Mario and the gang team up to play 4 all new sport games.
Mario sports has been expanding more and more over the years, this time around there's a few new sports to play. These sports include Basketball, Volleyball, Hockey, and Dodgeball, all of which in concept are a great idea.
Although we wasted nearly an hour standing in the wrong line, we grabbed images of some great Zelda posters detailing Link's weapons and sword moves.
Opening day of E3 is usually a hectic one, filled with excited convention goers dying to get their hands on the newest video game titles. Sometime though, there are particularly hectic moments, especially when there are hundreds of people packed into tight groups fighting their way to a specific game.
Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals brings the Lufia series back in an entirely new form.
Lufia: Curse of The Sinistrals is a very different experience than its original source (the Lufia series from the SNES). Unlike its turn-based RPG SNES predecessors, this Lufia is action based. It was good for what it was, but I'm not sure if I like this transition yet.
Sports Champion also has ping pong. Find out what a casual ping pong player thinks of the game.
So, again, much like Wii Sports Resort, Sports Champions has a ping pong mode. To be brief, the mode feels quite a bit better than archery felt in my hands, but still has a few hang-ups in control.
How does Sony's Sports Champions archery game hold up to its Wii counterpart?
I finally got some hands-on time with Sports Champions today, with the ability to demo two stations, one focused on archery and the other on ping pong. The booths were separated, allowing me freedom of range and motion to fully experience Move's controls without anything in the way.
We get to see the new peripheral in action, working as both a real guitar and a controller for the game.
Phantasy Star catches my eye again with it's second iteration on the PSP.
Its been a while since I've played a Phantasy Star game that I liked. The formula used in episodes 1 & 2 for the Xbox seemed to work so well, only to never see quite the same design used in subsequent titles. The latest one on the PSP seems to take that engaging, combo based combat I used to love, and actually expand on it a little. Combos can now be linked into strings well beyond the 1-2-3 repeat strategy of previous titles. The pacing has speed up as well, with the player blowing through monsters at a nice steady pace as they move through the dungeons.
With Kojima Productions at the wheel, honestly, I was expecting a bit more.
As we all know, Hideo Kojima and his team are taking a crack at the Castlevania seris with the title Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. I was pretty excited to hear the news as 3D Castlevanias have always been a bit disappointing, and Kojima usually does great work.
Scribblenauts is back... yay?
As many of you know, I had the pleasure of reviewing Scribblenauts shortly after I started PixlBit for Nintendo World Report. I gave the game a 7/10 there, and I felt that I was being generous. I rewarded the game mostly for its innovative concept, but the implementation of their design was clearly lacking. Super Scribblenauts is supposed to be the answer to everyone's issues with the original game, but after my hands-on time, aside from a new control scheme, Super Scribblenauts appears to be no better than the first.
