Opinion: Netflix for Games?
Game Pass continues to be an absolute revelation for me in terms of the games I’m able to have access to on a regular basis. Not being in a financial […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin: 16 – James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game
Versions Played: Xbox 360 and Wii Current CEX Price: £1.50 (Xbox 360), £1 (Wii) This may seem to be a super weird choice to cover as a Bargain Bin title. […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin: 14 – Escape from Bug Island!
Version Played: Wii – Current CEX Price: £1.50 I’m a sucker for monster movies with outrageously dramatic titles (just in case the title of this particular series of articles didn’t […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin – 12: Jambo! Safari
Version Played: Wii Current CEX Price: £2 The late 90s/early 00s was a time when arcades still felt like they had new experiences to offer that you couldn’t replicate at home, or at least not to the same effect. Sega was releasing some absolutely wonderful games; though some received home conversions – and ports like Crazy Taxi for Dreamcast went […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin – 9: Driver: Parallel Lines
Version Played: Wii Current CEX Price: £1 I have a confession to make that may make me very unpopular indeed – I never really enjoyed the first three Driver games. […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin – 6: Transformers – Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition
Version Played: Wii Current CEX Price: £1.50 I’m a huge Transformers fan. Always have been; I religiously watched the original cartoon on The Wide Awake Club and Wacaday back in […]
It Came From The Bargain Bin – 5: Spongebob Squarepants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
Version Played: Wii Current CEX Price: £2.50 I was – technically – way too old for Spongebob when it first came out; however, I must admit that even the title […]
Goosebumps Horrorland – Wii
Though I was a little too old for Goosebumps when it first released – being the ‘edgy’ teenager that I was in 1992, my tastes for scary fiction skewed way higher, with my favoured authors at the time being Stephen King and James Herbert – I’ve nonetheless read quite a few of the books in the last few years. There’s […]
Batman: The Brave and the Bold – DS
Based on a cartoon that was broadcast between 2008-2011, Batman: The Brave and the Bold (which released in 2010) takes the show’s concept of featuring a different super hero team up in each episode and turns it into a fun, straightforward platformer with a few neat touches. The cartoon series was excellent; many episodes featured a pre-credits scene which quickly […]
Scooby-Doo! First Frights – Wii
Though I often cover Wii games that can pretty much be bought for pennies, occasionally I’ll venture into a slightly higher price range. The exception I made this time is for Scooby Doo: First Frights – having always been a fan, I thought I’d give this a try, especially as the blurb and cover art looked so appealing. Though I […]
Transformers Prime: The Game – Wii U
I really wanted to like Transformers Prime: The Game. I’m a big fan of the CG-animated series that spawned it; though essentially aimed at kids, it was a surprisingly dark […]
Emergency Mayhem – Wii
My quest to uncover hidden gems – as cheaply as possible – in the Wii’s enormous library continues. Not to be confused with Emergency Heroes, Emergency Mayhem is a much more slapstick-style romp through an insanely dangerous and malfunctioning city, overrun with disasters, crime…and monkeys. Where Emergency Heroes took itself quite seriously, Emergency Mayhem definitely does not. At first glance, […]
Just Dance 2019 – Switch
Somewhat improbably, the Just Dance series – which has seen phenomenal success in the decade since the first game was released – has its origins in a rhythm minigame featured in Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party for the Wii (thanks, Wikipedia!). If it weren’t for those pesky, very divisive Rabbids, the series may never have existed at all. I’m incredibly […]
The Game Party Series: A Retrospective
Minigame collections were a staple on Nintendo’s Wii; following the enormous success of Wii Sports in bringing families together and shifting consoles themselves, given that it was included with the hardware, publishers fell over themselves to sell the huge Wii audience another set of games. Not many met with much success, however – for every well made collection, it felt […]
Emergency Heroes – Wii
In my quest for super cheap, hidden gems for the Wii, I came across Emergency Heroes, which I’d never heard of before. For the princely sum of £1, why not give it a go? Early signs are promising. There’s some great anime-inspired character, vehicle and city design; the visuals are bold, bright and colourful too. The city and vehicles have […]
The Magic of Wii/DS Connectivity
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke Though connecting consoles is hardly impressive these days – especially when you can even play multiplayer games cross-platform, across computers and consoles from different manufacturers – there was a time when it felt like magic. Though the Wii and DS could link up and share information or unlock […]
