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5 (4) 4 (18) 3 (8) 2 (13) 1 (10) 2.9 starsAverage score of 53 user reviews
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A regressed mutation 0
Upon initial introduction, Next Dimension seems like a worthy successor to the decent Mutant Academy games. Do not let the game's roster and shiny graphics fool you, though. The game pretty much plays like a cross between Children of the Atom and Dead or Alive, which is an interesting concept, but it is not carried out well. The game is not very finely tuned and not only has a very broken tier list, but the collision detection is horrible, and glitches are rampant throughout the game. Any game w...
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The most depressing Capcom fighting game 0
Recycled sprites, unbalanced gameplay, rigid controls... you'd think that after decades of making exciting and fun versus fighters, Capcom would be ashamed to churn out this sort of rubbish. Capcom Fighting Evolution, jokingly referred to as Capcom Vs. Capcom in light of the company's previous crossover efforts, haphazardly mashes an exceedingly small stable of fighters into one slow, overbloated mess of a game. Capcom boasted that the characters played "just as you (the gamer) remember", but ho...
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Barebones, but surprisingly fun 0
My distaste for the proper BlazBlue games is nothing short of legendary, but there's something within me, deep down inside, that wants this series to actually be good someday. After playing BlayzBloo, I can't help but feel they're headed in the wrong direction with the core games.BlayzBloo is no Power Stone, but for a little mini-download handheld title, it does the job. Everything is pretty much low-key and standard, but it works. If this were a full-production title I'd totally be in love with...
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Half-Shell Blunder 0
Arcade Attack is a disgustingly misguided attempt to reclaim the old-school TMNT game magic. This farce of a game seems to have been developed using just a checklist of tropes common to the arcade incarnations of yesteryear, but they forgot to make the thing actually worth playing.From the moment you pick up the game, you're visually assaulted due to the cover by the way of some very poorly drawn Turtles with giant cheeks. Fortunately, the Turtles' visages do not reflect these incarnations, and ...
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GOTY 2009 0
As a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for well over 20 years, I've seen the series hit some ups and downs, even in video games. However, I had no reason to feel that I had anything to worry about when I found there was going to be a remake of the arcade classic Turtles in Time. And as it turns out, I had every reason to anticipate such a game.Maybe I'm just a simple person who enjoys simple pleasures, but beat-'em-ups are one of my favorite genres and there are very few that I actually ca...
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As a game: decent. As a package: trash 0
Many have maligned Street Fighter X Tekken, especially in the Fighting Game Community. I find however, in the core of it, the most important part, it's quite decent. Maybe even a little more than that. Okay, so I'm far from the type who will play this for 36 hours a day and find all of these crazy glitches and infinites, but then again if I were the type I don't think I'd end up enjoying any game. What is here is a solid, playable game, and I find that the Tekken characters were pretty well-adap...
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Why the dinosaurs died 0
Dino Rex seemed like an interesting premise: a pre-Primal Rage fighter with dinosaurs. Unfortunately, the execution is lame as hell. The monochrome beasts are slow and awkward, and the sounds they make will have you reaching for a gun to blast the speakers to kingdom come.There's a plot in this game, but it's hard to follow, riddled with Engrish and random bonus stages that take place in the present.Between this and Violence Fight, there's good reason for Taito to stick to Space Invaders and stu...
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DragonBall Regression 0
I have, in the past, praised the first DragonBall game for PSP, Shin Budokai. Although DB Evolution uses the same engine, it feels like it's been dialed back a lot. Due to the fact that it's based directly on the film, the cast has been reduced enormously. No in-game transformations, no movie-esque versions of characters from the anime making guest appearances, and no chance of some of the more minor characters from the film making an appearance. I would have at least liked to have seen Ernie Hu...
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Underrated. Utter crap, but still underrated. 0
I feel like Shaq Fu gets a terrible rap. Yes, it's clunky, slow, the characters are tiny, the music is terrible... but let's face it, it's far from the worst fighter out there, and Hell, it really isn't even bad enough to warrant inclusion on general "worst games ever" lists. However, its hatred is some sort of worldwide memetic standard, which leads me to believe that there's more "follow the leader" tactics at play here.Although they're small, the characters are very well animated, especially ...
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A Legacy Redeemed 0
Mortal Kombat has had its ups and downs as a series - mostly downs, unfortunately, but it's always been a lot of ridiculous fun, especially when I was younger.With this newest entry, Ed Boon promised everything would go back to the series' roots. Okay, so he'd done that before - what's new about this? Well this time it actually happened. And those roots were improved upon to make one hell of a fun game.For the first time ever, Boon's team concerned themselves with making MK tournament worthy. Wh...
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More than your money's worth 0
I didn't expect much from Battle High, but what expectations I did have were more or less blown away.There's no way that the game can compete with the big releases, but in terms of overall quality, it dwarfs not only the other fighters on Xbox LIVE's indy circuit, but pretty much any indy game that I've played on the console.The game wears its "small-time dev" pride on its sleeve; it's not surprising that it's ported from a Mark Overmars Game Maker game, and ported entirely by one guy at that. H...
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The Soul Flickers 0
Soul Calibur 4 is a darn decent game. I still had a lot of fun with it, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't have the same 'soul' as previous entries.Although most fans cite SCII as their favorite in the series, mine is III. SCIV is very close to its direct predecessor in many terms, but enough has changed to dip the quality a bit.Let's start with the two things I liked most about SCIII - lack of random guest characters, and the Create-A-Soul mode. Although I think random crossovers on the w...
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Majorly overhyped, but still solid 0
2009 marked the 25th anniversary for many popular properties; Transformers, the G.I. Joe cartoon, Usagi Yojimbo... but most importantly, to me, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The TMNT, along with my father's Bruce Lee movies, guided me to find my lifelong interest in the martial arts.TMNT fighting games haven't always been amazing, but at least they're all playable. The Super NES version of Tournament Fighters is generally the only one widely accepted as being "good". When it was revealed tha...
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