefully aiming for…

Lewis Denby · August 15, 2009

Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra review

Instead of copying something like Halo or even a third-person shooter along the lines of Gears of War, two options that surely must have been appealing and may have led to something interesting, the developers went a different route. The…

Jason Venter · August 15, 2009

Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive

The King of Fighters XII review

The King of the Fighters XII may have a new sheen, but it's missing a lot of what made some of those early titles so entertaining. At times it just feels incomplete. Some characters have regressed to their move sets from much earlier…

Freelance Writer · August 14, 2009

Reader Genesis Review of the Week HG exclusive

Disney's Aladdin review

an adventure that captures perfectly the charming look and feel of all the films that were released during Disney’s early-90s resurgence

JANUS2 · August 14, 2009

Reader DS

My World, My Way review

My Way or the Highway! Playing My World My Way (MWMW) is a liberating experience, at first. For those of us who are used to RPGs that involve endless random encounters, slow experience gains, or bosses that are either too easy or too…

threetimes · August 12, 2009

Reader Genesis HG exclusive

Ka-Ge-Ki: Fists of Steel review

Let’s not drag this out too much, it hurts. Ka Ge Ki: Fists of Steel is a Pit Fighter-esque beat-‘em-up, replacing the cliché strongmen and kickboxing champions with your Puerto Rican hero, out to spoil the party of some Japanese bullies…

dogma · August 12, 2009

Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra review

Finishing a mission on "Casual" level won't award you as many tokens as the more challenging choices and effectively prevents you from ever recruiting a full team of mercenaries. That's disappointing since one of the game's coolest…

Jason Venter · August 12, 2009

Reader PlayStation 2 HG exclusive

God of War review

So I was playing God of War the other day. I’d reached this one room inside the labyrinthian Temple of Pandora where you have to use a lever to knock the the world out of the hands of a model of Atlas. The world will roll down a hallway…

zippdementia · August 10, 2009

Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive

'Splosion Man review

In possibly the most massive scientific lab ever imagined, the scientist you control made an awesome discovery allowing him to detonate his own body regularly with no physical harm. Unfortunately, there was a minor side effect, as the chap…

Rob Hamilton · August 9, 2009

Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive

Ghostbusters: The Video Game review

The plot begins by ambitiously introducing two new central characters—a strange young woman and a rookie member of the ghostbusters team—but after that it almost immediately turns into a retread of familiar adventures. Many of the same…

Jason Venter · August 8, 2009

Staff GameCube HG exclusive

Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 review

Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 pretends it doesn't have that little number at the end of its title. It uses the same cel-shaded graphics, features the same fighting engine, and even recycles combos for reappearing characters. The game goes so…

Benjamin Woodhouse · August 8, 2009

Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-shelled review

Something a lot of fans will appreciate is the ability to chase Krang and Shredder through time as a united team. On consoles, no more than two friends have ever been able to team up for the cause, but now you can gather three other…

Jason Venter · August 6, 2009