The drought of new titles for you gamers seems to be lifting with a monsoon-like deluge of game goodness. We just received a massive amount of new titles and copies, so you should check out the following list:
- Wii
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympics
- Kung Fu Panda
- The Incredible Hulk
- Death Jr.:Root of Evil
- Mario Strikers:Charged
- Lego Indiana Jones:The Original Adventures
- Prince Caspian
- Xbox360
- Grand Theft Auto IV (more copies!)
- The Incredible Hulk
- Viva Pinata:Party Animals
- Ratatouille
- Quake Wars:Enemy Territory
Wow did we get a giant pile of games in this week, so many that I am going to resort to the magic of the bulleted list in order to draw attention to the sheer magnitude of great titles now available. BEHOLD THE POWER OF THE BULLETED LIST!
Playstation 2
- Teen
- The Simpsons Game
- Naruto:Uzumaki Chronicles 2
- .hack//G.U. Vol.3 Redemption
- Warriors Orochi
- High School Musical:Sing It!
- Junior
- Digimon World Data Squad
- Hot Wheels: Beat That!
- Surfs Up
- Metropolismaina 2
- Cars: Mater-National Championship
Xbox360
- Adult
- Stranglehold
- Beautiful Katamari
- Kengo: Legend of the Nine
- Vampire Rain
- TimeShift
- Kane and Lynch:Dead Men
- Mass Effect
- Call of Duty 4:Modern Warfare
Wii Games
- Adult
- Pool Party
Here it is! Our first games review from you the public! Just click the "Submit Review" button to the right and you too could be sharing your opinion with all and sundry!
First Name (ONLY): Jacqueline
Type of Review: Game
Intended Audience: Teens
Title: simpsons road rage
Your Rating: *** Recommended
GC, PS2, xBox?: xBox
Your Review: It was a fun game! i beat my sister badly at it! I've played it before when i was little at my friends house and i loved playing it again!
Katamari Damacy
ESRB Rating: E
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This is perhaps the strangest game ever thought up in the fevered dreams of the mad Japanese. Most great works are the product of madness however, and Katamari Damacy is definitely a great work.
What you do with this game is roll a ball that picks things up, making the ball bigger, until you run out of time, at which point if it is large enough your dear old dad, the King of All Cosmos, will turn it into a star to replace one of the ones he destroyed while, ahem, "Happy".
The quirkiness of this title is what makes it great, the description of "rolling stuff up" does not do justice to the "up till 3am" fun of this game. The vast range of items to roll up, well designed play mechanics and, cartoonish atmosphere, amazing soundtrack, not to mention delightfully bizzaro cut scenes, make this a game everyone should play at least once.
I give it my highest rating yet, 5 thumbs up, and 10 rolled up balls of stuff!
Ape Escape 3
ESRB rating:E
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While I was living in Japan I watched a children's TV program every morning to help improve my Japanese. While this seems like a good idea, the fact that the program featured Ape Escape Cartoons as one of many different 5 minute vignettes lead my Japanese to be...odd. At least I now know what to yell if I ever need to capture escaped monkeys with yellow construction hats with revolving lights on them.
This game is a light, fun, easy platformer. You have to recapture a group of escaped monkeys, they don’t want to be recaptured, hilarity ensues!
A pretty standard game, collect things, unlock new items to help you collect things, jump over things, fight bosses etc.
There is a large and twisted streak of humor twisting through this game, with monkeys dressed up in various strange ways and doing various strange things.
Worth playing for a weekend or so, but not a long-term play.
Harvest Moon:A Wonderful Life
Playstation 2, Gamecube
ESRB Rating:E
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In a medium dominated with games about driving cars, beating people up, chomping on mushrooms to grow big, this game allows you to be...a farmer!
It is a lot better than I make it sound, you inherit a farm and have to run it, improve it, and help out the townspeople in the various small tasks that they need done to make their electronic lives better.
It is surprisingly addictive, with the player having to carefully manage their budget, decide on which aspects of the farm to improve, and what tasks they need to prioritize in order to make the most money.
In addition to all of this, there are several women around town that you can chase and convince to marry you! Pick the right things to brib...er,GIFT them with, and you too can live the exciting, fantastical life of a married farmer.
This game is totally non-violent, and is a great way to introduce your children to simple management ideas.
I give it a solid 4 cows of goodness.
This little gem of a game is one of the oddest rpgs I have played in a long time. The premise is simple, the world ended, leaving a post-apocalyptic wasteland populated with bizarre bio-robotic monsters.
You are a Hunter. You hunt the monsters, with tanks. As I love tanks this concept is awesome in the extreme. There are lots of tanks to find, steal, or dig up out of the wasteland.
The odd part is, unlike most rpgs, there is no real "story". You wander around fighting random encounters, or if you prefer hunting down "named" villains that are available from the Hunters office. There is a storyline, but it is not the driving force of the game, and in fact is more of a series of subplots then a real story-arc.
There are also assorted women for you to try and date, by buying them new outfits or stuff for their houses. You can also buy stuff for yourself to make your own room better.
This open-endedness is both the games strength and weakness; while you are free to pursue your own goals, the lack of a solid story limits engagement into the world.
I give it 3 thumbs up for story, but 5 cannon-shells for awesome tank battling.
Catalogue: Metal Saga