Someone at EA has taken the concepts of Panini stickers, Top Trumps, David Beckham’s footy school and a Question of Sport and somehow moulded them into this frankly bizarre DS title. The game’s remit is essentially to improve your football knowledge and, in an outstanding piece of timing, ex-Chelsea gaffer Luiz Felipe Scolari is on hand to help you along the way.
The first-person perspective has been dropped, but Elebits’ Wii DNA is present in Kai’s mission to hoover up the electro-beasts. Capturing Elebits (needed to open doors and operate machinery) is a neat, tactile affair – you shake the scenery with your stylus, tag the escaping ’Bits, and tap your sidekick Zero to grab them. In a nice arcadey twist, tagging the first Elebit begins a countdown – you’ve got a few seconds to try and grab more before Zero brings them in.
Elite Forces is a tactical shooter that involves a squad of four specialized soldiers (demolitions, sniper, electronics expert, tank) traipsing through the jungle on a mission to annihilate countless cannon-fodder enemies.
Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Laagard is a very tough game to review simply because it's one of those "love it or hate it" game types: An old school dungeon crawler. There's only a rudimentary story (you're exploring a single, gigantic tree dungeon trying to find the way into a magic, floating castle), there's no character development beyond gaining levels and choosing skills, and its turn-based battles are
It’s always entertaining when a game comes along that repeatedly punches you in the face, kicks you in the gut, and expects you to love every second of it. Anyone who’s played either of the past two Etrian Odyssey games will be well acquainted with the terror that sets in when you’re deep inside the labyrinth with a party of warriors barely clinging to life.
Fighting your way back to the surface in order to save the game before a nasty monsters chows down on your band of spent adventures, instantly eradicating the last hour you spent meticulously grinding away to beef them up, makes for some intense dungeon crawling. Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City is every bit as brutal as its sadistic predecessors, but a bevy of new classes and some awesome features make the punishing trek back into the death-dealing underground catacombs a truly worthwhile adventure...
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