Well it’s not so much a review as it is our turn to say “holy crap this game is awesome” … but we digress
Retro: Virus the Game
Nov. 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com and Sharewarejunkies.com in 1998 during the Golden Age of shareware gaming. The game (and manufacturer’s website) remain the same today as they were back then. This one stands out as a testament to the way the Internet once was. By John Guilfoil Don’t be scared off by the name. [...]
Retro: Hangsim review
Nov. 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
This review appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 2000 during the heyday of PC flight simulation games, including a glut of combat games from Janes/Electronic Arts. Hangsim is a highly realistic flight simulation that was created to simulate flight in hang gliders, paragliders, and ultralights. This game is like flight simulators from around the world, but the [...]
Retro: Nam game review
Nov. 1, 2007 2 Comments
This review originally appeared on Reviewcenter.com in 1998. By John Guilfoil Nam is a 3D action game that sets you in the middle of the Vietnam War. Your war machine arsenal consists of the M60 machine gun, M79 grenade launcher, M16 rifles, flame-throwers, C4 plastic explosives, a sniper rifle and more. You play a roughneck [...]
This game is caught in the ‘Infernal’ between heaven and hell
Sept. 3, 2007 Leave a Comment
The latest PC eye candy from Eidos, “Infernal” pits you as Ryan Lennox, a “renegade angel recruited by Hell to restore the balance between good and evil.” The game is getting mediocre reviews at best, mostly because of a feeling of “been done” from reviewers, and I can’t exactly blame them. It’s a good versus [...]
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Aug. 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Tomb Raider is one of those titles that spawned its own universe in the gaming world over the past decade. It’s sold over 28 million games, two feature films, merchandise and over $1.5 billion in gross revenue from all that. It has a legacy up there with Doom and Warcraft, and it’s where Duke Nukem [...]
Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek
July 22, 2007 Leave a Comment
Her Interactive recently released another treat for Nancy Drew mystery fans in “The White Wolf of Icicle Creek.” Nancy goes undercover as a maid and chef through hotel rooms at the Icicle Creek lodge in the Canadian Rockies as she investigates weird accidents and a mysterious wolf, “which appears before each incident but then mysteriously [...]
Nancy Drew: Danger by Design
May 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Welcome to the fashion capital of the world, old Paris! Here you will find Nancy Drew on her latest thrilling, adventurous, death defying undercover assignment. As an assistant a fashion designer. You have been sent on this mission to investigate the recent quirky behavior displayed by Minette, the fashion designer, which has other designers and [...]
Pat Sajak’s Lucky Letters
March 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Pat Sajak’s Lucky Letters is a fast-paced word creation puzzle game that combines the concept of his famous TV show "Wheel of Fortune" with more challenging word puzzles in crossword form. The game is divided into three challenges that are not necessarily unique from one another. They all revolve around the concept of guessing letters [...]
Cartoon Network All-Stars
Jan. 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
Cartoon Network All-Stars is a collection of four different games, Fast and the Flurrious, Cartoon Cove Mini-Golf, To The Eds-treme Skateboarding, and Dropple. At an average price of $19.99, you are getting a good deal with four uniquely addictive and entertaining games. Fast and Flurrious welcomes you to the slopes for some snowboard action with [...]
Diner Dash 2
Jan. 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
In Diner Dash 2: Restaurant Rescue, Flo the waitress returns to help her friends save their restaurants. A greedy tycoon named Mr. Big threatens to demolish four quaint, mom and pop style eateries to build a mall. Fresh off her success in Diner Dash 1, Flo is recruited to help out her friends. It’s up [...]
