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Ratatouille (Review)

Jul 3, 2007

The good thing about movies is that you only have to watch them for roughly two hours. Conversely, the playing time of a videogame obviously equates to a longer experience, but that better be a damn satisfying one - one thats worth the sixty bucks you just dropped. Ratatouille, the latest corporate shilling from Disney to bank on the far more amazing film, brings tired minigames and boring platforming to wow children in the ...

Rayman Raving Rabbids (Review)

May 14, 2007

As a launch title for the Wii, Rayman Raving Rabbids earned a spot in the hearts of many an early adopter of Nintendos newest system. Featuring a nifty mix of waggle-based mingames, cutesy-yet-deranged rabbits, and a limbless protagonist with a penchant for dressing up as a granny (among other things), Rabbids was universally regarded as a fun and friendly “new-gen” experience. Parents and kids across the land spent hours besting each other at dozens of rabbit-centric, hand-flailing ...

Rez HD - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Feb 4, 2008

Even if you’ve never played Rez, chances are you’ve at least heard of it. Whether it’s from a friend who played it, a friend who knows someone who played it, or inappropriate uses for the Japanese-only Trance Vibrator that came with the original disc versions of the game. Either way, Rez is finally readily available at a very palatable price, and you owe it to yourself to try out this unique game. Rez is not quite a ...

Ridge Racer 6 (Review)

Mar 1, 2006

With all the well-deserved hype surrounding Project Gotham Racing 3, it's easy to dismiss Ridge Racer 6 as an also ran; something Namco shoved out the door just to cash in on the system launch fervor. After all, the arcade-y, drift-focused racing doesn't really deviate from any previous Ridge Racer game, and the paint jobs on the non-destructible cars look more like a high-res Xbox game than a 360 racer. Not really "next-gen" at all. But turn the key and stand on the gas, and you'll discover ...

Ridge Racer 6 (Review)

Feb 15, 2006

It must be great to live in the Ridge Racer universe. The streets are so clean. The sun is always shining and you can drive out of the city and be in the mountains in about, ohh, 20 seconds. If it wasn't for the fact that crossing the road is impossible due to 200mph-plus race cars storming by, we'd have moved in years ago. Welcome to the sixth in the famous Ridge Racer series (not counting the handheld spin-offs). The future has never looked so bold 'n' beautiful. And that famous Ridge ...

Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy (Review)

Jun 4, 2008

Looking back on preview coverage from this and other sites, there seems to have been a lot of excitement from critics leading up to the release of Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy. After playing through it from start to finish, though, it's hard to understand why. ...

RoboBlitz (Review)

Dec 21, 2006

Most reviews start out with a synopsis of the game's plot. But honestly, RoboBlitz doesn't need that. Your job, as robot technician Blitz, is to run through 19 levels of shooting and puzzle action in order to load and fire a giant space cannon. The real motivation to keep playing lies more in earning each new weapon or toy and seeing what kind of wacky things you can do with ...

Robotron 2084 - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Apr 17, 2006

Brutal. Relentless. Gorgeous. Well, two out of three ain't bad. The old quarter-gobbling shooter Robotron 2084 still has plenty of nerve-damaging gameplay to offer as an Xbox Live Arcade download, but even a few upgrades can't help it from looking and playing like a bit of a relic. Mind you, Robotron's twin-joystick assault made it the hardcore gamer's choice for years. Move with the left hand, shoot in all directions with the right, and try to rescue suburban humans wandering aimlessly in a ...

Rock Band (Review)

Nov 19, 2007

Nov 19, 2007 "No f&#*ing way am I wearing that." That was the initial reaction by many gamers when they saw the little plastic guitar that powered the original Guitar Hero. My, how times have changed. In Rock Band - the new multiplayer spin from the original GH creators, Harmonix - not only do you eagerly want to grab a fake plastic guitar, but you won't have to look far to find three other people just as willing to step up to grab a fake plastic bass, fake plastic drums and a fake plastic ...

Rock Band 2 (Review)

Sep 14, 2008

If the first Rock Band was the opening leg of a full-blown concert tour, with four players living the rock and roll dream via color-coded buttons and plastic guitars, drums, and microphone, Rock Band 2 is like the final show of that same tour. ...

Rocketmen: Axis of Evil (Review)

Mar 7, 2008

Rocketmen: Axis of Evil is a viewed-from-above, cartoonish shooter about a daring space warrior (you) who is part of a rebellion against a Martian empire. With your partners, you'll make life difficult for the green guys. Naturally, there will be many explosions.Gameplay is simple and familiar. The left analog stick controls movement and the right one directs shots. Shoulder buttons activate and cycle through special weapons. It's also possible ...

Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis (Review)

May 23, 2006

No stolen cars. No snuff films. No hot coffee. It's officially time to get over the fact that gaming's most controversial publisher has created a game rated E for Everyone. Instead, look at Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis and ask yourself, "Damn - why hasn't anybody else ever put this much effort into making a killer Ping-Pong game before?" Because for whatever reason you didn't expect it, Table Tennis kicks ass. To be honest, Table Tennis feels like a proof of concept - before the ...

Rocky and Bullwinkle - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Apr 17, 2008

Has the Live Arcade service finally jumped the shark? Outside of a few shining moments (namely: Ikaruga), the past couple months have been more than a little disappointing, with one misguided attempt at snagging the casual market after another. And the trend continues with Rocky & Bullwinkle - not only a weak attempt at the microgame genre, but one sporting a license that ceased to be relevant about 25 years ago.

The setup ...

Roogoo - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Jul 3, 2008

You can’t feel cool playing with one of those ‘push the block through the right-shaped hole’ games they give babies, so it’s tough to feel it while playing Roogoo. True, it’s more demanding: expecting you to spin the discs to the right holes at increasingly fast speeds, it mixes it up a bit with monsters to smash, butterflies, and more holes than a Swiss cheese in a gunfight. The challenge comes from fast ...

Root Beer Tapper - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

Feb 9, 2007

Root Beer Tapper - the latest classic to hit Xbox Live Arcade - is one of the most deviously simple games youll ever play. It seems so one-dimensional at first, but could very well end up an ...

Rumble Roses XX (Review)

Mar 30, 2006

Many of us here at GamesRadar are still scratching our heads at the popularity of TV shows like "Dancing with Celebrities" and "Skating with the Stars". But we'd totally tune in for "Wrestling with Porn Stars". We can't, because it obviously doesn't exist (at least, until someone from ABC reads this), but you can pretty much play it in the form of Rumble Roses XX. If you've ever looked at a Victoria's Secret catalog or gone to Hooters and thought, "You know, this would be so much cooler if ...

Rush'n Attack - Xbox Live Arcade (Review)

May 31, 2007

Remember the movie GoldenEye? Remember the first time we met the new “M” and she proceeded to dress down 007 by calling him a dinosaur? A relic of the cold war? Thats the first thing that springs to mind upon booting up Rushn Attack. The clever play on words gives away the games main thrust – you are a secret agent of some sort infiltrating what can only be a Russian base, racing against time to save a group of POWs scheduled for the firing ...