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  • Gigantic Drive Review - Sony PS2

    Gigantic Drive Review - Sony PS2

    Throughout the sixties and seventies a certain genre of anime and manga ran rampant across the nation that is Japan. It galvanised an entire generation, a generation that grew up to be game designers. These game designers then went and created Gigantic Drive. The genre that is being referred to is that of the "super robot", one of the oldest and most respected facets of Japanese pop-culture (next to the "real robot" genre, obviously). Gigantic Drive is a game that, literally, lets you control a...
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  • Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story 0079: Rise from the Ashes Review - Sega Dreamcast

    Back in the day, many a Gundam game had the player pilot the RX-78-2, and consequently steer the neurotic Amuro Rey, through a treacherous future of civil war and political intrigue. This stuff sold, by the bucket load. They were generally pretty abysmal games, however. Thankfully, somebody at Bandai decided to correct matters. This epiphany in Gundam gaming came in the form of Gundam Gaiden (aka “The Blue Destiny”). There were a total of three games released for the Sega Saturn that enable...
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  • Armored Core Nexus Review - Sony PS2

    Armored Core Nexus Review - Sony PS2

    How can anyone explain the satisfaction of creating a beautifully balanced mechanical avatar, taking it into the thick of combat and yet returning from the battlefield unscathed? Bathing in your freshly acquired and truly magnificent skill, you watch as charred wreckage surrounds your astounding creation. Gaming empowerment doesn’t really come any better than this. Armored Core Nexus is the eighth game in a franchise that has lasted over seven years and survived two generations of console warfa...
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  • Armored Core Formula Front Review - Sony PSP

    Armored Core Formula Front Review - Sony PSP

    Upon news of the PlayStation Portable’s release, a slew of launch titles were announced. Among these was another entry into the successful Armored Core: canon, this time going by the name of Armored Core: Formula Front. However, due to the control limitations of the PSP, a direct port of an Armored Core game was not feasible. Despite this setback, Toshifumi Nabeshima and his team at From Software managed to find a solution to this problem. The solution lay in the series’ former instalments,...
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  • Takt Of Magic review - Nintendo Wii

    Takt Of Magic review - Nintendo Wii

    Picture the scene: the director puts his hand into the Hat of Clichéd Scenarios and pulls out... Number 31 – Young Prince with Memory Loss Who is Heir to a Kingdom Currently Under the Rule of Darkness. The plot has been decided on and it's up to the scriptwriter to flesh out the characters and add a lot more cheese. They'll also need a semi-dramatic yet mellow score, to reflect on what has been lost and the trials that lay ahead. Alright, so that dastardly 'C' word has already been thrown...
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  • Muscle March Review - Nintendo Wii

    Muscle March Review - Nintendo Wii

    Oh, Namco, what’s the point? It barely even seems worth making the game. Ace Combat? Fine, very few people will have the opportunity to take to the sky in an F-16 and dogfight. Tales of Vesperia? Sure, how else would one be able to save the entire world from evil? But Muscle March? Surely this is something everyone experiences every day? It barely even seems worth making the game. So, you’re body-building in the gym like normal, when all of a sudden an American football player bursts in a...
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  • Safar'Wii Doubutsu Kisoutengai! (Amazing Animals) Review - Wii

    Safar'Wii Doubutsu Kisoutengai! (Amazing Animals) Review - Wii

    Whilst some of the more curious gamers were waiting patiently for Afrika on the PS3, a very similar Wii game went completely unnoticed. Doubutsu Kisoutengai! (A.K.A. Safar'Wii in the West) is a Safari game – not an over-populated genre for sure, especially considering that previous games labelled as such have been geared towards either hunting or arcade audiences. Amazing Animals differs in that it’s all about finding the animals and observing them, rather than sending them to an early grave...
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  • Panzer Dragoon Orta Review - Microsoft Xbox

    Panzer Dragoon Orta Review - Microsoft Xbox

    Passion. Both inside the game and within the walls of Smilebit, passion dominates and decrees. In their three (to date) Xbox releases, an energy and fidelity radiates from the code, glisters on the screen and makes the fingers twitch. Passion. Smilebit has it, and now Panzer Dragoon Orta has it. It hits you in waves.
    Jet Set Radio Future and Gun Valkyrie have been dismissed as noble (and, sometimes, ignoble) failures by the press and many gamers. Perhaps expectation was too high, or Sm...
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  • FZero GX Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    FZero GX Review - Nintendo Gamecube

    When Nintendo announced that several of their key franchises would be handed out to third-party developers for their Gamecube iterations, a large proportion of fans were naturally worried that they would not be able to live up to the standards previously delivered. So far, these fears have not been justified, with Retro Studios producing an impeccable first-person version of Metroid and Namco developing a potentially interesting new take on the Starfox heritage. Lodged firmly between these two comes...
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  • Infernal: Hell's Vengeance Review Microsoft Xbox360

    Infernal: Hell's Vengeance Review Microsoft Xbox360

    Infernal: Hell's Vengeance is a straight port of the PC third person shooter, with a newly added moniker, that sets players slap-bang in the middle of a battle between heaven and hell, as they fight their way through its five long levels. You take on the role of Ryan Reynolds lookalike Ryan Lennox (yes he even shares the same first name), a disgraced agent for heaven's Etherlight organisation, and former angel, who has been cast out and is now living his life amongst mortals. When Etherlight places...
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    Family reunions tend to follow one of two distinct protocols: everyone meets up, reminisces and has a good old chat and a laugh; or everyone meets up, reminisces and remembers why it’s been so long since they last saw each other, the evening ending in a ferocious argument. Why is this relevant to this Devil May Cry 3 review?
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    Fear. It’s something that collective consciousness values as a desirable commodity, especially in the pop culture spin of everyday modern life - An element that mainstream entertainment likes to use in distilled form when it comes to getting a rise out of our adrenaline glands. Whether it be watching the latest slasher flick, experimenting with the next extreme sport or avidly reading the current best-selling horror fiction… On the whole, we take pleasure out of being scared. Read this Silent...
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    Pink Lycra. There just isn't enough of it in video games. So Capcom have bravely stepped-up to the plate and given us a game, starring a Hot Pink hero, clad in a spandex jumpsuit, that isn't afraid to be laid back and humorous in style, whilst containing some rock-solid gameplay at its core. Like a piece of candy with a stone centre, Viewtiful Joe is sweet and tempting to the eye, but underneath is solid rock. Our hero is introduced in the opening cut-scene as a bubble-headed, California-accented Sk8r Boi, o...
    15-05-2022, 11:48
  • Castlevania: White Night Concerto Review - Nintendo GBA
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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...
    03-04-2022, 15:57
  • Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Mugen no Frontier EXCEED Review - Nintendo DS
    by Steven Walker
    For the uninitiated, Super Robot Wars Original Generation Saga: Mugen no Frontier (Endless Frontier) is an action-RPG spin-off from the popular Super Robot Wars series. The player has to use attacks to keep enemies in the air in order to do maximum damage, and string together as many attacks as they can. Timing and knowledge of characters' moves is the key to success. SRW OG Saga: Mugen no Frontier EXCEED is the sequel, and goes to show that a follow-up can be better than the original.
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    04-01-2022, 14:20
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