All DS Reviews

Geometry Wars: Galaxies (Review)

Nov 20, 2007

Nov 20, 2007 At its core, Geometry Wars: Galaxies is pretty much the same as Retro Evolved on the 360, and that's a good thing. You still pilot the same old claw-shaped ship and must survive never-ending waves of hostile shapes that attack you from every angle for as long as possible. Dodging death by mere pixels, while blasting your way through swarms of enemies amidst the colorful chaos is still mesmerizing on the Wii, but does Galaxies have enough meat to warrant the price of a full game? ...

George of the Jungle and the Search for the Secret (Review)

Mar 21, 2008

This is based on the Cartoon Network animation of the same name. Incessant music irritates throughout although the colourful graphics at least evoke the TV show it’s based on. However, the platforming is so dated it’s practically prehistoric, the level design is uniformly poor and the minigames are, without exception, excruciatingly dull. ...

Glory Days 2 (Review)

Sep 7, 2007

Sitting back in our leather recliners, happily watching Fox News and eating a bowl of salted cashews, we can't help but notice how awesomely well the war is going. But we're still nothing short of positive we could do war better. So along comes Glory Days 2 to prove us right and mighty - taking the battle to the sky, and just like the view from our La-Z-Boy, our feet never need touch the ground. What's an armchair general not to love? Okay, that's not entirely true. Getting past the ...

Godzilla: Unleashed (Review)

Dec 5, 2007

Dec 5, 2007 Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash provides the perfect example of a promising game concept failing to yield a good game. In theory Double Smash sounds like a fantastic fit for the Nintendo DS; control two of your favorite Godzilla universe-based beasties simultaneously in a side-scrolling beat-'em-up. Take to the skies on the upper display as a winged menace such as Mothra, and unleash destruction on the bottom screen as the skyscraper-stomper himself, Godzilla. Toss in a long ...

The Golden Compass (Review)

Dec 12, 2007

Dec 12, 2007 Cant Sega even be bothered to finish making the game before trying to pawn it off on us? Placeholder graphics, unfinished textures and sloppy physics are just a few of the sadistic treats this game has to offer - and the suck doesnt stop there. Between a clumsy rendering of the original story and a golden compass minigame thats about as effective as a magic 8 ball, there is absolutely no good reason to buy The Golden Compass on DS. If you absolutely have to have some videogame ...

GRID (Review)

May 30, 2008

Last year’s Race Driver: Create & Race showed that the DS could handle a much more thorough and serious driving game than we’d ever thought possible, and without resorting to nasty steering wheels on the touch screen. With online multiplayer, smooth graphics and the option to draw your own tracks, it was in a class of its own on DS. So it’s no surprise to find there’s a sequel, although we didn’t expect it ...

Guitar Hero: On Tour (Review)

Jun 24, 2008

Guitar Hero has been so massively successful for one reason - it's an excellent guitar-playing simulator with classic video game trappings. Guitar Hero: On Tour can't possibly ship with a fake guitar, so it can only simulate Guitar Hero gameplay, not the just-real-enough rock experience. In the transition to DS, it's lost the party game vibe, the friendly humiliation of poorly playing a song you love, even the quasi-pride you get when five ...

Gunpey (Review)

Nov 13, 2006

Like most puzzle games, the basic gist of Gunpey is easy enough to grasp. Tiles rise up from the bottom of the screen on a timer or at your behest, each stamped with a straight or bent line, and you must vertically swap them to create lines that connect the left and right sides of a 5x10 grid. Lines may fork and zigzag, depending on how you arrange the pieces, but only paths that reach all the way from left to right will ...