When the Wii was first announced all those years ago, my first thoughts were that such a control scheme would lend itself well to certain games while not being as intuitive for others. Sports games, in particular, would seem to benefit the most from t...
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July 27, 2010
Toy Story 3 (Wii) Review
Let’s put the obligatory introductory statements to the side for the moment and get straight to the point. Toy Story 3, based on the recently released movie you all know, is actually a pretty good game. Shock, horror, gasp! A licensed game tha...
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July 18, 2010
Big Beach Sports 2 (Wii) Review
Living with another Wii owner, I have quite a healthy library of games on the shelves that have been accumulating for quite some time now. One of those games is Big Beach Sports, one of the many mini-game compilations available on the Wii aimed at ...
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March 9, 2010
Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll (Wii) Review
The original Super Monkey Ball on the Gamecube was a cracker of a game back in the day. For the uninformed, as the name suggests, the game involves monkeys… in balls. The goal of the game is to help guide the cheeky simians around a variety of ...
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December 23, 2009
Band Hero (Wii) Review
The Guitar Hero franchise has now well and truly saturated the market, with no less then five Guitar Hero instalments, plus various offshoots like Guitar Hero: Metallica. Taking the franchise in a new direction reads as a logical move, with Activision...
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November 5, 2009
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (DS)
Ultimately, when you strip Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Mario and Sonic from hereon in) down to its bare bones, it is just another mini-game compilation that we’ve seen boundless times on both the Wii and the DS. And like most mi...
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August 16, 2009
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (Wii) Review
Golf is a game that lends itself well to the Wii’s motion sensing capabilities, and so far during the Wii’s lifespan, we have seen a few good attempts at golf, including EA’s yearly Tiger Woods game as well as the original WiiSports ...
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July 27, 2009
Guitar Hero: Greatest Hits (Wii) Review
When a company creates a hugely successful franchise that becomes incredibly popular world-wide, it is normally not long before that company starts to milk the franchise as much as possible. The development of video games, after all, is a business, so...
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July 8, 2009
LEGO Battles (DS) Review
In the past couple of years, there have been a number of Lego themed games based on popular franchises that have been released on the DS. These action-adventure titles have seen the world of Lego combined with various other popular franchises includin...
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May 29, 2009
Guitar Hero Metallica (Wii) Review
Guitar Hero is without a doubt one of the fastest growing and increasingly popular gaming franchises available on the market today. In just a few short years, Guitar Hero has grown from a novel rhythm based game to the cult social phenomenon it is tod...
