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Feb 8, 2008

Donkey Kong Barrel Blast

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Oh no - not you again. Barrel Blast is the worst game to carry Nintendo’s logo since the late nineties, and a game with Game & Watch-level gameplay married to sub-GameCube graphics.The Wii’s best titles are games that couldn’t be done anywhere else. Free from fluff or waste, they’re accessible and graspable by even the densest of non-gamers. Simple, immediate games are exactly what make the Wii great, and the ...
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May 21, 2008

Dr. Mario - WiiWare

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Is the old NES puzzler still worth revisiting after all this time? Well... ...

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Nov 22, 2006

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2

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After dozens of games on nearly as many platforms, the Dragon Ball Z franchise finally hit its stride with last year's Budokai Tenkaichi, the first game to really capture the feeling of the DBZ anime's insane, aerial martial-arts battles. For the sequel, developer Spike has pulled out all the stops, packing in around 130 characters and two dozen full storylines to deliver the definitive Dragon Ball experience. Like in the first game, fighting in Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 unfolds from ...
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Feb 29, 2008

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3

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Talk about truth in advertising - check out the slogan adorning the print campaign for Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3: "Introducing, among other things, some people you haven't had a chance to punch in the face yet." That's the long and short of it in the third iteration of the Budokai Tenkaichi fighting franchise. As is often the case with yearly, numbered iterations in any franchise, Budokai Tenkaichi 3 doesn't deviate ...
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Oct 4, 2007

Dragon Blade: Wrath of Fire

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Oct 4, 2007 Picture the least interesting licensed action game you've played in the last several years. Now, swap the license and its ensuing production values for a generic, by-the-book fantasy setting. What's left? Probably something pretty similar to Dragon Blade: Wrath of Fire for Wii. Like many early Wii titles, Dragon Blade takes an established concept (weapon-based brawler) and adds motion controls to the mix, though the term "tacked-on" really isn't appropriate here. Dragon Blade does ...
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Feb 19, 2008

Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors

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Break out the Icy/Hot, kids - you'll never make it through Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors without loose joints. The game dispenses with the turn-based RPG combat and sprawling world map of other Dragon Quest games in favor of an on-rails, first person hack and slash adventure perfectly tailored to the Wii. A few things are thrown in for fans of the series - familiar music, typical character stereotypes, ...
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May 8, 2008

Dream Pinball 3D

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Pinball - dead easy to do in a videogame, right? Actually, not if you’re going to do it well. You can’t just stick a load of ramps and targets on an oblong playing area, whack a pair of flippers down the bottom and expect it to work like a proper table. When pinball was a big deal in the arcades, the best designers were revered among fans much like Miyamoto or Kojima are today, except without the internet to make global stars of ...

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Jul 26, 2007

Driver: Parallel Lines

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Heres the story of Driver. Driver 1: ahead-of-its-time PS1 police-chase beauty; GTA before GTA. Driver 2: the same, with on-foot bits. Driv3r: a bigger collection of bugs than youd find on a sugar lump left next to an ant hill. Which brings us to Parallel Lines - the game that returned the series to some of its former glory, and which you can think of as GTA with a time-traveling twist (youre in 1978 for two-thirds of the game, then banged up to emerge in 2006 for the rest). And the action ...
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