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September 26, 2001
GameShark SharkBoard review The keyboard is quite simple in design yet highly functional. Made of sturdy black plastics and soft touch keys, the unit accompanies the PS2 hardware nicely. Getting started with the SharkBoard was easy enough, simply plug it into either USB port at the front of the PS2 and it will auto-detect the connection. We were eager to see how it would make entering Gameshark 2 codes easier, and we were pleasantly surprised. The SharkBoard is specially designed to provide handy functions and commands for the GameShark 2 cheat device. Keys traditionally devoted to PC applications have been replaced with GameShark 2 hot keys in order to speed up the process of entering codes even quicker.Full review September 23, 2001 PlayStation 2 Price Drop Imminent? According to investment firm Webush Morgan, Sony may announce plans to drop the price of the PlayStation 2 in the next two weeks. Defending the position, firm representative Miguel Iribarren said believed a price cut was planned before the launch of the Xbox and GameCube in America. However, he believes Sony will push up their price drop, 'in a pre-emptive move to counter any potential slowdown in consumer spending for PS2 products.' Sony shares fell more than 4% during trading today on the speculative news.Thanks to Core for the info New Splashdown Media There are more than 18 courses in the game, and three different difficulty levels. Each course boasts secret areas, shortcuts and ramps enabling players to pull off in-air stunts and tricks, of which there are 30 in the game. For those who played Rainbow's ATV racer, they will feel at home playing Splashdown. Opponents will crash into you, ride over you in some cases, land a jump on you and are quite aggressive, and they also follow a programming technique called ALOD, Automatic Level of Difficulty, which bases the AI's toughness of the player's abilities.Screens: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Movies: Extreme water racing at dawn (27.2 MB) Racing on the beach (18.7 MB) Full article September 22, 2001 ICO interview MW: What various kinds of puzzles and obstacles can gamers expect in the final build of ICO?Full interview Soul Reaver 2 screens Wave Rally Movie Deus Ex screens ESPN X Games Skateboarding review The control mechanism is not as tight and responsive as it should be. As a result, crashing into items and rails is a regular occurrence. Trying to figure out the timing needed to jump an ollie and land it on the real is generally too demanding. You need to jump much too far away and this makes things awkward and unforgiving. Perhaps part of the control issue has to do with the level design in terms of intersecting lines. You need a lot of intersecting lines in order to pull off combos and keep your adrenaline pumping. X Games fails to deliver this.Full review Wave Rallly screens ICO screens ESPN NFL PrimeTime 2002 screens Jeremy McGrath Supercross World screens WDL: WarJetz Review What the game somehow does do, at least for a while, is entertain. There are lots of objects that can be destroyed, and obviously capture-the-flag is fun, or else so many games wouldn’t use it. Flying around collecting bux is also strangely amusing, even though it doesn’t take much skill or effort. The bad news is that these things don’t stay fun for very long, and there simply isn’t enough variety in the game’s missions to make it worthwhile.Full review September 3, 2001 Spy Hunter 2 Media While Midway has yet to add many detailed textures to the game in general, the game almost never slowed down, even at this early stage. And although they don't have much of a purpose during the training level, several important elements from the original are present: The car's front-mounted machine guns fire, along with readily available oil slicks and occasional trucks to drive into and be restored, Knight Rider-style. The car also shifts into two other types of vehicles, a motorcycle and thruster-powered racing boat, during training.Screens: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Movies: Boat Slaloms (8 MB) Dirt Slaloms (6 MB) Destroy Targets (5 MB) Morph Into A Bike (7 MB) Full article High Heat Major League Baseball 2002 review As mentioned above, do not judge this game by its graphics alone. It is the superior gameplay that sets High Heat on the top of the heap of PS2 baseball games this year. Hitting ten homeruns per game is not my idea of a baseball game. Thankfully, 3DO has addressed those issues in High Heat. High Heat ranks high in gameplay because the of the great pitcher-batter interface, sharp A.I. and the easy to use not to mention smooth fielding controls. You will work hard both at batting and pitching. The ability to guess the oncoming pitch is a great feature. Guess right and your ball may be heading for the fences. Even placing key locations for pitches when batting and pitching is vital to winning a game. The realistic reactions of the pitching -batting interface shines. For example, if you swing high and the pitch comes in low, contact will not be made. In many baseball games it does not matter where the ball comes in as a contact always occurs.Full review Scooty Races screens “For the moment being, Trecision does not want to give out any details about the structure of the game nor game-modes. “Scooty Races” features several innovative elements which we prefer to keep secret. The first playable version of “Scooty Races” is indeed very nice and fun to play. We are happy to see how a potentially good idea is developing into a videogame which shows a lot of originality, innovation and – most important – excellent playability, all with a very strong technical realization.Screens (from the PC version): pic #1, pic #2, pic #3, pic #4, pic #5, pic #6, pic #7, pic #8, pic #9 Soul Reaver 2 update |
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