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Oct 25, 2006

Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam

DS Review

Maybe it's just the bad taste left in our mouths from all the craptacular Game Boy Tony Hawk games, but our initial expectations for this handheld version of Downhill Jam weren't very high. Imagine our surprise when it turned out to be just as fast and frenzied as the Wii version due out next month. Forgoing the open-ended worlds of previous Tony games, Jam points your board only one direction - down. All the grinding, flipping and tricking is intact, though, so you're getting a sweet mix of ...
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Oct 19, 2007

Tony Hawk's Proving Ground

DS Review

Oct 19,2007 Quit scoffing, mister. The Tony Hawk games have a damn good track record even when scaled down to Nintendo handhelds. And even if you didn't like last year's incline-oriented Downhill Jam, Tony Hawk's Proving Ground marks a return to form, offering a truly classic game of skate to the Nintendo DS. Traditional Hawkers listen up, because the portable Proving Ground packs in everything that's made it great to be an armchair skater all these years. If you never cared for past ...
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Apr 24, 2007

Toon-Doku

DS Review

As any of the roughly six zillion books filled with the griddy number puzzles would attest, it's pretty tough to muck up sudoku. One of the reasons this type of mind-bender has literally swept the world by storm - at least the portion that still does word searches and crosswords and cryptograms - is that it's conceptually simple and immediately accessible. You have a 9x9 grid. You have some numbers. And you have to fill in the rest of the numbers so that every column, row, and smaller, 3x3 ...
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Aug 13, 2008

Top Spin 3

DS Review

After the Annual British Disappointment at Wimbledon, you might want to show the pros how it’s done in digital-land by mastering Top Spin 3. Only you may suffer your own first-round defeat at the hands of the rock-hard AI. We weren’t keen on the Wii version of this because of its wonky controls. Here, the controls are fine but the CPU-controlled players use them way better than you can. ...

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Nov 25, 2008

Tornado

DS Review

As wicked witches, Midwestern US school children who have to sit through countless disaster drills, and that cow from the movie Twister will tell you, tornados are bad news. And now, DS gamers have a good reason to fear the swirling vortex of mother nature’s Dyson vacuum as well. Tornado had the potential to blow us away, but tedious missions and some really broken design choices instead suck the life out of the whole ...

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Oct 17, 2006

Touch Detective

DS Review

The DS has become the unlikely savior of old-fashioned adventure gaming. While Trace Memory and Sprung were nothing to write home about, the phenomenal success of Phoenix Wright has proven that there's still a lot of potential left for pondering and solving mysteries. The DS is undoubtedly the system best suited for it. Enter Touch Detective, a quirky little point-and-click... er, tap-and-touch adventure from ...
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Oct 26, 2007

Touch Detective 2 1/2

DS Review

Oct 26, 2007 Strangely titled Touch Detective 2 1/2 is the second screen tapping adventure for the DS released by Atlus. Relying on nearly obsessive-compulsive touchscreen use, you play as "Touch" Detective Mackenzie who investigates mysteries in a town of cute bobble-headed anime style characters. With periodic help from Funghi, her mushroom-shaped sidekick, Mackenzie literally feels out the clues, groping her way around town as you tap your stylus on every possible pixel to uncover and ...
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May 15, 2007

Touch the Dead

DS Review

At last; how long have we had to wait before the DS had its own on-rails first-person shooter? With the stylus substituting itself for a light gun, and the power inside capable of drawing 3D corridors, its madness that its taken two years for one to appear. Touch the Dead is a fun and brutal shoot-em-up, asking you to balance shooting and reloading while hordes of slavering zombies bumble their way toward you. And its hard. Knowing where to hit the dead lumps of flesh, and when to do the ...
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Jun 25, 2007

TouchMaster DS

DS Review

Like the TouchMaster you may have played on a grimy touch screen at a bar (only out of morbid curiosity, of course), TouchMaster DS is the epitome of casual gaming. It contains a collection of timed minigames grouped into categories like card games, trivia, and puzzles. In theory, the broad range of games represented here is a good fit for the DS. Being able to play anything from a Bejeweled-ish puzzle game, to a Wheel of Fortune-esque word game, to a classic game of Solitaire all on the same ...
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Apr 14, 2008

Toy Shop

DS Review

In yet another game that glorifies orphan labor, Toy Shop tasks two small children with turning a profit on their late grandfather's business. Your goal is to earn $50K in the first three in-game years, and to succeed you must build toys, manage the shop, and shmooze with the townspeople to drain every penny out of their pixilated pockets. The concept is solid, but the sloppy execution of this cutesy sim left us wanting to play with actual ...

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