We love Mega Man. We really do. Beating down Dr. Wily (or, in a pinch, Sigma) is one of any classic gamers' favorite pastimes. But both enduring villains have been missing for some time now, making way for the Battle Network and Mega Man Zero franchises. Well, fans can expect to dig into another pair... no wait, a quartet of new Mega Man games, later this year.
The newly announced ZX Advent picks up where last year's ZX left off, offering a huge map to explore and new powers to obtain. It's a
Though they probably won't feature Donald Trump shaving the head of WWE chairman Mr. McMahon like this year's WrestleMania, both the wrestling and gaming worlds are eagerly anticipating what the next round of WWE-licensed titles will hold. In much the way Vince McMahon will be more aerodynamic without his gray coiffure, the SmackDown vs. Raw series is streamlining to be even more intuitive to control while also offering more gameplay depth.
As the former rogue promotion of Extreme
Good news, bad news time. Ready? If you're an old school fan of Square's Secret of Mana series (Seiken Densetsu in Japan and officially now World of Mana in the US), you're about to be blessed with not one new Mana game, but two. Considering how few titles in the beloved action-RPG franchise have actually reached our shores, this is obviously exciting. So, what's the other, potentially less good news? Heroes of Mana for Nintendo DS isn't an action-RPG at all... it's a real-time strategy
“We like to say that the game is two-and-a-half D.” said J. Boone of publisher, Activision in regards to the look of Spider-Man 3 on the DS. Its a 2D side-scroller at heart, but the rotating 3D backgrounds give the game a sort of faux 3D feel to it - providing the illusion that Spider-Man is swooping around corners as he swings his way from building to building.
Like its console counterparts, Spider-Man 3 on the DS will be a free-roaming adventure, allowing you to choose from a
Tuesday 3 April 2007
Don't ask us why, but music games seem to have more personality, on the whole, than just about any others. Without a big bulky guy with a gun or a group of perky teens out to save the world to rely on, things seem to get weird - fast. Whether or not the songs are original or top hits, if there's a story you're guaranteed to be swimming in bizarre characters, styling art and that rarest of things in games: an actual sense of humor. Elite Beat Agents follows this path
There's one reason why Spider-Man 2 is the greatest superhero game ever made - the swinging mechanics that enabled you to swoop through the city like a... well, like Spider-Man. Which we guess is the whole point. Few moments in gaming can match the exhilaration of freefalling towards the ground before letting off a web and arcing gracefully back into air. Few games have ever recreated so perfectly a super-hero's powers and made you feel as though they were yours to command.
If developer
There's been talk of a Zelda: Four Swords game for DS for a while now, so when we got our first look at Phantom Hourglass's multiplayer element, we were surprised to see that the co-op steal-a-thon we were expecting was nowhere to be found (although there are different colored Links).
Instead, Eiji Aonuma and his portable Zelda team have come up with a fun little one-on-one battle game which has a red and blue Link fighting over scattered triforce pieces in a Pac-Man style maze.
You're tasked
The last outing for Marvel's fab four, published by Activision, not 2K Games, was a mediocre affair with predictable button-bashing action that barely tested your skills. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer benefits from PS3's bolder, crisper graphics, while the gameplay's been enhanced to test your wit as well as your rapid-finger
Building roads. Negotiating waste disposal contracts. Firing missiles at Godzilla. Supplying water supplies. Hey. Wait a second. Did we hear you right? We get to negotiate waste disposal contracts? Oh at long long last.
How we jest and how SimCity DS jests as recent news places a distinctly stylus-flavored jocular twist on this SimCity 3000 port. The touch screen will not only be the perfect control for the usually mouse-dependent title but will also allow for some genuine city-pleasing
The Wii version of Raving Rabbids may have turned out pretty good, thanks to a fairly unique mix of minigames that made effective use of the remote and nunchuk. But its back to the trusty side-scrolling blueprint of yore for
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