So, Transformers: The Game. If you haven’t the time to read our review, here’s a quick rundown: it looks really nice, and smashing stuff up then lobbing it around is fun, but the mission objectives are blander than a stale cheese sandwich and the boss battles are devoid of all creativity. In the opening FMV …
When the new-look Transformers models were shown off for the first time, fans moaned about Bumblebee being turned from a Volkswagen Beetle into a Chevrolet Camaro. The creators explained that it was because they didn’t want their super-realistic movie to include a bright yellow clone of Disney’s Herbie, which makes perfect sense to us. Fans …
The first Stuntman game was frustrating to the extreme, resembling a memory test rather than a racing game in places. This fact wasn’t helped by the way that every time you had to restart a level – which was pretty often – it had to load again from scratch. Thanks to modern technology, there are …
Peter Moore’s only gone and left Microsoft, hasn’t he? The former Sega man – who will therefore always be of interest to me – is moving to EA, heading up the EA Sports Label. Moore worked for Reebok at one point, so he’s got all the requisite experience. Probably. Don Mattrick – once an EA …
Rockstar have announced their second Wii game. It’s not a Wii-make of Canis Candem Edit or any of the recent Grand Theft Autos, but rather the year-old surprise Xbox 360 hit Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis. They’re going for the casual market, it would seem, which is probably a safe bet given that their next …
A 16 year old boy from Norfolk got more than he bargained for when he bought a PlayStation 2 off eBay – inside the box was €65,400 (£44,000). He didn’t get the two games promised from the seller, although it’s unlikely that he’s too peeved about that. How do you fit that amount of money …
Our original plan was to print off an English translation guide to Link’s latest from GameFAQs, and have a solid blast in order to bring you a nice fact-packed review. Things haven’t quite gone to plan though, mainly because the game’s quite text heavy, and as such we felt we were missing out on a …
Decathletes, announced today by publisher Ghostlight, could also have been a contender for ‘Trying to Boost Sales with a Near Trademark Infringing Title of the Week’. At least they’re honest though: “Our goal is to create a highly realistic athletics simulator whilst maintaining a compelling pick up and play game style akin to titles such …
The Nintendo DS version of Deal or no Deal is coming to Europe in time for Christmas, thanks to a new deal between distributors Koch and Mindscape. Is it even that popular any more? I’m afraid I lost interest in it a while ago. No idea whether Edmonds will be in it, but I fear …
Mario Party 8 was supposedly recalled, yet it’s still new at #5 this week. Why? Maybe because approximately 26 games are sold per week at this time of year. I don’t know, frankly. The top three remains Potter, More Brain Training and Shrek, with Wii Play up a couple to complete the top five. Mario …
I think we’re just about done with E3 for another year, but before we forget all of it, let’s see some lovely bright Wii screenshots – Mario in his bee costune in Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart, and NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams. And to balance that, how about the first couple of screenshots of Silent …
E3 – it’s all done and dusted for another year. As usual a load of announcements have gone almost unnoticed. That’s where this round up comes in. They’re pretty chummy these days, so it’s odd that Nintendo haven’t lent Ubisoft the Excitebike name for their online-enabled Nitrobike on Wii. What’s odder is that it’s actually …
The latest issue of NGamer has fallen through subscribers’ letterboxes. Inside the magazine, which sports a nice laminated Boogie cover this month, they confirm that Project H.A.M.M.E.R. has been canned. This would explain why it wasn’t at E3. It always looked a bit rubbish, anyway.
A little bit of news to kick off this week’s new game round up: although already shipped to retailers, Mario Party 8 has been recalled by Nintendo due to a fatal bug. Game have removed all traces of it from their website while Amazon have confirmed that it has been temporarily withdrawn. I wonder if …
…the 60GB PlayStation 3 with two first party games and two SIXAXIS controllers for the familiar price of £425. This is, of course, after the US got a $100 price cut on the 60GB model, and a new package containing an 80GB model with MotorStorm for the original price of $599 earlier this week. No …
