There aren’t many fighting games for the DS (Ultimate Mortal Kombat is about as good as it gets at the moment) and although this effort isn’t awful, it’s too middling to recommend to anybody but WWE fans. Which makes this review kind of pointless – if I’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that WWE fans are the type of people that would buy anything with WWE stamped over it, not to mention defend the ‘sport’ to their very graves. But that’s a rant for another time.
Month: December 2008
Scene It? Box Office Smash!
I love a quiz game. I’ve played most of the Buzz games and I can’t enter a pub without having a go on it’s Itbox, so I was really looking forward to Scene It. Was I disappointed? Well, yes and no.
First, the good. The presentation is – apart from the annoying voice overs with their awful, over-written banter – good. There’s a great use of cutely-animated avatars, however there are no pre-built characters to select, so a game can sometimes take an age to start as people try and randomise an avatar to suit them. Each individual round is presented in it’s own style, with enough nice flourishes of animation to give the game a good bit of character. The questions themselves are well presented, too, with the video clips round a particular highlight.
Tom Nooks and crannies
UK Chart Expecting Animal Crossing: Let’s Go to the City to be riding high in the chart this week? Think again – it goes in at a less-than-great #26. Ubisoft’s Persian Prince arrives at #30, and in its second week of release Sonic Unleashed enters at #33. It’s half price at Gamestation this week, so …
Full of Eastern promise
This Week’s Games From the looks of things, Prince of Persia and Animal Crossing: Let’s go to the City are the last of the big Christmas releases. That’s unless you count Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun on Wii and Indoor Sports School on DS as big releases. Which you probably don’t. Ubi’s cel-shaded Prince …
Free is my favourite price
We Brits may get our games later and often at inflated prices, but there is one advantage we have over our American friends: a continuous flow of free gifts stuck to the front of our video game magazines, some of which are actually worth the price of the magazine alone.
These are some of the best from over the years.
Guinness is good for you
UK Chart EA’s extensive advertising for the mediocre Need for Speed Undercover is paying off – it’s now #2 in the chart, up from #4. Call of Duty World at War holds on to #1, while Resistance 2 enters at #10. There’s only one other new entry in the whole of the top 40, and …