Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher’s Bay
June 28, 2004
In the crazy world of gaming sometimes things can happen that just don’t make much sense at first. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher’s Bay is one of these things that do not make much sense, but that’s a good thing. If the law of licensed materials were quantum physics then Riddick is a square planet and I hope there are plenty more where this game came from. Read more
Full Spectrum Warrior
June 10, 2004
Earlier this year when I first saw movies and screenshots of Pandemic Studios’ Full Spectrum Warrior, I immediately wanted to play the game. Well now six months later I have played it, from the hours I’ve spent playing the game I can easily say this game is well worth your purchase; under the right circumstances. Read more
MLB 2005
June 7, 2004
The new Major League Baseball season is well underway and this means that a new crop of video game titles based on America’s favorite pastime have arrived. For years, 989 Sports has seen an enormous amount of criticism for the vast majority of titles they have released. Some of it may have been deserved. However, the company has been doing everything in its power to ensure their titles meet the quality fans expect. While it could have been easy to kick 989 Sports while they were down, and the rest of the press around the industry were busy doing the same, we at CVGames have tried to take a positive stance on 989 Sports’ titles that have been released. Once again, their MLB franchise is alive and well. This year, it is so good, it even can be called the best baseball title on any platform. Read more
Mario vs. Donkey Kong
June 6, 2004
Although there have been many Donkey Kong games since his 1983 debut, many people have been asking if we will ever see Mario and Donkey Kong in a game that has the same type of gameplay as the original Donkey Kong. While Donkey Kong Jr. and Donkey Kong 3 may be considered sequels, they both had very different gameplay elements than Donkey Kong. Well, Mario vs. Donkey Kong is the sequel to the original that people have been hoping for. It is a true sequel to the original gameplay where Mario is the hero and Donkey Kong is the villain. Like the original Donkey Kong, each level is fairly small, and Mario’s task is to get from start to finish, mostly all on one screen. What many people do not know is that there was a game also called Donkey Kong for the original Game Boy that was released in 1994. Donkey Kong ’94 took the basic concept of the original Donkey Kong and expanded it with more elements in the gameplay. Mario vs. Donkey Kong is a sequel to this game. Read more
World Tour Soccer 2005
June 6, 2004
Although 989 Sports is taking a year off in several of their franchises, World Tour Soccer 2005 is here and the franchise has proven to be one of their most consistently good titles in their yearly lineup. Does that tradition continue in the latest version in the series? Read more
Custom Robo
June 5, 2004
What do you get when you combine a lackluster Role Playing Game with a shallow Action game with up to four robots fighting each other at once? You get the latest title from Nintendo and developer Noise–Custom Robo. This GameCube title is the first incarnation of the series in the US. However, Custom Robo is the third version in the series. After spending some time with the first version released in the US, it is easy to see why Nintendo has taken so long to bring it to us. Read more
Sanyo VM 4500
June 4, 2004
There are a few things in life that I would consider a sure thing. After several years of using a cellular phone, I never thought I would find a brand or service that I could call a sure thing. But all of that has changed. Sprint PCS phones from Sanyo give me the quality, signal strength, and features that I need. Their latest phone, the VM 4500, is a work of genius and gives me yet another reason to brag about Sanyo and Sprint. Read more
Samsung A680
June 2, 2004
Sprint users are known to have the best technology in their phones. This tradition continues in the Samsung A680 phone that includes a Digital Camera, now standard on most Sprint phones, a flash, a video recorder, and a light to take videos in the dark. All of these features come packed into a tiny phone that retails for $309.00. However, with the promotions and rebates you can receive, the phone can cost anywhere from $149.99 and under. Read more