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Gamers Guide to games
Right then ppl! What I've done here is bought the game shown, completed it (so I can really tell what the game has to offer), and rated it. And it's a good opinion your getting here too 'coz I've played alot of games ( been playin them since I was 3 so I know a good game alright!) and I like all types of games (all except sports) so my opinion ain't biased neither. And hopefully my reviews will help you to decide whether you want to buy the game or not as fair ratings don't get much better than this.
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Mario Party 4
This game is an amazing multiplayer game but a terrible one player game. I'm telling you, get three mates round to play this with you and you'll be havin laughs for hours. Playing on the actual board isn't great fun but can be with all your mates layin traps, falling in yours, or being bastards and nickin your stuff from you, plus the boards are bright and eye catching and the graphics are pretty good. The mini-games though are golden. button bashin, skill or reaction times are what there all about and you get alot of laughs tryin to beat your mates at them. However, one player is shockin. It is so unbelieveably boring watching three other dozy computer players wonderin round the board. Their traps become more annoyin than funny and it really spoils the game 'coz your expected to do 6 boards watchin each of the computer players have 15 turns each board with all 8 characters to complete it proply. Plus the endings are shit. But you only have to complete the game once to have all the boards and the rest you can unlock in multiplayer. Finally this game will last (which is good since you pay 40 quid for these things) because the multiplayer is great and will draw you and your mates to it again and again and there's plenty of secrets to unlock on it. I give this game 8/10 |
Pikmin
It's a shame that this game is cursed to be so misleading. Even I thought when I first looked at it in the shop, it looks shit. Infact the only reason I did buy it was because I completed all the games I had then, it was only 19 quid, and it help me get one of the trophies on Super Smash Bros. Good thing I was born ay. I can now take the bullet for you ppl and tell what it's like. And this game is really good. The controls take a bit of getting used to but commanding 100 pikmin, sending them head first into a battle with a carnivore 100 times their size is a great laugh. You can grow an army upto.... I don't know, over a 1000. You take a 100 pikmin onto field with you at a time, and they'll do what ever you want, even if it kills 'em. You see there are three types of pikmin each with there own abillities and weaknesses. You gotta learn how to use these in order to get the space ship parts scattered around the planet. You got 30 days before your life support runs out to find 30 lost ship parts. It's a real challenge sometimes, getting the part before your time is up, 'coz if you don't get the pikmin back to there "onions" before nightfall the nocturnal beast come out and eat 'em all (it's actually quite funny seeing them get eaten or crushed). It's all good fun though. You can go out on killing sprees, take 100 pikmin, find your beast, send them in to fuck it up using your own battle stragergies, and then you can get them to carry the dead body home to be made into more pikmin (quite nasty for a kiddy game really ain't it). Yeah that's about it though, build an army, work out your plan to get the part (or if like me and you couldn't give a crap what happens to your pikmin, just rush in) get them to carry the part back to the ship, and get them home quick. The graphics are stunning, but once you've completed it that's it, your left with nothing to do, and it's a pretty short game too, that's over quickly. I suppose you could complete it again, try beat your score. But you probably couldn't be arsed to do it all over again. Or try and score big on the challenge mode you can unlock. But it's pretty shit. Still I give this game 7/10
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Rayman 3 Hoodlum Havoc
Rayman 3 although I can't really say much about it is an excellent game. The graphics are great, the gameplay is amazing, and the game is really funny. Perfect comic, fantasy game. Yeah it's pretty short and doesn't really get too hard, so it lacks a challenge, but you don't care when you play it you just get into it. Plus the game has lots to unlock and a multiplayer I haven't tried yet (needs gameboy advance, the link caple to the cube, and Rayman 3 on the GBA). You get to unlock funny movies and mini-games to play, some are good fun, but not all. You unlock them by getting good scores on the levels, ah! There you go, there's the challenge. Getting a score good enough so that the murfy picture be the side of the level in level select smiles. But unless you really want to see what you can unlock you probably won't bother (I however do want to see what you get). Good game I give it 8/10 |
Sonic adventure 2 Battle
This game has it's faults but I looked for the positive in it (probably 'coz I've loved Sonic the Hedgehog since I was 4). This game is great fun but it has many bad things about it. For a start the graphics are pretty poor, the makers were lazy on the graphics side as it's nothing the N64 couldn't handle. The camera angles for the gameplay are absolutly, fucking awful. You can turn them to have a look round, but one step and it zooms back to it's original place and this can really fuck you up on those awkard jumps. The controls a dodgy. For example, A will make you jump and pressing A again in mid-air will make (or is supposed to make) you perform the homing attack. You'll press A once and sometimes your character will just take off doing the homing attack (or if your playing the shooting or hunting levels, hover or glide) and this has ended up killing me so many times it just pisses you off. And the B button is the games action button, so many times do the characters either, perform the wrong action, perform the action on the wrong thing, or do their basic attack. This also fucks you up. Finally, to finish off all the negitives. This will take some explaining first. The game is split into three types of levels. Running (these are amazing), shooting, and treasure hunting. The treasure hunts can be really, really boring and the shooting levels ain't that great either. The treasure hunting mutiplayer game is crap too. Right! Okay! Now the positives. The overall storyline of the game is good and there's plenty to do. Two sides of the story to play (almost like two games) and one secret one you unlock after you done the first two equals up into quite a big game. It's easy though, gets tricky sometimes, but you breeze through it. And once you complete the level you get to replay it doing the other 4 missions on it, that's where it gets hard. Loads to unlock, all pretty cool, and 180 emblems to collect makes the game last you. There's like a side game where you raise a choa (works like a virtual pet), I like it, but I can be pretty sad. You can have your choas enter races and karate competions, but there crap, not to bad when your against your mate's chao however. And there's a pretty good multiplayer (only two player) that you and a mate can have a laugh on. Multiplayer racing is the best and multiplayer shooting is a great laugh too. Kart racings shit though. But overall I finished the game saying I enjoyed it. It's got it's ups and downs but I give it 7/10
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Starfox adventures
Starfox Adventure has THE MOST amazing graphics I've ever seen and none of it is an FMV either. It's a really fun game with a huge world to explore, great puzzles to solve, and some excellent gameplay, although the atempt to make the fights as interesting as The Legend of Zelda's was an absolute failure, as they suck really (just lock on and hammer A is all there is to them). It's a big change for Starfox but it is an excellent RPG with the classic space shooting still in there, slipped in. However the game is very easy and way too short. It's a huge disapointment when you finish the game with nothing left to do 'coz you can't even have a wonder round Dinosaur planet finding the secrets (and there ain't that many anyway and there all pretty shit too). No, 'coz once you've saved at the final boss area you can't go back, even after he's killed, your just left to fight him over and over again, and he's not even that much fun. It's a huge disapointment, you finish this game thinking, now that was too short. Still it's great while your playing it and this game earns a 8/10 |
Super Mario Sunshine
Mazza's first game on the cube, and he did not disapoint. Just about every Mario game has been a classic, which is shockin since it's the same old rescue Princess Peach story everytime. Mario Sunshine also holds on to the classic storyline and as it rids of other classic, it brings back some too. Super Mario Sunshine has beautiful graphics (just check out the water) and master gameplay. It's the award winning Mario 64 reborn, with even bigger, more brightly coloured worlds than ever before. Every world on it is worth explorin but your forced to anyway inorder to get all the shines. But thats just the main shines. Secret shines are hidden all over place, even in Delfino Plaza (the equifilent of Princess Peach's castle on Mario 64). Yes, even the main area of the game is worth explorin as it's full of secrets too, how you find the secret shines are down to skill or luck. Now the shines are the new stars and there's 120 of these to collect as well, but once again you only need about 70 of them to be able to take on Bowser, a very disapointin final boss, way too easy. Getting the rest is up to you, but it's all good fun unless your blue coin searchin (collect 10 of these inorder to get some of the shines). The blue coins are hidden just about anywhere, whether it's a random sign you gotta squirt on a certain story of a level, or any old object or any random spot you gotta squirt, the blue coins are incredibly difficult to find and it gets quite annoyin and borin after awhile. Yoshi ridings back and better than ever. Yoshi can now ground pound, do his jump off Yoshi Story and Smash Bros., and squirt juice at his enemies (as strange as that sounds it does hurt them for some reasons, prehaps it's bitter from his stomach), but if you don't keep Yoshi fed he dies and he can no longer go in water (which is a bitch 'coz this games all about water). But where classics are brought back some are rid of. Mario doesn't have half of his coolest moves from the N64 like his long jump. No, instead he's become completely useless without his new "FLUDD" and if your like me you'll rather his old moves anyday (always hope for Mario 128 ay). But after all that I have to tell you of the games two biggest problems. It's yet another game which is spoiled by being short, too easy and has nothing to do after completion (no life). And it's a bit repetitive too. Whereas there was just one red coin hunt per level on Mario 64, there's up to 3 on Sunshine and you get sick of 'em and guess the makers ran out of original ideas and it pisses you off. And there's this one squid boss which you fight 4 times and his moves only change once. So disapointing Mario used to have cool original bosses. And finally there's these wacky 3D world things you do, new to Mario Sunshine. A good challenge, and fun at first, but there's just too many of them and they get annoying after awhile, especially with the fact that your expected to go back and do red coin hunts on them. But never mind with more pluses than negitives I give this game 8/10
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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4
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Time Splitters 2
What a golden game Time Splitters 2 is. Can't say much about it but it's all praise. The graphics are great, gameplays the best, the actions fast and furious (just how I like 'em), multiplayer is just amazin, and the main game is great fun. You get huge laughs playin the main game by itself. Since your travelling through time playin someone elses life everytime, the missions are completely different and original each time. And playin the game in co-op will bring some good laughs. The games fairly straight forward on easy, but you get a good challenge on normal, and some new missions too, makin the levels even better, plus you get to see just how big they really are. And as for hard.... well.... nuff said. And when you finally finish that off there's aload of challenge to do, some are just impossible, but fun all the same. You unlock a bunch of stuff too, completing the main game and finishin the challenges (you unlock even more stuff getting gold and platinum trophies on the challenges). Yeah there's loads of stuff to unlock. New weapons, cheats to make the main game and multiplayer more fun, and over 100 characters. This game should never bore you unless your stuck on a level you hate (I hate that NeoTokyo level). With a great main game that's even more fun with a mate, loads of challenges and fuck loads of cool stuff to unlock, and a multiplayer that's simply amazin. You and your mates will be playin it alot. I give it 9/10
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The Legend of Zelda: The wind waker
(DROOL!). What a game. It's simply amazin. Yeah I suppose I'd choose the old look over this cel shaded one any day and it's a bit short for my liking, but when I played it I didn't care. Maybe not my fave look but there's no denying the graphics are amazing, the reason for switchin to cel shading really paid off. The facial expressions Link can pull off in different situations is cool (you should check out him in battle) and there's none of that sliding to turn and face the person talking to him, no just a quick browse with his eyes and that person has his attention. It's really effective. The cel shading also lets you get a laugh out of the fights 'coz the cel shading allows the characters to move more smoothly, so when you disarm one of the bad guys watch 'em go hand to hand with you, they'll fly kick you and everything. Infact they may attempt to fly kick you on a bridge, watch their faces as they realize their fucked 'coz they missed you or when their doing all they can to live as they cling to the edge, it's just one quick slash at their fingers from you and they fall to there deaths. You can even slash at their arse when you manage to get behind and then watch them run around crying, or even better set them on fire and watch as they bump into each other, setting each other on fire. Yeah the fights are great laughs and the good old Z targeting (now known as L targeting) is back making the fights immense. I could go on about the graphics all day, it's ups and downs, each and everyone of the bosses are stunning, from the lava covered Gohma to the massive bird Helmonic King. And there's the shitty parts like the wave cuts from your boat or the smoke from explosions (they look a bit shitty). But I must tell you of the absolutly fantastic storyline, it really pulls you in, especially if you had already played The Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, I won't spoil it for you though. The gameplays golden, you'll put the pad down from headache 'coz you played it too much and within minutes you'll find yourself back on it. The puzzles you gotta solve within the dungens are brilliant, well thought of, you feel good when you solve 'em, even when it's one of the simple ones. And if you can pull yourself away from the main quest, there's absolutly loads of secrets to find and subquest to do, infact if you do manage to escape the main quest to do them I'm sure the game will seem much longer, after all they help big time in the main quest (I found this out too late however). So in truth the game does have length but once completed all your left with is playing the game all over again with some changes to it to reward it's first completion on a special quest log. It ain't that good though, you play the whole game in Link's first outfit at the start, Aryll (the sister which you end up having to save) is found wearing her pirate outfit which she wears on the ending of the game from the beginning, and the Gods you saw that spoke acient Hylian (Hylian, Hyrule, get it. The sky God Valoo speaks it) can now be understood. I could go on but I'd only be basically repeating myself so I'll just tell you that I give the game 10/10 |
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Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime is an FPS with a difference. Whereas you walk around shooting things in first person view, your not given missions to complete on seperate stages. Instead you walk around a massive 3D world that looks just beautiful in your own choice of direction, more like a Zelda game. The world of Tallon 4 has many different environments and they all look amazing, the graphics on this game is not something you question. However this huge world can make the games action a bit slow and then make the game a bit teadious when you get lost in it. At the beginning of the game there are very few enemies and their not very challenging, and this makes the game hard to get into 'coz unlike most FPS's, you run in blast things and complete the goal and then the action is very fast and tense. The goal for this, is, the whole game and so things have to build up first. Don't be put off though, this game is a very big one and takes around 20 hours to complete unlike most of the other games on the 'cube so far. So the game has plenty of time to pick, oh and it does. Things do heat up and you'll face some of the toughest, baddest looking enemies you've ever seen. You get sucked right into the games amazing storyline at this point, as the action and the challenge is incredible, not to mention the graphics as well. All this will soon have you forgeting that the game lacks a multiplayer, and when you finally finish it you'll be more than satisfied. It's a huge game and it'll keep you busy, get ready for some of the toughest battles yet 'coz you'll soon be hating the pirates and shitting yourself over the metroids. Cool ending, lots of promises. 9/10
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