Mr_Reece

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@mariofanatic128 - I'm not hard to please; I'm just always right

@Collision_Cat - ha!

@Shadowflash I cannot stress enough how absolutely, utterly, undeniably, inarguably brilliant Rayman Origins is.

Review in a few days.

It's pretty good. Review coming soonish.

Is it too late to jump ship?

@daznsaz I know what you mean; my wife's scores are pretty much unbeatable as well. I still have a lot of love for Zoo Keeper though. It was one of the first DS games I ever bought.

@Oddy Thomas is right. And no wonder; you wouldn't believe some of the gross stuff I've seen since I joined the NLife team

@SegaSquirtle one day I'll write a review where no one disagrees with the score.

One day...

@BulbasaurusRex MK:DD!! didn't support multiplayer over the Internet — not without jumping through all sorts of hoops via unofficial channels anyway — so no, I don't consider it to have online play

@Viewtiful_Joe personally I loved the music in GX enough to buy the official soundtrack CD

@mariofanatic128 Cheers. Also, don't let James Newton hear you calling Sonic Heroes "underrated". He's a huge Sonic fan, and when I asked him if I could do the review, he answered with — and I'm paraphrasing here — "yes, but if you give it anything higher than a 2, you're out of here!".

@NintyFan absolutely agree with you. It may have been relatively unsuccessful commercially, but some of my favourite games ever appeared on the 'Cube.

Personally, I'd rather be given the choice as opposed to being told when I can or can't access what has been a highly publicised — and therefore anticipated — feature

@accc I think the controls are bad. When reviewing Go Vacation, at least half of the time was spent playing with my wife, who agreed that the controls were bad. In fact, if she'd written this review, she'd have been a lot less lenient than I've been.

You might not agree with the review or the score - a quick look at Metacritic shows that scores range from high 80's to scores as low as mine, so many wouldn't agree - but at the end of the day, a review is part objective analysis and part opinion. You might not agree with mine, and that's fine.

@LEGEND_MARIOID you shouldn't have to get used to them just because they're bad though, should you? The controls should just work.

Yes there are wide open worlds to explore and lots of minigames, but the core mechanics just aren't up to scratch.

@TheDarkness. I never once claimed that MGS used a second analogue for aiming. In fact I explicitly stated that a second analogue would be useful for CAMERA CONTROL in third person games.

Twice.

I'm with you there, Corbie

Chances of a legit Halo game releasing on 3DS aren't slim at all.

They're non-existant.

It's a shame, but it's true.

@TheDarkness you try playing a third person game without dual analogue control for camera movement and see what happens. If that's not reliance, I don't know what is

@Capt_N you can get some when you go out and buy Toadstool Tour. In fact, I might change my avatar to a butter cup just to wind you up

I think Nintendo really missed a trick not bringing a Mario Golf title to the Wii. It'd probably be my most played Wii game ever if they had.

@LEGEND_MARIOID I should have it either tomorrow or Saturday for review

But they can't constantly bring out games, and if they're not bringing out games they're not making any money. Movie tie-ins and licenced games help fund the development of all the Sonics and Shinobis

@theblackdragon spot on. Ixnay is a brilliant album (Offspring haven't been so hot from Americana onwards), although I'm more of a Bad Religion guy myself.

If no one supported SEGA - who published this title - then they might very well go under and you'd have no CRUSH3D or Shinobi.

Swings and roundabouts.

The first year's always the hardest. From this month on though, things will start to get a LOT better. Hang in there.

@Zaphod42 You're kidding, right? Have you seen Capcom's approach to DLC on the 360 and PS3? Charging extra for Resident Evil 5 multiplayer when it was already on the disc, for example.

I hope Capcom stay as far away from the eShop and 3DS DLC as is humanly possible, otherwise we'll be paying £30 for a 3DS game cartridge containing nothing but a title screen (DLC coming soon though!)

@zdyoshikpl I'd save your money.

Also, to my knowledge, 3DS is just about the only console not getting a Cars 2 game. It's on the Wii and DS though.

Bring on Sonic Generations! I've already succumbed to the fact that I'll be getting the 3DS version along with the Xbox 360 version. It's going to be a very Sonic-y winter for yours truly.

Plus, surely that would make you a spelling Nazi, not a grammar Nazi?

Just saying.

It's not. You just need to collect more pointless stuff. The hardest part of Wario World was willing myself to bother with it.

You only need to look at the diversity, imagination and inventiveness of the Wario Land games to see that Wario World is as by-the-numbers and tediously average as a game can get.

A 3D version of Wario Land - transformations, proper puzzles, etc - would have been far better than the mindless button masher that Wario World turned out to be.

@NintyFan - sorry, I'll remember to take the instruction manual into account next time I'm reviewing a game :/

Want.

That's all.

Taking Colours out of the equation, saying SA2:B is the best 3D Sonic game isn't exactly high praise, is it? None of them have been great.

@pntjr - I'm playing this for review right now.

Sonic Adventure is indeed a glitchy mess on both Dreamcast - passable at launch, abysmal now - and Gamecube.

Sonic Adventure 2 might not be brilliant but it's miles better than its predecessor. I'd review SA1 but I honestly couldn't bring myself to play it again.

That's the point though: SA2:B doesn't have enough good gameplay to make it a great game. The hunting bits are ok, but as I stated the shooting and racing bits are attrocious. When 50% of the core gameplay isn't much cop, how can a game be classed as "great"?

Reviewing SA2:B wasn't hard. I simply looked at the game objectively and told the truth: SA2:B is merely above average.

@Nin-pal - all the Sonic and Shadow stages are good. My personal favourite being the not-long-enough Metal Harbour.

It's not the Sonic/Shadow stages that had us mark SA2:B 6/10.

Perhaps that'll be one of the Sonic Generations achievements

@yoyogamer - finding Tetris DS is hard enough. Finding one that isn't extortionately priced is nigh on impossible. Personally, I've no interest in Tetris Axis. If there's one version I want, it's the DS one. Anything that's Nintendo-themed is "ftw" in my book

Even when it was released on the Dreamcast, Sonic Adventure 2 had its fair share of issues. By Gamecube standards it just wasn't up to scratch. Iffy camera, 50% of the game is rubbish, shocking voicework and lip-synching, Dreamcast-era visuals...

I said it's not bad overall - 6 = above average - and worth playing, but there are way better 3D Sonic games and even better 3D platformers out there.

Speedway USA was always something I meant to play but I never did get around to it. I did love Mickey's Racing Adventure though. It was the first Game Boy Color game I ever owned and remains one of my favourites to this day.

I sincerely doubt there'll be any Shadow shooty nonsense in Sonic Generationa. Every screenshot and trailer depicting actual gameplay since the game was announced has featured Sonic and Sonic alone. I don't think there's anything to worry about.

I've been playing this since Thursday for review purposes (for another site) and am truthfully not nearly so enamoured by it

Personally I'd say that Turok Evokution was better than Turok 3. However, the PS3/360 Turok reboot was one of the most disappointing games I've ever played. What Disney and Propoganda were thinking while developing that God-awful mess truly escapes me.

But if, for example, you were a huge Wave Race fan, surely you would rather have a budget-priced remastered Wave Race 64 on 3DS while you waited for a new instalment on the handheld, as opposed to having no Wave Race at all while you wait?

Except Turok 3. That was a bit... crap

@Luigi78 Majora's Mask NOW please

@dimlylitmonkey N64 Magazine was class. No magazine nowadays mixes information with laugh-out-loud humour like they did back in the day. I genuinely miss going to the newsagents every 4 weeks to pick that up

Lex Luthor: "SOLVE MY MAZE!!!"

It's amazing how one game has kept the entire games journalism business fully stocked in "crap game jokes" for well over a decade