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Super Smash Bros. Melee
A beauty of a game is this. Have you ever been so pissed off with a Nintendo character that you just wanna punch 'em in the face, I have that fuckin APE! Well now you can in this amazin sequel to Super Smash Bros. on the N64. The graphics are excellent, you'll see some of your favourite characters and levels looking the best they ever have in this fun filled blast from the past. Whether your beating the crap outta your mates on Yoshi's Island or Kongo Jungle, you'll get great laughs for each level has it's own cool original surprise for you to find out the hard way. Gameplays incredible too and quick to master, you and your mates will get some wicked fights outta this in no time. With it being as simple as A being the main attacks and B being the specials for each character, or you gotta do is find out what original attacks each character will perform and learn when's best to use 'em in battle. After awhile you'll quickly pick up some good skills on the game and your fights with your mates will be amazin to just sit and watch not to mention the amazingly fun four player battles which are just madness. And that's just the multiplayer (but must be said is the best part). One players got plenty of cool things to do. First off there's the main game of battling through different opponents like all fighting games. But this one comes with a difference. You can play this way in two different settings, Classic and Adventure, with an All star mode to unlock later. Classic is your basic classic style fighter, beat up your opponent to proceed. However prepare for some original battles to make it more interesting, as they range from one on one to 30 on one, and fightin a gigantic opponent to the amazin battle against the final boss the Master hand (yes, he is a big glove). There's also fun bonus stages slid inbetween which are good challenges. Adventure is something completely new. There still are cool fights against all sorts of opponents but these are surrounded by a fun platform adventure where you gotta use your characters battle skills to get through 'em and All star is like a survival thing where you must defeat every character (including the 11 secret ones) with little health restoring items. And I'm telling you now playing these games on very hard is one heck of a challenge. Once your through with all that there's these great event matches to take on. These are good original challenges created by the multiplayer options, some are really good and you'll want to play 'em again whereas some are just hard and you'll be determined to do 'em. And after you've finished all 51 of them there's a stadium option to try. Here you can take on each of the characters target tests bonus stages from the Classic mode, the home run contest where you gotta use the characters skills to smack a sandbag the furthest distance (don't sound like much but it's a good laugh), or multi man melee where you gotta either kill off a bunch of wire framed characters as quick as possible or fight 'em off to survive the given time, killing as many as you can, yet another great challenge to the game. So it'll be a long time before your finished with this game with all that to do, 11 secret characters to unlock, 290 trophies to collect in all sorts of ways by playin the game, and new multiplayer options to unlock too, all this and the multiplayer will bring you and your mates great laughs. This game earned 9/10
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Star Wars Rogue Leader: Rogue Squadron 2
Not much to say for this game. Although the graphics are really amazing (maybe even better than Starfox Adventures), the game in general was a big disapointment. First of all the ship movement is pretty stale. It's impossible to pull off a good turn unless you hit the breaks, and when you have tie fighters on your tail the only way you can shake 'em off is to hit the breaks again. I think some Lylat wars moves are needed to make some improvement to this game. You know, being able to do U turns and loops to escape tailing enemies and start tailing them. Secondly, the game is just too dam boring, most games I got make it hard for me to put down the pad, this game made it hard for me to pick the pad up, I found it very hard to get into. All the levels are just flying around and shooting stuff, you find the only difference in the missions is your either protecting something or taking something down, and since the action never really gets tense (even in the heat of the battle of Endor), it just get's boring. Finally, once this games completed (and that don't take long it's a very short game) your left with nothing to do but try and get rewarded with better medals for each level, and if you found the game as hard to get into as I did, this task will drive you even further away from the game (however this task is a good challenge). There is quite a few things to unlock, new ships (these will have Star wars fans hearts melting like butter as the new ships will bring back some good memories of other Star Wars films such as Boba Fett's Slave 1 which is unlockable), new missions, but you have to get those medals I spoke of earlier to get them or play the rather slow training mode to find them. So with all that and no multiplayer, I found this game pretty poor.
Here's the official site for this game
Luigi's Mansion
The launch title of the gamecube, it ain't no Super Mario 64 but it does bring some joy for a short while. The game does show off some of the awesome powers of the cube but then it also hides some too. It's got amazing graphics and despite the whole surrealism of the game it's got a very realistic background. Nintendo made sure that you saw how good the graphics are as Luigi's vacuume (which is strangly his main, no, only weapon) will react with everything. Wheather it accidently sucks up the table cloth or gets the curtains caught in it to shaking furnature or suckin up the dust in the mansion which is every where. Also the ghosts look great, not in a scary or realistic sense but they do look cool. There all smooth looking, colourful characters that you can see right through, just like any real image you may have of a ghost, there's no questioning the work done on the graphics front is very good. The gameplay is very different from your ordinary Mario game but then again this is the first Luigi game. There's no big world to explore or areas so open that you can run off in any direction. It's a simply but yeah, fairly big mansion where you have to follow the corridors to reach different rooms in the mansion. There's more freedom within the rooms but here is where all the action is in the game. You'll either face whole bunch of ghosts to suck up or one of the main portrait ghosts. The aim of the game is to suck up all these guys and it's fun to do too. First your faced with the puzzle to work out how to get the ghost to drop it's guard. This is fun and different for each ghost. Once the ghost takes the bait it's time to suck 'em up. This is great fun as you have to wrestle with them to get them up your hover (not literally wrestle them though. That's for all the sad bastards that bum wrestling and all the fake shit that comes with it). If you don't pull back in the opposite direction their goin, and hard, they'll drag you round the room like a rag doll and their ghosts, so unlike you, they can phase through furniture. It's a good challenge getting some of them up your vacuume and it's a real challenge trying to get them in, in one go (the bastards can snap away from your grip you see), especially the bosses, there a good laugh, and the final boss is no disapointment either. There's also the Boos in the game, their the gits behind this whole mess, they phase through the walls of the mansion and you'll sometimes find yourself running all around it just trying to get one of 'em, it's still fun though. Apart from that though it's a bit of a disapointment. It's too short, there's not much to do, and once your done all your left with is a new mode called "Hidden Mansion" which is basically the first one but harder and everythings been mirrored (facing the opposite way) and trying to beat your final score at the end of the game, which is as crap as the one on Pikmin. Overall though the game's pretty good.
Luigi's mansion official site
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