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Half-Life 2
The right game in the right place
Halflife 2 had big shoes to fill, for many people the original was less a game and more an event. The gaming equivalent of Woodstock. from that moment on things would never be the same. to this day, it's DNA is readily ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Alyx Pants
Episode 1 is an interesting game that in some ways betters Halflife 2, while on others falling flat, prominent of which being the story telling.Halflife 2's ending is completely nullified with no explanation other than "... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut
A bad game
Since the incarnation of 32bit, Sonic fans clamored for a fully 3D sonic title, almost coming to fruition with Sonic X-treme on the much lamented Sega Saturn. It wouldn't be until Segas next chance, the Dreamcast that t... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Super Mario 3D Land
A great game, lacking replay
This is an excellent game, typical Nintendo creativity all over the place. 3D is directly utilized into the gameplay messing with perspective and what not.The only issue I have is it lacks replay value or variety. Mario ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
No
CD Projekt is a very annoying developer. It's like that kid at school constantly boasting with grandiose gestures, in an attempt to inflate themselves up in-spite of what actual reality might exist.I recall sometime back... Read Full Review
5 of 12 users found the following review helpful
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (UK)
Bloated
Grand Theft Auto III was a tight, well paced game, everything about it was straight forward. Story, characters, game-play. It was open world, with a fair chunky of content, but never felt like it was overstaying it's we... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
Call Of Duty done good
Delta Force has always been considered a "light" tactical shooter. Though it had realistic elements, it was never on a par with the likes of Rainbow 6, Swat 4 or Ghost Recon. It walked the line because tactical and acti... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
It's ok.
The Witcher 3 has 200+ keys and a mouse for control, yet Geralt can't move right, left, forward or back properly, with a fighting system that is a mess. Comparatively Phantom Hour Glass essentially uses one key, a pen, y... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Strider Returns: Journey From Darkness
Not great
This is a much better 8 bit version than it's Master System counterpart - the main difference being that it runs smoother with better visuals.It still shares all the same problems.Almost all the difficulty from Strider R... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Alien Syndrome
Fun, if very short
As expected with many Arcade ports, Alien Syndrome is a very short game, with a save ability, finishable within 15-20 minutes.Thankfully, unlike many arcade titles, it isn't cheap. At least not this port. In fact, aside ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Resident Evil 4: Ultimate HD Edition
Leon Help
As the opening gloomy moments give a sense of traditional Resident Evil, this perception quickly diminishes as more content is consumed. In Resident Evil 4 the character of Leon Kennedy is very much different from that o... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Ax Battler: A Legend of Golden Axe
Very flawed Zelda
Much like a Master System title Kenseiden, Ax Battler: A Legend Of A Golden Axe for the Game Gear takes influence from another titles (most obviously Zelda) but expands upon it with it's own unique take.It has three laye... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Shinobi II: The Silent Fury
With your powers combined
G.G. Shinobi: The Silent Fury is what Super Mario Galaxy 2 is to Super Mario Galaxy, it takes a set of widely successful mechanics new and innovative for the series and iterates, refining it into something instantly reco... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Space Harrier
Get ready
When Space Harrier was originally made for Arcades Yu Suzuki (i.e. The Shenmue guy) was told not to bother, nobody was interested in that. 2D was the way. He agreed to scarifies his salary if it failed. As we know now,... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
R-Type
The right type
R-Type is considered a classic, and rightly so. It's less a question of "Do you like games?" and more a question of "Do you like having fun?". It's the perfect concoction of pick up and play - the Master System version s... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Captain America and the Avengers
Make something exciting, not
The Gear Gear version of Captain America and the Avengers differs from the others, while those are brawlers, this an action platformer. Ninja Gaiden on the Game Gear differed greatly from the other versions, it was argu... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Kenseiden
Castlevania in Japan
Kenseiden plays very much like Castlevania, sharing that games problems while adding a few of it's own.While Castlevania has a stream of pickups items to keep the player interested, Kenseiden really has nothing. For the ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder
Golden Racks
Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder differs greatly from Golden Axe II, it's very much a case of hardware power in action. Where the consoles were limited, the arcade had no such problems. It's a beautiful looking gam... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Golden Axe
Golden Lacks
Streets Of Rage shows porting 16 bit beat em ups to an 8 bit system can be succefull.Not just successful, but add something unique to the game through it's own aesthetics and exclusive content, appealing not just to thos... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
James Bond 007: The Duel
Odd experience (Master System)
This is very odd game, for the oddest of reasons.Visually, James Bond: The Duel it looks fantastic. While many 8 bit games had very rudimentary graphics with sometimes humorously bad animations, here, when Bond turns you... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Fortified Zone
Fun little game
The cover suggests a heart-pounding Western designed action game with a John Rambo holding a m16, this is slightly misleading, in reality Fortified Zone (kari no Yōsai) is a relatively slower paced game with a mix of d... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Aliens Versus Predator: Gold Edition
Provides the experience
For decades the idea of the two franchises having a monster mash-up has tantalized fans. The first time both appeared on screen wasn't the AVP series, but Predator 2.When Danny Glover enters the creatures ship for the fi... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six
No Kingpin
Where in Spiderman Vs The KIngpin, Technopop delivered a flawed but creatively ambitions game for the era, in Return Of The Sinister 6, Bits Studio has created a generic, bland unresponsive game.Much like Kingpin, The Re... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
The Amazing Spider-Man vs. the Kingpin
(Game Gear Review)
Interesting, if flawed game that had alot of elements not common for the time.Although this looks like and largely plays like a side-scroller, it adventure elements and even elements you would expect from an crpg.For exa... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Broforce (Early Access)
Bliss
Many pixel art games try so hard to emulate the original style of gameplay, that they add nothing new, merely becoming second rate imitators. Others forgoing fun entirely, begrudgingly adding mediocre game-play as it att... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Ninja Gaiden
Cheap
This version of Ninja Gaiden is s significantly inferior game to it's Game Gear counterpart.While visually, it may look better, it's gameplay is fundamentally based on cheap design. While something like Shinobi requires ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Ninja Gaiden
Good
Ninja Gaiden shares much with Shinobi, particularly it's later more action oriented titles. In many ways, it feels more of a precursor to the later Genesis titles than the Master System version. This, the Game Gear vers... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Crysis 2
In blood stepped so far that should i wade no more...
Whenever a once pc exclusive is announced for consoles, alarm bells ring, whether it is always justified is debatable. Crysis however, was a different scenario.From the onset, Cryteks, Crysis was a poster-boy for pushin... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Half-Life
A turning point...
I remember, back when print was relevant subscribing to PC GAMER UK. Flicking through the pages, my young eyes came across bold lettering proclaiming "The Woodstock of gaming" accompanied by a vividly bright orange and b... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
The Adventures of Batman & Robin
Batman Returns done poorly...
Batman Returns was a surprising game to play. Wither it be now, or back then, it was, and is common for movie license games to be slapped on a platform with a disregard for quality.Batman Returns, even in it's 8-bit form... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
The Cyber Shinobi
Nowhere near as bad as infamy claims...
Cyber Shinobi has through time, been seen as the misstep, the bottom of the barrel, the one to avoid.This is perturbing for a number of reasons. Firstly, while it has it's issues, the gameplay is truer to the original Sh... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Strider
Surpringly poor
Strider is a title mostly remember for it's movement, while other games simply had a jump ability, Strider allowed for more axis to be used such as side jumping, sliding, hanging and wall climbing.And really, that is it'... Read Full Review
1 of 2 users found the following review helpful
Streets of Rage
An improvement over the Game Gear version
The Master System version of Streets Of Rage is another respectable transition of a Genesis classic, with both improved gameplay and visuals over it's Game Gear counterpart.One of the main problems with the Game Gear ver... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Batman Returns
A slghtly better version than the Master System
It's very interesting seeing the difference between versions. In a modern game ported across multiple platforms, they remain identical barring visual fidelity. In specific cases like the wii, they outright had different ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Streets of Rage
Unfortunate
The Game Gear is one of the great underrated consoles in my opinion. Sure, it ate up batteries in 4 hours, certainly, it's support was severely lacking paired up against the Gameboy. But it was a powerful handheld, with ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Power Strike
Shmup fun
Must confess to not being huge on this genre of gaming, but this this was a great deal of fun. Thanks to the save ability, it is manageable but I'm certain back in the day it would be almost impossible to finish, as it's... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Batman Returns
Batman Returns
The Genesis and Mega CD are better, but this is alright.As with many iterations, this has different levels and some features are cut (namely the car sections). But it's still fun little game.Batman Returns on the Master ... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Shinobi
The G.G. Shinobi - not be confused with The Master System Shinobi
The G.G. Shinobi, along with it's sequel are undoubtedly the systems best games and one of the best 8 bit action side-scrollers made. It takes what made the original Master System game, fixes practically all issues and e... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
Inferior sequel
The first Shinobi game, barring some cheap bosses,was a really well designed game and generally considered a Master System, classic one of the best titles on the platform.It's sequel, (The Master System version) is infer... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
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