11,287 reviews · showing 8,861–8,880
Reader Xbox
After being disappointed by how much the bad controls killed any sense of fun from the original, I’m amazed that Rallisport Challenge 2 turns out as good as it does. I came into it very hesitant, thinking that poor controls would once…
jpeeples · February 14, 2005
Reader GameCube
I came into WWE Day of Reckoning (or DoR, whichever you prefer) expecting the best wrestling game I’ve ever played. Its successor, WWE WrestleMania XIX provided the best actual wrestling experience in a game. Chain wrestling, diverse…
jpeeples · February 14, 2005
Reader Game Boy
It's 1995, a new year, a new contest. The host of this year's King of Fighters contest, Rugal, has sent out invitations, to last year's participants as well as newcomers, in hopes that they'll all join in the upcoming tournament. All seems…
dementedhut · February 14, 2005
Reader SNES
At first glance, Batman Forever probably seemed much more impressive than it actually is. They had the swinging commercial with the catchy Real Game Begins jingle airing at the time, which could easily lead to you believe that this game…
disco1960 · February 13, 2005
Reader PlayStation 2
The Bydo Empire has been terrorizing the universe since about mid-eighties now and had no plans to stop. Well, that was until Irem decided to end the shooter series R-type with one last game. My incorrigible side didn’t want to believe…
Sclem · February 13, 2005
Reader Mac HG exclusive
If he had known it was going to be the last day of his life, Norbert Fitzsimmons wouldn't have gotten out of bed. On the way to his dead-end job at the State Institution for the Criminally Mentally Retarded, he pondered working on getting…
johnny_cairo · February 13, 2005
Staff PlayStation 2
Do we really need a Gradius that dares to be different? Sometimes the best in life can get no better, and if you decide to play God for a day then bad things have been known to happen. It's as such that Gradius V is best served as being a…
Michael Scott · February 13, 2005
Reader DS
Tetris, a Russian-developed game for the Gameboy, was what sparked the handheld industry and allowed it to lift off the ground, with the original title selling more than 13 million copies. Despite being behind the console market in…
yamishuryou · February 12, 2005
Reader Saturn HG exclusive
Dynamite Deka bears no relation to the classic action film Die Hard aside from basic plot similarities but, in a rare show of marketing genius, Sega noticed these similarities and brokered a fiendishly clever deal with 20th Century Fox…
lilica · February 12, 2005
Staff PlayStation 2
Despite its positive elements, though, it's tough to recommend Gradius V when the mechanics and boss encounters of even decade-old Genesis shooters are substantially better.
John L · February 12, 2005
Reader Arcade
As I was playing 1992 Namco shooter Fighter & Attacker, one question kept popping into my mind. No, it didn’t involve me wondering how any self-respecting company could think “Fighter & Attacker” would be an attention-grabbing name — this…
overdrive · February 11, 2005
Reader PlayStation 2
2 years later, here we are again. When Vice City was released, many gamers complained about the similarities between it and the infamous Grand Theft Auto III. These gamers were not satisfied with the larger city, the new vehicles, the new…
primalmayswindu · February 10, 2005
Reader Xbox
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 may be the most addictive 2-D fighting game of them all. Unlike Capcom vs. SNK 2, it didn’t rely on complicated fighting “grooves” or a fussy scoring system but on pure mayhem and oversized hyper combos! Luckily, those…
goldenvortex · February 10, 2005
Reader Game Boy Advance
To get employed at Capcom, apparently one thing you have to be able to do is reinvent the Mega Man franchise at a moment’s notice. While most of the different series in that robotic world were based around an action/platforming style of…
overdrive · February 10, 2005
Reader Genesis
Another gem from Sega's closet of barely known games would be thief based Bonanza Bros., released on the Mega Drive. Containing qualities that could be a violent adult based game Sega moulded it nicely into something that the younger…
goldenvortex · February 10, 2005
Staff Xbox
It's this apparently apathetic lack of true care that Prince of Persia: Warrior Within will be remembered for the most. Whereby the original stood out from the crowd with its polished gameplay and abundant good charm, its sequel comes off…
Michael Scott · February 8, 2005
Staff NES HG exclusive
Like I said, there’s not an in-depth plot. The game is more about exploration and the occasional adrenaline rushes that come from knowing you’re only surviving by the skin of your teeth. It is the very definition of ‘dungeon crawler,’ and…
Jason Venter · February 7, 2005
Staff NES HG exclusive
No matter what your surroundings, though, the game doesn’t provide a lot of variety in terms of mechanics. You’re still just running through one level after another (mostly swimming between underwater pockets of air in the case of the…
Jason Venter · February 6, 2005
Reader GameCube
The Ocean; a vast area of water over millions of square kilometers, many points reaching a depth of under thirty kilometers below sea level. Creatures survive in spite of water pressure that would make a human explode in under a thousandth…
yamishuryou · February 4, 2005
Reader PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Konami, Axelay, Gunstar Heroes, yada yada yada. Now that I’ve exhaustively covered the complete game development history of Treasure, the review can begin. Stretch Panic is an innovative game. That’s its genre and its weakness. Relying on…
lilica · February 4, 2005
