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Namco Museum Remix (Review)

Oct 22, 2007

What the hell happened? You'd figure at this point Namco could hurl handfuls of its classic games like BBs at flypaper and ship them in whatever combinations they please to some degree of success. As long as they're cheap, what man-child reared in the 80's wouldn't jump at the chance to play Rally-X and Pac-Man at a reasonable price. Unfortunately, Namco Museum Remix has squandered more than twenty years of nostalgia, while simultaneously spawning some of the worst motion control based ...

Naruto: Clash of Ninja EX [import] (Review)

Apr 30, 2007

Beyond the quick buck that's to be made from its obsessive fans, there's really no reason for Naruto to exist on Wii at all. Its "new" control scheme is better served by the old-fashioned Classic controller than by remote and nunchuk, which achieve little beyond making you look like an idiot while ...

Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution (Review)

Oct 23, 2007

Oct 23, 2007 Remember last year when the GameCube was dying and the only games coming around were Cars, Teen Titans and Nicktoons slop? There were two shiny gems in that sea of lumpy coal, and they both happened to be Clash of Ninja games released just six months apart. Their button-mashy (yet surprisingly deep) fighting styles made both games popular even among non-Naruto fans. Now we're looking at the third to hit US shores in just over a year and it's basically the same as the other ...

Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2 (Review)

Nov 25, 2008

It’s tough to slag on a game as robust as Naruto: Clash of Ninja Revolution 2. It’s got more than 30 fighters ripped straight from the beloved anime/manga, it supports a four-player battle royale mode that’s a blast, and the single-player story mode has really nice variety. ...

Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 (Review)

Nov 19, 2009

Naruto. Its fans overrate it, and its haters underrate it. It’s an unfortunate situation, because by name alone many people will shun Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 as just another licensed title for Wii. Ignore your gut reaction - Tomy Corporation has developed a deep, enjoyable fighting game here. ...

NBA Live 08 (Review)

Oct 4, 2007

Oct 4, 2007 Plain and simple, the initial prospect of playing a hoops sim on the Wii scared the daylights out of us. Having flailed and swayed at more than our share of Wii Sports, we naturally assumed that a basketball version of the same thing meant a long winter rehabbing our torn ACL or shredded labrum. However, it turns out that EA didn't build their first b-ball title for Nintendo's new-generation console with anything of the sort in mind. Sure, you'll flick a wrist here and there to ...

NBA Live 09 (Review)

Nov 4, 2008

When we see one of these All-Play sports games, we don’t know whether to applaud EA’s attempt to embrace the Wii’s family-friendly image or groan at the thought of having to play something that would barely tax the motor skills of a corpse. This is point ’n’ click basketball, where you aim the cursor at a player and press a button to pass to him. ...

Necro-Nesia [import] (Review)

Feb 12, 2007

Like a viscera-loving fly, developer Spike has wormed its way into the rotting body cavities of countless survival horrors, laid its eggs and given birth to Necro-Nesia. Its a real scavenger of a game, gnawing on the meat of the finest pedigree - namely Resident Evil 2 and Silent Hill 3. But like the common fly, its unable to digest it all without puking up on it first and churning it into a grotesque gaming mess. Playing as a floppy-haired girly-faced guy - whose soft, boy-band looks look ...

Need for Speed Carbon (Review)

Nov 22, 2006

You can be forgiven for cynically thinking "Another year, another Need for Speed." Frankly, that's what we thought when the latest title in the series was announced. After all, the damn good Most Wanted just came out a year ago, so what could Carbon possibly offer so soon afterwards that would get our motors runnin'? It turns out that the answer comes in two parts. First off is the Wingman - not the buddy who'll sit with your hot date's ugly girlfriend at the bar - but a crazy fool who for ...

Need for Speed: Nitro (Review)

Nov 18, 2009

Although it’s relatively low key on Wii, Need for Speed: Nitro smacks of something born in focus groups and marketing meetings. This year you’re going to be into ‘taking ownership’ of ‘your media’ so here’s a racing game that’s all about you. ...

Need for Speed ProStreet (Review)

Nov 13, 2007

Nov 12, 2007 Ryan Cooper. Dont worry if youve already forgotten the name since youll be hearing it a few times in Need for Speed ProStreet. Its the moniker of your driver in Career mode. Hes not the most charismatic character. In fact, hes practically mute - and you only ever see him with his helmet on - but that doesnt stop the commentators banging on about him. “Its Ryan Cooper about to light this race up,” praises one MC. “If its too hot in the kitchen get out of Ryan ...

Need for Speed Undercover (Review)

Dec 1, 2008

One of the strangest selling points of Need for Speed Undercover is that it includes the chance to test drive a new Nissan model that won’t be available at car dealers for another couple of months. It won’t earn them any extra sales – prospective Nissan customers who use this game to get a sneak peek at their new purchase will most likely be straight on the phone to cancel their deposit. ...

Neopets Puzzle Adventure (Review)

Jan 21, 2009

You might not have heard of Neopets. A website featuring virtual animals, virtual gambling and a heap of very real advertising, it remains inexplicably popular among gullible net-surfing children. But that’s irrelevant: this title is Neopets in name only. You may be controlling an ugly chirpy thing in a pseudo-mythological setting, but you’re basically playing Puzzle Quest 2. ...

Nerf N-Strike (Review)

May 6, 2009

Without a doubt, the main attraction of this is that it comes bundled with a special NERF pistol. Like some kind of Transformer that never was, the pistol works as a proper soft dart gun which you can use to terrorize friends. But you can also click out the barrel and insert a Wii remote to make a very neat lightgun. Proper job, as we say down here in the Wild South West. ...

New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (Review)

Jun 3, 2009

Are you a seasoned Jungle Beater? Then New Play Control Jungle Beat is like having your dog’s legs amputated: it no longer runs and bounds as it should, but you’re still left with a recognisable lump of pooch to love and pat. Jungle Beat was designed to show off the GameCube bongo peripheral, a simple input respected with intelligent, simple design; design that was never intended to be sprinted through with an analog stick. ...

New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis (Review)

Mar 9, 2009

Hot on the heels of a remastered Pikmin comes another big in-house Nintendo title pitching for wider recognition on the world’s mainstream console of choice. Mario Tennis was an office favourite on back in the day, and we’d have to say it’s a perfect fit for a conversion to Wii. ...

New Play Control! Pikmin (Review)

Feb 5, 2009

Games quite often trigger bouts of déjà vu. We get it every time we’re invited to see the latest instalment of Need For Speed and quite often when Square Enix announces a new game that just happens to be a remake of an old PS1 game. But Nintendo is being more shameless than most with its latest New Play Control! series. ...

New Super Mario Bros Wii (Review)

Nov 13, 2009

Startling fact: this is the first traditional Mario game to appear on a console since 1991’s Super Mario World. That’s a huge burden to bear, as this is the exact type of game that transformed Nintendo into the worldwide juggernaut it is today. ...

NHL 2K9 (Review)

Sep 15, 2008

Every once in awhile, the thought would pop into our heads – why isn’t there a hockey game on the Wii? Then we picked up the Wii Remote and Nunchuk and said “oh yeah – riiiiiiiight.” Eventually, though, it had to happen, as simple math (zillions of Wiis sold = chance for money) dictates that at least one of the two NHL license holders would take a shot at the fastest game on ice. ...

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (Review)

Jun 3, 2009

You don’t need rose-tinted glasses so much as rose bushes planted directly in your eye sockets to find this movie tie-in even moderately attractive. It’s U-G-L-Y, and it ain’t got no alibi – reasoning, wrongly, that you can get away with this lo-res, fuzzy rubbish because it’s a Wii title. Majesco, Amaze and maybe even Ben Stiller himself should be embarrassed. ...