The Review Center
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Short bio: From 1997-2004, The Review Center (Reviewcenter.com) was a portal for technology and video game news. It was most well-known for one of the first Playstation 2 launch game guides and helping to break the news about Sega ceasing video game console production.
Articles by reviewcenter:
October 17, 2009This review originally appeared on ReviewCenter.com in 2002. It scored a 9.1 at the time.
By Carlos McElfish
KOEI is most widely known for kicking out strategy games. So the last thing this reviewer was expecting from them was an extremely entertaining music/rhythm game. KOEI has managed to not only avoid the common pitfalls of breaking [...]
From 2002, a game that was almost made for N64 then almost for Dreamcast
September 27, 2009This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1999.
Force 21 is far from your normal real-time gtrategy game. You don’t have a base where you begin — mining resources, building buildings, which in turn allow you to build certain units. No, it’s nothing like that. Force 21 doesn’t try to be that. It’s [...]
Nine years ago Sunday, a federal judge made a decision that changed everything
May 11, 2009From 1998 comes the worst game from a great franchise.
February 4, 2009This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 2002.
For us, it all started with The 7th Guest for the PC. We were indescribably intrigued by this game at the time. The ability to journey through a beautifully rendered haunted mansion (as good as you could pre-render n 1993) via a first person perspective was something that, [...]
December 2008. Sony PlayStation 2 has been a viable product for eight years, selling about 140 million units wordwide, more than any other video game console in history.
The fact that we’re still talking about PlayStation 2 and still talking about new games being made only for the PlayStation 2 in the 2008 holiday season speaks [...]
Two articles on a 1998 European import. Plus: download the original demo here!
July 28, 2008This review of one of the best games ever appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1999.
May 14, 2008Despite constant CD-switching and some bugs, great graphics, sound and storyline helped make this 1998 adventure game one of SouthPeak’s late goodies.
April 1, 2008The ultimate goal of Boss Rally is to play through several seasons of racing, earning points and unlocking faster cars and harder tracks to become the ultimate rally champion. You can play against the computer or via modem, LAN or serial cable to play with a friend. You can control your game with either a [...]
March 31, 2008This article originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1998 when there was no real professional wrestling monopoly.
WCW/NWO is one of the best wrestling sims THQ has come out with. Featuring up to date rosters and an excellent array of moves, Revenge is a welcome addition to your N64 game library.
Control in Revenge is easy once you [...]
This article originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1999.
The Intellivision collection was relaunched on the last generation of consoles — Xbox, PS2, GC — in 2004 to mixed reviews. You have to give Keith Robinson, who runs and basically is wholly responsible for the survival of Intellivision, for keeping these games alive! See the bottom [...]
This article originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1999. Why haven’t we seen anything like it since? EA/VW — let’s get a game going!
By Tom Carroll
You would have to live in a cave in Northern Siberia to not know there was a new Beetle on the scene. Volkswagen pulled out all the stops in publicizing the [...]
This article originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1998.
Konami’s Metal Gear Solid is the most intense stealth game for any system. Not only has it completely revolutionized stealth/action games, but it has raised the expectations of all games. In other words, this could be the best Playstation game ever!
As one of the first full length stealth [...]
Without question, the PowerCube Plus ACS48 was one of a few product releases by Altec Lansing, Labtec and a few other companies that changed computer audio forever. Ten years ago, soundcards were starting to get better, but speaker offerings still largely consisted of two-piece, unpowered sets that sounded like cheap headphones. The PowerCube Plus ACS48, [...]
February 1, 2008This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com and Sharewarejunkies.com in 1998. It was rock-solid software that still exists today.
By John Guilfoil
Command Software pretty much created a winner with this one. Command Antivirus with F-PROT Professional is an affordable, high quality mercenary that will set out and battle any fiendish viral vermin that threaten your beloved system.
The [...]
This article originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1999 during an explosion of real-time strategy games.
After many battles, a former kingdom has been divided into many small principalities and earldoms. The king’s troops were pushed back into one last royal province, and the rulers of the other provinces waged terrible, destructive wars against one another. The [...]
This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 2000.
By John W. Fletcher
Messiah is probably one of the more unique games I have seen in the last few years — being completely original by not only how it is played but an amazing array of new quirks you have never seen on the PC before.
In this game [...]
This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 2002.
An evil force by the name of “Spooky” has been unleashed by those dastardly ghosts and it’s up to everyone’s favorite pepperoni-slice shaped yellow hero to make sure Pac-World is rid of this ancient evil.
The objective of the game is to collect various “Gold Fruits” Once you collect [...]


