Archive for March, 2010
Kamehamehas
A couple of years ago (well, a bit more perhaps, but bear with me) people became obsessed with a particular Japanese cartoon, Dragon Ball, which revolved around the life of Son Goku and his family and friends. Like many other similar cartoons, this one was martial art-themed, smart, funny and action-packed. However, I have to [...]
Airwolf
Action games come in many themes, offering a wide variety of topics to choose from. In this case, I was inclined to review games featuring helicopters. You see, when I was a kid there was this pretty awesome TV show called Airwolf. I don’t remember much about it; in fact, I don’t think I remember [...]
Sports Medicine
Watching the Top 10 list and finding that you have reviewed ninety percent of the games there is an unlikely pleasure. Of course, when you follow the Top Rated criterion to select the object of your reviews, taking credit for your choices may be a bit too much, but well. Being self-indulgent every now and then never [...]
Racing Philosophy
In my personal experience, Racing Games can be divided or classified into two general types: racing games per se (whether against time, other vehicles, or both) and balance games (those in which the challenge lies in going over certain obstacles without crashing the vehicle). Of course, then you have the kind of “Pimp my Ride” [...]
Shooting Stars
Our flavor of the day is Shooting Games, and, as usual, the challenge lies in not getting hooked on any of the reviewed games. The task is particularly difficult because a) there are few things better than shooting at stuff in a digital environment, and b) is this special case each game has one or [...]
Puzzled
Today’s review is dedicated to Puzzle Games, and as such it must deal with the fact that the offer is so varied that choosing only four of them is already a difficult task. That is precisely why I decided to follow the “Top Rated” criterion in most cases: after all, those are the first games [...]
Featured Games of the Week
Classifications are supposed to follow a certain criterion, right? Which obviously means that everything is in a certain place for a given reason. The fact that these games are listed as “Featured Games” means that there is something special about them. They might be new, they might be original, they might be unconventional, they might [...]
Top Rated Board Games
The good thing about Board Games, is that 90% of the time they remind you of some other game you have played before, thus reducing considerably the time required for adaptation. That is pretty much what happens with today’s games, and it is all for the better, particularly if you are competitive: no waiting time [...]
Top Rated Misc
So, the Miscellaneous Games section is a magical place where anything and everything can happen. That is the basic idea, and it makes it a pretty interesting place. Of course, it also means that you have to take both the good and the bad, and sometimes figuratively kiss a few frogs before finding a prince [...]
Cartoon Heroes
The challenge of reviewing Kids games lies in finding something that will be attractive to adults; a necessity that derives from the fact that most kids are not into blogs (then again, we could perhaps revise our concept of “kid”, but for now let’s leave it at that). That is exactly what I was thinking [...]