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Wild Card Football review

Robert Allen — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 23:41:14 +0000

Testing Positive for Magic the Gathering Influences During the late 1990s, franchises like Madden, NFL Gameday, and NFL Quarterback Club were in an impassioned rivalry to become the reigning football simulation. While this struggle for realism was unfolding, Midway Games unveiled NFL Blitz in 1997. The title mirrored the wonderfully over-the-top approach that had been ...

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Tour de France 2023 review

Robert Allen — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:19:16 +0000

Cyanide’s latest entry continues to nail the simulation of energy management but falters to improve many of the franchise’s lingering blemishes. As a kid, I’d routinely watch a group of older acquaintances tackle the 1500-meter event in the Atari 2600 game, Decathlon. Here, four competitors waggled the Atari joystick back and forth, simulating the measured ...

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Super Mega Baseball 4 review

Robert Allen — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 17:55:02 +0000

Major league ambitions are undermined by minor league performance. After three seasons in the indie leagues, Super Mega Baseball 4 is now in the majors, following the acquisition of Metalhead Studio by Electronic Arts two years ago. But the game’s launch week debut is tarnished by issues. I’ve witnessed the game crash on the loading ...

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EA Sports PGA Tour review

Robert Allen — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 03:47:33 +0000

The champion returns, making an uneasy early showing. From 1998 to 2013, Electronic Arts’ Tiger Woods series was the reigning champion of golf. Much of the franchise’s success was rooted in its sense of authenticity. Meticulous recreations of golfers, courses, and televised commentary provided as much realism as hardware allowed. But the other part of ...

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Hyper Gunsport review

Robert Allen — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 20:54:33 +0000

A future sport that doesn’t involve revolve around bloodshed? Adding guns to volleyball seems like a dubious idea. But in Hyper Gunsport’s semi-utopian future, firearms prove to be an ingenious addition to the sport. The game imagines a setting where the world’s populations acknowledge the futility of fighting and bloodshed. Here, guns are only ...

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Soccer Story review

Robert Allen — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:02:23 +0000

Arcade-style, five-on-five soccer matches coupled with light role-playing while off the pitch seems like a foolproof concept. Much like 2017’s Golf Story, Soccer Story complements its recreation of sport with a robust role-playing component. Unfortunately, several questionable design decisions mean it’s more of a messy hoofer rather than a precise shot on goal. Developed by ...

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Cursed to Golf review

Robert Allen — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 00:58:29 +0000

Deck management is just as important as a powerful drive in Cursed to Golf. The creativity and pixel art are pleasing but the execution spends a bit too much time in the rough. From a breeze that can influence the trajectory of a drive to the vigilant reading of a green, golf is about the ...

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Big Bang Pro Wrestling review

Robert Allen — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 22:09:25 +0000

Twenty-two years after its original release, Big Bang Pro Wrestling gets a Switch port. The emulation is expectedly fantastic, and the game has a remarkable heritage. But after all these years, ring rust is an issue. In 1993, SNK released Three Bout Count for the Neo Geo MVS. Although it offered a diverse range of ...

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Teeing Off with GolfTopia (Early Access)

Robert Allen — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:57:29 +0000

First-rate simulations require little understanding of their source material. Take 1989’s SimCity, which tasked players with zoning residential, industrial, and commercial districts, as well as building streets, parks, and public service buildings. Even if you had never pondered about public planning, the game imparted its own lessons. Chances are you’d take this information and have ...

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Super Mega Baseball 3 review

Robert Allen — Tue, 12 May 2020 22:24:23 +0000

If you can get past the cartoonish looks and lack of licensing Super Mega Baseball 3‘s on-field performance means it’s a clincher on every platform, save for PlayStation 4. Once a PlayStation exclusive, MLB: The Show is now headed to other consoles. But that won’t happen before 2021, according to developer San Diego Studio, leaving ...

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Ski Jumping Pro VR review

Robert Allen — Sat, 07 Dec 2019 22:27:51 +0000

Video games have a multitude of positive attributes, but one of the medium’s best traits is the simulation of ability. In real life, I didn’t have the training, talent, or dedication to be anything more than a middling athlete. But games allow me to bypass those burdens and replicate the tension of a professional quarterback ...

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Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 review

Robert Allen — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:07:32 +0000

When Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games came out for the Wii in 2007, it was stunning to see the two rival mascots unite. During the sixteen-bit era, the Plumber and the Hedgehog embodied oppositional sides in one of the industry’s early console wars. On one side stood an affable everyman with wholesome appeal. ...

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Chiki-Chiki Boxy Pro Wrestling review

Robert Allen — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:34:27 +0000

With last year’s Chiki-Chiki Boxy Racers, Orgesta reached into gaming’s golden past, offering a breezy title inspired by titles like R.C. Pro-Am, Micro Machines, and Choro Q. With the release of Chiki-Chiki Boxy Pro Wrestling, the Osaka-based developer delivers another voxel-based, breezy interpretation of a popular pastime. Eschewing the light simulation often found in many ...

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NBA 2K19 review

Robert Allen — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 19:27:06 +0000

A 1985 study from scholars at Cornell and Stanford refuted the notion of shooting streaks in professional basketball. The researchers asserted that people mistakenly attribute successions of successful shots as ‘hot hands’, when every attempt is really just another instance of good, old probability. To that effect, the latest effort from the Visual Concepts seem ...

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The Golf Club 2019 review

Robert Allen — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 02:43:18 +0000

When it comes to golf simulations, there are a relatively small number of requisite experiences. While Links 2004 didn’t pioneer the analog swing system (1997’s Front Page Sports: Golf deserves credit here), it thoroughly refined the input method, capturing the nuances of driving from an actual tee. Certainly, the Tiger Woods series deserves credit adding ...

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Super Mega Baseball 2 review

Robert Allen — Sat, 05 May 2018 21:28:51 +0000

Surprisingly, quality action-driven baseball on PC is as atypical as a triple play. Sure, Steam has a number of stat driven simulations like the Out of the Park and Baseball Mogul franchises, which offer players the opportunity to be a general manager. But these number-crunching simulations are unlikely to satisfy those yearning for that well-timed ...

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Early Access Impressions with Descenders

Robert Allen — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 21:50:19 +0000

During the 1990s, the extreme sports genre was pervasive, with a multitude of games offering virtual skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, rollerblading and BMX biking. But after the start of the new millennium, the thrills began to subside, the angsty rock soundtracks become muted, and the garish in-game ads for Mountain Dew and Slim Jims gradually faded ...

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Infinite Minigolf review

Robert Allen — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 21:17:40 +0000

Although Zen Studios is best known for their prolific output of pinball tables, the Budapest-based developers are known to take an occasional hiatus from the orb-focused efforts. Veteran gamers might remember 2010’s Planet Minigolf, where Zen offered a light-hearted interpretation of an already easy-going recreation. With the release of Infinite Minigolf, the studio revisits the ...

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OlliOlli: Epic Combo Edition review

Robert Allen — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 05:55:40 +0000

Occasionally, feature creep can ruin a respectable franchise. Such was the case with Activision’s Tony Hawk series. Early on, the property received critical and commercial acclaim for its prodigious simulation of skateboarding. Adeptly, nearly every real-life flip, trick and grind was translated into combinations of analog stick maneuvering and precisely-timed button presses. But, as the ...

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River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Stars Special~

Robert Allen — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 16:06:54 +0000

While Western players might not recognize the Kunio-kun series by name, they’re likely to have appreciated some of the long-running franchise’s localized iterations. From Renegade, River City Ransom, Super Dodge Ball, Crash ‘n’ the Boys: Street Challenge to Nintendo World Cup, gamers outside of Japan have received the intermittent installment. Failing to recognize a connection ...

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