Tales of the Abyss was a quietly well-received PS2 title that was unfortunately overshadowed by several other games when it dropped in 2006. Namco Bandai saw fit to deliver it to a new audience, this time on the 3DS. Does the translation to handheld revive the charm? Find out in our review...
It wasn't until the last generation of handhelds that fighting games came close to matching the standards of console games. And it was Tekken leading that charge, thanks to excellent titles like Tekken: Dark Resurrection. Tekken 3D Prime Edition aspires to set the same standard on 3DS with a fluid 60 frames per second, whether 2D or 3D. But do flowing fisticuffs make up for some rather barebones story mode? The answers lie within...
There’s a certain appealing weight to the word: Tennis. Say it with us now: “Tennis.” On its own, that simple two-syllable title is perhaps the best description for this racket-swinging retro romp. One of two athletic-themed launch titles to accompany Game Boy’s debut, Tennis is a straightforward take on the sport that leaves the bells and whistles at home. It’s an addictive diversion, but something is missing...
More isn't
always better, but in the case of Tetris Axis we'll take it. If you only play
each of Tetris Axis's twenty modes one time you'll have played Tetris for
several hours. Which is great, because it's more than likely you'll only want
to play many of these modes once...
Final Fantasy finally gets its own music game and it's a wonderful tribute to 25 years of some of the best music in gaming history...
We would have done a number of naughty things to have an Advance Wars or Fire Emblem game amongst the 3DS launch line-up. Instead we have to contend with a tactics-style launch title from the Ghost Recon series. Certain branches of the Tom Clancy franchise can come off as dry and overly tactical, with early Rainbow Six games coming to mind. Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars avoids this by presenting a commando squad that would make Hasbro lawyers squint in suspicion. Yup, it's a G.I. Joe-inspired ghost team comprising one-word codenamed operatives like Haze, Banshee, and even Duke. For you foodies, there's Saffron the Medic and Mint the Engineer...
Splinter Cell 3D isn’t Ubisoft’s first attempt at rekindling Chaos Theory’s roaring fire on a Nintendo handheld. The 2005 DS version of the series’ strongest entry managed to keep pace with the console version fairly well – it even included co-op and competitive multiplayer – but it wasn’t a great game in its own right. When it comes to proving itself on second chance, the 3DS redux goes for the throat. Splinter Cell 3D is the franchise’s most impressive portable port yet, although it sacrifices a significant chunk of its soul...
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