GamesRadar - Wii Reviews

Tak and the Guardians of Gross (Review)

3/11/2008

Shadow of the Colossus is the unlikely inspiration for this, the fourth game starring generically tribal platforming star Tak. This time, the loinclothed bonehead has accidentally released four giant ‘Grosstrosities’ upon the world, and it’s up to him to bring these lumbering maniacs to heel. ...

Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal (Review)

30/07/2009

Nostalgia? Please. As great as the original Secret of Monkey Island is, it’s a new adventure we’ve all been craving. Even though Tales is the first of the series not made by LucasArts (although Telltale have no shortage of people who worked on them, such as Dave Grossman and Mike Stemmle), make no mistake: it’s officially the fifth game in the series, not some farmed-out spin-off. ...

Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 2: Siege of Spinner Cay (Review)

16/09/2009

Thank goodness, the first one wasn’t a fluke. Telltale’s episodic Monkey Island revamp kicked off on a splendid high, and this second episode is easily up to the first’s satisfying standard. Strong puzzles, funny writing and a fantastic new villain in the form of Morgan Le Flay, a sexy pirate hunter who’s simultaneously Guybrush Threepwood’s biggest fan and greatest threat in ages. ...

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (Review)

13/11/2008

Dawn of the New World is a tale of two realms caught in a parasitic balancing act that threatens to destroy both worlds forever. Fitting then that the gameplay suffers from the same abrasive dichotomy, where half the ideas succeed while the other half sucks the life out of the whole project. ...

Tamagotchi No Pika Pika Daitouryou! [import] (Review)

5/02/2007

Clearly bent on taking over the world, the Tamagotchi critters are using a Wii multiplayer board game to decide on a President to lead them into battle. Up to four people can play, with the AI filling in if you (surely inexplicably) find yourself playing Tamagotchi on your own. Start by shaking the remote to throw a die, and move around the board to land on a square where: a) youre rewarded for doing nothing at all, b) youre penalised for doing nothing at all, c) youll get richer after watching ...

Tamagotchi Party On! (Review)

6/06/2007

It's hard to properly weigh in on such a perversely cute board game. The minigames are preschool-level at best, often requiring nothing more than simple gestures to complete. Dialogue is so basic that a five-year-old kid could whip up something more profound. Even the Community Chest-style spaces you land on put the little guys into are right out of a fable or moral tale (helping kids across the street, visiting old folks). But somehow its invasive, saccharine cuteness manages to generate ...

Target: Terror (Review)

8/05/2008

The credits list betrays their terrible secret. Many years from now, members of the Target: Terror development team will recount that fateful evening in the summer of 2004 when Target: Terror’s boss, Eugene Jarvis (of Narc and Cruis’n USA fame), sent down the order: Dave - bring in your bright red boiler suit; Gina - go get those PVC hotpants you wore to the Christmas party. And all of you - bring your sunglasses. The next day ...

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up (Review)

24/09/2009

Rats are put on earth for two things: spreading disease and starring in Pixar movies. It seems Splinter didn’t get the memo. The pet of ninja Hamato Yoshi, he spent his days observing his master’s martial arts, mimicking routines he would one day pass on to his amphibious acolytes. Developer Game Arts did much the same. ...

Tenchu: The Art of the Ninja (Review)

3/02/2009

There’s no Wii game quite as masculine as Tenchu: Shadow Assassins. Every character model is a statuesque brute, albeit carved from prime beef as opposed to stone. Every chest is coated with enough hair to craft 100 Brillo Pads. Even lady ninja Ayame comes stocked with horse thighs capable of snapping a neck. Tenchu4 is meaty. And Tenchu is governed by an equally meaty rulebook, free of confusing degrees of right and wrong. ...

Tetris Party - Wii Software (Review)

19/12/2008

Tetris! Now on WiiWare! Geometric shapes falling from the sky! Organize them in a space-conserving manner using your mystical powers of rotation! Play until your shape-pile touches the sky or your brain dribbles out of your nose! More addictive than morphine-coated potato chips! ...

Texas Hold 'em Tournament (Review)

29/06/2009

Gambling? It’s a mug’s game. That’s not to say we object to losing a tenner every now and again at a friend’s poker night. Hell, we even won a few bucks once. But you won’t catch us watching televised poker championships for tips before hitting those online casinos that seem to make up half the internet. ...

The Three Musketeers: One for All! (Review)

17/09/2009

This harks back to an era when 2D platformers were frustrating affairs that caused the onset of stress-induced baldness in 12-year-olds. We’re not saying we don’t like a challenge (we do), but when a limited-lives game punishes you like this one through its own poor controls and basic design flaws, we’re apt to throw the remote at the nearest editor. ...

Thrillville: Off the Rails (Review)

19/10/2007

Oct 18, 2007 The sandbox (genre) is no place for kids. Between GTA, Saint's Row, and True Crime, lil' Ginny Gamer has smartly stayed the hell out, lest she shovel up murder weapon Uzis or carry home a pail full of sticky condoms. Enter concerned citizen Lucasarts, who with their new theme park grab-bag Thrillville: Off the Rails, has picked out all the used syringes and, sack o' toys in hand, reclaimed the sandbox for ...

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Review)

15/03/2007

Ever since Nintendo broke the news of their weird white rectangle, we've been treated to many a photo of delighted Asians brandishing their remotes like golf clubs. Right out of the gate the Wii proved it could hit for power on the links with Wii Sports golf and Super Swing Golf. But we all knew there was a Tiger in the grass waiting rip the throats out of its cutesy predecessors and establish dominance amongst the "perfect" ...

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 (Review)

5/09/2007

Sept 5, 2007 Anyone who's ever dragged a bag of clubs around a golf course in pursuit of a small, white ball knows how frustrating the game can be. Unless you're one of the few hundred people in the world who are actually good at the game, nothing humbles you like those eighteen holes. However, there's something incredibly wonderful that moment when, for whatever reason, everything clicks and you smash a perfect shot. You may send the ball all over the place the rest of the day, but that one ...

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 (Review)

8/09/2008

Years ago, a round of Tiger Woods golf on your favorite console was a relaxing half hour, spent dominating the world’s best players with relative ease. Oh, how the Wii has changed things. Thanks to the wonders of waggle, 18 holes now translate into 30 minutes of violent gestures and measured nudges. ...

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (Review)

8/06/2009

One of the first things you see when you load up Tiger Woods 10 is a presentation explaining what’s new in this year’s game. Because these days it’s so vast that no matter how significant the additions, there’s always a chance you might miss something buried amid the countless options and modes. ...

TMNT (Review)

30/03/2007

When we first heard that the same studio that makes the fluidly acrobatic, lushly visualized Prince of Persia series was going to make a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game, we were thrilled. In our minds, no other team on Earth was better suited to blend the four things that define the turtles: a dark personality (in the original comics at least), incredibly acrobatic ability to treat an entire city like a jungle gym, teamwork, and high-flying martial arts shell-kickery complete with different ...

TNA Impact! (Review)

10/12/2008

The last thing we want to see sweaty, overweight men doing is wrestling, but they insist on doing it anyway. Often in ridiculous costumes. If you’re the sort of person who enjoys pinning a man to the ground and repeatedly punching him in the groin, though, you should probably seek professional help. That or play TNA Impact!. ...

Toki Tori - Wii Software (Review)

27/05/2008

It may not be a WiiWare game you've paid a great deal of attention to, but take an interest in Toki Tori you most certainly should, because it has the potential to be the biggest sleeper hit in the platform's early release schedule. ...