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Baroque (Baroque)

Feb 13, 2008

Purged by flames, the world’s remaining population is mutated by distorted fantasies, created to help stomach the inhospitable remains. Heartless meshes of flab, cogs and metalwork - enough to give even Silent Hill’s freaks the willies - these ‘meta-beings’ crawl the world, devouring humanity’s leftovers. Distorted fantasy being the very definition of ‘baroque’ itself. Animal Crossing it ain’t. It ...

Battalion Wars 2 (Battalion Wars 2)

May 30, 2007

This is the summer for online multiplayer. Well, assuming we get Battalion Wars before the summers over. Which, er, we wont. But with its continually delayed but impressive-looking stages and three - count 'em - different online multiplayer modes, “BWii” has us shoving the nearest cushion down our throats to avoid biting our tongues off in giddy excitement. ...

Battalion Wars 2 (Battalion Wars 2)

Aug 25, 2006

Wednesday 23 August 2006 After a lengthy wait in the lengthy Wii queue - the Leipzig Game Convention really is the new E3! - we were able to play a multiplayer match of the recently announced Battalion Wars 2. Featuring the Xylvanians and other familiar sides from the original (the final game will feature six playable sides), we were tasked with protecting positions on the map from rampaging show-goers. Looking at Battalion Wars 2 in action, you might be forgiven for thinking it's still the ...

Battalion Wars 2 - hands-on (Battalion Wars 2)

Aug 24, 2006

After a lengthy wait in the lengthy Wii line in Leipzig, we were able to play a multiplayer match of the recently announced Battalion Wars 2. Featuring the Xylvanians and other familiar faces from the original (the final game will feature six playable armies), we were tasked with protecting positions on the map from rampaging show-goers. Looking at Battalion Wars 2 in action, you might be forgiven for thinking it's still the original game - the major difference being, of course, the control ...

Band Mashups - first look (Battle of the Bands)

Feb 7, 2008

Even though we're drowning in Guitar Hero sequels and Rock Band peripherals, gamers just can't get enough of the rapidly expanding music genre. Wii gamers, on the other hand, only recently got in on the act with Guitar Hero III. But without downloadable tracks and Rock Band still to come, what're faux rockers to do? ...

Ben 10: Protector of Earth (Ben 10: Protector of Earth)

Aug 15, 2007

As we understand it, the kids these days are awfully into cartoons. Thats fine. Were sure theyll eventually develop a love for shuffleboard and fiber supplements like the rest of us. But in the meantime, theres Ben 10: Protector of Earth for the Wii – an action-platformer based on the Cartoon Network series of the same name. Playing the role of ten year old Ben Tennyson, youre given a powerful watch known as the Omnitrix, which is capable of transforming you at the flick of a wrist. ...

Big Beach Sports - hands-on (Big Beach Sports)

Apr 4, 2008

Understandably, we were a bit cynical when we heard about yet another casual sports minigame fest for Wii, but it looks like Big Beach Sports is actually set to deliver a few fresh twists on the genre. We were told the game is aimed at the "European audience," which explains the inclusion of cricket and soccer (football) in a beach game. Rounding out the six total games in Big Beach are volleyball, American football, disc golf (Frisbee golf) ...

Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Big Brain Academy)

May 31, 2007

The fundamental concept of physical weight training is actually that you use the muscle in question - say, your biceps - so much that it is exhausted, gets injured and heals up bigger and stronger. This is important because Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree borrows this premise, then applies it to your gray matter. It may be fun, but make no mistake: this game wants to injure your brain. The method the game uses to create this synaptic apocalypse is by subjecting you to 15 different mini-games, ...

Big Brain Academy - hands on (Big Brain Academy)

Mar 12, 2007

A year ago everyone was unscrewing their heads and proclaiming their undying love for Nintendo's handheld hit, Brain Age. A few months later, in June '06, the second wave of mind-muscling software came in the form of Big Brain Academy, a series a quirky minigames that focused more on fun than tracking actual performance as Brain Age did. In June 2007, one year after the DS game hit, Big Brain Academy will return with another round of logic puzzles, this time on the Wii. If you spent any time ...

Blast Works - first look (Blast Works: Build, Fuse and Destroy)

Oct 5, 2007

October 05, 2007 There's a growing tendency of late for companies to buy up succesful PC homebrew or casual games and dump them onto every system they can. The results usually range from uninspired to disastrous, but sometimes they rock. flOw on PS3 is captivating, Line Rider looks great, and Blast Works could be fantastic. Based upon a PC homebrew game called Tumiki Fighters, it actually combines the gameplay of old fashioned, 2D shooters with the sticky world of ball-rolling sensation ...

E3 07: Boogie - hands-on (Boogie)

Jul 11, 2007

Boogie cleverly blends rhythm with singing (into the specially-made Wii USB microphone) - but it also gives the player the option to do one or the other. So anyone who makes Jordans voice sound like that of an angel (with auto-tune turned off) neednt write this off as a wasted exercise. Theres a Karaoke and Dance mode, plus Story, which lets you play through the unique stories of the games five characters doing a combination of ...

Boogie - Hands-on (Boogie)

May 25, 2007

Weve got to be honest: in the past, we werent too sure about Boogie. Its not that we dont like dancing games; we GR folk harbor no ill will toward exercise and love ourselves some Dance, Dance Revolution. The thing is, we were skeptical about the appeal of a dancing game in which the player wasnt actually... you know... dancing. Or even pretend ...

Boom Blox (Boom Blox)

Mar 20, 2008

Roughly translated, the name Spielberg means ‘play mountain’. This is why, allegedly, he opens the Indiana Jones films with a mountain shot, and why we have faith in his co-developed Boom Blox. How could someone with ‘play’ in their name not ‘get’ the Wii? Unveiled at E3, this was a mess - a puzzle-Jenga light on purpose and heavy on wonky physics, but that has all changed in this new and improved Boom Blox. ...

Bully: Scholarship Edition - hands-on (Bully: Scholarship Edition)

Feb 13, 2008

Bully was released near the tail end of the PS2's major releases, so maybe you didn't have a chance to play the game back in 2006 - like, if you sent your PS2 off to Antarctica on a ceremonial burning raft on PS3 launch day. Whether you played or not, the game was great, and messing around with the 360 and Wii versions, Bully: Scholarship Edition, which are due out March 4, reaffirmed that the game is on track to be as good as the original ...

Bully: Scholarship Edition - first look (Bully: Scholarship Edition)

Jan 16, 2008

Jan 16, 2008 For a while there, Bully was 2006's most controversial game - but once people found out it was a relatively tame, bloodless schoolyard romp instead of a teen murder simulator, interest seemed to fizzle. Which is a shame, really, because Bully's compelling story and free-roaming, prank-and-beatdown-focused action made it one of the best games released that year. If you missed it the first time, you'll get a second chance at the game this March, when Bully: Scholarship Edition hits ...

Bust-A-Move Bash (Bust-A-Move Bash!)

Feb 1, 2007

It seems puzzle games are being given a new lease of life by the Wiis wonder-wand. With blobby tilt-fest Mercury Meltdown Revolution leaping from the PSP to the Wii with all the unbridled excitement of a hyperactive puppy, Bust-A-Move follows suit, enlivened by motion-sensitive ...