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Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower (EUR)
Reviewed: Nov 2006
As console launch titles go, a port of a relatively obscure Japanese-only Dreamcast game would seem an odd choice for the PAL market
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AI Igo (JPN)
Reviewed: Mar 2005
The thought comes unbidden that for a long time, Go really has been the final frontier for video games - creating a servicable AI for playing the thing, that is.
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Armored Core Formula Front (JPN)
Reviewed: Dec 2004
Upon news of the PlayStation Portable’s release a slew of launch titles were announced. Among these was another entry into the successful Armored Core canon
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Armored Core: Formula Front International (JPN)
Reviewed: May 2006
The Armored Core series possesses quite a lengthy lineage. First appearing towards the middle of 1997 in Japan, the succession of
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B-Boy (EUR)
Reviewed: Jun 2007
“The Definitive Breakdancing Game!” screams some blurb, somewhere. Are there even any other current games entirely about breakdancing?
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Bleach Heat The Soul 2 (JPN)
Reviewed: Feb 2006
The original Bleach: Heat the Soul was the first 3D fighter on Sony’s PSP and served as a clear indication of the graphical muscle of
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Boku no Watashi no Katamari Damacy (JPN)
Reviewed: Feb 2006
The screen lights up and the gamer is assaulted with bright images of the King of All Cosmos and his royal family, his Queen and the
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Bounty Hounds (USA)
Reviewed: Feb 2007
It's hard to define exactly the type of game Bounty Hounds is or even indeed aspires to be and hence neatly categorizing it into
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Burnout Legends (EUR)
Reviewed: Dec 2005
Another day, another franchise. Sony’s PSP console has seen a flood of big-name licenses over the past year – games like Ridge
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Capcom Classics Collection Remixed (USA)
Reviewed: May 2006
In these days of plenty, where gamers are spoilt rotten by near-identical arcade conversions released mere months after they
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Capcom Puzzle World (EUR)
Reviewed: Aug 2007
Never ones to miss an opportunity to re-release an old favourite, Capcom Puzzle World sees the company delve into their past
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Crush (EUR)
Reviewed: Aug 2007
If Super Paper Mario is reminiscent of our favourite Italian plumber on a good acid trip, then Crush is the polar opposite, representing an altogether darker forage into the sub-conscious.
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Daxter (USA)
Reviewed: Jun 2006
When two individuals come together, sometimes it clicks and the end product is more than the sum of its parts
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Dead Or Alive: Paradise (JPN)
Reviewed: Jun 2010
A quick glance at the screenshots for Dead or Alive: Paradise reveals everything that the game is about. There’s no need to even look at the preview movie or read first
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Disgaea Afternoon of Darkness (USA)
Reviewed: Mar 2008
Disgaea Afternoon of Darkness returns, once more, to the bizarre, whimsical and often absurd world of Etna, Flonne and Laharl. For
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DJ Max Clazziquai (KOR)
Reviewed: Jul 2009
For their follow up to DJ Max 2 Portable, the developer, Pentavision, decided to release not one, but two separate games
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DJ Max Portable (KOR)
Reviewed: Jan 2007
While in the west, the PSP’s software library has been plagued by sub-standard ports of home console releases and faceless racers
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Dragon Dance (JPN)
Reviewed: Jun 2009
Dragon Dance is the latest videogame variant of Mahjong Solitaire, a one-player, tile-based game that is itself a spin off from the
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Every Extend Extra (JPN)
Reviewed: Sep 2006
Light and sound will always be two basic senses fundamental to game playing, but with Tetsuya Mizuguchi's games they are more of a
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Exit (USA)
Reviewed: Apr 2006
While they say there’s a fine art to making an entrance, it is surely a finer talent to be able to make an exit. And if there’s
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Field Commander (USA)
Reviewed: Dec 2006
Field Commander is the first turn-based strategy game to grace the PSP and it's certainly worth a look. It's not going to take your breath away
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Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core (USA)
Reviewed: Jun 2008
Final Fantasy VII is a legendary game, up there on a pedestal in many a rabid RPGer’s top-ten list. This puts Square-Enix in a
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Football Manager Handheld (EUR)
Reviewed: Jun 2006
The Football Manager (FM) brand holds a special place in the hearts and minds of those gamers old enough to remember the original.
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Gitaroo Man Lives ! (JPN)
Reviewed: Jul 2006
During the early days of the Japanese PS2, a game called Gitaroo-Man surfaced from little-known developer INIS
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Goku Makaimura (Ultimate Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins) (JPN)
Reviewed: Sep 2006
“Be careful what you wish for – it might just come true!” goes the old saying. This is normally delivered as a precautionary measure,
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Gradius Portable (JPN)
Reviewed: Apr 2006
Gradius. Definitely one of the most influential games of all time as far as shoot 'em-ups are concerned. It’s certainly difficult to
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GripShift (EUR)
Reviewed: Dec 2005
Put a monkey behind the wheel of a car, dangle bananas at regularly and enticingly placed intervals along the street and you can
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GTA: Liberty City Stories (EUR)
Reviewed: Dec 2005
Shortly after release, GTAIII proved to be one of those rare beasts which appear once or twice every decade - containing an
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Hot Pixel (EUR)
Reviewed: Nov 2007
The following is an attempt to review Hot Pixel without mentioning WarioWare. WarioWare. Failed. It’s much harder than you’d think.
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Infected (USA)
Reviewed: Jan 2006
The last thing you'd want over the Christmas period is a nasty infection; that'd be guaranteed to put a dampener on your festive cheer. But
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Jeanne d'Arc (USA)
Reviewed: Sep 2008
Wikipedia has a lot to say about Joan of Arc. Coming to prominence aged just 17 in the Hundred Years’ War, she claimed to see visions from
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Killzone: Liberation (USA)
Reviewed: Mar 2007
Some games deserve sequels and some certainly don't - although Sod's Law, coupled with a liberal dash of personal experience
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LocoRoco (EUR)
Reviewed: Sep 2006
Perfection is the holy grail of gaming but is a rare, fleeting shadow for developers: it requires a title that is addictive but simple
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Loopop Cube: Lup ★ Salad (JPN)
Reviewed: Mar 2010
Puzzle games usually lack a central protagonist. Mr. Straight and Mr. Square from Tetris didn’t have a back story (although Family Guy may have different feelings on
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Lumines (JPN)
Reviewed: Dec 2004
Rez: a game where sight becomes sound. Gliding on a pulse of ambient noise; zapping to the beat and becoming entranced; sound becoming light, light becoming sound. Resolution.
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Lumines II (USA)
Reviewed: Mar 2007
As sequels go, Lumines II isn’t the most imaginative of titles, but it soon becomes apparent that this is in keeping with the
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Macross Ace Frontier (JPN)
Reviewed: Mar 2009
Repetitive fan-service. It's a shame that such a nice looking game can be summed up in only those few words - but that's the truth. Those
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Mega Man Maverick Hunter X (USA)
Reviewed: Apr 2006
When it comes to films, few actors can lay claim to having been in as many productions as Burt Reynolds. From the excellent
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Mega Man Powered Up (USA)
Reviewed: May 2006
Have a look at the latest super-deformed version of Mega Man in Powered Up. Cute isn’t he? Like butter wouldn’t melt in his
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Metal Gear Ac!d (JPN)
Reviewed: Mar 2005
The Metal Gear series has been astounding the general public for a good two decades now. From NASA-funded ninja teams to anti-
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Metal Gear Ac!d 2 (USA)
Reviewed: May 2006
With a little luck, news of the forthcoming release of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops will take some of the pressure off the Metal Gear
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Minna No Golf Portable (JPN)
Reviewed: Jan 2005
With its popularity in Japan and the tradition of handheld systems playing host to a number of golf titles it came as little surprise to see the quirky
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Namco Museum (JPN)
Reviewed: Mar 2005
Remember the Neo Geo Pocket? Damn, that machine had some great games. SNK v Capcom, Cardfighters Clash, Megaman Power Battle... at the end
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Onore No Shinzuru Michu Wo Yuke (JPN)
Reviewed: Aug 2009
It took about half an hour for the catchily titled Onore no Shinzuru Michi wo Yuke to get me. I felt okay alighting a train at King’s
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Patapon (USA)
Reviewed: May 2008
Pata-pata-pata-pon, pata-pata-pata-pon, pon-pon-pata-pon, chaka-chaka-pata-pon...
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Phantasy Star Portable 2 (JPN)
Reviewed: Mar 2010
D action-RPGs where the players choose from a huge variety weapons and fight monsters such as giant fire-breathing dragons in realtime. Perhaps some might might hear this description
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Powerstone Collection (EUR)
Reviewed: Feb 2007
One of the great criminal injustices against gamers, and
indeed mankind in general, is the fact that Capcom never
really saw fit to do anything else
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Prince of Persia: Revelations (EUR)
Reviewed: Feb 2006
“You bitch!” It’s been four hours and Shahdee, the Empress of Time’s leather-clad minion, is still trouncing the Prince on
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Princess Crown (JPN)
Reviewed: Dec 2005
The Sega Saturn was a 2D gamer's dream come true. With the excellent support shown by companies such as Capcom and SNK the Saturn
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Pursuit Force (EUR)
Reviewed: Dec 2005
Pursuit Force should be fun. Its cover practically bellows “THIS IS FUN!” in your face and stamps a guarantee of such in blood
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Puzzle Bobble Pocket (JPN)
Reviewed: Feb 2005
Bub and Bob - in dinosaur form, shooting bubbles from a Steampunk cannon - have appeared on just about every format
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Puzzle Quest (USA)
Reviewed: Jul 2007
Just imagine if success or failure in everything you do in life came down to defeating a puzzle. You want to learn a new language, you
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Ridge Racers (JPN)
Reviewed: Jan 2005
The launch of a new Sony console wouldn’t be the same without a version Namco’s Ridge Racer to accompany it, and the release of Sony’s
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Ridge Racers 2 (JPN)
Reviewed: Nov 2006
Love Ridge Racer? Well you’re not alone as Ridge Racers, the PSP iteration of Namco’s legendary arcade racing series, proved quite popular amongst the machine's early
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Rock Band Unplugged (EUR)
Reviewed: Jul 2009
Now that the Guitar Hero franchise has established itself on (at least some models of) the DS, EA and Harmonix have deemed it fit
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Sengoku Cannon: Sengoku Ace Episode III (JPN)
Reviewed: Sep 2005
One of the first things that's apparent about the portable PlayStation when it's seen for the first time is the screen quality.
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Star Soldier (JPN)
Reviewed: Oct 2005
Hudson's Star Soldier continues that fine Japanese tradition of naming a shoot-'em-up with a cool-sounding, double-barrelled title
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Street Fighter Zero 3 Double Upper (JPN)
Reviewed: Apr 2006
They say it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. This clearly isn’t a turn of phrase to which Capcom are paying any
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Syphon Filter Dark Mirror (USA)
Reviewed: May 2006
Whilst playing Syphon Filter Dark Mirror a few other games may spring to mind - 24 and Perfect Dark Zero are two examples
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Taiko No Tatsujin 2 (JPN)
Reviewed: Mar 2007
Sometimes it’s the simplest games which are the most addictive. Since the first title appeared in the arcades of Japan, shortly
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Taiko No Tatsujin Portable (JPN)
Reviewed: Jan 2006
Taiko no Tatsujin (which literally means ‘Taiko Drum Master’ in Japanese) is one of Namco’s most prolific franchises. Comprising
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Tales Of Vs (Versus) (JPN)
Reviewed: Nov 2009
What do games from the 'Tales of' series have that makes them so popular? The franchise has been running since Tales of Phantasia was released on the Super Famicom
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Tekken: Dark Resurrection (JPN)
Reviewed: Sep 2006
If you wanted to use hip-hop lingo, then you could have said that after Tekken 3, the series had "fallen off". Tag Tournament was an
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Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix (USA)
Reviewed: Jul 2005
For a game that once exuded originality out of its every pore to be now entering its sixth-and-a-half incarnation is a worrying indictment of
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Virtua Tennis (EUR)
Reviewed: Oct 2005
Once a year around the time that Wimbledon finally kicks in, tennis courts around the country are filled to the brim with those who think
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Winning Eleven 9: Ubiquitous Evolution (JPN)
Reviewed: Jan 2006
On paper, porting a much-loved series such as KCET's Winning Eleven to Sony's powerful little PSP seems to be quite the 'no lose'
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Wipeout Pure (USA)
Reviewed: Aug 2005
As soon as those sleek arrowed lines melt their way across the PSP’s screen upon your introduction, it’s clear that Wipeout Pure is a
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