Reviews Road Rash 3D (1998) Bringing Road Rash into the third dimension shouldn’t be too terribly difficult. Keep the same fast paced formula but transform the sprites into polygons right? Road Rash 3D tried and failed miserably. Sadly, there are a few interesting pieces here, underneath everything else that could have resembled a great
Reviews Road Rash [Playstation] (1996) Road Rash was always one of my favorite games when I first got my Genesis. The only memory of my Grandma ever picking up a controller was when she and I sat down and she finished a race in Road Rash, she stayed to one side of the road, never
Reviews BMX XXX (2002) Ugh, the less said about this game, the better. Basically, this game was supposed to be Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 3, but the change in nature, to a more foul and nasty tone led Dave to not sign off on it. He made the right move. Right off the bat,
Reviews Aggressive Inline (2002) A game like Aggressive In-line is something of a rarity now-a-days. It only comes along once in a great while. I remember my first time with this game vividly, a hot summer day, taking a break from my first job and strolling through Blockbuster. Grabbing an ice cold Vanilla Coke
Reviews Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX: Maximum Remix (2001) Maximum Remix takes the first Dave Mirra game and adds a few new levels, songs and tweaks some of the original objectives of the first game and makes it a more complete package. Not much more can really be said about it. In modern terms this is much more of
Reviews Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 (2001) After years of only spending a grand total of maybe 10 minutes with Dave Mirra 2 on the original Xbox back in the mid aughts, I finally dug my heels in and sat down with a mission to complete this game that has eluded me for over a decade. My
Reviews Thrasher: Skate & Destroy (1999) Thrasher: Skate & Destroy came out just a bit after Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and I was in full blown Skateboarding fandom. I couldn’t get enough of skating and even though I was horrible at it in real life, I was able to fulfill my fantasies in video game
Reviews Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX (2000) Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX came out a year after Tony Hawk, while I was right in the prime of my high school years. I remember playing the demo that took place in the woodward training camp, and just falling in love with it. Even for how much it was taking
Reviews Crash Bandicoot - N.Sane Trilogy (2017) Crash Bandicoot 1 Crash has always been a staple of the Playstation brand since the early days. With one of my earliest Playstation memories, the demo disc with PaRappa and Crash sitting in the kiosk at Warehouse. When the game was remade for the PS4 in 2017, I was excited
Reviews Spyro The Dragon 2 - Ripto's Rage: The Reignighted Trilogy (2019) Spyro 2, takes everything that the original game did, and added to it. One of the only small gripes I have with the sequel, is that gone are the variety of Dragons from the original game. Instead, those dragons are replaced with a few new “friends” who are a bit
Reviews Spyro The Dragon: Reignited Trilogy (2019) The original Spyro game was always a game that I remember fondly while never actually playing the full game. I remember the commercials, I remember playing the demo and loving it, but I never actually rented or owned the full game itself. I played the demo for the game on
Reviews The Outer Worlds (2019) Take the Fallout formula that Bethesda has used for the last decade or so, and transplant it into Outer Space. Trade in the huge post apocalyptic open world wasteland for something a bit smaller and the ability to have different planets to explore all the while, mixing in a bit
Reviews WarioWare (2003) I honestly didn’t really play a lot of GameBoy Advance games, I felt it was basically a smaller Super Nintendo and this was back in 2001 when I was already well into High School. I didn’t even really get into the system in a big way until the
Reviews Need For Speed: Heat (2019) The Need For Speed series has always been a staple in gaming for such a long time, It’s kinda incredible that it’s been around since 1994 with almost yearly releases. Need For Speed: Heat is the newest one and also comes at a time where the modern EA
Reviews Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019) It’s easy to be cynical for me, when it comes to Star Wars. Something special as a kid, that has been bastardized first by Gorge Lucas and his meddling ways, ever changing a movie instead of just letting it be. Then secondly by Disney and the over-saturation of the
Reviews Death Stranding (2019) Can someone review something that they never actually experienced? Reviewing a video game is a totally different thing than reviewing a movie or any other piece of media because of its interactive nature. It requires input from the player that can usually change the outcome of the game in some
Reviews Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands (2017) Ghost Recon has been so many different types of games, it was hard trying to wrap my mind around the concept of the game for a while. Was it a shooter? Was is a third person cover shooter? Was it a collect-a-thon? Was it a mainly online game? Because the
Reviews The Legend Of Zelda (1984) One of the biggest blind spots of my gaming life is that I never finished the first Zelda game on the NES. I remember renting it when I was a kid, but I never got more than a few screens deep. When I was a bit older I tried it
Reviews Borderlands 3 (2019) It’s been way too long for Borderlands 3 to actually come out. Even though I really enjoyed my time with it, the amount of time away from this series really did more harm than good. Borderlands inspired the loot shooter genre that has become such a staple of the
Reviews The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (2000) As the first true sequel in the Zelda franchise, Majora’s Mask takes the (at the time) still fresh formula and turns it into its own separate game that only resembles the series in look. I tried for years to get into this game, and every time I’d get
Reviews Ape Out (2019) One of the only words to describe Ape Out is… Wow. This game visually stuns right out of the game. From the word Start, this game is one of those rare smaller games that just has such a unique style and overall presentation that it will stick in your head
Reviews Gears 5 (2019) Gears of War has been one of those series that I’ve always had a good time with, yet not really caring deeply about at all. I find myself putting it in the category of Summer Blockbuster more than anything super serious. There are times and places for balls to
Reviews Control (2019) Very few games can pull off an interesting story, with plot twists and misdirection and surprises, yet Control does this with relative ease. There is nothing simple about this game, except the combat. Yet the combat does feel fun and is enjoyable, but not the main focus for a 3rd
Reviews Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night (2019) Bloodstained is a Kickstarter game that delivers on its promise to be a Castlevania: Symphony of the Night “Spiritual Successor” 100%. Back in 2015, Koji Igarashi, the creative mind behind the newer Castlevania titles left his employer, Konami and wanted to make a new Castlevania game, but without the license.
Reviews Wolfenstein: Youngblood (2019) When MachineGames took over the Wolfenstien franchise, and made a new modern shooter out of it, I was hesitant, but gave it a shot anyways. I always enjoyed the Wolfenstein games going all the way back to Wolf 3D. After two amazing games (and one side story game) instead of
