Whereas my DS-library has been consisting of excellent games from a wide range of genres like turn based strategy, action-adventure, platformer, puzzle and *kremt* petsim for quite some time, it has been lacking a hit in one of my favourite genres; racing. Untill now. Friday the Big N launched their first go at online gaming (Nintendo Wifi-Connection) with Mario Kart DS. An impressingly polished and fun arcade racer.
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Archive for November, 2005
This must have been a busy month for the good folks of Nadeo; first they release the excellent update to TrackMania - Original, then Virtual Skipper 4 - the most beautiful sailing sim I know (and according to sailors, the most realistic one), and some days ago yet another update to the TrackMania-franschise: Sunrise eXtreme. I give you some remarks on the latter.
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Since Drool: The Bone game still is the most visited post in my gglob, I post a quick note to say that TellTale Games recently released a new - longer - demo of Out from Boneville. With skippable mini-games. Available from the official homepage of the game.
Turn based games are in the wind these days. At least in my wind, or the area of the wind I’m in. Anyway; three quite different, but all very good turn based video games have been released lately. First the Advance Wars Dual Strike for the DS, then Rebelstar Tactical Command for the GBA and some days ago Civilization IV for the PC. All brilliant games - all with their own approach to turn based (war) gaming. Reading the latest documentation on the mod-capabilities of Civ4 made me want to mod it’s strategic and epic approach into the Advance Wars’ tactical and fast one.
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In 1952 Osama Tezuka created a cartoon regarded as the world’s first Manga; Tetsuwan Atomu - Astro Boy. Although this is supposed to have the same popularity in Japan as a certain mouse in the west, I didn’t meet his futuristic universe before I saw the fabulous Metropolis in 2001. (This anime blends themes from Fritz Lang’s masterpiece by the same name, Ghost in the Shell and Blade Runner with visuals from films like Les Triplettes de Belleville.) Some time ago I picked up the (budget-)game for the GameBoy Advance called Astro Boy: Omega Factor by Treasure.
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