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Nov 18, 2008

Shaun White Snowboarding

Wii Review

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Finally! A game with some substance has arrived to make full use of the Wii Fit board. Ironically, the board’s inclusion, however, is almost certainly the reason this game feels so basic. While using the board is fun and it copes well enough with the fast-paced gameplay, it’s undeniably slower to control than using a stick. So the tracks have been widened and the stabilizers added to compensate. ...

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Mar 4, 2008

Showtime Championship Boxing

Wii Review

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Great boxing games are few and far between. For every Punch Out!! and Fight Night: Round 3, there are half a dozen pugilistic clunkers that litter bargain bins in game stores near and far. As amazing as it may seem, though, we may have discovered the least entertaining one of all. Showtime Championship Boxing would be a lousy looker two console generations ago; in 2008 it’s nothing short of a Mike Tyson-biting-ears-level ...
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May 31, 2007

Shrek the Third

Wii Review

How far can you stretch the excuse that a game is designed for children? At a rating of E10+, Shrek The Third is just too simplistic. If a ten-year-old can handle Super Mario, surely they will be bored with just flailing a Wii Remote over and over. The gameplay is braindead and repetitive: run up to bad guys and shake the remote. Sure, you can do a few special moves, but there is nearly no need to. Occasionally you have to do a jump attack (gasp!) or navigate a 15 second “puzzle.” ...
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Sep 29, 2008

SimCity Creator

Wii Review

Spend hours designing the perfect city, watching as tens of thousands of invisible Sim people move in and make it their home. Create a road network that spells out your favourite swear word, visible from outer space, and humbly accept the gift of a statue in your honour. ...

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Oct 30, 2007

The Simpsons Game

Wii Review

Oct 30, 2007 Not so much a cohesive game as a series of "episodes" with co-op play in mind, The Simpsons Game is nonetheless consistently funny, occasionally inspired, not too taxing and diverse. A bit like your average episode of the TV show then, which is why this is head and shoulders above the spin-off games that have clouded Springfield's finest down the years. It starts with a typically bizarre Homer dream involving chocolate rabbits, and from there goes all post-modern when Bart ...
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Nov 2, 2007

The Sims 2: Castaway

Wii Review

Nov 2, 2007 Desert island Sims... right from the start, that's got to be a more interesting concept than any amount of getting jobs, cleaning carpets and going to the toilet you'd have to do in a normal Sims game. Actually, you still have to do a lot of that sort of thing in Castaway, but then it wouldn't really be a Sims title without it. The big difference for us is that the scenario is now a much better motivation for making sure your virtual person stays alive and well in a strange and ...
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Jun 26, 2007

The Sims 2 Pets

Wii Review

Ten years ago, if you wouldve told us that as games continue to innovate ways to defy the laws of physics, redefine societal boundaries and violently break the protocol of human decency, an unending simulation of household chores would materialize as the most successful PC game series of all time, we wouldve charitably filled your hand with loose change and been on our way. But here we are. And were not immune to the to The Sims irony either. Many of us at the Radar have stepped over piles of ...
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Nov 24, 2008

Skate It

Wii Review

You’ve got to admire the creativity of Skate It’s developers. While most companies can’t be bothered to explain why their next-gen ports look so shabby on the underpowered Wii, these guys came up with a whopper to explain why their skateboarding game looks so sparse and bland compared to the original version – there’s been an earthquake. ...

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Nov 21, 2007

Smarty Pants

Wii Review

Nov 21, 2007 And the EA success train chuffs ever onwards, from The Simpsons to EA Playground to this: the video game equivalent of bingo night at the senior center. You answer questions. You spin a category wheel with the remote. Occasionally you partake in a game to set a wager - a shooting gallery so shallow that it makes the remote synchronising screen look like Mario Galaxy firing on all cylinders. Dull, dull, dull. Localised questions are a nice-ish touch - even if it does result in a ...
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Feb 22, 2007

Sonic and the Secret Rings

Wii Review

For a while we thought Sonic was a goner, a blue hedgehog-shaped smear on the tarmac of gaming history. With Sonic Teams every attempted step forward, his scores plummeted down. Multiple characters exploring 3D environments? Big the Cat? Sonic with guns? With Secret Rings, the team has finally realized that the only way forwards is backwards. At breakneck speeds. Filter him down into his purest form - the original Sonic on Genesis - and youll find little more than the urge to move forwards. ...
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