I’ve recently subscribed to a game rental service. It sends me games in the mail, which I play until I’m bored of them. I then send them back, they send another game, and so on. As such, I’ve played more games than usual lately.
I thought I’d review the games I’ve played so far. Most reviews are long, boring reads when all you want to know is if it’s worth playing or not. So my reviews are going to be short and sweet, going straight to the point. While the games reviewed are months old, the reviews are completely independant — no publishers have tried to buy my review scores, as opposed to some other sites…
Enough chatting, to the reviews:
- New Super Mario Bros. — DS — 3/5 — Just as fun as old Super Mario games, because it’s exactly the same. Nothing new here.
- Table Tennis — Xbox 360 — 2/5 — I can’t think of how to make a much better ping pong videogame, but it’s still just ping pong so I got bored quick.
- Psychonauts — Xbox — 5/5 — One of the best Xbox games ever: fun, funny and creative.
- Tomb Raider Legend — Xbox 360 — 3/5 — Exactly what you expect from a Tomb Raider game, competently made but nothing new. The story is both dumb and hard to follow.
- Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter — Xbox 360 — 2/5 — Awesome graphics and not much else. Bad AI, repetitive trial-and-error gameplay, feels like every other military shooter out there. At least the Canadian prime minisher gets killed…
- Project Gotham Racing 3 — Xbox 360 — 4/5 — As good as racing gets, but still just another racing game.
- Dead or Alive 4 – Xbox 360 — 3/5 — Great graphics, fun fighting, cute girls, but not much different from previous DOAs.
- King Kong — Xbox 360 — 2/5 — Fun minimalist gameplay at first, but lacks depth and gets repetitive quickly.
The thing that struck me most about those games is that you could easilly beat them all in a week-end (in single player), aside from Project Gotham. The traditional argument for games costing 60$ is that they offer many hours of entertainment, but it’s just not true anymore. Some DVDs last longer than that with their special features…