Developer: Eurocom Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: November 18, 2002 Also On: GCN, PC, PS2, and Xbox The British agent has finally returned to the “Box, Xbox”. Ever since the release of GoldenEye 007, still no Bond game has accomplished what Rare managed. With more powerful hardware and a much larger company now working on … Read more

Developer: Aqua Pacific Publisher: DreamCatcher Release Date: August 19, 2003 Also On: None Virtua Tennis, the undisputed king of the tennis genre, is Sega’s lone ranger on the Dreamcast for video game pioneering. No other tennis game ever reached the depth of play that Virtua Tennis achieved. DreamCatcher’s Agassi Tennis Generation (ATG) attempted to mimic … Read more

# 187 Ride or Die 24: The Game A Agassi Tennis Generation Aggressive Inline All-Star Baseball 2004 Ape Escape 2 Armored Core: Nine Breaker B Backyard Wrestling: Don’t Try This at Home Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue Batman Begins Batman Vengeance Battlefield 2: Modern Combat Beyond Good and Evil Black Brothers in Arms Burnout … Read more

Developer: Point of View Publisher: Midway Release Date: March 21, 2005 Also On: PS2 and Xbox If you ever wondered what living in the ghettos of Detroit or Los Angeles was like, look no further than NARC. With a drug-dealer on nearly every street corner, purse snatchers lurking around every alley, and citizens not afraid … Read more

Developer: Free Radical Publisher: EA Release Date: March 21, 2005 Also On: GCN, PS2 and Xbox I hate to think that someone loses legitimacy for their personal preferences. If I were to tell you that I’d rather play TimeSplitters: Future Perfect’s multi-player over Halo 2, you’d say that I shouldn’t be writing reviews. I guess … Read more

Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Release Date: March 24, 2005 Also On: None The headlining release of the PlayStation Portable launch, Konami’s Metal Gear Acid, is quite a difficult title to judge. As many of you may already know, this portable game doesn’t feature the same run-and-gun gameplay of the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 Metal Gear … Read more

Developer: 989 Sports Publisher: SCEA Release Date: March 8, 2005 Also On: None Major League Baseball has been tainted with a steroids scandal for years now. Commissioner Bud Selig denies that a problem exists, and the Player’s Association has taken baby steps towards finding a solution. For Mr. Selig, steroids are justified with growing attendance … Read more

Developer: Introversion Software Publisher: Introversion Software Release Date: March 4, 2005 Also On: None My gaming career more or less started in 1999. That was the first time my family got a PC that was up to date. The first thing I did was get a magazine with lots of game demos to find out … Read more

Developer: Crystal Dynamics Publisher: Eidos Release Date: February 22, 2005 Also On: PC, PS2 and Xbox The Xbox is so saturated with shooters, it has become a difficult task to differentiate between them. For a shooter to be considered a ‘success’ on the Xbox, it needs to not just improve upon what has been undertaken, … Read more

Developer: EA Sports Publisher: EA Sports Release Date: February 22, 2005 Also On: GCN, PC, PS2 and Xbox It seems the baseball off-season was almost as active as the gaming winter. After EA bought the rights to the NFL and obtained the ESPN publishing rights, Take-Two bought the rights to baseball, making this the final … Read more

Developer: Polyphony Digital Publisher: SCEA Release Date: February 22, 2005 Also On: None The Gran Turismo series didn’t pioneer the racing genre, but it certainly made it take off in a way that no one would have ever imagined. Four years ago, Sony released the first next-generation version of the series with Gran Turismo 3: … Read more

Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: February 15, 2005 Also On: None Nintendo, always known to make unique games, hit a high note in originality when it released the original Wario Ware on the Game Boy Advance two years ago. Soon enough, there was a GameCube version. Now, with the capabilities of the new Nintendo … Read more

Developer: Namco Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: February 15, 2005 Also On: None Nintendo is self-reliant on first-party titles. The GameCube is on its last leg. As soon as Nintendo pulls that leg from underneath, the GameCube will fall. This didn’t happen with the PlayStation, as Sony’s reliance was on third-party publishers. Star Fox: Assault, a … Read more

Developer: Volition Publisher: THQ Release Date: January 17, 2005 Also On: PC, PS2 and Xbox I’m very new to the world of The Punisher, despite seeing the movie and now playing Volition’s action game. But after my experience with this gore-a-thon, I have a few speculations about Marvel’s comic book anti-hero. First of all, the … Read more

Developer: PDAmill Publisher: PDAmill Release Date: February 10, 2005 Also On: None Arvale was hyped as the RPG for all PDA owners. PDAmill set out to take the crown that Legacy has owned for about a year now. Did they succeed and live up to the expectations? That is actually quite a hard question to … Read more

Developer: Ignition Entertainment Publisher: Ignition Entertainment Release Date:January 17, 2005 Also On:None Judging Zoo Keeper by its cover on a game store shelf will turn you away faster than a snapped-in-half game disc. At a pricey $39.99, it’s tough to see how a puzzle game for the Nintendo DS would be worth as much as, … Read more

Developer: Pandemic Studios Publisher: LucasArts Release Date: January 11, 2005 Also On: PS2 and Xbox Most people see Lucas Arts as primarily a Star Wars company. While they release a lot of titles, a majority of them are just that. Most games outside the Star Wars license really aren’t seen as great games. Armed and … Read more

Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom Release Date: January 11, 2005 Also On: None Much like Eternal Darkness, the game that I refer as the best survival horror game, Resident Evil 4has been in development for years, delayed time and again. The last Resident Evil on GCN, Resident Evil 0, was planned for the Nintendo 64, but … Read more