June 2009 Archives

If you are bored with the same old games with the same old challenges and limitations I can strongly recommend this offering from Nintendo.

This point-and-click mystery game is the sequel to Another Code: Two Memories which appeared to cult acclaim on the DS.

I am a huge fan of the noble art of pugilism and over the years I have played just about every boxing game released.

On the whole they have been pretty shoddy, EA revolutionalised the genre with realism of Knockout Kings/Fight Night and Nintendo have nailed the comedy aspect with Punch-Out.

This latest game from EA is about the best there has been, in fact it is a mesmerizingly brilliant game that delivers a hammer blow of leather to the jaws of the opposition (ie Don King's Prizefighter).

Odd... that's the best way to describe this game, but oddly compelling.

The basic of this game is to place your Wii Remote on a small cardboard box and tap your fingers. That's it. That's all the controls you need. Nothing more nothing less.

You even get the carboard box supplied to tap on!

Four players can go head-to-head in what is essentially a party game compilation which has 5 great game modes Tap Runner, Silent Blocks, Rhythm Tap, Bubble Voyager and Visualiser.

Each one provides a different challenge and different depths. The Rhythm Tap has sixteen songs, there are sixteen tracks for Tap Runner and much more.

The modes are great fun, this is the perfect pick up and play game for those family nights, multiplayer is perfect for a good laugh and competitive gameplay.

The game revels in it's simplicity, the lack of any real controls is genius and another example of Sega and Nintendo pushing the boundaries and trying different things.

My kids love Let's Tap, and I personally approved of the game trying to think outside the box.

Ok you will play far more sophisticated titles than this, but you will pick this up again and again due to it's niche brilliance.

This is innovative and it's also just £24.99 - not bad at all.

Get tapping!

It's not all about shelling out £39.99 for the latest next-generation title that is dripping with endorsements and a gleaming example of graphical brilliance and technical ingenuity. Sometimes it is good to look at the smaller picture.

Review by Rich Mannox

On receiving this game I was excited. Memories of the original Terminator film came flooding back, the man vs machine battles, Arnie in the gun shop asking to look at the uzi and the bit where he pulls his eye out.

On firing up the game it looked good the classic terminator theme music was there along with a nice action packed into sequence.

The plot behind the game is similar to the movie of the same name which has just come out. The machines have won the war and LA is a ruined wasteland. You play John Connor a soldier in the resistance force against the machines. Connor finds out that some of his mates have been captured by the machines and sets out to get them back from behind enemy lines.

THIS game is so realistic the only thing missing is strawberries and cream...

The Virtua Tennis series has gradually improved of late culminating in last year's superb game, and there isn't a radical amount of difference in this year's offering but there is a definite improvement.

FROM sold out shows to the big and small screens, the Jonas Brothers are set to take over the video game world as well.

Disney Interactive Studios hasannounced the development of Jonas for Nintendo DS.

FORGET the grey haired old has-been Indy from the last film - this is old-school Indy with all the old bullwhip snapping enthusiasm he used to have.

Set in pre-World War 2 the game sees Indy on the search for the mythical Staff of Kings in a game that ticks every box for what you would expect for an Indiana Jones adventure.

Packed with a superb musical score, excellent storyline and some bonkers action scenes this is an exciting romp from the moment you pick up the controller. The controls can be a bit awkward but there are some excellent uses of the Wii technology for example with the superb whip action.

Action is varied with plenty of great combat and gunfights and with some puzzle solving thrown in to rattle the old grey matter it is a good all round title.

I PLAYED the first ever Sims game and kind of enjoyed it. Bizarre, unique and downright addictive.

Oh the joys of watching your on screen characters urinate on people's shag carpets and puke in their dustbins... I am a bit long in the tooth for it all now and my own life is hectic enough to not have to look after a virtual one!

We asked Emily Smith, a teenager with far too much time on her hands, to tell us what she thought about the game. Here is what she had to say:

IT'S always nice to review something different and Prototype is certainly that.

This is the most high-octane, over-the-top and superbly crafted title I have played in a long while.