Arguably the success of Crash Bandicoot can be pinned on the marsupial turning up in the right place at the right time. The PSone had just had a price drop and started to appeal to younger gamers, and with Super Mario 64 still proving popular Sony wanted their own platformer to flaunt. Let’s be fair …
Why did nobody tell us that there was a Telly Addicts game for the DS? Game has no details about it whatsoever, but Amazon has some lovely Noel Edmonds box-art. There’s a load of other DS games out this week too including Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground, CSI, The Simpsons – which comes on the largest …
Read this: “our upcoming product will deliver an experience that will span the traditional boundaries of video game entertainment.” Span the boundaries? Surely that doesn’t really make sense. But hey: it sounds like it might mean something, and that’s good enough for a press release. A press release announcing almost nothing, anyway. What almost nothing? …
EA have announced the full song list for ridiculous peripheral-fest Rock Band. And it’s fine – good, even. ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ by The Ramones: excellent. And what’s that? A Pixies track? Sterling work, EA. Except the line-up has been split helpfully into decades, and ‘Wave of Mutilation’ is filed under “2000s”. That’ll be a track off …
I’m not sure if this has happened before, but the top three games in the chart are all football related – Pro Evolution 2008 sits right at the top, FIFA 08 at #2 and Football Manager 2008 at #3. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption enters at #7 and High School Musical: Makin’ the Cut has risen …
Captain Planet would be proud. Whereas the first Chibi-Robo – one of the last truly great GameCube games – saw the mute robot reunite a broken family while tidying up their home, this sequel is set in the great outdoors and has an anti-pollution theme. Speaking of Captain Planet… isn’t it time for his revival? …
Sonic needs to cut back on eating worms, dead foxes and whatever else hedgehogs eat before entering the Beijing 2008 Olympics. And Mario should know better than to waste water by fiddling with sprinklers. He’s a ruddy plumber!
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is undoubtedly this week’s big one. Review scores haven’t been as high as the first game – released six years ago now, believe it or not – but they have been higher than the slightly lacking sequel. The controls are said to be spot on although it’s hard to say if …
All those who said they’d eat their hat the day a decent cartoon licensed game arrives should get ready to eat hat pie – Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck on DS has been getting some very warm reviews. Rather than being another generic platformer, the idea is to frustrate Daffy as much as possible – the …
Sega’s Football Manager 2008 – for PeeCees – has knocked FIFA 08 off the top spot and has become Sega’s first number one since Football Manager 2007. The Orange Box has managed to outsell Zelda: Phantom Hourglass – Valve’s collection goes in at #3, while Link’s latest enters at #4, one place above Halo 3. …
In a genre neatly sewn up by Activision and their annual Tony Hawks knee scraping sims, you’d be forgiven for thinking that EA’s developers would struggle to get one over on the bird man. Admittedly we did have our doubts on hearing ‘Ace of Spades’ unpredictably blaring out over the FMV intro, not to mention …
Just as I was ready to write the PlayStation 3 off as a disaster of Dreamcast proportions, Sony release quite possibly the first game that’s ever come close to looking like a real CGI film (that doesn’t involve shooting people from a first person perspective) – and that game is Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools …
Will The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass be able to knock FIFA 08 from the top of the charts? We’d like to think so – it’s not as if the DS hasn’t been selling well in the UK. Nintendo would probably be just as pleased if it outsold Halo 3 – currently at #3 in …
It’s a slow news day, not that it matters much around these parts, so we’d though we’d introduce you to High Score 100 – a Transfomer toy loosely based on a PlayStation joypad. Sadly he’s a bit smaller than the real deal, but still very cool. Can we have a free one please, Hasbro?
The Sims bandwagon keeps on rolling, but whereas the Wii’s rushed out conversion of The Sims 2: Pets was a bit of damp dog, this tailor-made effort is superlative stuff. In fact it’s more like a medley of Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon than a proper Sims game – you don’t have to make them …
