FullReviews Index
EA Sports Active - Game Review
Some people love working out at the gym. There is something about the sweat and strain that just makes them feel good. I am not one of these people; I work out not because I enjoy it, but because in between workouts I feel stronger and less prone to aches and pains. "EA Sports Active" is just like working out in the gym; it makes me sweat, it works my muscles and it’s not the least little bit of fun.
"Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party 2" Video Game Review
Video game review of Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party 2, a rhythm game for the Wii
Muramasa: The Demon Blade - Game Review
With dragonflies flitting through fields of tall grasses and waves crashing on pristine beaches, gorgeous pink-orange sunsets and rain pouring down in slanted sheets of water. "Muramasa: The Demon Blade" is a game for lovers of scenery.
Metroid Prime Trilogy - Game Review
When Metroid Prime Trilogy was announced, I realized it would be my opportunity to solve a small mystery: why didn’t I like Metroid Prime 3: Corruption?
"New Play Control! Pikmin" Game Review
A review of the strategy game New Play Control! Pikmin for the Nintendo Wii
Call of Duty: World at War Game Review
Review of the Wii version of the Video Game Call of Duty: World at War
MadWorld - Game Review
A game review of MadWorld, a Fighting/Action game for the Nintendo Wii.
Guitar Hero 5 - Game Review
I received Guitar Hero 5 the same day I received The Beatles: Rock Band, so I called up my friends and asked if they would like to come over and try out a little of both games. The first group of friends refused to play anything except the Beatles game, so I set up a second play date with the express understanding that we would give Guitar Hero 5 a chance.
SimAnimals - Game Review
Game Review of the strategy/god game SimAnimals for the Nintendo Wii
The Beatles: Rock Band - Game Review
Beatles Rock Band is the best band rhythm game of all time. The worst part of the game; trying to get your friends to go home.
Circus Games - Video Game Review
Review of the mini-game collection Circus Games for the Nintendo Wii game Console
"Game Party 2" Game Review
Video game review of the mini-game collection Game Party 2 for the Nintendo Wii
Tales of Monkey Island: The Siege of Spinner Cay - Game Review
I'll tell you this is a great game, but that's all I'll tell you!
Cursed Mountain - Game Review
Sometimes, late at night, a gamer playing a survival horror game will scream out in fright. But if you hear someone scream while playing Cursed Mountain, they’re not scared; they’re furious.
Spectrobes: Origins - Game Review
A headstrong boy and his sensible girl partner go on an adventure in outer space where they learn the importance of teamwork and friendship. If that strikes you as just the sort of original, powerful storyline you are craving, then you are just the ten-year-old the role-playing game Spectrobes: Origins is looking for.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 - Game Review
Athletes only have so many years at the top before they are betrayed by their aging bodies. Fortunately for Tiger Woods, the videogame series named for him is improving even as he is declining. Games like "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10" are so good that they will continue coming out in a future where the only time Tiger picks up a club is to play miniature golf with his grandkids.
Spectrobes: Origins - Game Review
A headstrong boy and his sensible girl partner go on an adventure in outer space where they learn the importance of teamwork and friendship. If that strikes you as just the sort of original, powerful storyline you are craving, then you are just the ten-year-old the role-playing game Spectrobes: Origins is looking for.
Let's Tap - Game Review
I’m not exactly sure why my friends David and Yi wound up playing the party game Let’s Tap at my apartment. When I asked them a couple of weeks ago if they were interested in playing a game in which you put the Wii remote on a box and tap the box with your fingers to control the game, which I thought was a really cool idea, they both made a face and shook their heads.
Marble Saga: Kororinpa - Game Review
2007’s puzzle game "Kororinpa:Marble Mania" was an excellent third of a game masquerading as an entire one. Now Hudson Entertainment has returned with a second installment, "Marble Saga: Kororinpa", which happily turns out to be not just the other two thirds of the original, but a complete game actually worth its asking price.
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars – The Director's Cut - Game Review
I don’t know when
the term "director's cut" stopped meaning "a
work re-edited to fulfill the director’s original intent before
it was subverted by second-guessing or budgetary restraints" to
"a work padded out with rejected ideas and outtakes to make it
seem like something new," but I do know that Revolution
Software’s adventure game "Broken Sword: Shadow of the
Templars – The Director's Cut" falls solidly into the
latter category.
Overlord: Dark Legend - Game Review
A reviewer goes through the five stages of playing Overlord: Dark Legend: Excitement, enjoyment, confusion, sadness and anger.
Grand Slam Tennis - Game Review
The ball speeds towards me. I pull my remote back and swing it in a graceful arc. My tennis playing avatar wiggles her racket then seemingly gives up on the ball, watching it pass by disinterestedly.
I yell something obscene.
This isn’t what always happens in EA Sports’ Grand Slam Tennis. To be fair, it isn’t what even happens most of the time. But it happens just often enough to really aggravate me.
Wii Sports Resort - Game Review
Unless you bought your Wii used, it came with Nintendo’s "Wii Sports," a game that brilliantly showcases the abilities of the Wii’s motion sensitive remote by letting players swing a virtual bat or a golf club with a sweep of that remote. It was so much fun that many people didn’t bother buying another game for months. But once you’ve played the sequel, "Wii Sports Resort," you may never want to play Wii Sports again.
Tales of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhale - Game Review
No one could have been more excited to see a new Monkey Island adventure game than Mimi. A friend of mine who played her first Monkey Island game when she was 11 years old, Mimi was so excited at the prospect of a new game in the series, nine years after the last one, that I invited her and her boyfriend Jeff to come over and play "Tales of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhale."
The Munchables - Game Review
It would be difficult to live in a world where your lunch was trying to kill you. But such is life in Namco-Bandai’s The Munchables, a game in which food fights back.