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Call of Duty: Roads to Victory (Call of Duty: Roads to Victory)

27/02/2007

As far as first-person shooters go, PSP owners have been left in the cold as of late. But all is not lost; Activision and Amaze Entertainment are bringing up the rear with an exclusive installment of its uber-reputable Call of Duty series, Roads to Victory, to make you recall a time when supporting the war effort was the bees knees. So why have developers been shying away from portable first-person shooters while happily cranking them out on consoles at a rate of nearly two per day? The ...

Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded (Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded)

18/09/2006

Capcom just keeps plugging away with compilations of their classic properties, each one a little bit smoother than the last. With Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded, Capcom gets the series on schedule for the PSP. It is yet another ridiculously well packed UMD full of old-school gaming, but with some of the same issues as the last game in the PSP series. The game list is excellent almost regardless of your taste in older games. The one key thing to remember before jumping in seems to be that ...

Capcom Puzzle World (Capcom Puzzle World)

17/04/2006

If you were much of a puzzle game fan in the '90s, you probably came across Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo at some point. A combination Street Fighter parody/Tetris clone, it had players arranging falling gems into giant, similarly colored groupings and then smashing them for points. The bigger the groupings you smashed, the more gems would rain into your opponent's side of the screen, forcing them to deal with your runoff as they tried to keep their side from filling ...

Cash Money Chaos - impressions (Cash Guns Chaos)

25/08/2006

Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) is best known for its online and offline role-playing games, so it's surprising that the company will release an all-out action title. Cash Money Chaos takes one part Smash TV and one part The Running Man, shakes, stirs and serves the concoction on ice for your PSP. The game is all about balls-to-the-wall action and in-your-face humor - a decided departure from the company that brought you the rat-killing fest EverQuest. While this is a new direction for SOE, it ...

Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles (Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles)

13/02/2007

As Konami tells it, the PSP's hardware sales were in a downward spiral. Then they released Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, the game sold well, and the PSP's sales abruptly spiked. It's hard not to draw a line between those facts and the decision, which is already proving somewhat controversial, to release The Dracula X Chronicles on PSP. This compilation disc represents something that American and European gamers have been asking about for more than a decade now: a translation of the Dracula ...

Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles (Castlevania: The Dracula X Chronicles)

2/02/2007

As if the instant classic Portrait of Ruin weren't enough. Last night publisher Konami, lords of everything vampiric, announced Dracula X Chronicles for the PSP. This compilation includes a spruced-up version of the previously unreleased Rondo of Blood and, perhaps more importantly, a full conversion of PlayStation legend Symphony of the Night. If that sea of italics and modified pieces of music don't ring any bells, listen up. Rondo never made it to the US, but is often considered one of the ...

Chili Con Carnage - hands-on (Chili Con Carnage)

26/01/2007

Friday 26 January 2007 The game with the stupidest name ever - except for Earache Extreme Racing - is a fantastic example of a title catering to PSPs strengths. Rather than try to crowbar Total Overdoses free-roaming city into the handheld sequel, Developers Deadline have instead created a series of focused single-player missions and the game is all the better for it. Flying around performing loco moves in glorious slow-mo is a revelation. We defy you not to giggle with delight as you flip ...

Chili Con Carnage - hands-on (Chili Con Carnage)

25/01/2007

The game with the stupidest name ever - except for Earache Extreme Racing - is a fantastic example of a title catering to PSPs strengths. Rather than try to crowbar Total Overdoses free-roaming city into the handheld sequel, Developers Deadline have instead created a series of focused single-player missions and the game is all the better for it. Flying around performing loco moves in glorious slow-mo is a revelation. We defy you not to giggle with delight as you flip off a wall, shoot three ...

Chili Con Carnage - first look (Chili Con Carnage)

12/12/2006

The gun-crazed, spice-obsessed, wildly over-the-top shoot 'em-up Chili Con Carnage is racing toward PSPs this spring, and after weeks of screenshots, we've finally seen the game in action. Continuing the adventures of agent Ramiro Cruz, this semi-sequel to Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico combines an El Mariachi-inspired Mexican setting with vehicle stunts and impossible bullet ballet. And what's more, it's looking great. The game opens innocently enough, with Ramiro bringing his ...

All the dirt on DiRT 2 (Colin McRae Dirt 2)

7/08/2009

Rally car racing is a sport in transition. Like mixed martial arts, it’s spent the last several years carving out a slice of mindshare from sports fans eager for new spectacles. Rally has long been popular in Europe and Asia, and now has growing mainstream acceptance in America thanks to the late Colin McRae’s efforts to hitch the sport to the X Games. ...

Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over Mutant - first look (Crash Bandicoot: Mind Over Mutant)

28/04/2008

Here's a mind-boggling statistic - this year's Crash Bandicoot game will mark the fifteenth installment of the series in just over a decade's time. Fifteen. What could Mind Over Mutant, the newest adventure of the marsupial omnivore (seriously, look it up), possibly do that we haven't seen... well, fifteen times before?

You might be surprised, especially if you haven't tried a Crash game in several years. Mind Over Mutant breaks free ...

Previews Blowout (Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars)

14/06/2007

For all you gaming addicts looking for a fix, check out these treats: Opoona - Wii A very unusual little game for the Wii that combines community and relationship-building elements with a traditional RPG - a bit like, say, Animal Crossing but with a proper adventure to work through. Even better is the way it uses the Wiis Remote and Nunchuck, allowing you to move with the analog stick and battle by swinging the remote. Crazi Taxi: Fare Wars - PSP We reckon this is just about old enough now ...

Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars (Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars)

4/06/2007

We have to say, its almost physically impossible to dislike Crazy Taxi. How can anyone not enjoy a game that lets you drive a yellow cab insanely fast, fly off ramps and smash through anything that gets in your way all in the name of ferrying your terrified passengers to their destinations on time so you get paid? If this is the kind of death-defying stuff taxi drivers go through every day, its no wonder their cabs smell quite so ...

Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars - hands-on (Crazy Taxi: Fare Wars)

14/02/2007

In the days before Grand Theft Auto III, there was nothing quite like Crazy Taxi. A sunny, high-energy arcade adrenaline rush, it was superficially centered around picking up fares in a big, open city and rushing them to their destinations before the timer ran out. However, those who played it for more than five seconds soon realized what Crazy Taxi was really about: bombing down gigantic hills at top speed while The Offspring and Bad Religion roared over the soundtrack. It was a lot of fun ...

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII)

20/02/2008

Even with Final Fantasy XIII on the horizon, the series' seventh installment remains by far the most popular. Scoring amazing reviews back in 1997, it has since spawned spin-off games, movies and even novels. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is the latest game added to the list and expands upon the original game's epic storyline by exploring the origins of the evil Shinra Corporation some seven years earlier.The game follows the experiences of ...

Square Enix Party 2007 - Live from Tokyo! (Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII)

13/05/2007

We're live, in Tokyo, to bring you reports from Square Enix Party 2007, a public event that showcases the latest in the Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, and Dragon Quest publisher's massive lineup of games for all of your favorite next generation consoles and handhelds. We're bring in up-to-the-minute information as fast as we can over the course of the weekend. Check back to this page for updates as they happen. Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions interview: many missed it on the ...

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - hands-on (Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII)

12/05/2007

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is simply the most exciting playable game at the entire Square Enix Party 2007. It actually delves deep into the mythology of that RPG classic from ten years ago, offering up a story that was only hinted out in its sprawling confines. And beyond that, it's the best-looking PSP game to date. Simply put, it's living up to its potential and, unless Square Enix is hiding something, should even erase the sad memories of Dirge of Cerberus. We were able to both catch a ...

Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - impressions (Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII)

23/09/2006

If the Final Fantasy series is good at anything, it's building a mystery. No, we're not just talking about the way the games' stories are always packed with twists and turns. It's more about the fact that details about the actual games themselves are guarded so jealously for so long by Square Enix. Case in point: Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII was originally announced before the PSP came out. It wasn't until this May that we got our first look at its graphics, but there was no gameplay in ...

Pre-E3 06: Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII)

8/05/2006

Though the name of the game has been known for some time, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII for the PSP has finally been revealed. The game tells the story of gray-haired bad boy Sephiroth's transformation from a loyal member of SOLDIER into a megalomaniac mass ...

Crush - hands-on (Crush)

7/05/2007

Crush, as we saw in our earlier look, is a puzzle-meets-platformer blend with an intriguing twist. The gist of the gameplay is that you must alternate between 2D and 3D perspectives in order to progress through each level. It's easy to make comparisons to Super Paper Mario, because both games switch from 2D to 3D with the touch of a button. While it lacks Mario's visual appeal, Crush expands on the interdimensional idea creatively, allowing players to take multiple camera angles (or points of ...