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  • Electroplankton Review - Nintendo DS

    Electroplankton Review - Nintendo DS

    Electric plankton. Who comes up with these ideas? Evidently Toshio Iwai, the creator of Sim Music and Music Insect, thought it would be good to have an update of the concept for Nintendo's new hardware. This is not a game; this is more a chill-out and improvisation tool, aiming to be an interactive work of art. A piece of art that takes advantage of the touch-screen interface and delivers an all-together new and different aural experience.
    Two choices are presented on boot-up: performance or au...
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  • Gunlord Review - Sega Dreamcast

    Gunlord Review - Sega Dreamcast

    This is a review of Gunlord for the Dreamcast, not of Turrican, even though NGDevTeam have clearly set out to imitate the latter game as closely as possible, to the point where anyone that has played it will be sitting there thinking momentarily “This IS Turrican”. A good choice for flattery by imitation then because Turrican in its various guises on different platform was a captivating 2D run and gun game, full of variety, weapons, secrets, challenge and big bosses.
    Gunlord is region-free, so yo...
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  • Samba De Amigo Ver. 2000 Review - Sega Dreamcast

    Samba De Amigo Ver. 2000 Review - Sega Dreamcast

    Samba was released at a time when rhythm action in the arcades was losing its way. Countless updates to the Konami BEMANI games kept dedicated gamers happy, but alienated those less skilled (and less fit). In Samba de Amigo Sega produced a game that was instantly enjoyable, a game that deliberately appealed to everyone. The key to this appeal is the simple, intuitive controller. While other games approximate a dance floor or a turntable, Samba gives you a real pair of maracas with which to prove...
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  • wordimagesoundplay Review - Sony PS2

    wordimagesoundplay Review - Sony PS2

    wordimagesoundplay marks Tomato's first console release, a collaboration with Underworld, Johnny Conquest and Sony Music Japan. Tomato Interactive was born of ex-Antirom staff, famed for their CD-ROM work, forming part of British design agency Tomato. Whilst highly regarded, Tomato's interactive work is exceptionally basic compared to what video games can offer. To criticise their work in this way, though, may be missing the point; Tomato aim to provide 'interesting' interactive experiences rather...
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  • Ape Escape 3 Review - Sony PS2

    Ape Escape 3 Review - Sony PS2

    Sometimes sequels can either leave a gamer never wanting to see another title in the series ever again, or leave them wanting more. Ape Escape falls into the latter category. The first game on PS one was a fantastic concept that truly brought the best from the dual analog sticks (although it can be argued that often-overlooked PS one gem, Ore no Ryouri, does it better). The PlayStation 2 "update", Pipo Saru 2001, was a stop gap until the full sequel, Ape Escape 2, finally arrived. It added to the...
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  • Aquanaut's Holiday Review - Sony PS3

    Aquanaut's Holiday Review - Sony PS3

    The ocean can be both our friend and enemy at the same time, but for different reasons. For every Jacques Cousteau, we get the horror of Patrick Duffy`s 80s TV monstrosity, The Man from Atlantis. So how do videogames fare within the life aquatic? Well, Aquanaut's Holiday: Hidden Memories attempts to answer that particular question. It`s not very often that a beautiful, lilting song greets the player upon inserting the disc and viewing the opening movie, but Aquanaut's Holiday does just this. ...
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  • Okaeri! ChibiRobo Happy Richy Oosouji Review - Nintendo DS

    Okaeri! ChibiRobo Happy Richy Oosouji Review - Nintendo DS

    Okaeri! ChibiRobo Happy Richy Oosouji, or Welcome back! ChibiRobo: The Happy and Rich Big Clean, is the third ChibiRobo game and the second on the Nintendo DS. It is a follow-up to the original GameCube game (also now available on the Wii). The youngest member of the original family in the game, Jenny, has now grown up and has a child of her own, Keith. They live together with their dog in a modest-sized house that is in dire need of some cleaning and redecoration. This is where ChibiRobo steps...
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  • Chibi Robo Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    Chibi Robo Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    Chibi Robo always seemed an intriguing game, right from the very first screens that appeared. However, like Metroid Prime at its early stage of development, it was seemingly heading into oblivion (Developers Skip originally adopting a point & click interface) until Shigeru Miyamoto intervened to make minor tweaks that make all the difference.
    The initial promise seems to have borne fruit in the finished product. Everything is rich and colourful and has a solid look and feel to it. Peopl...
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  • Tales of Vesperia Review - Microsoft Xbox360

    Tales of Vesperia Review - Microsoft Xbox360

    Incremental updates; words that strike fear into one's heart. Sports games, with their yearly roster updates and generally unfulfilled claims of major innovation, are the kings of this kind of release, but that’s not to say it hasn’t been noticed by developers of other genres as a means of, well, developing. After following up Tales of Symphonia with Tales of the Abyss, Namco Tales Studio, with Tales of Vesperia, have very much made "Tales ’09".
    That’s by no means a bad thing, though. Symph...
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  • LIMBO Review - Microsoft Xbox360 XBLA

    LIMBO Review - Microsoft Xbox360 XBLA

    The text in this review shouldn’t be necessary and should almost certainly be ignored. A glance at the 10/10 at the bottom and a browse through the screenshots should be more than enough to guarantee a press of the “confirm purchase” button. It would be ideal, too, because it would leave the player free to experience the entire game for themselves with no preconceptions, no hints at what’s to come, nothing ruined.

    “Uncertain of his Sister's Fate, a Boy enters LIMBO.”
    That...
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    Castlevania: White Night Concerto is the latest instalment in Konamis Castlevania series. It is the second title for the GBA, but the first Castlevania game appeared on the NES back in 1987. It is ostensibly a platform game, like its predecessors. Certain things have remained constant throughout the series- in all but a couple of Castlevania outings, the main protagonist (in this case Juste Belmont) brandishes a whip. Secondary weapons are also available. Again these weapons are the same as tho...
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