PlayStation Store Gets MGS4, Heavenly Sword
Well, a video and demo, anyway. The final products and games are still a ways off.
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Transformers: Autobots
A console-sized game for the DS, but the limits of the hardware hinders the gameplay experience.
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Transformers: Decepticons
Like its Autobots kin, it’s limited by the DS hardware and hinders the console-like experience the devs were going for.
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PaRappa the Rappa
With the onslaught of rhythm games over the past two years,
it only makes sense that Sony would bring their king of the beats – PaRappa the Rapper, back for a round on the PSP. While this PSP port maintains the original PlayStation game’s charm, it unfortunately also maintains theoriginal game’s difficulty and so-so content, which makes it a tough beat to keep for $30. PaRappa the Rappa is simplistic in design – you just hit the various buttons on the PSP in time with the beat. That timing becomes…
Overlord
Why waste time breaking countless objects and battling swarms
of foes when others can do it for you? This simple concept anchors the basic premise behind Overlord, a refreshing and surprisingly strategic third-person action-adventure game where issuing commands to gnarly minions ousts traditional do-it-yourself gameplay mechanics. Need a door opened? Let the minions do it. Need…
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The fifth Harry Potter game, and first on Nintendo Wii, marks a radical departure 
for the series. While the other console versions are pigeonholed into classic control schemes, the Wii version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is able to take full advantage of motion controls to turn the Wii Remote into a viable magic wand accessory. On top of that, this is by far the biggest and most polished Potter adventure yet, dragged down only by the companion novel’s slow-paced…
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Project Sylpheed
The core gameplay is excruciatingly boring, and great graphics have the same effect as polishing a turd.
Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
I profess to never having played the Nintendo DS, much less the
handheld gaming system’s immensely popular Big Brain Academy. The game’s recent jump from handheld to the Wii, Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree, provides an opportunity for strictly home-based console players to see what all the fuss is about, myself included. I’m willing to put my brain on the line as a test subject, but I won’t forget the game was originally designed to work with the DS touch-screen and not the Wii-mote. The setup is…
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Mass Effect
When LucasArts and BioWare released Knights of the Old Republic,
they probably didn’t realize just how big a hit they had on their role-playing hands. When it came time for a follow-up, BioWare was employed elsewhere, which left Obsidian to take the reins for a sequel that turned out to be not quite as compelling. For BioWare’s next hit-in-the-making, Mass Effect, Microsoft wanted to avoid that fate, signing the developer to create…
The BIGS
The BIGS is a triumphant return to arcade baseball on next-gen consoles, but the gameplay still needs tuning.