Game Review: Igor: The Game (Wii, DS)
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Posted on November 8th, 2008 by
In the land of Malaria, evil scientists from all over come together once a year to compete in the Evil Science Fair. But behind each evil scientist is a hunchbacked Igor to pull the switch. But one Igor has a dream to be an evil scientist himself. In Igor: The Game, based on the recent animated movie, play as Igor as he overcomes all odds to enter the Evil Science Fair. The Igor game for the Wii is a typical movie-based 3-D platformer, but the DS version is, surprisingly, a puzzle game!
Welcome to the Namco Museum’s 360 Virtual Arcade Tour!
Posted on November 8th, 2008 by
Welcome all, to the Namco Museum! We all have dream jobs that will probably never come to fruition because those jobs may be too far away from reality. Well I have one such dream job. I’d like to be a curator and tour guide of the Namco Museum! Too bad there’s no such thing as a REAL Namco Museum, huh? But hey, this is MY blog and I can do whatever I want, so today I’d like to take you all on a tour of the newest edition to the Namco Museum series: Namco Museum Virtual Arcade for the Xbox 360! And we’re walking, we’re walking…
NBA Live ’09 All-Play for Wii
Posted on November 5th, 2008 by
NBA Live 09: All-Play makes the round ball a little more easy and arcade-friendly for the presumably more casual Wii audience. It also adds a couple unique modes and subtracts the career mode and the create-a-player mode found in the PlayStation3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game. It’s basketball with all the teams, all the stars, all the likenesses, but presented in a way that makes the game a lot more party friendly. Passing is done via a gesture with the remote, the nunchuk handles movement and easy to reach buttons let you switch players or make a shot. Check the rest of the content review here.
Soul Bubbles DS
Posted on November 5th, 2008 by
Soul Bubbles is exclusively sold at Toys R Us, which is shame because the game literally feels like a breath of fresh air (assuming you don’t have halitosis) in that you blow into the microphone to play the game. Soul Bubbles is a gentle game. The protagonist is a strange little cherubic creature who’s job it is to shepherd lost souls to the underworld. The souls are fragile, so he creates bubbles to protect them and guide them through ever-increasingly complex and hazard-ridden mazes. Click here for the content review.
Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy
Posted on November 5th, 2008 by
Nancy is Maid of Honor at a wedding in a old spooky castle … but where’s the groom? Is he pranking? Is he kidnapped? Or did the banshee get him? Check out WhatTheyPlay for the content review and know that this game has my highest recommendation for girls AND boys. Best for 10 and up.
GamerDad Votes ’08
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by
Politics at GamerDad are never simple. On the Right, you have the Cultural Conservatives, the “Moral Majority” (evangelicals and other people who want to impose “morality” on a society they see as slipping downward). While on the Left we have the “It takes a village” and the “protect the children” crowd (the people who attempt to ban all “play” violence). Both ban videogames for the same reason – violence – differing only in how much language doesn’t bother one side and how much sex does the other. Because of this, I serve both sides and don’t want to alienate either. But Tuesday is important and I have something to say about Barack Obama.
Wii Music
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 by
I decided to take a different approach to reviewing Wii Music and just ramble about it. While a bad E3 demo and toy-like gameplay have plagued Wii Music’s reputation, the former band geek in me still wanted to try it. And plus, despite what they all said, I still had fun with it at PAX. So how is it? Read on to find out:
Game Review: Sam & Max: Season One (Wii)
Posted on October 25th, 2008 by
Sam & Max aren’t your regular police force…they’re the Freelance Police. Sam is a no-nonsense dog detective and his pal Max is a hyperkinetic rabbity thing. For more than 20 years they’ve been serving their brand of justice on the pages of underground comic books, on a Saturday morning cartoon, and in some popular computer adventure games. Now they’re ready to take on the Nintendo Wii with all six hilarious episodes of their Season One adventures from the PC.
Game Review: Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility (Wii)
Posted on October 25th, 2008 by
Natsume’s popular farming simulation series of games, Harvest Moon, is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year (has it really been around that long?). And so in honor of such a bountiful harvest, Natsume is cultivating Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility for the Nintendo Wii. Is the newest addition a bumper crop or a dust bowl? Read on to find out:
Game Review: Princess Debut (DS)
Posted on October 20th, 2008 by
