GamesRadar - Wii Reviews

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Review)

1/07/2009

What EA giveth, EA taketh away. For every improvement or addition to the Harry Potter series there must be a subtraction – presumably to keep the universe balanced or something. Order of the Phoenix introduced a sprawling, detailed version of Hogwarts, for example, but scraped out every shred of ‘game’ as a result. ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Review)

28/06/2007

To be frank, if you dont know your Dumbledore from your Dementors, your Sirius Black from your Severus Snape, or your Hagrid from your Hermione then youre advised to run far, far away from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. In the fifth and most recent game tie-in, there are absolutely no concessions to Potter virgins. New characters are at a premium, so instead of getting bogged down introducing more eccentrics on top of an already bloated cast, youre immediately thrown into the ...

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody (Review)

27/03/2008

There’s nothing quite like your first Harvest Moon experience. Flung in the arse end of nowhere with little but a weed patch to your name you’re expected to develop an agricultural empire out of nothing but determination, sweat and tears. The formula - fight for an agricultural foothold and trade up to greater things - rarely changes. If you’ve played a previous Moon you’ll have some idea of the strategy needed for ...

Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (Review)

14/01/2008

Jan 14, 2008 We still remember being surprised - and slightly baffled - when Capcom announced Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law at a press event last spring. As an Adult Swim animated series, Harvey Birdman is a novel idea: a lame Hanna-Barbera superhero from the 60s revived as a modern-day lawyer that represents notable cartoon characters. It's heavy on snark, inside jokes and innuendo - but where's the game concept? Luckily, Capcom knows a thing or ten about milking a franchise, and Harvey ...

Hasbro Family Game Night (Review)

11/12/2008

Much like Monopoly, Hasbro Family Game Night is one of those puzzling videogame conversions. Yes, there’s the novelty value of seeing your favorite game turned all electronic and TVish, and yes, the games bring new modes that wouldn’t be possible in their traditional form. ...

Hasbro Family Game Night 2 (Review)

23/11/2009

Amazingly, for a series we thought could only go downhill after a lackluster debut, the second Family Game Night is a little better than the first. Yes, that’s right – ‘better’. But also only ‘a little’.

The games selected for the Wii treatment this time are far more suited to console jiggery-pokery. ...

Heatseeker (Review)

2/05/2007

Forgive our ignorance, but we always assumed that when a nation sets off to war against a well-armed terrorist state, it might commit a reasonable proportion of its air force to the conflict. Not just one rookie pilot and his gunshy wingmates. Still, it makes for a spicy intro to the world of air combat in Heatseeker, and because youre the only one who actually dares to fly any of these missions, you get an entire airfield of military hardware all to yourself. Each aircraft has its own ...

Hell's Kitchen: The Video Game (Review)

8/10/2008

It would have been fair to expect Hell’s Kitchen to be a Cooking Mama-style cook-‘em-up, but instead it focuses on all aspects of the restaurant. You’ll take orders, serve customers, cook food and placate CGI Chef Ramsay at every turn. Gordon begins each round just as he begins each day – incandescent with rage, ready to hurl (cuss-free) abuse at any lesser food-makers who dare to set foot in his kitchen. ...

Help Wanted: 50 Wacky Jobs! (Review)

26/06/2009

The Mayans were wrong and the apocalypse is here three years early. Earth is in the path of a string of decidedly large, random objects hell-bent on Earth’s destruction. Our only hope rests on the withering shoulders of a decrepit grandfather and his two ambiguously gendered grandchildren. ...

Heracles Chariot Racing (Review)

29/09/2009

We enjoyed the lovely Nyxquest, which offered a platforming take on an ancient Greek myth. Now we’ve got this, which takes a bunch of characters from Greek myths, shoves them in chariots and lets you race them around locations taken from, yes, Greek myths. What’s next, a Capcom Vs Homer Allstars brawler? ...

High School Musical: Sing It! (Review)

7/01/2008

Jan 7, 2008 How much you enjoy this game largely depends on whether you've actually watched High School Musical and whether, as a result, you want to 'sing it!' If you have, and you do, then the chances are you won't dislike these sickly pop songs and the annoying teenagers singing them as much as we do. Don't get us wrong: we love the song Breaking Free. But the rest are a pretty mixed bag, some of which, like Get 'cha Head in the Game, aren't even really suited to karaoke. Singing these ...

Home Sweet Home - Wii Software (Review)

19/12/2008

With a name like that, you’d probably be expecting a chill-out interior decoration title in the vein of The Sims. And you’d be wrong, because Home Sweet Home actually turns out to be a charming time management game based on the hectic world of interior design. So, you’re this designer who’s renovating an entire street of houses. ...

Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans (Review)

7/08/2009

Cooking up the ideal blend of fun and education is a dark alchemical art, and success is rare. Things like Brain Training work because the mental workout is delivered in short bursts. Also, math and verbal reasoning work well in a quickfire format. History is harder to condense into info fun nuggets, as Ruthless Romans proves. ...

Hotel for Dogs (Review)

4/03/2009

We thought we had our finger on the cultural pulse, but it was only after a few minutes’ play that we realised this was a movie tie-in. It was the on-screen photos of the film’s stars that gave it away. ‘Why are these moppets here instead of some genero-avatars?’ we wondered. Andi and Bruce (for it is they) need your help setting up their canine haven, which means you have to do some tedious ‘find the ...

The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return (Review)

13/03/2008

It’s not often you get a bargain, but as anybody who’s familiar with the HotD series will know, Return contains two games for the price of one. We know what you’re thinking here: “Of course it’s two games, the title says so!” But before you start demanding resignations, just bear with us for a second. You see, although House of the Dead 2 and 3 share a few things in common - namely zombies, the Zapper, and a ...

The House of the Dead: Overkill (Review)

10/02/2009

We can only imagine the faces at the ratings boards when they popped their copy of Overkill into the glowing Wii slot. Seeing this kind of gore, language and politically incorrect humor spill from the Wii is like hearing a five-year-old cuss like a sailor – who’d have thought Nintendo’s friendly white box had it in it? ...