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Review - King of Fighters ‘98: Ultimate Match |
King of Fighters ‘98: Ultimate Match is the big one, the real deal, the main event. SNKP have been putting out KOF compilations for a couple of years now, and every single time KOF’98 has been conspicuously absent.
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Review - Super Smash Bros Brawl (alternate) |
I think I’m going to have to get used to having things backwards. Soul Calibur IV went from being on my hate list to my love list, as has Street Fighter IV over its development - we’ll see if that latter one holds true when the game is released, but at this rate, I can’t imagine my initial assessment will be the correct one.
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Review - Soul Calibur IV [alternate] |
As officially-ranked 198,592nd best Soul Calibur IV player in the world, if not universe, I feel a strong duty to speak out as official ambassador for this game. So what shall we talk about? How about the huge, thrusting mammaries that jut forth from the chests of all of the (legal) female characters like Trident missiles, in a manner that make other games’ attempts at titillation look like Victorian church illustrations.
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Review - Soul Calibur IV |
Do you remember when Soul Calibur was cool? To me, it was a revelation. Holy shit FIGHTING GAMES suddenly became a reality to me, it and the later release of Tekken Tag Tournament, and ultimately sent me down the path that led me to being part of the hardcore and part of this community. The first game, even, actually had me believing for a while that the Dreamcast would be a resounding success, the greatest console of all time, and have a beautiful, prosperous life. Utterly, pathetically wrong, of course, and I realized that not too far in the future, but still - the grip of that game was immense.
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Review - Ultraman: Towards the Future [SNES] |
In 1991, Tsuburaya Productions, in conjunction with some Australian TV Studio, decided to try and craft an Ultraman series that would break the character, and the franchise, worldwide. Ultraman: Towards The Future was that series, and it really wasn’t very pretty.
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Dial-A-Combo: SNK vs. Capcom on your mobile phone |
This year I finally bid farewell to my old cell phone. It was a real antique, scarcely a step up from one of those World War II radio phones that some grunt would have to wear as a backpack while another soldier shoveled coal into it. It sported an ultra-low-res monochrome screen and came with a single game, a minimalist Arkanoid clone called Brick Attack.
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Review - Super Smash Bros Brawl |
Super Smash Bros Brawl is a mega-budget, mega-effort blockbuster of the highest order. It’s huge, it’s inescapable and it’s absolutely gorgeous.
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Neil writes crap about Street Fighter IV |
Where were you when Street Fighter IV was announced? Make a note of it now, because it’s information that you’ll one day treasure, the way you remember where you were when the Spice Girls were assassinated or when the first McDonald’s opened in Scotland.
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The Online Fighting Experience: Mandatory Enhancement or Detrimental Novelty? |
The question of whether or not the new trend of including the all-important online feature into fighting games is a good one is a quandary that has plagued me for quite some time now. It has finally come to the point where I feel the need to spell my thoughts out, for all to see and discuss, in order to truly come to a conclusion on this inner-debate and finally bring closure to it.
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Review: Street Fighter III: New Generation (alternate 3) |
How do you follow up a game that single-handedly rejuvenated the dying arcade scene, transformed the entire notion of the two-player game, raised the bar for sprite art and animation and introduced hitherto unseen levels of controller and hit detection accuracy?
