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Article Submissions / Dragonball Z legacy of Goku

« on: November 30, 2005, 05:48:25 PM »

My review for The Legacy of Goku
The game that shows the strongest saiyan in the universe in action!


   
Title: The Legacy of Goku

Platform: Gameboy advance

My Rating: 7/10



Gameplay:
The Legacy of Goku, the game that tells the story of Dragonball Z from the saiyan saga to the Frieza saga when Goku turns Super Saiyan. The game features a story mode and an option mode for the difficulty of the game and sound.  In the story, Goku is on a quest to rid the earth from all the bad guys that endanger his friends and family. You’ll start on Earth and end up on the planet Namek.



Sound:
Most of the game’s music is copied directly from the DBZ TV series. Just because the music is good on the show, doesn’t mean that it’ll be good on the game. Besides this, the music is horrible and sounds as if Goku is fighting at a funeral than in the mountains with his enemies, Vegeta and Nappa.



Graphics:
The graphics are good, for an anime game. What’s good is that they show the characters with 3D shading but not too much so they’ll keep their cartoony look. This game is an RPG, so the characters have to look small and stubby since multiple characters could be on the same screen fighting at once. Also, the game is limited to its graphics since it’s on the Gameboy advance.



Maneuvering:
The character, Goku, is really easy to move around. Once you level him up in speed, he’ll move really fast and easy to maneuver. The only problem is that the landscape and background can confuse you to where your suppose to go. Like in one level, Goku has to fly over a hill (flying is just like walking and you take steps in the air) but the ground and hills have the same color and you can’t tell where to start flying or can’t make out the hill so you try to make it over without running out of flying points. You manage to get into the air but don’t know where to fly to up, down, left or right. So you end up wasting all your flying points and get stuck on the hill with no way to get off. Then you end up resetting your game. What a waste of time and batteries!



Entertaining:
The game is very entertaining for hardcore gaming fans. But most fans of RPG would rather prefer to play better games like Final Fantasy series than Dragonball Z. The only people that would like this game are children who love DBZ. For everybody else, this game just isn’t for us.

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Article Submissions / WWF Smackdown 2: Know Your Role

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:23:14 PM »

My review for WWF Smackdown 2: Know Your Role!
“Can you smell what the rock is cooking!!!”


   
Title: WWF Smackdown 2: Know Your Role

Platform: Playstation

My Rating: 9.4/10


Gameplay:
In Smackdown 2 the wrestlers are all really old and are from the 97’s and 98’s. But still the game features:
Season Mode: where you play the story for the belt title that you want
Create-a-wrestler mode: You create your own customized wrestler
Exhibition: Fight a match for fun or for your opponent’s belt
PPV: Create a pay-per-view to see if the events will be a success
Stables: create friendships and alliances when creating a new group
Belt Records: who had which title at what time
Rankings: see where you rank in line for the title that you want to win


Sound:
The music at the main screen is very fitting and makes the game rock like it does. The music played during the matches are okay considering your attention is on the match and not what the music should sound like when smashing your opponents head through the table.


Graphics:
The graphics look like they need to be worked on but you have to keep in mind that the game is on the first playstation and not on the box or the cube.


Maneuvering:
The maneuvering of the wrestlers are pretty fast-paced and easy to control. Whether you want to give a head-on punch or a body slam, it will still hit its mark.


Entertaining:
The game has the season mode to entertain you with and does a very good job of doing it. You just enter your wrestler in line for a belt title and you are set for legendary matches to win the title. This game has kept me entertained for since I was 11 and I still play it. The wrestlers are a little old and have retired but its still a game worth owning for any wrestling fan.

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Article Submissions / The Sims: Bustin’ Out

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:22:22 PM »

My Review for The Sims: Bustin’ Out
“Yeah mom, I gotta bust’out of this house or I’ll never get rich”


   
Title: The Sims: Bustin’ Out

Platform: Playstation, Gamecube, Xbox

My Rating: 9.6/10


Gameplay:
In the Sims: Bustin Out, you are a young adult and long to get out and do something with your life. Your mom wants you to do something with yourself and to be a successful young man. In this game you can get a job and soon become your own boss. Then you can customize your current house into a mansion with every object available! Talk about getting rich.


Sound:
The game has no music but only sound effects and a beat to go along with the game. The sound effects happen as your sim does his business.


Graphics:
The graphics are great when it comes to the detail put into the objects and houses. The sims aren’t too bad looking either since you can customize them to look however you like. The guys can look tough and muscled up while the girls can look hot and pretty.



Maneuvering:
The way of maneuvering in the sim world is to use the D-pad and to select any object you want your sim to use. They will follow and do what you tell them to do. The maneuvering in this case can’t be evaluated but all I can say is that my sims sure do everything I tell them to do, and I mean everything! Like my guy sim makes-out with the girl sim he hates the most or cleaning up pee that some other sim let out in the middle of the kitchen because there was no toilet in the house.


Entertaining:
This game is unbelievably entertaining for hours and hours of gameplay. Any person who wants to play with human life and put it in their hands without hurtin a soul should pick up a copy of this game. I HIGHLY recommend this game for any pre-teen or teenager.

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Article Submissions / Spyro: Season of Ice

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:21:26 PM »

My review on Spyro: Season of Ice
“It’s getting kind of chilly in here!”


   
Title: Spyro: Season of Ice

Platform: Gameboy Advance

My Rating: 6/10




Gameplay:
In Spyro: Season of Ice, you can play as spyro or his three friends to save his home from turning into Antarctica. The game is mostly about you saving his home and on a quest to find little fly-looking sprites and to use them to power up your flame and save the world.



Sound:
The background music can be at times very annoying because you may get stuck in a level Then you hear the music then look at spyro and think “this is no time to be happy because I’m stuck with the work of saving your home even though you look so cheerful and don’t care what’ll happen to you if I mess up!”



Graphics:
The graphics are extraordinary considering the game was made for the gameboy advance. It’s so cool how spyro can look so 3D in a 3D world on a gameboy advance. Boy, think of how technology has advanced through the years.


Maneuvering:
Spyro and his friends are easy to maneuver with but at times can get you frustrated. At times spyro has a tendency to fall off his little island and into the water if you even get close to the edge


Entertaining:
The game is very entertaining seeing that you can use Spyro to breathe fire and Ice. You can also use him to glide on high places. This game can be very frustrating and make you think a lot to where you should continue your quest and how your gonna do it.

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Article Submissions / Sonic Adventure 2:Battle

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:20:23 PM »

Sonic Adventure 2: Battle
One of Sega’s most popular games



   
Title: Sonic Adventure 2:Battle

Platform: Gamecube

My Rating: 8.2/10




Gameplay:
In Sonic Adventure, the story is mainly about the Chaos emeralds and the need to collect them to defeat Eggman or Sonic’s enemy. There’s a versus mode for two players in regular racing on foot or in carts. Basically, you have to clear the course before your opponent does. There is also Chao Garden to keep you entertained for raising a chao from birth to adulthood.



Sound:
The music is very catchy and so is the rhythm. The game only screws the music up when the characters speak. The voices of the characters are okay but whenever the character speaks, it doesn’t follow with the movement of their jaw. This screws up the game big-time unless you look away from the screen when the character is speaking.



Graphics:
The graphics are great considering that this is a cartoon game and that all the characters look baby-ish because it’s cartoon based.


Maneuvering:
The only problem when maneuvering your character is when the camera is in the wrong place at the wrong time. For example when Sonic is falling from a skyscraper, the camera is under him rather than it being above him. This causes you to lose about a few lives because of the camera’s fault.


Entertaining:
The game is entertaining when it comes to story mode and versus mode. But after you beat the story, there is nothing left to do then to restart your game.

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Article Submissions / Sonic Advance

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:19:23 PM »

My review for Sonic Advance
Whoa!! Look at that blue hedgehog go!

 
Title: Sonic Advance

Platform: Gameboy Advance

My Rating: 7.7/10



Gameplay:
In this game, you control sonic, amy, knuckles and tails in a quest to defeat Dr. Eggman and to foil his evil plot. You’ll start the game by choosing one of the four heroes and then start your quest by beatings different levels before the final confrontation with the evil doctor himself! The game also features a small choa garden where you can raise a baby chao.


Sound:
The sound and music in the game are different in each level. The music and pace describe each level with more suspense, as you get closer to the final fight. The music at times seem like it was created to entertain a 3 year-old.


Graphics:
The graphics are like that of the Genisis and Snes. The game would have looked like a remake if the game was created in the moldy-oldy times of the early Sega console.


Maneuvering:
Sonic and Knuckles move great in the game but the characters that are the most difficult are Amy since she can’t roll into a ball and Tails since all he can do is fly and isn’t really made for running like sonic. Sonic and Knuckles are so easy to control like for example, knuckles can glide when he’s really high in the air and sonic can run super fast.



Entertaining:
Sonic Advance might be entertaining for little kids and maybe for some older fans that like the cartoon show on 4kidsTV. Anyways, the game can get boring at times because you can’t pass a level or you get stuck. The only time I ever passed the game to the final fight with Eggman was with Tails since I just flew over the bad guys to the finish gate and with Sonic, which I got lucky and was able to beat the levels easily.

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Article Submissions / Pokemon Yellow

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:18:28 PM »

My review for Pokemon Yellow: and my 100% catching mew cheat

(I found this glitch out myself and no its not the slowpoke level 17 cheat)
I know it’s a little late to be saying this but Nintendo made a glitch in the game and that unknown pokemon cheat is nothing when compared to this! This is no joke!
   
Title: Pokemon Yellow

Platform: Gameboy

My Rating: 8.7/10


My Cheat:
Okay here it is. When I first figured this out I was freaked out. I wanted to tell the whole world about this but had no way of posting it on the net, but now I do! So here it is, a lot of people would always tell you that you could catch mew right after exiting Mount. Moon and they were close to finding out the truth. You could also get mew by either a pokemon promotion or by using a game genie but this would mess up your game. I found out that you could catch mew on the golden nugget bridge north of cerulean city. So if you want to catch mew and are arriving right out of mount moon and want to catch mew without any outside help then this is what you need to do:

1.Arrive in cerulean city and go up and defeat all the trainers on the bridge.
2.DO NOT fight the trainer in the grass west of the bridge, which is hiding.
3.Go up to bills house and leave
4.Go back to cerulean and don’t face the gym leader or her minor trainers
(Have a pokemon that know Teleport, if you don’t have one follow steps 5-7)

5.Leave the town through the house of the man that was robbed of dig.
6.Head north and go through the underground trail towards viridian city.
7.In the route before entering viridian catch an Abra by all means and head back to cerulean

8.When you are ready to face mew equip your strongest pokemon on top of your crew and make sure to visit ceruleans pokemon center.
9.Go up through the bridge and try to stand directly in front of the trainer’s eye line but making sure the trainer is off-screen and if you take one step towards him would bring him on screen and trigger a battle.
10.Take one step towards him making him able to battle you but make sure right after you step towards him, QUICKLY press start and select your teleporting pokemon so you can teleport out.
11. If you did it right, the trainer will notice you but you will teleport and arrive in the pokemon center of cerulean.
12.Then go and challenge ONLY the swimmer in the cerulean gym. Once you defeat him head out towards the bridge
13.Keep heading north on the bridge until your start screen pops up by itself. If you did it right quickly press start and a wild pokemon will appear, but who can it be? Mew will appear and I’d advise you to catch it even if its at a low level, it is stronger in both defense and attack. You can also teach it any TM since it is compatible with all techniques.
(Just try my cheat and attempt to prove to me wrong)

Gameplay:
The game is basically where you have Pikachu as your starter pokemon and you have to go all over the world catching all the pokemon and collecting badges. This game was fun back in the day and still is played by hardcore pokemon fans of the old days.



Sound:
The game features no songs whatsoever but only beats and tunes. The game can either irritate you or can be really catchy. The game features a beat change each time you enter a different town or area. The beats really tell you that they belong in the pokemon game and won’t fit in any other.

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Article Submissions / Pokemon Crystal

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:17:12 PM »

My review for Pokemon Crystal
(Yeah I know, another Pokemon game, so what?)

Title: Pokemon Crystal

Platform: Gameboy Color

My Rating:  9.1/10

Gameplay:
Crystal is mainly the regular Pokemon game where you have to catch them all and see them all. This game has more new Pokemon to be caught and trained. You mainly start your journey in your hometown with either Chikorita, Cindiquil, or Totodile. You then travel till you beat all the gym leaders and trainers proving that you can take the pokemon league challenge and be a Pokemon Master. The only features this game has that sets it apart from red, blue, and yellow is that the game features:
1. An organized backpack
2. New Pokeballs and items like berries
3. The new phone feature
4. And of course, new Pokemon
 
Sound:
The sound and music in the game has been changed in style and beat from pokemon Red and Blue. I like what they’ve done with the music by giving it a different attitude. The early beat and music in red/blue sounded too “happy” and “cheerful” because you were struggling to become a pokemon master. Just not for teenagers or young adults who are into the pokemon but don’t want any childishness involved.


Graphics:
The graphics are okay considering that this game is on the Gameboy Color. For the pokemon in the game, they have done a great job in redrawing the pokemon’s appearance as well as their backs when they’re battling for you. Seriously, the pokemon’s backs in red/blue made them look weird and as if the animations were done on a computer that only had the “Paint” application available.

Maneuvering:
The maneuvering of your character is okay and even better when you get on your bike to go faster. Why would you want to move really fast on a pokemon game? Only if you’re an eager-beaver and want to arrive in the next city in the same minute you depart from your current one.

Entertaining:
Pokemon Crystal is very entertaining for all ages since you have many things to keep you entertained with. You could continue your quest for the pokemon master title, win the bug contest, catch rare-colored pokemon, or go after the three legendary dogs as well as Ho-oh and Lugia.

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Article Submissions / Need For Speed: Underground

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:16:12 PM »

Need for Speed Underground
“Check out my ride!”


   
Title: Need For Speed: Underground

Platform: Gamecube

My Rating: 7.9/10



Gameplay:
Need for Speed is an awesome game where in story mode you can unlock parts and cars so you can fix them up and race them. In the story mode, you have one ride and you can trade it in for new unlocked cars or for the cars that were already available. In every race you participate in, you must rank first to get money and new parts. This helps you to customize your ride. The game also offers a versus mode and time mode where you race to set a time for your friends to beat.



Sound:
The music in the game is great especially at the main screen where the game plays a song by the Eastside boys. The music is very good and the special effects are really cool when you activate the Nos on your ride.



Graphics:
The Game has great graphics especially when it comes to the cars. The game has many colors that you can paint your car and when you apply a paint, the car shines like new. The color shines and shows you that the car is really made of metal and not plastic.



Maneuvering:
The cars in the game are a little difficult to drive with but it only takes a little getting use to. The game knows this so sets up different races like drag where you practice on moving your car side to side, or drift where you let your car drift can maneuvering with the brakes.




Entertaining:
The game is very entertaining when it comes to story mode. When you first start off, the events are pretty easy but get really hard as you progress through. I got stuck one time in the events when I had only completed 33% of story mode.

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Article Submissions / NBA Street Vol. 2

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:15:15 PM »

My review for NBA Street Vol. 2



   
Title: NBA Street Vol. 2

Platform: Gamecube

My Rating: 8.9/10




Gameplay:
NBA Street is the only game I know that really brings basketball to the street. NBA has many basketball players you can unlock as you progress in the game as well as unlocking legends like Michael Jordan. The game features create a baller mode as well as a Be A Legend mode and versus mode. In Be A Legend, you create a baller and you make a team of 3. Then you play a lot of NBA teams to gain experience to level up your basketball player’s shooting as well as other skills.



Sound:
The only sound you hear is the voice of the announcer who sounds like he is around his teenager years. Anyways, he comments stuff like how the previous dunk was made or on the score of the teams.


Graphics:
The graphics look really good on the court as well as the players. The Jerseys also come to life and the basketball hoops graphics when they break are really awesome. The only thing that could be worked on is the player’s faces and the background scenery. Otherwise, the graphics are cool, dawg.


Maneuvering:
The Basketball Players are easy to move around with as well as shooting at the hoop. In the game you can do half-court shots and still make them every time if your character has a bit of skill in the shooting bar. You can also get around people who try to block your shots.


Entertaining:
The game is very entertaining if you like the idea of playing one-on-one with Mike himself or if you want to see who’s team is better, yours or your friends. The game is well worth your money and at least 10 hours of non-stop gameplay.

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Article Submissions / Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:14:24 PM »

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
“No, I didn’t kill anybody with my gun or run them over with my car…you don’t got no proof that I did!”


 
Title: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Platform: Playstation

My Rating: 9.1/10



Gameplay:
Back in the day this was the ultimate game when it came to stealing or to killing. Now it’s considered basic when compared to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. But this game is great considering all the things you can do like ride in your car riding where you want when you want.


Sound:
The music is okay and at times it could be catchy.


Graphics:
The graphics are basic for the people walking around and for yourself. The buildings and cars look really good and look like they belong in their surroundings besides the police cars and at times the Army.
 
Maneuvering:
The Maneuvering is great because if the police are after you, you can slip out into a car and drive away. If they catch up to you, there’s always the option to get away in the tight gaps the police always have when they try to close in on you. If you don’t fit, the game gives you a couple seconds to try to fit through before the cops pull you out of your car and get you.



Entertaining:
The game is very entertaining and gives you hours of endless gameplay. This game is very fun to play with friends so you can see who can get up to which danger star without getting the army sent on you or if you can manage to get away. The game is very entertaining and can keep you that way for weeks before you get bored.

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Article Submissions / Godzilla: Destroy all monsters melee

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:13:28 PM »

My review for Godzilla: Destroy all monsters melee


   
Title: Godzilla: Destroy all monsters melee

Platform: Gamecube

My Rating: 6.7/10



Gameplay:
The game was probably made for fans who wanted to play as Godzilla and destroy everything in sight. The game does a real poor way of doing just that. In the game you can fight against 3 other players, which can be human or computer.  




Sound:
The sound and music of the game really tries too much to fit in a game with a Giant Monster named Godzilla who’s been around since the early1980’s. They just don’t go together.



Graphics:
The graphics of the characters are the only thing in the game that the creators did that looks great. All the giant monsters look great and so do the buildings they hurl at each other as well as the fire blasts they fling at each other



Maneuvering:
The monsters are real easy to maneuver with but the only problem is that the giants move at a very slow pace. Also, the monsters have a real hard time getting around buildings that are half demolished. The game would be much better if the monsters moved way faster.

Entertaining:
The game may be entertaining for the first few minutes but after a while you’ll realize that you’ve been ripped off at a game in which you can’t do anything.

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Article Submissions / Fear Effect 2:Retro Helix

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:12:29 PM »

My review for Fear Effect 2:Retro Helix
The game where the secret agents are women, kinda like Charlie’s Angels.


   
Title: Fear Effect 2:Retro Helix

Platform: Playstation

My Rating: 8.7/10



Gameplay:
In Retro Helix, you are a secret agent who happens to be a girl, and sometimes switch roles with your “partner” that also happens to be a lady. Anyways, the game is mostly a detective game where sometimes the secret agents get “busy” with each other just so they can get away from trouble and to continue with their investigations. Mostly you just are presented with a bunch of cases in which you have to solve by all means.


Sound:
There is no music or beat in this game but only sound effects and talking. This is because in one case you are in a haunted building so this just helps rise the suspense.



Graphics:
For the game being on playstation, the graphics are pretty good, if you know what I mean when I say “pretty.” The buildings in which the scenes take place are well detailed and contribute to the detective side of the game. The lady detectives are very hot and fully detailed, and so are the bad guys.



Maneuvering:
The only characters you are allowed to control are two girls whose names are Rain and Hanna. They are easy to maneuver and at times can be frustrating to move around with since in some levels the camera is viewing you from the front or to one side. The only problem is the camera view.


Entertaining:
The game can get a little dirty since the two ladies like to mess around with each other at times so their enemies think their both lez. That is why the game is rated Mature and can be really entertaining for us guys. Either way this game is very entertaining if you’re into the whole detective thing.

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Article Submissions / Dragonball Z: Taiketsu

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:10:25 PM »

My review for Dragonball Z: Taiketsu
The game where the Z fighters don’t even look like themselves!

   
Title: Dragonball Z: Taiketsu

Platform: Gameboy Advance

My Rating: 4/10



Gameplay:
Taiketsu is a game that was made to bring the Dragonball Z fighting experience to the Gameboy and obviously one of the first attempts. The game is like mortal combat on the Super Nintendo but the fighter’s move a bit slower.


Sound:
This game sure likes to copy the early mortal combat games since the game also has a little rushed up music during the fighting. If you think that’s bad, the matches also start with a deep voice that says, “fight!”


Graphics:
The graphics are okay….I guess. You can’t make out the character’s faces nor if their hands have fingers or are all stuck together. The game is okay judging that the game was meant to be on the handheld gameboy advance.
 

Maneuvering:
The fighters in this game jump up in the air to attack then fall to the ground on their feet as if there pockets were suddenly filled with rocks. This game just defies gravity even though you have no problem moving around.
   

Entertaining:
The game is entertaining if you don’t mind going back to the days of the classic streetfighter and mortal kombat games on the Snes. The game is basic jumping, kicking, punching, and only one super move. If you ask me, we are way too advanced in gaming technology to go back to regular one-camera-view of fighting.

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Article Submissions / Dragonball Z: Supersonic Warriors

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:09:27 PM »

My review for Dragonball Z: Supersonic Warriors



Title: Dragonball Z: Supersonic Warriors

Platform: Gameboy Advance

My Rating: 8.9/10



Gameplay:
In Supersonic warriors, you are given a lot of different modes to fight in including a vs. mode where you can use a team of Z fighters to fight the computers team and a Story mode where you can go through the stories of the different fighters in the game. There is also a Z store in the game that lets you buy story modes, pictures, and new characters.


Sound:
The music in the game helps make the player feel either frustrated in matches or calm when choosing a different fighting mode to fight in. The fighter’s voices sound a bit fuzzy at times when the character is about to use their special attack.



Graphics:
The graphics are great bearing in mind that the game is based on a cartoon and can’t be expected to be 3D or dimensional since it would make the game feel low-rated like the previous game, DBZ: Tiketsu.


Maneuvering:
You can very easily move your character from one side of the screen to the other especially if your character uses his ki to go lightning-fast. The Maneuvering is very easy to control and comes in handy when you want to charge at your opponent with a head-on punch or kick.



Entertaining:
Supersonic Warriors is a great game for any Dragonball Z fan to try-out. The only set-back like all games is that once your done with the story mode of the game and unlocking stuff, you can’t do much but start all over again. I recommend this game for anyone who wants to play a fighting game where all of the bruises and beatings occur in the sky.

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Article Submissions / Dragonball Z: Buu’s Fury

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:08:10 PM »

My review on Dragonball Z: Buu’s Fury
A game where Majin Buu gets in your face each time you try to kill him, getting stronger each time.

   
Title: Dragonball Z: Buu’s Fury

Platform: Gameboy Advance

My Rating: 8.1/10

Gameplay:
Buu’s Fury is based on the Majin Buu saga on the cartoon series Dragonball Z. It mostly follows the storyline in the cartoon about a gummy type of bad guy named Buu that the Z fighters must destroy put find out that Buu regenerates himself each time you try to kill him.
The Z fighters reach new power levels and towns in order to defeat the pink menace. The Z fighters also use a new technique called fusion where two fighters must fuse into one being in order to generate enough strength and power to destroy Buu once in for all.

Sound:
The game’s music doesn’t fit the game at all. The only reason the game has the music that it does is because the tunes comes directly from the TV series. The music may seem fine on the series since most of my attention is on the action, but on my video game? It just makes the game seem desperate for any tune the creators could get their hands on just to finish the game to put on market.


Graphics:
The graphics are great considering the game is an anime show on TV and shouldn’t have real-life shadings or features. Also, the game is an RPG (most RPG’s are cartoony except for the Final fantasy series), and this isn’t a Playstation 2 we’re playing on, it’s a gameboy.

Maneuvering:
The characters are easy to use and move around. You do a lot of moving around in this game since you do a lot of RPG fighting.


Entertaining:
Buu’s Fury is the game fans have been waiting for in the Legacy of Goku series. The game would entertain any fan of Dragonball Z for hours. The only fall-back this game encounters is when the game tries to explain the Dragonball Z story on an RPG game. You just can’t do it since the modern RPG style has some limitations for 3D and special effects, as far as the Gameboy Advance goes.

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Article Submissions / Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:06:32 PM »

My review for Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi
Another Dragonball Z game?

 
Title: Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi

Platform: Playstation 2

My Rating: 7.5/10



Gameplay:
The game features a lot of new characters since the last Budokai game. It features new characters such as Bojack and Baby Vegeta. It also features villains from the dragonball Z movies that haven’t been released in the US such as Janemba. The game features a lot of the old characters and some of them look like there face has been rounded out and made smaller when it comes to the hair. This is the first game in the Budokai series that was made by a different company. Let’s see if they did a good job.



Sound:
The sound is okay and could have been better. But it at least covers the basic when the characters are fighting each other. You can’t expect to hear great songs and the sounds of beatings at the same time right?



Graphics:
The graphics in this game are.. welll….. different. In the previous Budokai games, the character’s hair when they turn super saiyan were light yellow but in this game the hair is a sort of darker brighter yellow. You can notice this especially when Gotenks transforms into Super Saiyan 3.



Maneuvering:
The maneuvering in this game is great and is what you can expect from any regular fighting game. The fighting is a bit better than in previous games. Tenkaichi looks as if the game got tutored a bit while being created by previous games like Budokai 3.



Entertaining:
This game is very entertaining if you’re the kind of gamer that justs like to fight and fight. This is a very good game to keep you entertained while playing with your friends and I really recommend this game alongside Budokai 3.

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Article Submissions / Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:05:35 PM »

My review for Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure
“Look mom, I can ride a skateboard.”


   
Title: Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure

Platform: Gamecube

My Rating: 7.9/10



Gameplay:
In this Skate adventure, you are a kid and love to skateboard! You skate around and somehow manage to find magic Disney scrolls that will teleport you into movies like The Lion King and others like Tarzan. You then can meet characters like Timon and Pumba or little Tarzan himself.


Sound:
The game features many songs you can listen to while skating. Some of them are really childish songs singing about childhood themes like “I don’t wanna grow up” or “Skating around.” The songs are pretty annoying if you are already in your teen years and just wanted the game to skate with Tarzan and Simba.



Graphics:
The graphics are very accurate and great when it comes to characters like Simba and Timon or even Buzz Lightyear who has a lot of buttons on his space suit. The skateboards on the game are also really detailed.


Maneuvering:
The skaters in the game are okay when controlling them. Sometimes the characters tend to get a little hard to maneuver with when making corner turns.


Entertaining:
Overall, the game is entertaining if you’re into Disney. Also, he gamecase does say that the Disney’s Skate Adventure was copied after Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4.  But it still bugs you knowing your 16 years old and your playing a game made for 8 year olds. But it’s still pretty fun to skate with your Disney friends like Woody or Raffiki even if you are too old.

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Article Submissions / Day Of Reckoning 2

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:04:15 PM »

My review for WWE: Day of Reckoning 2
“Who’s the king of Thuganomics, Word Life!”


Title: Day of Reckoning 2

Platform: Gamecube

My Rating: 9.3/10



Gameplay:
The game features story mode and versus mode as well as a shopping zone where you can edit your created wrestler. You are also allowed to create a character in Create-a-Wrestler mode either a girl or guy. Sadly, you can only use a male wrestler in story mode so making a girl wrestler is pretty useless.



Sound:
The music added in the fighting really goes along with what is happening. If you are on heat, they’ll be a rushed up version of the music to go along with the rage your character is in. Otherwise, it would help if they put real songs in the fights than just a beat.



Graphics:
The characters have been modified to take advantage of the gamecube’s graphics. The wrestler’s bodies are more detailed now than in the first Day of Reckoning. Girls would probably play this game just to look at the guy’s bod.



Maneuvering:
It is very easy to maneuver the wresters and to make them use punching and kicking attacks. The only problem that I have for the game is that sometimes I’d do a running clothesline and miss because the computer would say I was too far away even if my opponent was right in front of me.



Entertaining:
This game is very entertaining and worth at least 6 hours of gameplay. If you have no clue about wrestling or the wrestlers, than this game won’t grab your attention.

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Article Submissions / Capcom VS. SNK

« on: November 29, 2005, 06:02:12 PM »

My review for CAPCOM VS. SNK
“My health is practically gone so I must use all my
strength in this last attack….…. HYDOKENNNN!!!!”


   
Title: CAPCOM VS. SNK
 
Platform: Playstation

My Rating: 9.3/10




Gameplay:
 In Capcom vs. Snk, you have all of the streetfighters available for fighting as well as all the snk fighters. This game is awesome since you can have teams to fight each other like in Capcom vs. Xmen. You can have Evil Ryu and M.Bison defend themselves against four good guys who are out for Bison’s life.



Sound:
The music of the game makes the game feel as if it should have been played in an arcade. The rhythm of the music helps relax yourself while fighting and this is great not like other games where the music makes you all nervous and twitching.



Graphics:
The graphics are very good when it comes to the fighters and the backgrounds. The characters are very detailed in their anime forms. Like on Ryu, every muscle that Ryu uses to fight is beefed up like his chest and arms. Ryu looks very muscled up and looks as if he’s ready for anything.



Maneuvering:
The games fighting is very fast paced and if you blink your opponent would be already halfway through the screen ready to give you a bashing. The maneuvering of the fighters is very easy to control. Capcom vs. Snk is one of those games where the characters can show their full potential with their techniques and attacks.



Entertaining:
This game is one of those games that if you don’t play it for a long time, you’ll soon crave to play it. Capcom Vs. Snk is one of those games that even though sequels of the game have been released, is still better than the whole series.