05/06/08
When THQ announced Battle of the
Bands, the first thing that came to mind was a Wii-exclusive "me too" band game a la Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Yeah, yeah, it would use the Wii Remote rather than a peripheral ... whatever. Add on top of this unoriginality the confusing concept of "musical combat" and songs that dynamically changed genre in mid-level, and THQ was sure to have a stinker on its hands, right? Not even close....
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04/29/08
There's an unmistakable adrenaline rush when
firing up a new Mario Kart game for the first time, fueled by a nostalgic return to a gaming phenomenon running 15 years strong. There's also the anticipation of wondrous new features that elevate Mario Kart racing to a new level of addiction. In Mario Kart Wii, the payoff is a game relying heavily on its roots while simultaneously taking the series into uncharted online waters. Mario Kart's....
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04/27/08
The Destroy All Humans! games
have always taken us back to an innocent time, a time when gas-guzzling cars were celebrated, not reviled; when hoop skirts and fedoras were fashionable, not ridiculed; and when giving people anal probes was novel and hilarious. OK, so that last one still holds true. This latest attempt by the Furons to wipe out humanity takes players to the 1970s, a more modern era than previous DAH outings but one with....
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04/25/08
Agatha Christie is synonymous with mystery
novels, and The Adventure Company is synonymous with -- you guessed it -- adventure games. It would seem like the combination of these two entities would be a point-and-click mystery match made in heaven. Unfortunately, as good as the source material and pedigree might be, the Wii game Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None is an absolute disaster, a perfect example of an idea that....
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04/21/08
What is "fun"? We have often used
this term when reminiscing about Disneyland or summer vacation, but how foolish we have been not to use this term to describe the joyous occasion known as the SATs and IQ tests. What's that, you say? The SATs and IQ tests are the exact opposite of fun? Well, apparently Best of Tests never got the memo. Best of Tests for the Nintendo DS is not only a great new tongue twister, but an attempt to....
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04/13/08
His vision fading, Ryu Hayabusa
slumps to the ground as the hundreds of fiendish abominations surround him. It seems as though evil has won this day as Ryu breathes his last and falls to the ground. Elsewhere, a controller is hurled against the wall as the words GAME OVER decorate the screen once again. This sounds like something out of a gamer's nightmare, but it was the typical story for anyone who played Ninja Gaiden on Xbox. A great game, to....
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04/10/08
When we first saw Katamari
Damacy at E3 several years ago, nothing the PR reps said could have convinced us that the game was particularly compelling, let alone that its would be so successful that gamers would be clamoring for sequels as well as King of All Cosmos T-shirts. With that history as our guide, when we first heard about de Blob, a game that's part platformer, part action game and part color-mixing tutorial, we were puzzled but....
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04/03/08
The original Xbox endured its share 
of jokes about being nothing more than "a Halo adapter for your TV," so when you look at what most people play on their Wii, it's just as fair to say Nintendo's console is little more than "a Wii Sports adapter for your TV." Sure, there's Super Mario Galaxy, Zelda and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, but the Xbox had Dead or Alive 3 and a few other games up its sleeve as well. When it comes right down to it....
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04/01/08
Videogame fishing and motion controls
go together like eggs and bacon. You can heartily enjoy either one by itself day or night, but the taste is so much sweeter when they collide. This match made in heaven is precisely why porting the SEGA Dreamcast version of SEGA Bass Fishing to Nintendo Wii was a no-brainer. SEGA didn't have to manufacturer and produce a new "rod" accessory to simulate the sport's signature moves; The Wii's default....
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03/26/08
The Gamecube gave us some truly
spectacular Nintendo titles, although it didn't exactly give us the same from third parties. So, odds are high that if you owned a Gamecube, knew someone who owned one or came within 100 feet of one, you played or knew about the greatest Gamecube game: Super Smash Bros. Melee. If you owned Super Smash Bros. Melee, you've probably been playing it since its release, as its multiplayer slugfest never gets....
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03/13/08
As we've seen time and time again
on the latest Nintendo platforms, mini-games equal money. For a struggling franchise like Bomberman, perhaps the best thing for Hudson Soft is take their beloved characters and stick them -- against their will, I'm sure -- into another generic set of mini-games. It worked on the DS a year ago, and could well work for the Wii this time around. But if it doesn't work for you, at least Bomberman Land Wii....
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03/03/08
Most DailyGame readers are familiar with arcade shooters
and probably know the looks you get from middle-aged moms who see you clutching that AK-47 in the arcades. Fortunately, the Wii has been a pretty successful port-house for old arcade shooters, and now with the help of Samurai Warriors: Katana, we can clutch our Wiimotes in the privacy of our own homes. While Samurai Warriors: Katana comes nowhere near the quality....
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02/07/08
"Sleeping with the Fishes" takes on a whole
new family-friendly meaning in Nintendo and Akira's Wii exclusive, Endless Ocean. Hunting, killing and violence are passed over in favor of exploration, knowledge and interaction. There is a beginning and an end, but not in a traditional sense. This ocean has been designed for gamers curious about marine wildlife to explore their curiosities without having to worry about beating....
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02/05/08
Admittedly, I'm not a fan of real-time
-strategy games, and it would take a darn good one to hold my button-mashing oriented attention. So while Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command for Nintendo DS is not a game I would go out and buy, I can confidently say it's not a horrible game, either. Actually, the multiplayer and Wi-Fi modes are enough to warrant a purchase for hardcore RTS fans, many of whom salivate over....
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01/21/08
I do game reviews for a kids' website 
most of the time. One of the things that helps me get a solid perspective on things is having my 11-year-old son play games with me. Recently we took a stab at Atari's new Godzilla game, Godzilla Unleashed, for PS2 and Wii. I was a bit guarded at first, because I'd been following the game for a while and had posted some early gameplay videos that, to be charitable, were ugly....
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12/21/07
When the Nintendo Wii came out of the gates
swinging, EA was one of the first companies to admit its "mistake" in not supporting the console more fervently and vowed to change its tune immediately. The first Wii-specific games to come from that promise have begun hitting stores, from Medal of Honor Heroes 2 to the more-recently released Smarty Pants. Designed for the Wii and within the premise of EA's "Family Play" model, Smarty....
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12/20/07
Finally Contra fans are treated to the nostalgic masterpiece they've been 
waiting for since the original. The fourth in series has all the right elements from the first game, but takes it to the next level with excellent level design, insane difficulty, and frenzy paced spread shot killing that feels and plays like a true Contra sequel. That said, Contra 4 is not for the passive gamer. The levels are often challenging beyond belief and only....
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12/18/07
If you ever wanted your hand in designing your own game without the 
hassle of programming and story development, then you might find Drawn to Life for the Nintendo DS quite appealing. Drawn to Life lets you take your DS stylus and create a variety of things, from your character's avatar to the weapons you'll use in your adventure. While the limitations of the designs are left to the holder, the ability to design unique images for your character is a lot of fun, and it's....
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12/17/07
Geometry Wars tells an interesting tale of two
consoles. On the Xbox 360, the game built a cult following and foreshadowed the skyrocketing of Microsoft's popular Xbox Live Arcade service. On the Nintendo Wii, however, Geometry Wars illustrates what can happen when a company tries too hard to milk a franchise, as well as how a developers' attempts to pander to a console's strengths can both break a formerly simple gameplay....
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11/27/07
Nintendo's golden boy is back for another installment 
with Super Mario Galaxy, Mario's first big adventure on the Wii. And "big" really is the right word, as the adventure contained in Super Mario Galaxy is so large it needs a whole galaxy to contain it. The many planets you'll visit all have unique looks and themes in spite of their trademark cartoony look, and smooshing a Goomba has never looked so detailed. More important with....
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11/21/07
Now this is how you use a licensed
property. The Simpsons Game is hands down the best use of a license this side of E.T. using Reese's Pieces, as EA has pulled from two decades of humor to create what amounts to an interactive episode of The Simpsons and, quite possibly, the funniest Simpsons content to hit a TV in years. The great irony of this achievement is that The Simpsons cartoons were built on parody, a heritage....
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11/21/07
Jerry Seinfeld. The very name connotes puffy
shirts, close talkers, cold swimming pools and the Soup Nazi, all of which are a far cry from cute animated films. Yet there we were this fall, listening to Seinfeld voice Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie and, now, lend his vocal chords to the same pollinating character in the Bee Movie Game. Like many Dreamworks pictures, Bee Movie is predominantly designed for a younger crowd, with just....
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11/05/07
For all the kudos gamers give to the social-gaming
scene on Xbox Live, there's still something special about playing against someone in the same room. Maybe it's our arcade-spawned DNA, or maybe it's the competitive nature of humans, but going mano-a-mano in person always takes 51 percent of the fun-factor vote. Case in point: the Nintendo Wii. With arguably limited online functions, Nintendo's console has charmed thousands of....
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11/02/07
Sport season has arrived! It is time to
bring out your foam fingers, prepare the big screen, and sit back to watch the excitement of...table tennis? Truth be told, this sport isn't usually followed by many sports-loving Americans. Sports fans might be too busy watching sports Americans are actually good at...but that's for another time. I know what you're thinking: "Why would I want to play table tennis?" One reason would be that it's...
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10/31/07
In spite of the GameCube's poor commercial performance
, and before the Wii even thought about taking the gaming world by storm, Nintendo wasn't exactly known for poor products. Quite the contrary, Nintendo is easily responsible for one-third of the most revered and popular game franchises, and its Mario, Zelda and Mario Kart games helped usher in the platforming, adventure and kart-racing genres as we know them. But that....
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10/25/07
Since the Cartoon Network's continual ratings climb as the go to network for 
anime style animation, the American kids have really eaten up Shonen Jump's Bleach, which is currently rated as the network's highest rated show. The story of Bleach centers around a boy, Ichigo Kurosaki, who becomes infatuated with a girl who is actually a Soul Reaper. Sega faithfully continues the story introduced in the series with Bleach: Shattered Blade for the Nintendo Wii. Shattered Blade's....
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10/24/07
The Wii seems to work well with tilting table games because of the intuitive 
nature of tilting the Wii Remote. Ignition has taken all the great elements incorporated in games like Marble Madness a step further by using a viscous liquid blob to navigate through traps. The tilting table corresponds well with the Wii Remote and the table designs are creative and fun...
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10/22/07
If you're confused about the release of two Spider-Man 
titles released this year then you're not alone. However, the differences between the titles become quite clear once you play Spider-Man: Friend or Foe. It takes a more linear approach as opposed to the sandbox style of Spider-Man 3. The story is elementary at best, but don't let that detour you because this game is completely aware of it, as evident in dialogue, and offers an overall....
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10/18/07
The leaves are changing colors, the holidays are 
fast approaching, and Lebron James is advertising new shoes, clothes, deodorant, jerseys, acne wash and toenail clippers. That can only mean one thing: it's almost time for basketball season. Of course, that also means another NBA Live, brought to us by the good old boys at EA Sports. NBA Live 08 marks the Wii's first taste of the series, but....
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10/10/07
Pinball games tend to fit perfectly on the Nintendo DS because of 
the position of the two bumpers and the second screen for increased table length. While the DS has seen its fair share of traditional pinball games, Zen Studios has taken it a step further and has created a colorful pinball world that feels more like a platform explorer than a straightforward pinball table filled with bumpers and bonus ramps.
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10/05/07
When Guitar Hero 2 stalwarts cried foul on the game's
flimsy peripheral, Red Octane moved to re-engineer a new guitar that's shaping up to be one of the best game peripherals with which we've ever played. However, gamers also made it clear that Guitar Hero 3 needed to step up with a few gameplay enhancements, most notably in the areas of better balancing and online play. When Neversoft took the wheel for Guitar....
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10/05/07
When the first Guitar Hero received critical and social acclaim
, Activision naturally green-lighted a sequel and promised a few updates to the winning formula. Guitar Hero 2 once again struck commercial gold, but the most hardcore fans found several elements less than stellar, one of the most glaring being flimsy hardware. With Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock, Red Octane hopes to fix that issue, and after spending several hours....
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09/30/07
It seems like yesterday that EA released Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
for the Nintendo Wii. The Wii functionality seemed tacked on in order to quickly get the game out before year's end and it showed. With the release of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 we expected everything that was wrong with the previous installment to be addresed; unfortunately, aside from slightly improved controls and a confidence system, there really isn't much....
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09/22/07
Nintendo's armor clad cover girl Samus is all "grown up"
now, and Wii owners are the beneficiaries of her transformation into a sophisticated motion-controlled cutting edge killing machine in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Corruption marks the series' first excursion onto Nintendo Wii and supposedly final installation of a trilogy. For her curtain call, Samus must investigate a mysterious virus that has infected the Galactic....
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09/14/07
When Crave announced it would be publishing Brunswick Pro Bowling for the Nintendo Wii,
we couldn't help but get excited for what would no doubt be the ultimate party game. Nintendo's very own Wii Sports Bowling paved the way with spot on controls and a sense of speed that allowed for quick pick-up games with the friends and family, but the promise of 10 playable bowling alleys, a career mode, customizable characters, a pro shop to purchase authentic gear and ball upgrades seemed to make Wii Sports....
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09/10/07
Games like Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, BioShock and Halo 3 are
the obvious choices to dominate press headlines this time of year, and rightfully so. Yet they aren't the only games with a chance to claim blockbuster status. Take-Two Interactive has quietly unleashed Carnival Games for the Wii, and in doing so, hopes to cash in on a combination of the multiplayer craze Mario Party began many years ago....
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09/10/07
The Wii is often labeled as the "kiddie console," but more often than not those claims are nothing more than empty insults thrown by hardcore gamers. It's ironic, then, that EA Playground is inspired by and features kids -- but has a good chance of appealing to both kids and casual gamers alike. EA Playground is essentially a collection of minigames wrapped in a role-playing "metagame" wrapper. This metagame....
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09/09/07
Say what you will about licensed games, but Electronic Arts
is giving The Simpsons a franchise-worthy outing this fall with its entire slate of The Simpsons videogames (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PS2, PSP and DS). But while the console versions are shaping up to be fun, the Nintendo DS version is flat-out astounding. In fact, pound for pound and pixel for pixel, there might not be a better gaming value this year. The Simpsons for....
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08/26/07
A funny thing happened when I fired up Boogie
for the first time. After an awful teeny bopper rendition of the EA logo ignited immediate cause for concern, a fat orange alien decked out in Travolta dancing duds started singing a cover of You're The One That I Want, a song I generally despise, while a Wii Controller and Nunchuk "orchestrated" his dance movements in the foreground. The big guy bounced around the stage like....
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08/05/07
Reviving long-lost franchises is something SEGA
knows a thing or two about. Sonic the Hedgehog came back from the virtual dead speedier than ever. Arcade classics are invading next-gen download stores at a rapid rate. And in the latest example, the arcade shooter Alien Syndrome has been resurrected on the PSP and Nintendo Wii to the cautious delight of large-scale monster hunters everywhere. Unfortunately, the arrival of Alien Syndrome on Wii gets off on the wrong...
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07/31/07
Nintendo and Next Level Games' experimental fusion of fandom 
and sports leaps from Gamecube to Wii in Mario Strikers Charged, the sequel to Super Mario Strikers. As in Super Strikers, Charged sees Mario and his Mushroom Kingdom mates take to the pitch for fast and furious arcade soccer matches with numerous Mario-worthy twists like power-ups and obstacles. To take the unlikely series to the "next level," the developers...
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07/22/07
We usually get an uneasy feeling every time we sit down with 
a game that is simultaneously released with a summer blockbuster, and Transformers: Autobots is no exception. While the console version of Transformers lets players choose whether to play as the Autobots or the Decepticons, DS players are forced to choose sides using their pocketbooks, as each side has its own game. Our first thoughts were that the two titles would be the same experience, with the only exceptions being...
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07/22/07
With two nearly identical Transformers games coming to DS 
on the same day, we refer you to the nearly identical review for Transformers: Autobots in addition to this one. However, if you just want to read a single review, read this one and consider it applicable to both games. After all, the games are pretty similar -- and both of them disappoint in...
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07/17/07
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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07/15/07
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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07/12/07
Arcade translations of professional sports have been a mainstay 
in video games for decades, and no sport is arguably more fun in a gravity-defying setting than baseball. Is there no better triumph than clocking a 100+ mph fastball into the stratosphere twice as far as Barry Bonds ever did? While the answer is debatable, the lack of arcade baseball games on next generation home consoles since Xbox 360 launched is not. Sensing this...
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06/10/07
A good use of the franchise. A bad example of a video game.
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06/06/07
The web-slinger is back...and so are his camera and gameplay snafus.
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04/21/07
Take an abused EA franchise, add a Wii-Mote, and see what you get.
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04/10/07
Konami jams 15 arcade titles into one sweet little DS cart.
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04/03/07
03/28/07
Sluggish controls hamper EA's first extreme sports title for the Wii.
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03/16/07
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Namco unveils its upcoming tycoon title for the Nintendo Wii.
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02/25/07
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Konami brings the card-battling franchise to another platform.
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02/20/07
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With the motion-sensitive controls, this could be the best new-gen Madden.
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11/26/06
The Wii launch game is great for multiplayer and deserves a roll.
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11/18/06
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This GBA game actually looks good. Too bad it plays horribly.
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11/04/06
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Forgot the comparisons to the Xbox version, this ain't no port!
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06/08/06
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It's got it where it counts, but the "it" isn't anything more than average.
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05/24/06
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It's time to visit the original trilogy with our blocky friends.
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01/28/06
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Gameplay this tedious won't cast you under its spell any time soon.
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How good is the classic RPG's translation from console to handheld?
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10/22/05
Namco brings Pac Man to the DS. Is it worth Pac'ing out for?
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08/03/05
Sam Fisher infiltrates Nintendo's handheld. Does he live or die?
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08/03/05
Is it just as good as on other consoles? Or does it bomb out?
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