Saturday 28 July 2018

Game #41 Complete - F-Zero GP Legend

F-Zero is a series of fast and futuristic anti-gravity arcade racing games. There have been quite a few of these, starting with F-Zero on the SNES.

F-Zero GP Legend is one of 2 F-Zero titles on the GBA. It didn't get as good review scores as the other, F-Zero: Maximum Velocity.

Friday 27 July 2018

Game #40 Complete - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is an action adventure game based on the popular Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, which, fun fact, is based on on a ride at Disneyland.
The game is not the lazy tie in you may have been expecting. In fact, it's a surprisingly good game.

Monday 16 July 2018

Game #39 Complete - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4

Tony Hawk is a famous professional skater. His most well known feat is being the first person to land a 900, that is a 2.5 rotation spin on a skatboard. The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series is a big and long running series of skateboarding video games, starting on the PS1 and continuing on.

This is one of several GBA adaptations, and five of them made the list. This one, of course, adapts THPS4. The game has survived the transition reasonably well, but you'd be better off playing a home console or PC version.

Saturday 14 July 2018

Game #38 Complete - James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing

James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is a top down Action-Adventure game, based on the media juggernaut that is James Bond. It's actually not based on a film, but is an original story made for games.

There have been good James Bond game adaptations. Goldeneye on N64 is the most famous one, being an early console FPS (and thus a lot of people's first introduction to the genre) as well as titles like Nightfire. This GBA adaptation is... not the best.


Game #37 Abandoned - Super Street Fighter II: Turbo Revival

Super Street Fighter II: Turbo Revival is, apparently, a GBA original iteration of Street Fighter. That said it is the fifth iteration of the "Street Fighter II sub-series".

Honestly I don't have a lot to say about this one. Given my knowledge of Street Fighter/2D fighting games, this is mostly indistinguishable from Street Fighter Alpha 3. Similarly I played through the main arcade mode until I hit a wall, and then packed it in. I can pretty much cut and paste my SFA3 review from here.