An interesting and different experience on the PS1.
As most of you know by now, I greatly reward creativity in gaming. So, with that in mind, let me tell you that “Juggernaut” might not be for everyone. I scored it at a 7 because it was a unique gaming experience for the old PS1 platform...
Have you ever popped in a new game and been really impressed right off the bat? And then you find one fatal flaw with it that drags it down...let’s say 4 points on a 10-point scale? Well, welcome to my Dementium experience.
I guess we’ll just do the good things up front.
I’d have...
My jaw is still on the floor. I have a recommended subtitle – Mass Effect: Everything Halo Should Have Been.
If you had told me there would be a game that would make me fall in love with an Xbox, I would have called you a dirty liar. Nothing against the Xbox, but Halo never blew my skirt...
The handheld Castlevania series continues to set the mold for a strong, consistent franchise.
The good folks at Konami hit a gold mine with "Symphony of the Night" on PS1 and they knew it. Ever since then, every handheld installment of the series has followed the Symphony formula, and they've...
A true gem. I bought my 360 used and this is one of the games that came with it. I was pretty jazzed when I saw it because I have a proclivity for the scary game. The cover art looked cool, but I must admit that when I saw from the back of the box that it was a first-person style game, my heart sank...
The real mystery here is why anyone let this game be released.
It's not that it's bad; it has a lot of promise. You go to the mansion and then you're required to find some items in a certain timeframe. With a minimum of trial-and-error, you'll learn where to look for the items. Once you...
"Where did you learn to fly?"
I know, I know. Everyone associates the Jaguar with suck. Well, I've just played the pack-in game that came with the system, Cybermorph, and let me tell you – it's horrible.
Let's begin with the single most annoying thing about the game: green-head...
Y'know, for a guy who isn't big on RPGs, I seem to end up giving them pretty good marks. Maybe I am an RPG guy after all?
Jade Cocoon has a lot going for it. It managed to hold my interest for the 16 hours of gameplay I put into it – which I understand is short for an RPG. So, the story...
I'm still looking for the Konami game that sucks. I haven't found it yet.
This is quite the under-the-radar game. There is no reason that Rocket Knight Adventures should not be uttered in the same breaths as Mega Man, Super Mario Brothers, or Sonic the Hedgehog. In fact, I think that Rocket...
Oh, it's the bad boy of the 8-bit, NES era: Golgo 13.
Back in the days before the Internet united everyone, things were a tad different. The Internet came along and united gamers – Yay! But it also united gaming watchdog groups – Boooo. Well, maybe there should have been people watching...
The point-and-click PC adventure games are a subset of gaming that has always intrigued me, but I've never really played. So, after picking up "Beyond Atlantis" at a yard sale for 25 cents, I decided to dive headfirst into the enigmatic world of point-and-click adventures. Not a bad journey at all.
I...
I don't like games that require gimmicky controllers. The plastic guitar? Stupid. This is a game for kids and sub-par college students. It's not a gamer’s game.
That's what I used to think about the whole Guitar Hero franchise. Then my wife bought "Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s" with...
The original "Silent Hill" on PS1 was pretty original and mind-blowing, so it set a high standard for its inevitable sequels. Well, I recently finished "Silent Hill 2" and it was awesome – a very worthy successor to the original.
The game is everything you'd expect from a next-gen sequel....
Did you ever have a friend try to re-tell a funny circumstance that you weren't present for, the next day after it happened? And it's not really funny at all?
Keep that scenario in mind.
Duke Nukem is a highly regarded game in gamer circles. I had never really played any of the...
"Looney Tunes Space Race" is a fun little jaunt on your Dreamcast or PS2. The only problem is that the fun wears off after a short while.
The racing itself is pretty entertaining. The tracks look nice and provide a good Looney Tunes environment. A lot of humorous weaponry can be used to...
Call of Duty: World at War continues the standard of excellence established by the CoD series for first person shooter war games. Visually, audibly, and in terms of playability, Call of Duty: World at War excels in all aspects.
After taking gamers to the modern battlefield with...
I know I rate Castlevania games pretty high but hey, it's called fleamen.com for a reason. Portait of Ruin is the second installment of the canon onto the Nintendo DS and it is a fine addition at that. It is a side-scroller like its close relatives: Dawn of Sorrow and the newer Order of Ecclesia. Clearly...
My least favorite Castlevania ever made. Having said that, I still understand and respect it.
Almost a decade after it's Japan-only release for the Sharp X6800, Konami released this SNES-era Castlevania title on the Playstation. So, if you're down with the SNES titles of this series, it...
Don't you just love the way they put the word "Super" in front of every game on SNES for a while? Me neither.
Anyway, Castlevania IV is another outstanding installment into the Castlevania franchise. It did a very good job ushering in the next generation, 16-bit installments to the Castlevania...
Everything that we all wanted from the Castlevanias on the Nintendo 64. This game is awesome. I have no real beef with the Nintendo 64 versions of the series but clearly that system was not ready for what Konami was capable of.
Lament of Innocence brought the series back in line with what...
