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Review – Naval Ops: Warship Gunner
A few years ago, I reviewed Waves of Steel, which is an interesting little naval combat game that gets kind of weird. Totally recommend it. But when that review went up, a community member told me that it’s a spiritual follow-up to Naval Ops: Warship Gunner and its sequel, Warship Gunner 2. “Alright,” I thought. “Probably like Naval Ops: Warship…
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Review – F-Zero GX
I remember being extremely amped for the release of F-Zero GX in 2003. Thankfully, this was one instance where, when I finally got my hands on it, it was everything I hoped for. Returning to it all these years later, is it all I remember it to be. Yes. Very yes.
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Review – Army Men: Air Combat: The Elite Missions
One of my most significant memories of Army Men: Air Combat: The Elite Missions for Gamecube was a review by Cory D. Lewis, writing for IGN. In their review, they kept on comparing (oh no, how many times am I going to write this?) Army Men: Air Combat: The Elite Missions to an N64 game. This is both in the…
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Review – Castlevania: Lament of Innocence
A 3D Castlevania has never been executed well, and there are no exceptions. There are just varying ways you can look at them optimistically. I would not look at Lament of Innocence favourably. In fact, I think the N64 titles are more worthwhile, even if there's more jank to be found.
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Review – Mega Man X7
A long time ago, I picked up a pack of Mega Man X figurines from a department store I worked at. It came with X, Zero, Vile, and some robot who I’ve never seen or heard of before. This turned out to be Axyl, and the reason I’d never heard of him before was because he first appeared in Mega…
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Review – Lost Kingdoms II
I honestly didn’t expect to enjoy Lost Kingdoms as much as I did. It’s a game that isn’t talked about very often, and even at the time it was released, seems to have been buried. Strangely, there was a sequel to it, released a year after the original. Lost Kingdom II comes from the very same team at FromSoftware as…
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Review – The Sims Bustin’ Out (GBA)
The Sims on PC was a massive success, selling somewhere past the 10 million mark. That’s still pretty impressive today, but was incredible back in 2000. Electronic Art was eager to cash in on their new hit series, so by 2003, the tap had been turned on and the ports and spin-offs had begun to flow. There were two separate…
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Review – The Sims Bustin’ Out (Console)
The console port of the original The Sims was okay. It did what it had to do, which was translate the game to console, while also adding on some extra features, like a light story mode and multiplayer. It wasn’t bad, honestly, but it did leave some room to grow. So much room, in fact, that less than a year…
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Review – The Sims (Console)
When The Sims launched on PC in 2000, it quickly established itself as a landmark title. It was the first major success for Maxis since SimCity 2000’s 1993 release, selling somewhere in the neighbourhood of 14 million copies and establishing itself as one of the best selling PC games of all time. Having said that, it has aged horrifically, having…
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Review – Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball
I remember when Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball landed on the Xbox, back in ’03. I was still in high school, but even amongst my more testosterone bloated friends, there wasn’t much interest. Ogling digital females was just considered kind of sad in the circles I ran with, it was equated to a guy admitting that he’s unable to…
