Trying to distil the concept of Made in Wario into a few sentences, and to write them down on paper, proves a challenging endeavour. The game is conceptually unique, and doesn’t fit comfortably into any pre-defined genre of videogaming. Let us try though, to capture this essence in a few words. “Defeat characters by completing random minigames, from a selection of more than 200. Each minigames lasts five seconds or less”. Normally, games that are composed of smaller games from different genres,...

Xyanide took an age to find a publisher willing to invest in the Xbox version, but eventually was released at a wallet-friendly price, and it's worth a look. The game uses the twin-stick control method of Geometry Wars / Robotron for the main levels in which enemy ships can attack from all sides in the 2D plane. So fly one way with the left stick and fire another way with the right stick. Interestingly, as well as attacking from the edges of the screen, attack patterns also emerge from the background...

It is difficult to come up with new genres for games. Even when someone achieves the mental leap to a completely new idea, often the concept is just too new for the majority of the audience and receives a muted reception. So to avoid the unknown, it is much easier to mix tried and tested genres together to form a new type of game. After all, beating up endless hoards of thugs with a baseball bat worked in Double Dragon, so why shouldn't it work in 3D whilst on a snowboard?
Konami's Evolu...

Once upon a time, there was a Freeloader. It was late, as usual, but everyone waited with baited breath, because it promised much.

And so it came to pass, the Freeloader finally arrived, and oh what gifts it brought. The ability to de-zone everyone's Gamecubes. Finally, an easy (and cheap) way for anyone in the world to play games from anywhere else in the world. It was welcomed with open arms.
Datel, after many delays, have now released their de-zoning disc. Twice. The f...

Describing the greatness of Goldeneye isn't the easiest task in the world. If you were to show it to a gamer who has recently been showered with PC First Person Shooters such as Far Cry, then they'd scoff at the low-polygon landscapes, the poor digitised textures of Robbie Coltrane and the frame rate equivalent to the IQ of a table leg. They'd be missing the point though, as levels such as "Surface" are the forebears to Far Cry's grand vistas.
Which leads us nicely into one of the reaso...

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Fire Pro Wrestling Returns for the Sony Playstation2:

Match Options Menu - appears before each match

The selectable parts of these options all change, but we've translated what's in the screenshot anyway. Also this is a scroll menu and there's an option that doesn't appear on this screen unless you scroll, which is "Referee Select" (Left side) User Settings - 1 Blue Corner - 1P Red Corner - CP Match Rule -...

Target: Terror is the "ultimate arcade light-gun shooter." At least that’s what it says on the back. It would definitely be the ultimate experience if you were into games with shoddy controls, graphics from two generations previous (you think we are joking?) and hammed-up acting. Scarily, there’s a large group of gamers that enjoy this sort of thing.
Ported from the arcade original, the Wii version pits the player against an endless army of terrorists, all of whom have to be gunned down ...

Koro koro puzzle: Happy panecchu! belongs to a selection of "experimental" titles that Nintendo released during the course of the GBA's lifespan which used special chips and sensors to add unusual or unique gameplay features to the games. The kind of technology and implementation in each game differed quite significantly, from Screw Breaker/Drill Dozer's simple rumble pak to Konami's Boktai's solar sensor, to varied results. But it's the more sizeable examples of this group, the motion-controlled...

Parts of this review could easily apply to many other Super Robot Taisen games. The many games released so far usually follow a similar formula – the story of each game contains parts of the plots of certain robot Anime which are intertwined together with a strand of original story. The motivation to buy a game in the series may come from a love of a particular Anime which is featured therein, or from simply liking the style of gameplay. Although called Super Robot Taisen in Japanese, the series...

Most people now are familiar with the concept of Mr. Driller, but in case you’ve missed out here’s a quick recap: ‘The town is being overrun by colored blocks! Everyone is in a panic! Quick, call Mr. Driller!’ You, as Mr Driller, have to drill downwards through a pit full of coloured blocks to reach the goal. Drilling a block will make it and all like-coloured adjacent blocks disappear. Anything that was on top of those blocks will fall. You lose a life if you’re crushed by a falling block,...