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DiRT 2

A New Breed of Racer for the Portable - The Real 'Revo' is DiRT 2.

A deeply misunderstood game, DiRT 2 proves two things to the PSP owner: the unit itself is still a capable machine, and that console releases can be compressed into a playable and technically accomplished PSP title. Much... Read Full Review

Xenoblade

As an RPG adventure game, it is superb; as a video game, it is sublime; as a technical achievement, it is brilliant.

'Xenos' is a Greek word meaning "stranger" or "alien", and it is true in the best sense that Xenoblade Chronicles is indeed a stranger in a strange land – sitting at the end of the Wii's diminishing software library quie... Read Full Review

Ys Seven

Ys Seven is a colourful and magical looking game, with a heavy focus on the action and real-time battling itself.

From the opening scenes, we can tell that there has been quite a bit of care put into the sense of a fantastic adventure; the wide vista of the deep blue sea, floating a modest wooden ship hints at a game with scope and ... Read Full Review

Quest for the Shaven Yak Starring Ren & Stimpy

It seems, like in many film-to-game titles, that they nailed the details while letting the core experience slip.

To play as Ren & Stimpy would surely have excited fans of the show, and, after switching this one on, I'm sure the production values (which are surprisingly high), would of kept that excitement alive for a while - well, ... Read Full Review

Mario & Yoshi

The Four Food Groups: Goombas, Boos, Bloopers & Piranha-plants.

"Yoshi", or "Mario & Yoshi" depending on your region, is a single-screen puzzle game built with simplistically drawn sprites. You take control of Mario (well, his torso and arms at least) and begin your (never-ending) pr... Read Full Review

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06

This games value doesn't lay in any of the new features. It's replay value comes from the simple round of golf.

This game seems to have completely slipped off the radar. I thought, when I bought this, that I was part of a growing Gamecube golfing community. I now see that I was wrong - and, not only that, but I chose the black-she... Read Full Review

True Swing Golf

Mini-game and arcade-mode lovers be warned - this game offers nothing but straight, sensible golf.

The Wii, and to a lesser extent the DS, as of this date, are yet to be graced by Golf title that truly makes expert use of the motion-control and touch-control respectively. "True Swing Golf", or "Touch Golf - Birdie Cha... Read Full Review

Ninja Ryukenden GB

A Ninja in New York? This Has Got To Be Good...

"Ninja Gaiden Shadow" really is a Gameboy classic. This game (released in 1991) is a great little portable adventure, and upholds the legendary quality that the Ninja Gaiden series is renowned for. Of course, you play as... Read Full Review

Galaga '88

Seeing as "Galaga" on the NES is 500 Wii points, this is by far a much better deal for 600 Wii points...

"Galaga '90", A Turbografix game made available on the Wii Shop Channel, is actually the fourth game in the "Galaxian/Galaga" series. It is an out-and-out vertical-scrolling shooter, and is available for 600 Wii points. ... Read Full Review

Orcs & Elves

John Carmack is your Dungeon Master.

*"Those who make up this realm are unique, with potential unlike any in all the known Universe…" Long-time fans of id software may be surprised that such a relatively small-scale production such as Orcs & Elves would ... Read Full Review

New 3D Golf Simulation: Pebble Beach no Hatou

For Interested Golf-sim Fans, This Is A Nice Trip Into The Past, Although It Feels A Little Bit Like You're In Limbo...

"True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links ", apart from being one of the longest-named games on the Super NES, is one of the few golf games ever released on this system. As far as I can find, there are only six or sev... Read Full Review

Donkey Kong Land

Very "A-PEEL-ing"...

This Gameboy title "Donkey Kong Land", is a version specifically made for this platform. Note the title is not "Donkey Kong Country", but "-Land" instead. What you find inside this cartridge (it's a bright banana-yellow ... Read Full Review

Super H.Q. Criminal Chaser

"H.Q." Stands for "Highly Questionable"...

"Super Chase H.Q." presumably adopted the "super" pre-fix especially for the Super NES platform. The original game, with its semi-cult status, had been floating around on every system you can just about think of before t... Read Full Review

Yamaneko Bubsy no Daibouken

Bubsy, you can't pick-up, you can't throw, punch, kick, claw, scratch, bite or gouge. What's the deal?

Accolades "Bubsy: Encounters of the Furred Kind", features, well, "Bubsy the Bobcat". A true classic 16-bit platformer, (in historical terms mainly), players take control of the bobcat, and begin the challenge of defeati... Read Full Review

Lamborghini: American Challenge

A Severly Out-of-date Take On Arcade Racing.

"Lamborghini – American Challenge" features (I believe) the Lamborghini Countach. You find yourself in many locations throughout America, racing a bunch (three actually), of CPU Countach-drivers. After selecting your dri... Read Full Review

Mario no Super Picross

An Obscure, Japanese Chisel-simulator.

"Mario's Super Picross" for the Wii Virtual Console is one of the strangest downloads I've yet had the pleasure of buying. The title of this game really fits the bill – all you're getting on this download is a massive li... Read Full Review

Soldiers of Fortune

A Drab, Moody, Run-n-Gun Affair...

"Soldiers of Fortune" ("The Chaos Engine" for PAL Regions), is top-view run-and-gun style shooter - a game along the lines of "Gauntlet". Immediately, players will notice that this game has quite a dark mood - the introd... Read Full Review

A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol

Apart from it's unusual and/or anti-social interface, this game was a pleasant surprise.

"Air Strike Patrol", or "Desert Fighter", as it is called in my Region (Australia), has you piloting various jet-fighters in a isometric view, quite like "Desert Strike", or "Urban Strike". It's obvious that the back... Read Full Review

Ristar: The Shooting Star

Ristar is a perfect example of the 16-bit platformer era.

My interest in videogames may have peaked at this point in gaming history, which I believe to be from around 1992-1996. These games are an amusing slice of gaming history - they are all so similar in essence, but are all... Read Full Review

Bomberman '93

This is a simple game, built on the idea of timing bomb explosions in a 2d top-view field.

You control "Bomberman", and the addictive nature of this game is in the satisfaction of clearing out (very stupid) enemies, and then finding the exit to the next world. The play mechanics being so simple and addictive e... Read Full Review

Disaster: Day of Crisis

There aren't many games out there that "D: DoC" can be compared to.

Luckily for me and anyone else who follows these reviews (thank you!), the region I live in has had the release of the game "Disaster: Day of Crisis". The cover with its hand-drawn sepia-tone art is only a vague suggesti... Read Full Review

Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip

Doing things the White way.

Reviewer's Note: All of the below applies to the Wii remote method of control exclusively, (no balance-board considerations where made in this review). Normally, I worry a little when I pick a title from Ubisoft. Why ... Read Full Review

NiGHTS: Hoshi Furu Yoru no Monogatari

For those that dream of flying...

Beautifully rendered cut-scenes welcome players to this game. Through them, we are introduced to a modern London-type city as well as the two protagonists of the game: a boy named Will, and a girl named Helen. They are b... Read Full Review

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers

For those looking for a simplified Final Fantasy experience, I can think of no better alternative.

We control Layle, a young all-American type teenager with telekinesis powers provided to him by crystal power. What is crystal power? It's something that crystal bearers (which there are several of in the game) have with... Read Full Review

Neutopia II

Living in the shadow of Zelda would be a very bad place to be, but this game holds it head up surprisingly high.

The obvious reference this game is continually making is to the 2D "Legend of Zelda" games, (apart from "The Adventure of Link", of course). The similarities are obvious from the first moment of playing. You take control... Read Full Review

Super Paper Mario

Super Paper Mario is, at essence, a (quasi-)2d platformer. It's simplistic, colourful, and even satirical.

After an extensive introduction (with vast amounts of text and only minor cut-scenes), the player is introduced to "Flipside", the practical overworld of the game. Within this town, the player can interact with NPCs a... Read Full Review

Gate of Thunder

For the most part, Gate of Thunder has you moving left-to-right, holding down Button 1, and occasionally flipping fire-m

Doesn't sound that original really, does it? But once you spend some more time on this game, you begin to realise that there is a little bit more to it than your usual shooter. As you control your ship, (or ships, dep... Read Full Review

Dragon Spirit

Dragon Spirit is a shameless vertical scrolling shooter - so for lovers of this genre, this is a pretty good download as

For example, players take control of "Amul", a blue/green/grey dragon with the ability to grow two extra heads - each of which shoot alarming amounts of fireballs towards many different exotic enemies. Control of the ... Read Full Review

Alien Soldier

"Alien Soldier" is a very unusual breed of game. We take control of Epsilon-Eagle, a a genetically engineered alien.

Sure, this game is a run-and-gun type affair, but it's not so much as WHAT the game is, the originality is in HOW it does it. Firstly, I've never seen a better-looking Megadrive game - this thing is polished. The art ... Read Full Review

Star Ocean: First Departure

Set Sail in a Sea of Space...

I think it was science-fiction author J. G. Ballard who wrote that the ocean signified memory, while space symbolises the unconscious. As poetic and thoughtful as this may be, could this combination of these two realms i... Read Full Review

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Improperly regarded as the best in the series.

Having completely missed this title at the time, (I was busy playing my Super Nintendo), this Genesis (or Megadrive, as it was called in my region) title has a great reputation, and was surely worth investigating for my ... Read Full Review

Wild Trax

3D-Racing Began Here.

In a preliminary and ground-breaking move from the two-dimensional racing-game, a racing title named "Stunt Race FX" explored new possibilities with the use of the 16-bit "FX chip", (previously made famous by a game abou... Read Full Review

Medal of Honor: European Assault

Does Squad-command and exploration add or detract from this entry in the series?

I've always found the intimidating and worryingly large list of 'Historic First-person Shooter' games pretty confusing. You can only assume that like any other sub-genre you care to name, there are great successes and eq... Read Full Review

Super Star Wars

It's a landmark title, but I'm not likely to ever try to take on the Empire in THIS particular Star Wars release again.

Lucasarts and JVC (two of the most respected entertainment brands of the time), teamed up to make an important entry into the Star Wars series. I'm no longer a Star Wars "enthusiast", but let's just say that back in 1992... Read Full Review

Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose!

Does Buster Fill Bugs' Shoes?

Buster, a blue and white bunny (and I suppose a vague descendant of Bugs), stars in this game based on the cartoon, which is in turn based on the classic Looney Tunes masterpieces. These pint-sized mascots represent a ne... Read Full Review