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This week’s best video game
Geeks unite! This game just happens to be the sequel to one of XBOX’s greatest games of all time, with the chance to be evil, even. Here’s to hoping they didn’t screw up the formula for what makes a good Star War’s role-playing game.
Samus Aran is back
Billy Drown the Juice Samus Aran, Nintendo’s first lady, is on another adventure in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Her engagement this time deals with something about light and dark worlds and being stalked by these evil forces called Ing, all while trying to uncover the mysteries that happened to these troops.
Nintendo DS dual-screen portable game system debuts
Nintendo’s new dual-screened handheld game system launches this week. Too bad Sony couldn’t get out their handheld, PSP, now as well. It would’ve been great to see the two compete. The upper screen is where most of the action takes place. The bottom screen has a touch pad on it for the stylus pen.
This week’s best video game
If I feel half of the bliss from Rogue Agent that I felt when I played the first Goldeneye I will be a happy man. Here’s hoping EA Games can deliver what Rare delivered almost 10 years ago: the perfect first person shooter.
Latest Hawk game fails to thrill
For half a decade, Tony Hawk skateboard games have been staples of the extreme sports video game world. And while Tony Hawk Underground 2 is good, it seems to herald the fade-out of the once-engaging franchise. The great gameplay, with some new ideas, is still intact.
Behold! Halo 2 this way comes
Billy Drown the Juice When a video game makes masses of people flock to get it, the video game must be good. But when a game makes grown men weep like little girls, it must be damn good. Halo 2 is that kind of game. When it comes out Wednesday at midnight, don’t push, don’t pull, don’t worry – all of you Master Chief lovers will get a copy.
Bongo your way to fun with Donkey Konga
I’ve never liked multiplayer games. I just always found it better to play with myself … er, play by myself. But that’s all changed now, because Donkey Konga showed me how much more fun it is to play with others. Donkey Konga, from Nintendo and Namco, is a rhythm-based game where players drum on bongo controllers when notes of music scroll on the TV.
New Lord of the Rings game not hack-and-slash
Since there wasn’t a fourth book in the Lord of the Rings series, EA Games is milking this cash-producing franchise by releasing a game around the same time people would be salivating for another movie. Old school role-playing game fans are the folks being targeted for this game.
Billy’s top five Halloween flick picks…
1. The Grudge God bless Sam Raimi for helping bring us an American version of Ju-On: The Grudge. Sure the story may be a bit wonky, but seeing that damn Japanese woman’s face is worth the price of admission. I just wish I would stop seeing it when I’m trying to sleep.
Retro side-scroller Alien Hominid best of week’s horrible selection
I will always have a place in my heart for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but after their last video game outing they
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