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  • Table Tennis Review - Xbox 360

    Table Tennis Review - Xbox 360

    It had to be Rockstar. Not content with creating the leading franchise of the PS2 generation. Not content with corrupting entire continents with media-perceived filth and just plain, utter evilness. Not even content with building sand castles in the gaming landscape, they just had to go and take on the sporting world.
    Not any old sport either, they had to pick one which the majority of us last experienced at our local youth clubs many moons ago. A sport which gets a few scant minutes of co...
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  • Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Review - Sony PS2

    Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Review - Sony PS2

    What were you doing at midnight last night? Sleeping, perhaps? TV? Gaming? It’s probably fair to say that you weren’t experiencing the Dark Hour - a time occurring at midnight which only a few people are aware of. During this time, normal folk are safely enclosed in their coffins, while those that are able to move freely are fighting for everyone’s very lives against the Shadows. Right into the middle of this is where Silent Protagonist 3 finds himself thrust.
    Shin Megami Tensei: Perso...
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  • Blood of Bahamut Review - Nintendo DS

    Blood of Bahamut Review - Nintendo DS

    Poke and slash - is it a new genre? The Nintendo DS has certainly brought forth a number of unique gameplay styles -*cough* Doki Doki Majo Shinpan*cough* - and Blood of Bahamut might be a little late to the table. The story is about a group of people forced away from their homes as the very land underneath their feet has come back to life. The question of why they live atop giant monsters in the first place is one that doesn't get answered. In order to reclaim their homes they have to silence the...
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  • Seaman Diary - 7 Days in the Life - Sega Dreamcast

    Seaman Diary - 7 Days in the Life - Sega Dreamcast

    Saturday
    12:13pm
    Having decided to get myself a pet, I ordered a "Sea Man" Dreamcast kit, guaranteed to give its owner an actual living talking creature. Arriving at the local post office mid-morning, I employed my usual routine of brandishing a tea towel whilst yelping in a high pitch so as to avoid import tax. It worked as always, this time being kicked only once as I left.
    The box containing my future friend was unusually small, conjuring up horrid childhood memories of wh...
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  • James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    Bond, James Bond, has been represented in novels and films for over four decades and several computer games have been made from the films. Electronic Arts are creating a new Bond specifically for the console market, neither based on a film or a book, using the heritage built up over the last 40 years. Previous Bond games have been hit and miss, GoldenEye on the Nintendo 64 is considered an all-time classic whereas Tomorrow Never Dies on the PlayStation was mediocre. EA also used the license to produce...
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  • Wave Race: Blue Storm review - Nintendo Gamecube

    Wave Race: Blue Storm review - Nintendo Gamecube

    The thought of the seminal classic Wave Race being revamped and updated for the Gamecube is an enticing one. For many, Wave Race on the Nintendo 64 was one of the console's most glittering moments, combining sublime handling with expertly realised water physics and rendering which even to this day have not been beaten. The Gamecube update comes in the form of Wave Race Blue Storm, and whilst it once again raises the benchmark for its supreme water design, the same cannot be said for other aspects...
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  • Bangai-O Review - Sega Dreamcast

    Bangai-O Review - Sega Dreamcast

    Treasure continue their laudable campaign to preserve original thinking in gaming with this Dreamcast conversion of the 1999 N64 game Bakuretsu Muteki Bangioh. Not the kind of title which you would normally peg for a release outside Japan, it's one of very few opportunities which novelty-starved Western gamers have to experience the kind of games which the Japanese have always enjoyed, but have never been ported to other territories due to hesitant publishers' fears of poor sales. This is one of...
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  • Super Monkey Ball Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    Super Monkey Ball Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    Super Monkey Ball first hit the arcades in mid-2001. Created by Amusement Vision, headed by the charismatic Toshihiro Nagoshi. The game was originally scheduled as a Dreamcast title, however with its demise it was shifted over to Nintendo's Gamecube, and emerged as the first jewel in the fledgling consoles crown. The main premise of Monkey Ball is simple. There is no tactical espionage, twisty political trickery, frantic shoot em' up action or complex lists of combos.
    Guide a small monke...
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  • F1 2002 Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    F1 2002 Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    F1 racing has always found a natural home on the PC, due to various factors, one of which is the availability of suitable, albeit expensive driving control devices. Reproducing the level of control and sensitivity required for a great F1 game on a console becomes more difficult when the default control device is a joypad, with little more than a few millimetres of travel on any of the sticks or buttons. Serious F1 games require a range of movement large enough to allow small, accurate changes in...
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  • ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    ESPN International winter sports 2002 is one of a range of games released by Konami. ESPN (Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a sports channel in the USA, so a useful license for Konami. Released in time for the 2002 Winter Olympics on the PS2, Xbox and Gamecube, Winter Sports 2002 fits in the narrow niche genre of the "joystick waggling, button mashing game". As is usual for this type of game, it only comes into its element when playing against friends. The competitive streak turns...
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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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