Nintendo DS: Lets do LAUNCH
November 22, 2004
It hasn’t been very long since Nintendo last released the Game Boy Advance SP. But since Nintendo announced that they would release the Nintendo DS back at E3 in May of 2004, they have had a lot of doubters… Yes, I was one of the doubters. However, I had reasons to justify my doubts. Nintendo would not officially, and still hasn’t to this day, announced that Nintendo DS is the successor to the Game Boy Advance. Does this mean that Nintendo DS is an experiment like the Virtual Boy? Does Nintendo feel like they can still sell both consoles and announcing the DS as the successor would hinder any sales for the GBA? Read more
Nintendo DS
November 21, 2004
Nintendo’s big focus this holiday season seems to be the Nintendo DS. Even Metroid Prime 2: Echoes seems to have been pushed aside to shine the spotlight on Nintendo’s handheld revolution. It was all so quick too. It was just six months ago that the Nintendo DS was first revealed to the world at E3, and now the system is premiering in North America. This is the first system that Nintendo has ever launched outside of Japan. Read more
Second Sight
November 21, 2004
Second Sight is the new game from Free Radical Design. You know them best for their TimeSplitters series. This year two developers have decided to make titles that incorporate psychic powers. Earlier in the year Midway released the popular Psi-Ops and now we have Second Sight. Read more
OutRun2
November 21, 2004
Nearly twenty years have passed since Sega first released the original OutRun. To this day, it remains one of the most beloved driving titles Sega ever released. Up until now, we haven’t seen a full sequel to the title though. All that has changed with OutRun2– available exclusively on the Xbox. Read more
Tron 2.0: Killer App
November 20, 2004
Science Fiction fans love Tron. Back when it was released in 1982, it created a revolution that people are still in love with today. Despite the popularity of it, there has never been a movie sequel. Buena Vista Games tried to resolve that with Tron 2.0 for the PC last year. Now they have ported the PC version over to the Xbox in Tron 2.0: Killer App. Read more
The Nightmare of Druaga
November 20, 2004
Back in the 1980′s Namco released an Arcade title called The Tower of Druaga. This game put players deep in a dungeon for some real-time hack and slash action. These type of games don’t come out that often so I was pretty surprised to see The Nightmare of Druaga released. Unfortunately, this game is just not my cup of tea. Read more
Mortal Kombat: Deception
November 20, 2004
I recall when Mortal Kombat was first released to home consoles during the era of the SNES and Genesis. Nintendo would not allow the game to show blood and the developers were forced to show “sweat� being beaten off the characters. Sega had no problem with blood and although the game didn’t look as sharp on the Genesis, players preferred to play it there. Despite the countless sequels, I don’t ever remember there being as much buzz about a Mortal Kombat game until now. Read more
Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders
November 19, 2004
Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders is actually not a brand new franchise. Although it was not a popular game, the original Kingdom Under Fire: A War of Heroes was available only on the PC and was yet another standard RTS clone. Because of the lack of originality, the title never sold well. Something, however, caused Microsoft to sign on to Publish Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders though. They made a pretty good choice in choosing it too! Read more
Gungrave: Overdose
November 18, 2004
In 2002, the PS2 got an action-packed title known as Gungrave that was nice to look at but didn’t play very well. Fast forward two years later and we get a big upgrade to the Gungrave franchise with Gungrave: Overdose. This title has much better gameplay, a good story, and solid graphics. The best part is that it only retails for fifteen bucks! Yes, you read that right… fifteen bucks! Read more
Demon Stone
November 18, 2004
The developer of the popular The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers game for EA has joined forces with Atari to bring the same type of Action gameplay to the home consoles based on the Dungeons & Dragons universe. While The Two Towers was a really good game, Stormfront has really done a lot to improve the formula and the end result is a hack and slash dream called Demon Stone. Read more