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Wacky Races: Crash & Dash (Review)

Jul 14, 2008

Wacky Races Crash & Dash is an odd duck. It’s been almost 40 years since a new episode of the cartoon, but it’s still apparently viable to be made into a video game. It’s also strange that while the game is obviously designed for young children, the show it’s based on is likely older than their parents. Much like the show, Wacky Races Crash & Dash is about racing, but just barely. A strange hybrid of party ...

Wall-E (Review)

Jul 2, 2008

As the game based off the newest "best movie ever," Wall-E has no real need to be good - kids are going to eat this up no matter what. And if they're lucky, their love of that admittedly fantastic film will overcome the fact that the game itself - a super-kiddie sort of "get from point A to point B" puzzle game - is a rusty bucket of broken-down ideas bolted together.

You work your way through a level by throwing boxes at switches, ...

Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command (Review)

Dec 17, 2007

Dec 17, 2007 If you're looking to pamper a pixellated puppy or perform a simulated surgery the Nintendo DS has got your back. However, if turn-based tactical gaming is your thing, you'll be hard-pressed to find many choices on the dual-screen, touch-friendly platform; hell, it's been over two years since Advance Wars: Dual Strike satisfied are strategic cravings.Thankfully,THQ delivers some cerebrally satisfying gaming to the DS with Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command, a strategy title set in the ...

Wario: Master of Disguise (Review)

Mar 5, 2007

There are seven costumes our cackling hero wears in this curious, stylus-controlled, spiritual successor to the Wario Land series, and being the thief he is, has stolen all the costumes. Its impossible to hate Wario as a villain, largely thanks to his starring roles in a host of top-notch adventures. A Wario platformer tends to be an excuse for Nintendos developers to really poke fun at one of their characters while experimenting with the kind of off-the-wall gameplay they wouldnt dare inflict ...

Where the Wild Things Are (Review)

Jan 15, 2010

Aside from the option to record your own monster-scaring roar with the DS mic, Where the Wild Things Are is a largely by-the-numbers platformer based on the children’s book (well, the film of the book, predictably). ...

Where's Waldo? The Fantastic Journey (Review)

Nov 5, 2009

The big question here isn’t so much ‘where’s Waldo?’ but ‘where’s the game?’ – we rattled through this in under two hours. Okay, we played on Easy difficulty, but Normal wasn’t much more of a challenge. There is no Hard mode. ...

Winning Eleven Pro Evolution Soccer 2007 (Review)

Feb 8, 2007

Winning Eleven is a riotous success on PSP, but how does the classy soccer sim translate to the humble DS? First impressions are positive; look past the basic graphics and you can definitely tell this comes from the Konami soccer stable, as passing is decent, one-twos are deadly and this retains the essential feel of the PS2 ...

Winter Sports 2: The Next Challenge (Review)

Apr 15, 2009

Winter is finally on its way out so, of course, what game would we possibly like to play more in the sun than one filled with brrr-inducing snow and ice? ...

WireWay (Review)

Dec 1, 2009

In WireWay, you flick Wiley, an ADHD alien blob, skyward by pulling down little black lines and releasing them, just like the string of a bow. This catapults Wiley to the next little black line he needs to grab. Other than that, the game keeps it simple: collect “elam” (little stars), bounce from bumpers, and attempt to reach the end of the maze-like levels in record time. ...

The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road (Review)

Oct 2, 2009

The Wizard Of Oz, that enduring tale of a young girl invading a foreign country, crushing the local populace and stealing their shoes, has been ‘re-imagined’ here as a JRPG – and it’s a striking, unusual JRPG too.

It starts as you’d expect, with Dorothy and Toto uprooted by a storm and dropped into the magical land of Oz. ...

Women's Murder Club: Games of Passion (Review)

Oct 16, 2009

Based on James Patterson’s series of murder mystery novels, Women’s Murder Club: Games of Passion is supposed to be an adventure game about a detective named Lindsay Boxer who solves a series of murders with the help of her girlfriends who work in various murder-related professions. The problem is that the story isn’t strong enough to keep mystery fans interested, and the gameplay isn’t really good enough to warrant anyone else playing it ...

The World Ends With You (Review)

Apr 18, 2008

We can’t remember the last time a game was cooler than us. Sure, we’d shift our hat facing backwards when scrubbing our Corgis in Nintendogs, and hell, even smoke when catching them all in Pokemon. But Square Enix’s latest title not ending in “Hearts” or “Fantasy” literally drips style. The World Ends With You mixes graffiti-infused J-pop with Japanese youth culture in an alternate reality Shibuya, ...

Worms: Open Warfare (Review)

Mar 30, 2006

When we heard Worms was heading to an online-enabled handheld, naturally our first thought was, "Oh cool, you'll be able to play people on the Wi-Fi network." But for whatever reason, the turn-based, surreal invertebrate war is limited to your portable's wireless range. Online omission aside, Worms: Open Warfare is the same game you've been playing for years. Up to four people pick their mouthy, racial-stereotyped army of worms and start lobbing grenades, tossing dynamite or upper-cutting ...

Worms: Open Warfare 2 (Review)

Sep 17, 2007

Do you have the skill it takes to use old-school bazookas and grenades, or are you more of a jet-packing, air-striking, tech-loving modern wormer? No matter how you play it, we reckon Worms is one of the greatest ever multiplayer games. Open Warfare 2 is perhaps the most comprehensive version to date. Forget the previous, disappointing, Open Warfare. This one is built on the foundations of Worms Armageddon, which was previously the best of the series, and is consequently rock solid and ...

WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2008 (Review)

Nov 13, 2007

Nov 13, 2007 Now this is weird: an all-stylus, all-prodding, twirling and waggling take on the sport of champions. Like letting Hornswaggle win the Cruiserweight championship, DS SmackDown's an interesting idea - but one that loses its appeal pretty ...

WWE SmackDown! vs Raw 2009 (Review)

Oct 31, 2008

There’s nothing quite like the simple pleasure of watching two grown men pretend to batter one another in their underpants. We’re serious; professional wrestling is an art form – one which, at its best, is among the finest entertainments you can enjoy. It’s a spectacle the SmackDown series has done an able job of capturing, and of replicating with a sensible and satisfying control scheme. ...

WWE SmackDown vs Raw 2010 (Review)

Oct 20, 2009

Moving the control system away from awkward stylus scribbling to good, old fashioned button pressing instantly makes SmackDown vs Raw 2010 a more approachable and playable wrestler. But the issuing of commands is not as responsive as we’d like. ...