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COLUMN: 'Roboto-chan!': The Last Boost

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2008-06-24 08:00:00 by Kurokishi in GameSetWatch
...brilliantly anomalous by-product of Team Andromeda and Polyphony Digital In 1999 a developer renowned for its pedigree in creating driving simulators ventured into pastures where high speed mecha roam. The developer was Polyphony Digital , the game: Omega Boost for the original PlayStation It was possibly the most accomplished implementation...
 
Tags: game, original game soundtrack, car game developer, mecha, mecha mediocrity, mecha design helm, helm, game form, speed mecha game
 
 
 
 
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Preview - Wario Land: The Shake Dimension

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2008-08-01 19:44:05 by Mark Brown in British Gaming Blog
...brilliantly Wario Land games have always played like a slower, more aggressive doppelganger to Marios adventures. Slow and sluggish, but precise; every move is delicately placed and defined, unlike Marios springy, elastic parades. Luckily, coupled with a great D-pad on the Wii Remote, iffy controls never stand between success and failure 4....
 
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Early Impressions: Silent Hill Origins Is Pocket-Sized Creepiness

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2007-12-13 11:16:25 by Susan Arendt in Game | Life
...brilliantly in delivering classic Silent Hill scares. I'm only a few hours in, but I have already experienced some truly disturbing moments, including an encounter with what appeared to be a young Pyramidhead. Despite the fact that you'll be able to see your lap around the edges of the screen, Origins still manages to be very, very unnerving
 
Tags: silent hill, silent hill origins, origins, previous silent hill, origins succeeds brilliantly, camera control, control, origins takes, camera
 
 
 
 
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Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (PS3)

2007-12-09 19:24:24 by Joonas Laakso in Dusty Gamer
 
...brilliantly realised moments. (My favorite is the streetfight in Tokyo.) Unfortunately, the locations are undermined by the somewhat lacking graphics. Textures and lighting are never quite up to the level of quality youre expecting. At places, I felt like playing an original Xbox game. Then again, there are several bewilderingy effective...
 
Tags: game, original xbox game, brave game, game takes, kane, game constantly reminds, positive, positive emotional experience, sets kane
 
 
 
 
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No More Heroes review

2007-12-28 18:28:37 by RawmeatCowboy in Go Nintendo
 
A portion of a (glowing) N-Gamer review Youve already showed your friends Super Mario Galaxy. It gave you the same feeling as when you saw Ridge Racer on the PSOne, or Super Mario 64 on N64, or Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast - games that you could stick on your telly and say look - this is a brilliant, brilliant game. Well, No More Heroes is...
 
Tags: review, heroes, game, brilliant game, n-gamer review, brilliant, crazy split-in-two controller, games, wii
 
 
 
 
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What Has It Got In Its Pocketses?

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2007-12-30 06:36:08 by Steve in Gaming Today
...brilliantly funny, and someone usually proves me wrong. But in this case, Im right! I hope PTOM : How are you finding developement on the Playstation 3 EP : Oblivion is a huge game- certainly not easy to create, but we did it. So weve got experience on the platform now. For us, releasing a game on the PS3 the same day as the 360 and PC...
 
Tags: fallout, previous fallout games, fallout franchise, fallout creatures, creatures, unique world, world, gamefaqs fallout, open-world game designs
 
 
 
 
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Toad's Tool 64 let's you hack at Mario 64

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2007-11-07 10:54:00 by gnome in the random Gnomes' random Lair
...brilliantly silly name, is a Mario 64 level editor, is still in Beta as fashion dictates, is absolutely freeware and you can grab yourselves a copy from its very own web-page where both Windows and Mac OS X versions are available. What's more, the thing was simple enough to allow me to tamper with some of the best designed platformer levels...
 
Tags: tool, toad, commodore amiga launch, construction kit, vectrex retro, platformer levels, brilliantly silly, mario, absolutely freeware
 
 
 
 
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Zelda Phantom Hourglass (DS)- Game review

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2007-10-28 11:06:07 by jotoonkid in Jotoons Blog
...BRILLIANTLY. The DS touchscreen brings something new to the controll scheme, just like the WiiMote did. On the wii you can have precision aiming with the bow, hookshot ect, but with the DS, you can have complete accuracy with ANYTHING For example, throwing things. On other games, you could estimate how far you were going to throiw something,...
 
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Soda pop culture

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2006-08-15 05:52:18 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
You know a game has real cultural cachet when its hijacked by a soft drink company Coca-Cola's latest cinema advertisement from the US brilliantly harnesses Grand Theft Auto at a time when American politicians are trying to keep games of its ilk away from the public consciousness Check out the ad below
 
Tags: real cultural cachet, soft drink company, public consciousness, american politicians, cinema advertisement, games, coca-cola, time, ilk
 
 
 
 
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GameSetLinks: Conan Rock Band Baybee

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2008-01-06 16:00:15 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...brilliantly surreal fighting game trash-talk video. Someone get that man to commentate on TV! Here goes NekoFight Fun-Motion Slightly Miswired Robot Ragdolls Shuffle About', the title handily says. Physics games ftw Japanmanship: How now cash-cow Suggestions for DS add-ons: 'I doubt any of the above will actually be implemented, save for the...
 
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