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This version is great, Better then last years

Posted : 1 year ago on 7 November 2008 04:55 (A review of WWE Smackdown VS Raw 2009)

Smackdown VS Raw returns on the Wii and last years was awful with only 5 modes but now Yukes have seemed to put a whole lot more effort in to this version by adding match types, a real story mode, defend championship titles (plus you get to see them). The game however still features the same bar which sort of makes it an arcade style wrestling game but this is not a bad thing it's decent at least the matches last longer in this version.

The great features of this version is you get interactive enterances and victory scenes which do add more fun to the game. The game also features the Royal Rumble, TLC, hell in a cell, steel cage, battle royle, ecw extreme rules match, backstage match, ladder. However there is no elimination chamber or inferno match they have sadly been removed but this is nothing major.

A new story mode is now in the game Road to WrestleMania but it only features Triple H, CM Punk, John Cena, Chris Jericho, Undertaker, and Batista and Rey Mysterio where you can only play as those 2 as a team. I am annoyed to see CM Punk having his own story mode when Edge should have clearly got one he's been the best wrestler this year. This mode features real clips and also makes it look like the TV show.

Finally Yukes added more moves to the game and a system where you can try to get out of moves which has you shaking your nunchuck analogue stick. It was finally good though that Yukes did listen to the people as we are the paying customers and they should be listening to us.

This is the first one to feature an online mode I can't see a downloadable content section. Online matches you can do but you can only do certain match types and the annoying thing is the lag it does get bad with lag specially for me. I have spent over 4 hours on this game and I got to say the graphics are not the best who cares the gameplay is good, the soundtrack is awesome finally new modes in the Wii version and online which is certainly a fantastic thing.

*I'll update this review when I play more of it*

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Parodius

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 2 September 2008 05:14 (A review of Gokujou parodius (It's Parodius! - From Myth to Laughter))

I just found this classic gem about 2 month ago and I got to say this is a really enjoyable game and I don't really like Horizontal scrolling shooter games but this one is just fun. Parodius is a Parody of the Gradius series which was also developed by Konami. Konami also use the characters from there other such as Antarctic Adventure and Twinbee.

In this game you play as Vic Viper who is in the Gradius series, Octopus, Twin Bee and Pentarou which is a penguin. There are many different bosses in the game such as a giant cat, some big girl who looks like a dancer from Las Vegas, a big bald American eagle and plenty more which are all made as a joke. This game has good graphics for it's time which it was about 1990 it was made. I really do recommend finding this game and giving it is funny and fun to play.

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York review

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago on 16 August 2008 02:26 (A review of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York)

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York a great movie a blockbuster then comes the game on Super Nintendo the first Home Alone game was horrible and so is this one. Home Alone 2 the game starts of at the hotel but in this game any thing can kill you hovers, the concierge will choke Kevin to death, the maids will wack Kevin with sort of things like umbrellas, briefcases coming out of a lift they can kill you. The game really is nothing like the movie and it really just some cheap cash in on a blockbuster hit movie trust me just AVOID THIS PILE OF TRASH.

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Emergency Mayhem review

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago on 15 August 2008 10:21 (A review of Emergency Mayhem)

Emergency Mayhem I could not wait for this game it really did just look like fun and a bit like Crazy Taxi but I was wrong. Emergency Mayhem has you playing as a police driver, ambulance and fire fighter which are mixed in with mini games.

The game lets you drive around parts of the place called Crisis City after doing each mission it will unlock another part of the city. Emergency Mayhem has a different set of mini games such as trying to get the fire out which has you moving your wii remote up and down, it has you guiding penguins back in the sea which has you moving your Wii remote with them, saving people from the building you have a trampoline and you have to guide them to safety, it also has things such as going in peoples body's and getting a fly or even nail out why in the hell would you swallow a nail not a good idea to do this is very awkward you have to move your Wii remote and press A. There's 30 mini games and theres just to many to name also you have to catch monkeys, patiences and robbers this involves you running them over you can't get out the car and get them you run over then thats teaching people the wrong thing.

The controls to the game are a little awkward you use your Wii remote to drive you press B and to reverse you press A the nunchuck you steer using the analog stick on it and Z lets you use the siren but only for a limited time.

The game also has a major down fall as sometimes the arrow does not appear for some reason it seems after doing so many missions it just disappears and you have no clue where to go and sometimes it will come back. The worst thing that happened to me was you finish all the missions now you have to go back to HQ I did but nothing happened and I had to go and do all 19 missions again. As Codemasters released this game it should of been tested it just seems like third party games on Wii are never done well.

The directional arrow in the sometimes is just not helpful as sometimes guides you in the wrong direction this is just annoying. I just want to go back to the mini games these can be annoying as sometimes the controls do feel unresponsive and fails to pick up the movement.

The dialogue in the game does get annoying as it is the same all the time if you lose a mission the women is just nasty saying stuff like you suck talk about hurting a child's feelings. When the dialogue just could of been you failed please retry. You can also drive around on public pavements and even run them over no law enforcement will stop you so this game really does live in a fantasy land.

The graphics do look like Nintendo 64 graphics I don't really care because they don't look that bad to me. The music sounds quite good and it really fits into the game very well.

I really think this game could of been improved on to me it feels rushed and it is a bit stupid no wonder this game is hard to find only one store in my town had it. If you like these style games just stick with Crazy Taxi cause that game is good and avoid this one as it is very frustrating.

This game was in plans in 2004 for Playstation 2 and XBOX by Acclaim since they went bankrupt they lost it. Four years later and Codemasters release it which this is there version as Acclaim's version looked a lot better and different to this. As I said it is quite boring and won't last long to enjoy kids may get bored of it easily there are far more better games on Wii to be spending your money on. This game cost me £20 pound and I feel ripped off I just of taking note of other reviews dam I wish I did.

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These are not the Gems of Sonic

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago on 6 August 2008 08:47 (A review of Sonic Gems Collection)

Sonic Gems Collection had to be one of the most disappointing Sonic games I bought Next Gen is the worst on 360 but I am not talking about that. Sonic Gems Collection just makes me laugh as Sega do claim these are the gems of Sonic when they are not all. The only 2 decent games are Sonic CD, Sonic R and Sonic Fighters which was just OK the rest are just terrible Game Gear games.

Sonic CD quite good just to me I like the Mega Drive/Genesis versions better I find Sonic CD a bit confusing and annoying with the whole future and past etc.

Sonic R is good but does have some annoying music the only good track is Super Sonic Racing while the others are just bad and kind of weird to be on a Sonic Game. The graphics to this game are not bad but this game lacks on stages I think there was only about 5 so this game can be finished in about 30 mins maybe less.

Sonic The Fighters I thought this was just OK it is quite slow and the graphics are a bit of a mess but it is good for it's time. It does have some decent music put into the game like any fighting game it can be finished fairly quickly.

The rest are not that good all Game Gear games Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (different from the Mega Drive/Genesis version I hate the fact one hit and your dead even with rings it still happens.) Sonic Spinball - Sonic in pinball I hated this game when it first came out. Sonic The Hedgehog Triple Trouble - This game was not to bad, Sonic Drift 2 - This was possibly the best Game Gear game featured on this. The other 2 who cares about them Tails Skypatrol, Tails Adventures.

The most annoying thing is they give you 2 extra games Vectorman and Vectorman 2 games in my mind that are terrible and boring. While the Japanese version gets Streets of Rage 1, 2 and 3 which I think it's pathetic that Sega just did not give us those games as well as they were some of the best games Sega made.

The extras also feature a screen where you can unlock and look at various different Sonic artwork

This is a bad Sonic collection and in my mind are not the gems the real gems are the ones featured on Sonic Mega Collection all the Mega Drive/Genesis games (not including Mr Robotnik Mean Bean Machine or Sonic Spinball). If you don't own Sonic Mega Collection that one is a must buy I would avoid this unless you want Sonic CD.

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Goldie rip off of Bambi

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago on 6 August 2008 08:17 (A review of Goldie)

I cannot believe I still own this game well it's not really a game at all I got this when I was a kid back in 2000. Goldie is really just a cheap rip off of Disney's Bambi the exact same thing is in this game. I bet your wondering why do I not call this a game and why I think it is bad well it features a Jigsaw Puzzle, Colouring Book you and know even when I was younger I found this boring. This also features so cheap crappy cartoon film of Goldie aka Bambi. It was released by that cheap games company Midas not one of there games was good and this game I paid £7.99 for it what a rip off. I think the only difference is Goldie's mother survives I don't know I never watched it all it's on for about half-hour. I think it was only released in Europe and we always get rubbish budget titles. Well thats all I can really say not much about this.

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Broken all over

Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago on 23 July 2008 10:38 (A review of Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing)

I can say I have played a whole lot of bad games Action 52, Cheetahmen 2, Bebe's Kids they were bad and this is just terrible. Big Rigs does claim so much as police cars chasing you as by looking at the cover along with other cars on the road. This game is a pack of lies really I have never seen anything so bad.

The game has no intro it just takes you to the main screen it does let you chose from 4 trucks does it matter which one you pick not really. The game has 5 tracks oh I am sorry 4 the other makes the game crash not getting off to a good start are we. Well it just never gets any better so your about to start the race and my opponent is doing nothing just stuck there wheres the fun none at all. So now I am playing the game I find no other cars in the game and I am going throw buildings, bridges and even flying in the air. Why is there a clock there you could take the whole day and win if you want there is no point it does not even fit in the box they made for the clock. The Rig has lights which are not even attached to it. When I press Tab I can play as my opponent and if I press it again the game crashes. The game has no sound effects the truck can turn fast and even spin fast it can. I played this and got no music I know it features music. So once your finished you get the famous You're Winner which then sends you back to the main screen.

The graphics are horrible it is like an early PS1 game even worse then what most budget companies have on offer. As for the patch Stellar Stone made it makes no difference it was still the same. This game was clearly not tested and the people who created it clearly do not know what they were doing it look at the credits it only names about 8 or 9 people. It is a shock to even find that this was released which it never made a release here but I still got to play it. Check it out if you want to see how bad it really is if not then stay away and watch the video with Alex Navarro who used to work for Gamespot he does not even have to say anything at all you can see it in his face how bad it is.

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This game is boring

Posted : 1 year, 4 months ago on 8 July 2008 08:55 (A review of Arcade Classics)

Recently I took a look at Arcade Classics because I didn't really know what was featured on this game. In 1996 came this very game which does feature only 3 games and these are Centipede, Missile Command, Pong (which is included as a bonus yes that is the best they can do). As for these there all Atari games so why wasn't the game called Atari Arcade Classics. The main issue with this game is that the graphics and sound is the same so you don't get any remixed versions just ports from the Atari 2600. I don't really need to go into that much detail of these games cause we have seen them before. I own the Atari 2600 and believe me there was better games like Food Fight for instance that was a classic.

This is a poor game with only 3 games on here when you could of got more I mean look at the Mega Games also released on Genesis/Mega Drive at least one of them had 10 games in 1. If you see this game it is worth a miss the only good thing to say about it is the intro screen.

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Weird Game Cover

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago on 18 June 2008 04:38 (A review of Phalanx)

Phalanx is your average space shooter on the SNES but it has some of the most weird box covers I have ever seen and why false advertising. The old guy with the Banjo does not even feature in the game why this happened I read somewhere that the developers added the man to attract customers as many space shooters where on SNES at that time. The game is OK but to me it's just pretty much the same as most space shooters and I for one am not a big fan of this type of genre.

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Noah in Wolfenstein 3D

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago on 14 June 2008 03:35 (A review of Super Noah's Ark 3D)

This was a bible game released by Wisdom Tree which Nintendo never licensed the game so Wisdom Tree never had any games licensed games by Nintendo at all so they are committing a sin aren't they well I think they are. Now about this game Super Noah's Ark 3D this is just a copy of Wolfenstein 3D instead you play as Noah and animals attack you, what you got to do is knock out the animals with food (yes food can knock out animals now lol) The game is a mess I played it with an emulator and the controls just suck everything about this is bad and the music is awful. I can't explain this anymore I will give this game a 1/10 trust me it is that bad. I only played this just to see what it is like so I don't follow the bible or go to church.

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