Posts Tagged ‘Action’

Viewtiful Joe was a surprise hit for the GameCube. It looked like something which would easily fall into obscurity, but Viewtiful Joe quickly garnered a sequel and a fighting spin-off across multiple platforms. Then, Capcom shut down Clover Studios, and we may never see this franchise again. So if you want a complete Viewtiful Joe [...]

If the Nintendo DS is any indication, it’ll probably be a full year before we start to see truly good games for the Wii. As of now, the Wii is–and will be for a while–dominated by mini-game compilations and dumb-downed ports with tacked-on motion control (even Twilight Princess is guilty of this). So what Konami [...]

I once had a rock collection, but I gave up on it when my mother pointed out that most of my rocks were coming from the driveway. I still have an affinity for rocks and collecting in general, though, so a video game about rocks (or stones, if you will) is a welcome opportunity. But [...]

Bomberman has had an interesting past. While the series is as classic as they come, it keeps trying to change its core mechanics and always fails to take Bomberman to the next level. But for Bomberman, there is no next level. The game works best when it is itself, which is why the Bomberman games [...]

If you watched Walt Disney Pictures’ movie Chicken Little, you may remember the “movie within a movie” finale. Drawing inspiration from that scene, Disney’s Chicken Little: Ace in Action becomes a mission-based shooter featuring the alter egos from the film. And just when you think that you’ve got kid-friendly movie licensed videogames figured out, Ace [...]

Back when Super Monkey Ball launched alongside the GameCube, it didn’t prove the system’s hardware so much as it proved the system’s knack for multiplayer finesse. Several years later, Super Monkey Ball once again arrives as a launch title for Nintendo’s latest, but what it achieves is just the opposite of its predecessors. The first [...]

Knowing–or having–children that “game” makes you–as a gamer–more aware of just how bad some of these kiddie games are. I watch in dismay as my nephews time and time again are tricked into thinking their favorite movie licenses also make for good video games. They don’t! And that’s why LEGO Star Wars was such a [...]

When I was younger, one of my personal goals was to dig the biggest hole possible. Thanks to some pretty tough soil in my backyard, however, I never made it past three feet. But I’m not about to say that video games were able to replace this childhood need to dig, dig, dig– though I [...]

If you need any reassurance of Nintendo’s “non-gamer” philosophy, look no further than the company’s line of Brain Training software. The series has had a stranglehold on Japan’s weekly game charts for several months. Brain Age in the states has even started appearing in clinics and late-night infomercials. In fact, Brain Age is the only [...]

Nintendo struck gold with its Advance Wars series. The DS Advance Wars is my favorite handheld game, after all, and that’s no easy task to accomplish considering I have had a dislike towards all things turn-based after playing too many Final Fantasies. But for as fun and rewarding as Advance Wars is, turn-based games just [...]

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