giantbomb Wess's Reviews

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Hey! Cut it out! Ok, let's go, waitwaitwait, ah crap! STOP!!! (WII)

New Super Mario Bros. Wii marks the return of 2D Mario games to consoles - I believe the first since Super Mario World. Although it is in some ways a return to the classic formula that made Mario the king of gaming, Nintendo does their staple move of taking what ...

Reviewed by Wess on Nov. 18, 2009

23 out of 25 found this review helpful.

Take a deep breath. (PS3)

Demon's Souls has gotten a lot of attention for being a very hard game. This is one of the most intense games I've played in a long time, and is definitely a challenge. That doesn't mean, however, that this game is overly frustrating or impossible at all. There were only ...

Reviewed by Wess on Nov. 8, 2009

Wings + Lasso = Win (DS)

Scribblenauts was a game that I had high hopes for because of the completely crazy, innovative way you interact with the game. The slogan "Write Anything. Solve Everything." seems to hold true for the most part. There are a ton of items in this game, and you access them just ...

Reviewed by Wess on Oct. 26, 2009

Prepare to Drop - Into Halo 3.2 (X360)

Halo 3: ODST is a side story in the Halo universe about a small squad of ODSTs that drop into the city of New Mombasa that exists somewhere in Africa. This title is intended to have a fundamentally different feel from the core Halo games, since the Master Chief is ...

Reviewed by Wess on Sept. 28, 2009

Fun songs = fun rhythm game. Who'd have thunk it. (WII)

The Beatles: Rock Band carries the weighty name of Rock Band, and the infinitely more weighty name of the Beatles - one of the most beloved music groups of all time. Fortunately for both fans of Rock Band and The Beatles, this game carries those names well, and ultimately delivers ...

Reviewed by Wess on Sept. 25, 2009

In a word: Addicting (XBLM)

Shadow Complex is a title found on XBox Live Arcade, that, realistically, carries more content and polish than many full retail games. This modern day "Metroidvania" style shooter has all the aspects of any good side scrolling action adventure, and brings a new level of production quality to low priced ...

Reviewed by Wess on Sept. 23, 2009

An amazingly well crafted adventure in every way. (X360)

Batman Arkham Asylum has a long legacy of comic book to video game adaptations behind it. Unfortunately, that legacy is one of shame and, to be frank, simply bad games. For that reason I was skeptical when I first heard of Arkham Asylum, but it didn't take long after actually ...

Reviewed by Wess on Sept. 23, 2009

Rampage your way across familiar gameplay. (X360)

Prototype came into the world alongside the PS3 exclusive InFamous, which, upon first impressions, looked like basically the same game, but better. I'm going to get out the way early that I have not played one second of InFamous, and therefore this is the last time I will refer to ...

Reviewed by Wess on Sept. 14, 2009

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

Who cares why, just blow everything up. (X360)

Red Faction: Guerrilla is a game strictly about blowing the heck out of stuff. It's because of the very straight forward focus that you get all sorts of crazy ways to, well... blow the heck out of stuff. The first thing you do in the game is get your hands ...

Reviewed by Wess on July 25, 2009

A real step forward in multiple ways. (WII)

EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis is the first what I would call "real attempt" at making a full scale tennis game on the Wii (tied with Virtua Tennis of course). Seeing that I haven't played (and probably won't play) Virtua Tennis 2009, I can't comment on which is the definitive ...

Reviewed by Wess on July 24, 2009

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

I need... HAAAAALLP (X360)

Just in order to get straight to the point, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if you liked Resident Evil 4 (and you should have) you will almost certainly enjoy Resident Evil 5. This is because the basics of the game are essentially unchanged for ...

Reviewed by Wess on July 3, 2009

Maybe this will be a CONDUIT for more Wii shooters. Doh ho ho. (WII)

The Conduit is a bit of a hard game to pin. Sure, its an FPS, so you have a large library of games to compare it to, but there's also something fundamentally different about The Conduit. The most obvious difference is it's exclusivity to the Wii, meaning that this is ...

Reviewed by Wess on June 30, 2009

1 out of 3 found this review helpful.

Old meets new and creates something wonderful. (X360)

Banjo-Kazooie is a game that is near and dear to the hearts of many fans of the N64, so naturally, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts received a lot of attention. What people may not have been expecting is that Nuts and Bolts holds firm very few of the standout characteristics of ...

Reviewed by Wess on June 26, 2009

HAIDOKEN!!! (X360)

Ok, so I've put off writing this review for a really long time, because I really am not sure how to approach this. I did not enjoy SF4 very much, but I can't really say that it is the fault of this game in particular, more because of issues I ...

Reviewed by Wess on May 28, 2009

When a character has wings for ears, you know its a platformer (WII)

Klonoa is a remake of an old PS1 platforming game (which I never played), and it certainly carries that "old school platforming" feel into the current gaming generation, and does so with a nifty $30.00 price tag. This game is about as simple as they come, with you basically being ...

Reviewed by Wess on May 27, 2009

For God's sake man, swim! SWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM!!!! (DSI)

There's not a whole lot to say about Art Style: AQUIA, simply because there really isn't very much to the game. It is a DSiWare puzzle game that comes for the easy price of 500 points, and is appropriately sized for that price. The lack of content, however, does not ...

Reviewed by Wess on May 27, 2009

DiMaggio: Expect your eyes to burn a little on Sundays. (WII)

Have you ever wondered what would happen if a group of terrorists completely took over a modern day city, cut it off from the rest of the world completely, and infected everyone inside with a deadly virus? Did you ever then think about what would happen if that city became ...

Reviewed by Wess on April 16, 2009

If I saw a scorpion do that in real life... (WII)

Deadly Creatures takes a game that is so simple in both concept and design that it makes me wonder why it didn't come along sooner. It really doesn't benefit from any current technology in graphics or game play, and the use of the Wii remote is something that could have ...

Reviewed by Wess on April 14, 2009

1 out of 1 found this review helpful.

My return to the skating game genre was well worth it. (X360)

I'll be honest, It's been a long time since I played a skating game. I think the last one was Tony Hawk 2... or maybe 3, for the N64. So, some of the things I praise may be things that came along in the first Skate or previous skating games, ...

Reviewed by Wess on March 13, 2009

You'll be dead in space quite a few times - and love it. (X360)

Dead Space was one of those games that I heard about at E3 this past year, and was kind of unsure of. I saw the same thing I had seen in a lot of recent games - a horror themed shooter with good graphics and a little girl creepily singing ...

Reviewed by Wess on Feb. 17, 2009