Features

• Multiplayer mode included – replay a course with other players
• Compete on 14 different and unique courses
• Ride through 6 different landscapes
• Integrated adventure mode allows you to play through the game while trying to solve a mystery
• Customize your horse with your favorite features

Reviews (8)

Good idea, but too frustrating
I enjoyed everything about this game except for the difficulty of the game play. In order to progress through the game, you need to complete increasingly difficult courses, some in a paddock and some cross-country, within a specified time and relatively error-free. Perhaps it's easier for younger players and it's my slow adult reflexes that trip me up, but I found this close to impossible. The controls are too clumsy to allow you to move your horse around the course at a pace quick enough to beat the time.

Don't consider this game unless you have endless patience, don't ever lose your temper, have lightning-quick reflexes, and are obsessed with horses. Otherwise you'll do what I did: scream in frustration and uninstall.

Totally Great!!!!
This game is the Best!!!! i love it because it is just like taking care of your own horse. grooming can be a annoyning but i sitll love it. doing the hooves takes like forever but thats okay. i love riding in competitions and taking care of the horse. the best horses are the two last ones you get. the horses are better in the competitons. im stuck on the wheel part and ive had the the game for about 3 months. if you buy this game you won't regret it!!!!

Four
I think this game is really great, the graphics are good, but the grooming! every time you go to a show, you get a new horse to look after them on top of your other horses. Also some horses are better than others, for example, the best ones are the palimino, the dark grey (these are the last two horses you get ) and Eclair. The challenges are really tricky and I still havent worked out the wheel one and ive had it for a year!

Fun Fun Fun
This is a really cool game even for me and I'm 16! Yea Its sad I know but I wanted a good horse game, I beat the Barbie Riding Game in less than an hour. So I was happy when I still haven't been Saddle Up and ive had it for almost a month!

The grooming can be really annoying after a while but its alot like real life. Picking there feet takes like 15 mintues the first time. The challanges are HARD! I still haven't figured out the wheel challange and its making me very mad!! But I still love it!

Great Game for Horse Fans Like Me!!!
I love this game. It is fun as well as challenging. The part I don't like about it ,though is the grooming.

It takes like an hour just to pick a hoof, and you keep getting more horses to groom throughout the game! You have to ride and care for each and every horse, even if they don't belong to you! In some competitions, you have to ride you're "friends'" horses instead of your own. (Your horses are a lot better at pacing themselves in the challenges.) I also don't like how you can only save the game in your room. But worst of all, is how much grooming is involved EVERY DAY!!! Hose down the horse, brush him, pick his HOOF (not hooves, thank goodness), shoe him, AND clean his stall and take him to the pasture! All of that is involved before you can go riding!

BUT, I loved the graphics. The only problem is if you wander off course, your horse falls into a white area. It is a great game, though. And the courses and competitions are a ton of fun! The challenges are REALLY CHALLENGING. It takes a while to figure them out, but its fun while doing it. This is an awesome game for horse fans like me. This game shows what its like to own a horse. I think it should be ages 11 and up! ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

Get ready to dance the night away with all-new songs and game modes in this sequel to Dance Dance Revolution. Players can save and edit dance steps to create their own dance routines. The special workout mode allows you to have fun shaping up while also tracking the calories you burn. And you can re-create the arcade experience with Konami's Dance Dance Revolution controller. The game includes more than 50 high-energy songs in a variety of genres, including pop, disco, Latin, techno, and house. It also features a completely redesigned interface and new graphics, plus a special edit mode that allows players to customize dance steps for every song, develop player-specific routines, and trade dance patterns with friends. Also included are new songs never released in the Japanese version. Burn up the dance floor with two-player modes, allowing players to dance cooperatively or competitively. Multiple options and difficulty settings make Dance Dance Revolution Konamix easy to learn for people of all ages. ... Read more

Reviews (52)

AWSOME!!!
DDR Konamimix is very, very, very, ect. fun!! It is great for working out and losing weight!!!!! I was introduced to this because my school had it!!! belive it or not the princable lets us play with it all recess!!!! I am planning to by this game to enjoy it more that ever!!! YAY!!

DDR<333
Only problems with Konamix, to me, is that it's not set up like the arcades (which is where I play half the time) and "basic" mode is the same as light on the other games (thought it would be standard). Other than that, it's great.

As for accessories, I got one of the really thin mats and it quickly got destroyed with friends who don't know how to pick up their feet and the mats would get scrunched up into a pile. So, I invested a bit more in a mat with a 1" foam insert and now, I'm putting forth a bit more to get a metal dance mat.

(I put 1 star for educational, because the most I see you getting out of it is a good work out and foot/eye coordination...=/)

Tight Game, but its missing something
I hate video games, but DDR is to good to be considered a video game. This game has helped me build stamina and quick thinking skills. DDR Konamix has an awesome song list with the original Paranoia and this is the only US release which features the very complicated Orion.78[AM-EuroMix] So why would I give it four stars? Because you can't use speed modifiers.[x1.5,x2,x3,x5,x8]
I know most DDR fans don't really care something like that, but some songs on here are impossible to do with only one speed.

This game is still a good buy, but I recommend DDRMAX or DDRMAX2 over this one.

A full fledged hooked on game
This game Rocks! For ps it has great graphics. And as an owner of the whole set of DDR games, you should listen. I like Yuni and Emi personally. Take my advice, get the game.
If only I had a memory card for ps.

Great fun and workout!
This is a fun game! Every day at an arcade I see many kids there playing this game!They simply love it!I highly recommend buying this game! There are 52 songs to try! Theres even a workout mode so you can actually see how many calories you burned!GREAT! ... Read more

Features

• In Nancy Drew -The Final Scene, Nancy's friend has been kidnapped and hidden in an old theater. You have three days to rescue before the building is demolished
• Use your wits and stealth to sneak around as Nancy & find clues to this mystery
• Meet with over 20 different characters & figure out which of them has a secret
• In Nancy Drew -Treasure In The Royal Tower, you unravel the riddles in an old ski resort, to learn the secret it hides
• The castle itself seems to be riddle or maze -- explore strange detours, mysterious artwork, and dead-end corridors

Reviews (4)

Great deal=great game(s)
The Final Scene and Treasure in the Royal Tower are both great games. Treasure in the Royal Tower is my favorite out of the five I have(Secrets Can Kill, Stay Tuned for Danger,The Haunted Carousel and, of course,The Final Scene and Treasure in the Royal Tower). I have absolutely no complaints on any of these five games, except for in Secrets Can Kill the characters are very cartoony. In The Final Scene, the culprit was the person I least expected. All in all, I think the Nancy Drew games are the best computer games ever made(along with The Sims).These games are great for kids and adults alike, and if you don't buy at least one Nancy Drew game, you'll be missing out on some major family time. Buy this game, and you won't regret it. I guarantee. You won't regret it, and you'll want to buy more the minute you beat the game.

Loved these games!
Both of these games are very addicting!My 7 year old son and I used junior detective (there is a harder level) and it was fun!Well worth the money you pay!

Great family fun!
My 10 year old daughter and I had so much fun playing this together!I thought she would enjoy it on rainy days but I was just as enthusiastic about playing as she was!
And my 6 year old son loves it!My daughter got stuck a couple of times where I could not figure out how to help her but Herinteractive.com has a great message board for each Nancy Drew game with lots of hints and clues if you get stuck!
A great family activity for a rainy day!

Double Pack
This double pack is really fun except it is hardly ever in stock!!!!!!! i had to wait a month because everyday when i went to look for it wasn't there! but it was definently worth the wait!! at such a good price this is definently the best game of the century!!!! ... Read more

Product Description

MODEL- 20072VENDOR- KONAMI FEATURES- DDR Extreme (Dance Dance Revolution) The greatest dance party returns with smash hit songs, unique modesand more features than ever before. Get ready to shake your groovethang with Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME. Over 100 minutes ofenergetic dance music and Eye Toy USB Camera (for PlayStation 2)support will have the dance floor pumping all night long. * Eye Toy Camera support creates a whole new level of interactivity!* New songs and popular hits by BT, Duran Duran and more!* New modes appeal to everyone from beginners to competitive dancers. * Special "Work Out" mode allows you to track the calories you burn.-- SPECIFICATIONs ------------------------------------ ESRB Rating : E for Everyone Genre/Category: Family/Music System: Sony PlayStation 2Nice electronics is your source for everyday low prices on theKonami 20072 - DDR Extreme PS2 and all other Konami Video Game Acc ... Read more

Features

• With the EyeToy support, players will now be able to appear in the game as themselves in both single and two player modes
• Over 70 new songs -- with more than 100 minutes of new music from club favorites like Duran Duran, Junior Senior, BT and more
• Wild new game modes like Watch Me Dance -- players can participate in the background events of a video, while they dance
• New Hands And Feet mode gives you visual clues about thenext move, while Clean The Screen challenges you to remove all obstcales on screen with your hands
• Fantastic next-generation graphics recreate the blistering excitement of the arcade hit

Reviews (10)

Fun, engaging and exciting sequel...
There's been a lot of negativity brewing about this latest release in the DDR family, but with a much more accessible tracklist and some newer American hits (Move Your Feet, Planet Rock, Kids in America) as well as some forgotten DDR favorites, DDRMAX Extreme is definitely a good follow-up. It doesn't merit the criticism it has been receiving.

The gameplay is essentially the same, and with the addition of background dancers to choose from, players can not only beat levels to earn new songs, but they can also earn new dancers, as well as the different modes of gameplay (Party Mode, Endless Mode).

While the selection of songs might be more exciting than DDRMAX 2, the difficulty of levels is essentially less intimidating and more accessible to DDR beginners, save for naturally challenging tracks (Legend of Max, Drop Out, Maximizer). Hence, those players really seeking an EXTREME gameplay experience as the title suggests will be slightly disappointed.

Yet, as more songs are earned, players will have the opportunity to earn deft remixes of several of Extreme's hit songs (B4U, Higher, Drop Out, Tsugaru, Ecstasy).

In addition to the other PS2 releases in the same family, DDRMAX Extreme should a welcome component to anyone's collection.

Uhhhhhhhhhh..... What Happened.
Many People (including myself.) love Dance Dance Revolution Alot!!! Some people go as far as to do nothing else but strut their stuff for this game. But DDR Extreme while tring to make a better game loses something very good. Long gone are the vertical scroll menus and are replaced with a supposedly easier menu. Konami made the menus easy for beginers, but experts will fumble around a while looking for a hard song. The color system for the songs are non existnt and you have to enter two or more menus to get to a song. This does make difficulty selection a bit easier because now you select the difficulty before the song. So those who didn't like double tapping the up and down arrows to select diffculty will be relived.
Oh yeah the songs are sometimes a level off when it comes to dif. a song that is 7 dif. will probally be a 6 or 8. The songs ARE NOT THAT GOOD!!! for every good song like Tusagaru (sorry for the misprint.) there are 10 song that are not good. Instead of party mode, they should have put more songs on there. My advice: wait until next year, Buy the Japanesse version if you have an import PS2, play at the arcade, or play last year's edition (which is probally the best version.)
Die hard fans and newbies will love it, the rest of us, just walk away slowly. Very, Very, Slowly!! (P.S. I'm Not a kid and no i'm am not a adult either.)

The greatest game ever
I recommend this game for people who love to dance, are active and like music. You`ll enjoy either playing with a friend, starting a workout diary and much more! There`s some really cool songs like move your feet, y.m.c.a, and only you. Practice to master ddr. Keep cool, don`t jump around on the mat on fast songs, just practice one foot at a time like i did. You can also use the controller on 2 player but its best to use the mat.Maybe you could practice with the controller first to get the hang of the game. I hope you purchase this really cool game (don`t forget the mat!!!) and enjoy it!

Best Video Game Series In History
An ultra fun video game that gives a good workout just seems too cool to be true, but there is a game that has those attributes:DDR, which is easily the best game ever made for sure!

Dance Dance Revolution Extreme and all the other DDR games out there are 2-D games with one major point:Dancing with your feet.You have a dance mat (or stage) where you tap your feet on the arrows planted on the mat, trying to step on the arrow labeled the same direction on the mat as the arrow that scrolls up the screen, trying to tap your feet on the arrow at the same time the scrolling arrow is inside the outlined arrow in the same direction.There are five (or six) ratings you can get for your accuracy:Marvelous (Not on a regular game), Perfect, Great, Good (Which should really be Average), Almost, and Boo.You want to get the first ratings I listed, and not an Almost or Boo, or else your dance gauge (Which kind of shows your health) will start to slip until it runs out and you lose a song.At the end of the song, you can receive an overall grade, depending on your overall accuracy, of either an E (Which you get for failing a song), a D (Which you get for surviving, but receiving a poor score), a C, a B, an A, an double A, or a triple A (Which you get for receiving a perfect score).

When you first get the game, you start with 44 songs, and you can unlock 26 more songs for a grand total of 70 songs.To unlock the hidden songs, you must clear songs about 5 to 10 times with at least a C rating.Once you win about 5 to 10 times, a new song is unlocked.The first song you can unlock is called Scorching Moon, and the last one you unlock is called The Legend Of Max.You can also unlock new dancers for dancing in the backround in songs without real music videos, but I never use characters (Having a character is optional).

The Party Mode, which is new for DDR Extreme, is a futuristic-style way to play video games, as you can dance with both hands and feet while seeing yourself dance, although you need the camera for PS2 to do so.Being able to play with both your hands and feet while watching yourself is genius, and must be extremely fun to do.The Hands And Feet Mode is likely the highlight of the Party Mode; the other games are too simple and easy.

Along the way, you can unlock two new modes:Mission Mode and Endless mode.In Mission Mode, you dance to different songs with an unusual task to win.Be careful about the visual tricks that are used in many of the songs in Mission Mode.In Endless Mode, you keep dancing until you fail with a randomly chosen character.The songs that you dance to are randomly selected.The problem with it is that I might end up with the ugliest character in the game to use:Rhythm, an ugly barbie girl that's hard to look at.

The Workout Mode in the game allows you to keep track of your fitness, and allows you to figure out what you should be doing to keep yourself healthy.If it's on, you'll see how healthy of a workout you got after you finish dancing to a song.Your score will be better if you play fast songs like Drop Out or either of the Paranoia remixes, so play those songs if you want to get fit quickly.

The training mode is a mode where you cannot unlock anything, but you can practice the different songs in the game without being stopped by failing and without the thrilling backgrounds.

Finally, I'll take you to the information mode, which gives info about all of the different songs in the game.It tells you if the song you're studying is from a previous DDR game or not, what you should try to do while dancing to the song, or what kind of music it is.According to it, plenty of songs from Dance Dance Revolution Konamix have been brought back, but only three songs have returned from DDRMAX2.

But why is this 2-D game that has the same goal over and over again so great?Well, there are certainly several reasons why:

1. DDR Extreme has a total of 70 different types of songs to choose from.You can find the type of music that's best for you.From a typical energetic dance song (B4U), to a song that's easy to recognize (YMCA, Waiting For Tonight, Like A Virgin), to a jazzy song (On The Jazz, Funk Boogie), to a Japanese pop star song (Firefly, Pink Rose), to a supercharged song full of energy (Drop Out, I Feel...) to a song that combines a whole bunch of styles together (JaneJana, Do Me HIGEO Mix, Make It Better), to a theme song from a movie (Never Ending Story, Enter The Dragon) to even a classic song from previous generations of DDR (.59, Drop The Bomb), there's destined to be a song that you'll enjoy.
2. The replay value to this game is incredible, since you can build up your mad skills from beginner to expert, trying to successfully receive all Perfects on songs.You won't want to stop!
3. If you like video games, but you're out of shape, this is a game that can help knock off your weight and keep you fit.I've lost six pounds playing this game since November.I've never been very fat in my life, but I've suddenly started to love working out ever since I started playing this game.Awesome!

Then again, there are some downsides to this game, but minor downsides:

1. The host of this game gets on your nerves easily.Fortunately, you can shut him off when you're dancing, but not when it's most annoying:When you fail a song.His quote, "W-w-what?" is super annoying, as when he speaks in Japanese.
2. Our dance mat is very low quality.It has a huge tear in it, and it moves everywhere, while I get Boos out of nowhere.Then again, the problem with the metal stage is that the arrows are planted low in the mat, and it's harder to step on the arrows than with the mat.

Now, I'd love to grade the songs availible in this game in terms of how much I like their sound.

1..59:A
2.321 Stars:B (This one is easy to hate, but I can deal with it)
3.A:C-
4.A Stupid Barber:A-
5.Absolute:A
6.B4U:A-
7.B4U (B4 Za Beat Mix):A
8.Bad Routine:C+
9.Believe:B-
10. Bizarre Love Triangle:B+
11. Can't Stop Falling In Love (Speed Mix):B-
12. Diving:B+
13. Do Me (H.I.G.E.O. Mix):B
14. Don't Clock Me:B-
15. Drop Out:A+
16. Drop Out (Remix):A
17. Drop The Bomb:A-
18. Ecstasy:A+
19. Ecstasy (Midnight Blue Mix):A-
20. Firefly:A+++
21. Frozen Ray (For Extreme):B-
22. Funk Boogie:C+
23. Go West:A-
24. Higher:B
25. Higher (Next Morning Mix):B
26. Highs Off U (Scorcicco XY Mix):B+
27. I Feel...:A+
28. I'm For Real:F
29. JaneJana:A- (It used to be an F, but I'm no longer annoyed by it)
30. Jet World:A
31. Keep On Moving:C
32. Kick The Can:B+
33. Kids In America:B+
34. La Senorita:A+
35. Ladies Night:B-
36. Like A Virgin:A-
37. Love Love Sugar:D
38. Make It Better:B
39. Maximizer:A
40. Miracle:D+ (What the heck is a miracle to the singers of this song?)
41. Mobo Moga:A-
42. Move Your Feet:D+ (Boring topic.Plus, this song is outdated for the DDR it debuted on.It's new for DDR Extreme)
43. Music:A-
44. Never Ending Story:B-
45. On The Jazz:B-
46. Only You:B-
47. Paranoia Eternal:B-
48. Paranoia (Dirty Mix):A
49. Peace Out:B
50. Pink Rose:A-
51. Planet Rock:C-
52. Scorching Moon:B
53. Simply Being Loved:C+
54. So In Love:C
55. The Legend Of Max:B+
56. The Reflex:B+
57. Theme From Enter The Dragon:A-
58. There You'll Be:B+
59. Trip Machine:A
60. Trip Machine Survivor:B
61. Tsugaru:A
62. Tsugaru (Apple Mix):A
63. V (For Extreme):B
64. Waiting For Tonight:B- (I like J. Lo's version better)
65. Wild Rush:B+
66. Wild Rush (Remix):B
67. Wonderland (UKS Misx):C (For swearing in the song)
68. YMCA:B+
69. You're Not Here:C+ (The song is too sad)
70. Your Rain (Rage Mix):A-

Top 3 Best Songs:......................Top 3 Songs I'm Best At:

1. Firefly....................................1. .59
2. Drop Out..................................2. Firefly
3. Ecstasy..............................3. B4U

Top 3 Worst Songs:.....................Top 3 Songs I'm Worst At:

1. I'm For Real.............................1. I'm For Real
2. Love Love Sugar......................2. You're Not Here
3. Move Your Feet..................3. Theme From Enter The Dragon

Top 3 Hardest Songs:
1. Do Me (H.I.G.E.O. Mix)(On the Heavy level)
2. Tsugaru
3. The Reflex (On the Heavy level)

(I would've put on The Ledgend of Max except everyone would think that it's the hardest song, and I wanted a more interesting song to top the top 3 list)

Top 3 Easiest Songs:

1. Funk Boogie
2. Peace Out
3. A Stupid Barber

Final Grade:A+.The minor downsides have no effect on this incredible game.It's simply amazing.I will be buying the previous DDR games in the future as well to increase my amount of availible songs.

In relation to the last sentence from above, these are DDR games currently in my collection:

- DDRMAX2 Dance Dance Revolution (Best Song:Hysteria)
- Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (Best Song:Firefly)

Great for all ages!
I'm a 46 year old mother of 4, and I got this game with two game pads for the primary purpose of 1) getting some exercise indoors without being bored out of my mind, and 2) having a fun game to play with my kids that involved more than sitting on the couch and pressing buttons.

On both accounts, DDR Extreme succeeds beautifully.It's easy to learn the basics using the tutorial, and the rating system makes it easy to find moves within my skill level as I get better.Since each song has several levels of difficulty, and the players don't have to be on the same setting, it's just as much fun playing with my eight year old as it is with my sixteen year old.

I invested in a pair of top quality DDR pads, with one inch thick foam inserts, so it's easy on the feet, even though my legs don't usually like high impact activities.In workout mode, you can set it to be low impact only, but I like the choreography better high impact.

DDR Extreme may be redundant if you have other DDR titles, but if you don't, you will be well pleased with the song list.I have an Eye Toy, and have tried the Eye Toy games, but they are just gravy. The dancing is the meat of the game. ... Read more

Amazon.com Review

Lunar 2: Eternal Blue is old-school role-playing goodness at itsvery best. From the story to the simple battle system, it doesn't bore playerswith the details that can make newer role-playing games unbearable. No, Lunar2 won't impress anyone with its likewise old-school graphics, but that's notthe point. This game is fun.

The story in Lunar 2 doesn't take itself as seriously as otherrole-playing games, which contributes to the fun. The game's hero, Hiro, and hissidekick Ruby must help a young girl locate the goddess Althena. The quest turnsout to be long, spanning three disks, most of which hold full-motion videocutscenes.

The video sequences in Lunar 2 are probably the best part. They mixJapanese anime with computer graphics and are completely stunning. The in-gamegraphics, on the other hand, are ported straight from the 16-bit Sega CD, with afew enhancements, so those who like eye candy should consider themselves warned.--Robb Guido

Pros:

• Light and fun
• Super movie sequences that mix anime and computer graphics

• Outdated graphics

Reviews (101)

FLAWLESS!!!!!!!!!!
This game is really something else. the scheme of the battles are quite tactical and where you really have to think whats going on the the game. its amazing how that characters talk during the cut scenes, you really know what is going on. it exceeded past their first game Lunar: Silver Star Story complete. i cant wait to try thw one for the game boy advance!!!!!!!!!!!

FLAWLESS!!!!!!!!!!
This game is really something else. the scheme of the battles are quite tactical and where you really have to think whats going on the the game. its amazing how that characters talk during the cut scenes, you really know what is going on. it exceeded past their first game Lunar: Silver Star Story complete. i cant wait to try thw one for the game boy advance!!!!!!!!!!!

THE GREATEST GAME OF ALL TIME
when i first played this game i was amazed even though it was sorta poor graphics not the best graphics but still good onesthis game is a old school rpg i figured out about this game my friend brought it over and he was playing it so after he was done playing i wanted to try it when i first played most of the beginning of the game i was amazed i got pretty far then my friend left after a week or so i bought lunar 2 eternal bule complete i was amazed of the story of the game and how you battledthe key to playing and beating most bosses on lunar 2 is haveing tacticsif u can do that u will have a lot more easy time beating the game well that's all

To be played into the wee hours of the morning.
The games of the past truly are marvelous accomplishments.They know nothing of the modernized games we have today, and their quality is more focused and mature.With the harness of gaming graphics pretty non-existent in Lunar, the game has more power and depth, and certainly more room to grow than recent titles do.With each passing moment, Lunar does not become old and boring, it just becomes more charming and impressive.Lunar is a game that only gets better in time.
Since Lunar is a relatively old game, it was free to run with a complicated story, rather than just display some appealing eye candy as you drag a character through another repetitive task.The fact that Lunar is so different than other games is what really drew me to it.Here you are, in a massive world, with a hole mess of party members, when you realize that you've just embarked on an unforgettable and hilarious adventure that you would be foolish to hope to find in any other game.Lunar's story is touching and it doesn't insult you with the old cliché's and stereotypes.Just when you think it's all over, you always seem to find another important task at hand.When you finally DO finish this game, your left with an indescribable feeling of accomplishment and you finally understand just why everyone loves this 'old-school' game so much.
Lunar's charm washes over you completely from the moment you insert that first disc.It's filled with characters that you just love to interact with.When your away from the battlefield you don't always find yourself worrying about what boss is next, sometimes you just want to talk to the townspeople and see what hilarious thing Ronfar or Ruby or ANY of your party members will say.It's great that there's an rpg out there that's not all 'business', Lunar is just plain FUN!!!
Lunar is a light-hearted, but DEAD serious game, and you can always appreciate what's going on.In one scene you'll be laughing your guts out, then the next second your back to business when something HUGE happens!!!The game is soo exciting, and it's just awesome to play it.
If there is a thing that Lunar lacks, it absolutely makes up with it tenfold with it's laughable dialog, interesting story, and massive amount of extra goodies.Lunar is a game that you'll love forever, and you'll never EVER regret playing it.So, if you haven't already experienced what a true rpg can be, don't waste another precious moment, PLAY LUNAR!!

Great no matter what!
Whether your a long time resident, or a new-commer into the magical world of lunar, you have to admit that it was A LOT more than you expected!LUNAR may bea quite an old game, but that doesn't mean it's charm is in any way outdated.If you ask me this game just gets better with time.
I actually played this game before I played the first one--which is also an awesome game.You can play these games as a set, or idividualy, it makes no difference, you'll love em just the same!!^-^
I won't go into explaining the story, everyone else has already done that for me.You look at all the reviews this game gets and they're all either positive or they're negetive and nobody votes for them!!It's pretty obvious that this game is very crowd pleasing.And with all it's little quirks, it's just a pleasure to own it.
Anyways, I played this game like two years ago now, but i'm still not tired of it, and I don't think I will be any time soon!!Oh and by the way if anyone has information on the infamous "lunar 3" PLEASE PLEASE e-mail me, I'll really apprecieate it!!!

~have fun!!! ^o^ ... Read more

Product Description

2001-2003 Mythic Entertainment, Inc. All rights reserved. Mythic Entertainment, the Mythic Entertainment logo, "Dark Age of Camelot", "Trials of Atlantis," the Dark Age of Camelot and Trials of Atlantis logos are trademarks and and the stylized Celtic knot is a registered trademark of Mythic Entertainment, Inc. Windows and DirectX are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. The ratings ... Read more

Features

• Note: this online game requires an Internet connection and charges a monthly fee
• Massively multi-player online roleplaying game incorporating Arthurian legends, Norse myths, and Celtic lore
• Includes original game, Shrouded Isles, and Trials of Atlantis
• Comes with New Frontier upgrade and Foundations upgrade
• One month free subscription

Reviews (13)

A Great Game, Too Often Slammed
I have played this game for about two & a half yrs and have enjoyed my time in game tremendously. Basics of the game involve establishing a fantasy character in 1 of 3 realms in the ancient British Isles. The game allows a character to focus on spending time battling monsters in their own realm, battling players in the other 2 realms, or becoming a crafter of items.You can spend as much or as little time as you want in the game and you can do any combination of the above activities.You also can join with other players to form guilds & alliances.

Many overly criticize that too much time is wasted in the "grind" of leveling a character to 50th or in obtaining items wanted to enhance a character's ability.They miss the point that the pleasure in the game is playing.If their only focus of the game is to become the best of a particular character class with the most realm points posted on the boards, they miss out on the essence of the game which is to explore a fantasy world with numerous dungeons and lands filled with monsters and quests to conquer.The realm vs realm aspect of Camelot is the best in the genre and the various level specific battlegrounds allow a character to have fun defending their realm at almost any level.

I have found that Mythic has been responsive to player feedback. They have made numerous modifications regarding artificat acquisition, realm inequity, class inequity, encounter glitches, etc.

Be careful in starting Dark Age of Camelot, as you may become addicted.I have have had many wonderful adventures in Camelot and made many on-line friends.

Good fun
Its good fun if you can deal with leveling to 50........then the arts.........


Overall a good time, good people for the most part.

Only down side is if you think your going to get a level 50 just kill, not going to happen.

I do think there moving too fast for somebugs but hey! what games doesnt have bugs? Over all rating is 5 stars, untill something that can match and/or beat this, im there!

DAOC is great...
Not!!!If you are looking for a MMORPG, and bought this one great.If you havent let me tell you about it.I played off and on since Feb 02.Some people were playing before that as well, but nevermind that.Me having 10 level 50 character doesnt really say much, but I did waste plenty of time to explore what this game has to offer.
First thing you do is kill this and that till you are level 50.Run to the frontier and get yourself killed by everything that you see and dont see.Then you start working on equipting your toon, using TOA, SI, and player crafted items.Oh forgot to mention you also need to finnish master level 1-10x10 (if anyone tells you master level is fun, please have pity and get them some therapy).level 20-24 will probably be the most fun for you; lots of people in battleground for you to play with and against, and the gap between equipments doesnt equate to much. after level 45 the grind really kicks in.Once you are done with your grind, you will find out if you like Realm vs Realm or not.Dont believe anything Mythic tells you.That book that came with the game, burn it.If you need to know something find a character in game and ask them, the best chance are those level 50 in all black.They are generally the one that compete hard.
RvR is somewhat dead.so dont buy this game if that's why you looked at it in the first place.
1.(denied by mythic) Most of the people who RvR have quit or stop RvRing.Maybe some moved to albion, so I wouldnt know that as a midgard player)
2.(denied by mythic) Game is not balanced, population and other things.Many things that the players complaint about are ignored.You can find these stuff online easy enough.
3.RvR is mainly siege equipment now.Which mean all your time invested equate to a level 20 behind a siege machine for the most part. Level 1-50+ Master Leve 10(1-10)+x(artifacts)(1-10artifact levels) only comes to play 1% of the time.Ok so 10% of the time.

And if you really have to try it out, play an Albion.You cant go wrong there.From the start i cant remember Albion not getting enough love.It's too late for me, I already pick Midgard and i wont switch side.Whether i play or not is another issue.

Dark Age of Camelot Review
I have been playing DAoC for the past 2 years.I have 2 level 50's characters and 3 almost 50.ToA has been changed and does not hurt the game.The leveling of artifacts has been made extremely easyer.The leveling of characters also has been made easyer by getting 1 FREE level every 3 days so long as you have leveled once through xp within those 3 days.New Frontiers is not all bad like people say.I like it more than OF(Old Frontiers) because it brought balance to the realm ablities and made it so that rvr has more strategy.As for population imbalence problems, those also have been fixed because Albion (the overpoulated realm on all servers) has a 7 day free level timer instead of a 3 day.Also on that note hibernia and midgard get a bonus to all xp and realmpoints earned.I hope everyone plays the game and if you decide to go on Galahad server in Albion and send Misformed (me) a tell. :)

Game peaked before Trials of Atlantis
I've played Dark Age of Camelot since Feb 02 owning 3 accounts, 2 level 50 and 3 more level 40ish chars. This game was excellent and the best MMORPG out there until Trials of Atlantis. From that point the timesinks became ridculous and with the new fronteirs expansion the game has spiraled out of control. The grind was originally levels 1-50 and then build your characters equipment template. Now, it takes all of that but your equipment must now be attained, activated and leveled which takes a long time, if not longer then getting your character to level 50. Then you have the Master Levels which can be 12-14 hour single sessions to get one Master Level completed and there are 10. Leveling some artifacts can take 40 game play hours to level just one of them up. Now, the game is facing severe population issues because no one will try a new realm because it would take a year of playing to be able to compete. (less obviously for people who play 24x7)

This game had always provided a stable, safe opt-in version of realm versus realm combat which was the main draw of the game - and LOTS of fun! but Mythic lost sight of that, blew the timesinks through the roof and the game is suffering terribly because of that.

Many of us long for the DAoC that existed the year before the Trials of Atlantis expansion! The level of work neccessary used to somehwat match the reward and fun of the end game RvR - now the work is 2-3 times that and many don't find the return on investment to be worth it anymore.
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MahJongg Master Deluxe Suite is the ultimate MahJongg product available. Containing MahJongg Master 5, the latest in eGames best-selling MahJongg series, PLUS all new MahJongg Patience, this is the most full-featured MahJongg game ever! ... Read more

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• Contains two complete full-featured products
• Mahjongg Master 5 and Mahjongg Patience
• Includes 17 unique Mahjongg mini games
• Enjoy 389 3-D rendered tile sets, 261 distinctive tile layouts, and over 1400 backgrounds
• Create an infinite number of your own tiles

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Donkey Kong Country 2 is a top-notch side-scroller that will put your reflexes to the test. Rescuing Donkey Kong is no easy task, and finding all of the secrets along the way is a true challenge that will keep any DK fan busy for a long, long time. ... Read more

Features

• One quest, two Kongs!
• Play as both Diddy and Dixie Kong, and master Diddy's Cartwheel attack and Dixie's Helicopter Spin.
• Test your skills and beat the clock in Diddy's Dash, or race against your friends to see who's the fastest.
• Go solo or challenge your friends in brand-new bonus games like Funky's Flights and Bag a Bug.

Reviews (14)

DKC2rocks!
Any experienced gamer that thinks Donkey Kong Country is awesome is sure to like Donkey Kong Country 2!There are cheat codes for it,(such as Level Select,Music Player and other things)Cool levels,and more!Plus,you can do multiplayer and new bonus games,and Diddy's Dash!What are you waiting for? Get(or rent)your copy of DKC2 today!

Well, im a casulal gamer..........
Well, im a casulal gamer and you might not want to listen to me but if you do theres a couple things i have to say.First off the game is great, but not educational. you can go to all sorts of lands and find the "krem coins" and feathers and such, i do think they should charge less money for theese "gameboy" games, but i have grat fun overall.


happy gaming, Ziggy

He's back again and about time to.
One of best games for the Super Nintendo is back for the GBA. It is a very fun game and if you missed it for the SNES, then be sure to get it for GBA.

well worth your money
this game is so much fun it will keep you entertained for hours. your options are almost endless. another thing is you cant beat it in one day. there are bounes games also. the graphics are great and it has good music that doesnt get on your nerves in about 30 min. you can also hook up your GBA cable link and play multiplayer. there is so many great things about this game i cant name them all and i dont want to spoil it for all you gamers that dont have the game yet. but if you do have the game then you know how awsome it is! its well worth your money to have a good time. so take my advise and go buy it!

Donkey Kong Country 2
WHAT HAPPENED ? . That monkey is on the loose again...This is one of the most intense and enjoyable games ever. My hat`s off to the monkey, Hours of FUN....Eric ... Read more

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Cartoony strategy combat comes in threes in this explosive Worms Triple Pack! Now you can choose your method of destruction - the strategy classic Worms 2, the weapon-wacky Worms Armageddon, or the manic multiplay of Worms World Party.Lock 'n' Load for crazy strategy thrills times THREE! ... Read more

Features

• Over 50 Wacky Weapons: Like shotguns, lasers and nukes!
• Customizable Chaos!: With the "WormPot" Mission Editor of Worms World Party.
• Multiplayer Madness: 1-16 Players
• Free Demo: Worms Blast PC-CD Demo included

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The three best Worms games ever made, packed together.
I've been a Team 17 fan for years. When Worms came out first in 1995, I was pleasantly surprised.

Worms 2, Worms World Party, and finally Worms Armageddon (the best of the lot) use the same engine, so they might look similar at first. But once you start getting used to them, you'll notice some big differences (too much to list here).

Some of the best games ever made. For this price, this is a steal. Get it now! Demos available at www.team17.com, as well as patches that offer Windows XP compatibility as well as some extra features.

WORMS, HAHA
Ok, let me lay it out for you.I just barely played this game out of sheer boredom, and i think the last time i played it was like 2 years ago.This game basically SUX!You have fun, figuring out everything and all, but after a while, it is just plain boring.Save yourself some time and buy an electric guitar, a snowboard, get Sum 41's cd Chuck, and dream the day away......

Multiplayer F-U-N
The three games are of the same basic principle:you have land (2D height and width), weapons and enemies to destroy.This game has great versatility.You can edit landscapes, weapons and game options.You can play single player games vs. the computer or do premade missions as well as play multiplayer games on one computer or via network. Weapons include your classic bazooka, shotgun, punches and air strikes but you can also take out your enemy with zany things like banana bombs, sheep, carpet bombs or by pushing them off of the edge.Just make sure you have the system requirements and you are in for some F-U-N!

Multiplayer F-U-N
The three games are of the same basic principle:you have land (2D height and width), weapons and enemies to destroy.This game has great versatility.You can edit landscapes, weapons and game options.You can play single player games vs. the computer or do premade missions as well as play multiplayer games on one computer or via network. Weapons include your classic bazooka, shotgun, punches and air strikes but you can also take out your enemy with zany things like banana bombs, sheep, carpet bombs or by pushing them off of the edge.Just make sure you have the system requirements and you are in for some F-U-N!

I am sooooo addicted!
Once you start, you just can't stop! These games are great, and hard to find elsewhere. For this price, you just can't beat it! ... Read more

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The object of Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland is to successfully save the village from being turned into a resort. Construction begins in a year, so you must find a way to save your homeland before that. Unlike previous Harvest Moon titles, Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland will offer nine unique ways in which to complete your task. Thus offering nine different endings to the game!Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland focuses more att ... Read more

Features

• Make friends with over twenty characters.
• Nine endings and plenty of events make every day on the farm anything but routine!
• Cook up new meals using recipes or invent tasty homegrown concoctions in your kitchen!
• Explore an innovative not-linear game system with a bushel of subplots and entertaining story lines!!

Reviews (92)

Just one year
I have played other Harvest Moon games and I like them all, and I like this one too. The only problem is that you only get one year. In the other games, you can form lasting relationships, get married, even have kids, get divorced, remarry, etc. year after year. This one starts you from scratch after a year (you lose) or you manage to save the homeland (you win). You get to keep your stuff, but all the relationships start over. It's cool that there are different endings, but I lost interest after the second one- and that's only because I was putting up a brave face since the kids got it for me for Christmas and I didn't want them to feel bad! I was pretty disgusted the minute I realized I'd lost all the ground I'd gained just cause I beat the game.

This was particularly disappointing because I thought surely the PS2 version would have all kinds of extra side quests and fun stuff to do after the first year.

What the...!?
This game has a great concept, lots of things to do, and a cute look. Why the low score? Well, the in-game time system is, in a word, wack. I would barely get outside and get my bearings, and it would be mid-afternoon already! Then, one time, I got lost trying to find a path in the "morning", and by the time I found it (a few real-world minutes later), it was "night"!! How am I ever supposed to build a farm and save the homeland if all the stores are closed by the time I get to them!? This game could have been Animal-Crossing caliber, but instead it's just confusing and weird. Too bad. I was really looking forward to it.

An Entertaining Game
Ok, the mission to this game is to save the Homeland from being... turned into an amusement park.
You meet many characters, and experience the life of a farmer. Farmer style. You can buy chickens and cows, adopt a stray dog, and earn a trusty steed from doing great work at Bob Brownie's Part-Time job.
I recommend this game to everybody.

Huh?
This is a weird addition of Harvest Moon. It's kind of weird, but it gets away from your farm and to your homelands. There multiple endings for this game, but here's my review.

Concept- Harvest Moon on PS2 = Weird

Graphics- am I playing Dark Cloud Or Harvest Moon?

Sound- The Catchy music makes this one the Harvest Moon gamewith the best score

Playability- Easy as pie

Entertainment- Enjoyable from begining to end, but it feels a little Wierd

Replay- Moderate-High

Alex- 8.25/10

I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!
this game is so fun!!!! i love the new look of your house and animals!! ... Read more

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Sony PlayStation (97400) Eye Toy Groove With Camera PS2 ... Read more

Features

• Win points for technique, style, and timing
• Dance Move Maker option allows you to choreograph your own dance routine save it as a game level
• For 1 to 4 players; both solo and team modes
• Musical dance game that includes the Eye Toy camera
• Dance along to 28 tracks from such artists as Elvis, Madonna, and Fatboy Slim

Reviews (9)

A Great Time
Our whole family has had a BLAST with this game! Highly recommended for the whole family, parents included. Even my Dad, age 69, grooves with it.

either is good
this game is dance dance for your arms. it is fun but not too challenging. all you do is put your hand in the right shape when called. and don't belive th create your own dance thing and the calorie thing and the two player thing and the songs are reduced. tçin create a dance, you make a dance but if the game dosen't like it, it comp0letly changes giving you a
pisicly impossible routine. this feture is better in dance dance. and the two player thing is complete nonsenes seeing as how it donsen,t tell you who should hit the marker which causes confusion and possibly colission. and the calorie thing geusses homuch you lost. and if you belive it, you better have good math skills because if you don't. youn won,t be correct, eve though you'll be wrong anyway. there is so much to say but my las sentances is the stars i gave this game are sympathy stars

Super fun AND great exercise!!
Eye Toy: Groove is incredibly fun!I was skeptical about how the gameplay would work until I tried it out at Best Buy and then I was SOLD!The technology is amazing, it really picks up movement well.You don't have to be able to dance in order to play, just be willing to flail your arms around like a fool.Multiple modes of play means it doesn't get too boring (although the song selection is somewhat limited - hopefully Groove 2 will be forthcoming).The songs are fun, though, not as good as Amplitude but much better than DDR.Once you get into it you can really get a great workout!Our arms and shoulders were very sore the next day, as well as our legs just from bopping to the beat.

Our only objection so far is that it seems you must enter your name after every single time you play.Since no controller is involved, you have to enter your name by waving your hands around and selecting the letters.For some reason these targets seem less sensitive, so entering your name wears you out at least as fast as actually playing.We just got the game yesterday, so perhaps we'll figure out a way around this as we keep going.

Coolest thing I've ever seen!
The day Eyetoy: Groove came out I bought it! It requires hitting, waving, swiping and a lot of movment! It even has a calorie counter so you can see how many calories you have burnt! Also TWO people can dance at the SAME TIME! Here is a tip for all Eye Toy players: when it tells you what to do in the beginning push start on the controller and it will skip it!

EyeToy Party! My House! Be There!
Man let me tell you how good I am at this game. I suck at DDR but man oh man I can really tear through this one like tissue paper...WORD! If you've played EyeToy Play, Groove is pretty much the beats game in it with the cds and the speakers. Its a lot harder though cause the make you do different motion other than fist fist fist fist (you guys know what I'm talking about) It got REAL SONGS and most of them are REALLY BAD SONGS!!!! I just wish there were more modes to this game, its kinda all the same. But I'm gonna go practice and the try out for the next Wade Robson Project. ... Read more

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The realism of the game is bolstered by the innovative and proprietary Visual Gravity System which conveys a true sense of G-forces experienced by high-speed driving and maneuvering around a race track. This innovative feature is a first for the racing genre and gives gamers the ability to see and feel the pressure exerted on a car during racing. ... Read more

Features

• Set to be the most realistic racing game to date, Enthusia will include hundreds of cars from more than 40 real manufacturers each car driven and captured in real life by the development team.
• Photo-realistic graphics stand out as players race on dozens of real and fictional tracks around the world. Multiple camera views, including both a first- and third-person orientation, allow for players to either get behind the wheel or on top of the action. Variable weather conditions pose additional challenges that require players to stay on their toes. As players pass and weave their way to the front of the pack, they benefit from on-the-fly information about car handling, tire traction and
• Approachable gameplay for novice drivers yet challenging for experts, Enthusia is a racing game that will appeal to players of all levels. Playable in single or two player mode, Enthusia takes advantage of the PlayStation 2 controller with pressure sensitive control of the analog buttons allowing players to feather the gas and brake.
• For gamers that want to take complete control of the action, Enthusia will also be compatible with PlayStation 2 driving wheels, including the Logitech GT Force steering wheel.

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This makes GT4 look like Burnout 1
The other reviews covered most aspects, but one particular thing I have to add is this is the first racing game I've seen that actually lets you choose which cars you want to race against in Free Race mode!

These cars actually seem realistic to drive, instead of the "hover" effect of GT4.The sounds are 100% better than the whine and whizz of the GT4 cars, and believe me the graphics are just as good if not better; at least in Enthusia, you don't get the fuzzy, out of focus effect from a game that pushes the abilities of the PS2 too far.

Trade in or sell your Gran Turismo 4, and get Enthusia.The only thing I don't like is the name of the points used during the career mode; who thought "Enthu" points was a good idea really needs to dig into their Japanese/English dictionary a little bit more.Cheers!

GREATLY ENTHUSED ABOUT ENTHUSIA!
As a seasoned video game racer (logitech steering wheel only please) I was intrigued by the comming attractions for Enthusia.
As GT4 was out first with its absolutely stunning version of the Nurburgring and hugely realistic driving dynamics, it was hard to get my brain and steering wheel around Enthusia at first try. I made the mistake of going directly from GT4 to one of Enthusia rear drive vehicles and was sorely dissapointed.
You see most of the rear drive vehicles on Enthusia are set up for terminal oversteer - with even gentle breaking and turn in the rear end comes around wildly on most vehicles - whether this is meant to inspire the drifting crowd I'm not sure, but its annoying and simply does not reflect actual rear wheel driving dynamics.Don't despair there are rear wheel cars that aren't too bad, but they are simply not the games strength.
However, and this is a huge However -especially for front wheel drive import fans - the front drive cars are astonishing
in there ability to properley convey front wheel driving dynamics. Both the Japanese Integra Type RSX Type S and the Jap spec Accord R in particular are just fantastic.
Four wheel drive vehicles also rival the very best for there driving dynamics and realistic physics.
The game exels particularly in the many original road courses thru city, country and desert settings.Honestly they are far superior to the original city tracks on GT4 - simply put whoever designed these courses new a lot about stringing corner after corner together in a very special way.Maybe beyond special - extrodinary. Graphically the game is not as sharp or as real as GT4, but its charming in its own way and the replay mode is excellent as are the realistic engine and driving sounds. The variety of cars is historically interesting and keeps one compelled to keep playing and racing to unlock all that are available - oh, and the racing is truly racing - in order to win and do well in the game you must drive correctly and cleanly and you must be fast!Unlike GT4 which is easily and perplexingly conquered.
If you can tell I'm really fond of this game you've been paying attention. One final word the historical Nurburgring is also included.It's good, but in all fairness does not compare to the version on GT4.Go get Enthusia if you love really racing cars.

Amazing Game
I had to think it over weather to buy Gran Turismo 4 or this one since there werent many reviews on this game. But now I would say it was a good choice.

As for physics of the game its totally perfect very realistic, every car feels diffrent. Also the VGS system which displays the weight transsition can be really helpfull sometimes. Another thing that I really liked was the feeling of speed. In GT4 even when you are going at 100+ you feel like you are going 60 but in enthusia with blur effect and other stuff you really feel the speed.

In this game you cant buy cars for money you have to unlock them. Also in Enthusia life mode as you race you can upgrade your car's tuning level which is just basically increasing the tire quality, power and weight. This game is more about your driving skills rather that winning racing using high powered cars. You get more points for winning a race with a low powered car. Unlike other car racing games you get Enthusia Points taken of if during the race you get off road, hit a car, and etc. which prevents you from using tricks like using your opponents car to make a fast turn which alot of people are used to in GT4.

It has fair amount of tracks. Total comes up to around 20-25. One of the amazing thing in this game is a Mountain Downhill and Uphill track. That is something Initial D fans would really apreciate. Only 2 cars can race there at one time. And there can only be one lap ofcourse cause you start from top of the mountain and end up at the base.

Also it has a Enthusia Revolution Mode which really helps learn how to drive through the right line. ... Read more

Product Description

Let your skills reign supreme with FIFA STREET. Blending fast-paced arcade action with the culture of freestylestreet soccer, expose the heart of the world’s most beautiful game in 4-on-4 match-ups around the globe. Withthe rules from the simulation soccer experience removed, own the streets like never beforedominate the pitchwith on-the-ball flare and individual style as you break out show-stopping Gamebreakers and highlight-reelfreestyle moves. Earn respect, build a rep, and turn your team into the unstoppable force with FIFA STREET.

Features:

• Pro Players in Street Match-upsChoose from a variety of national teams and build your street squad froma collection of the world’s top professional players.
• Fast-Paced Intuitive ControlLightning-fast and easily accessible controls allow you to pull off juggling,step-overs, and pannas all in your own personal style using the Trick Stick.
• Global Street VenuesBreak away from the stadium and official game rules of soccerplay in ten globalstreet locations that reflect the strong culture and individual spirit of each region.
• The Wall is the 5th ManUse the wall at each venue for strategic moves and dynamic passes.
• Break the Game Wide OpenCharge your Gamebreaker to show-up your opponent with dramatic trickmoves that earn unbeatable shots and big highlight moments.
• Rule the StreetCreate your own players, develop your characters, and earn respect. Unlock rewards andsteal players from the opposition in this single-player game mode.

Features

• The Wall is the 5th ManUse the wall at each venue for strategic moves and dynamic passes.
• Break the Game Wide OpenCharge your Gamebreaker to show-up your opponent with dramatic trick moves that earn unbeatable shots and big highlight moments.
• Rule the StreetCreate your own players, develop your characters, and earn respect. Unlock rewards and steal players from the opposition in this single-player game mode.

Reviews (4)

no title necessary
I have just played this game for a little over an hour, but already I can tell I'll be playing this game alot.It has a bit of a learning curve when you start out.Jumping right into a game out of the box can be frustrating if you don't view the street trainingvideo a couple of times.It's very satisfying game play once you understand how maneuver.The tricks are literally mouth watering.
After you learn how to earn your combo shots (the ones that are practically impossible to block)you don't feel so ripped when the AI rips one through w/out possible defense.
In general I despise sports games, because I suppose I despise most sports Excluding Soccer.
This is a top quality arcade soccer game.Even as it is arcadish you will find that you have to master play, and it isn't simply a button masher as many of the arcade style sport games are.
After playing this just briefly I can't wait to see what the other EA FIFA games have in store.I'm sure they are a bit more refined, but EA has won me over with this title.
I definitely recommend picking this up if you are a soccer fan.

Moves to make your mouth water
Ronaldinho is a living legend.....check out his moves

http://www.fifastreetmovie.com

Is he for real?

Good Player Roster, Graphics, but Poor Controls and Gameplay
I'm a big fan of the EA Big Street series.I'm also a huge fan of soccer.I was pumped to play this game.

Unfortunately I am underwhelmed.The game play seems a bit lame and static compared to what you would expect from the street series.Most of this comes from controls that are not responsive.The point of the game is to beat your opponent with wild dribble moves.Unfortunately when the opponent uses a move on you, you literally lose control of your player while the animation shows your guy getting schooled.The soccer AI in this game is so poor that none of your other players can be counted on to help out your stranded teammate.

I just don't see a lot of replay value in this as the controls and gameplay are so static and frustrating.

Also disappointing is the fact that when you create a new team to play through the single player mode, your team is ranked at level 13 and your first opponent is level 25.I played ten matches and won only once because my players are hopelessly outclassed.

Some redeeming qualities of the game... there is a huge roster of real life soccer stars from several countries.Fans of European soccer will be happy to see Beckham, Henry, Totti, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, etc.Unfortunately, if your favorite star does not come from one of the dozen featured countries, forget about finding him in the game, which means no Schevchenko, Van Nistelrooy, Ljungberg, and none of the Greeks who won last year's Euro Tournament.

The graphics in this game are very nice.The players look stylish and are dead-ringers for the real players.The environments are decent looking too.

The lack of XBox Live play is absolutely unforgivable in a sports title of this nature.This is a terrible oversight.

In the end, I cannot recommend FIFA Street to anyone besides the most avid of soccer fans, and even then, don't expect to get a lot of replay value out of this.

Awesome Game!
At first i thought this game was going to be a little ridiculuos and forced from the EA BIG title series. However, upon buying the game i found it not only to be extremely fun, but exciting, great-looking and an over all great game. BETTER THAN ANY OTHER STREET GAME! ... Read more

Product Description

Featuring more official team and league licenses than any other soccer game (including lower leagues from the most competitive European countries), an enhanced and extended Career Mode, EA SPORTS Online play for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system, PC-CD and the Xbox video game system from Microsoft and the all-new Creation Zone that lets you customize new tournaments or even put yourself into the game, FIFA Soccer 2005 is the only complete, authentic and intelligent soccer experien ... Read more

Features

• Soccer sports game
• More than 350 official team and league licenses from around the world
• Licensed stadiums with authentic crowd chants
• Career mode lets you play from both the pitch and the front office
• Single player, LAN multiplayer, and online multiplayer modes

Reviews (7)

Arcade version, not a simulation
If you want to play football without much control depth then choose this over the European "Pro Evolution Soccer 4" (title is "Winning 11" in the US) and if you have heard the buzz surrounding that game then you should know that it is in the top three sports simulations of all time.

Winning 11 however is not an out-of-box game, taking days to learn, weeks to master and then improve on with other players. FIFA works straight out of box, is easy, but its limits become all too obvious in light on Winning 11, a game has been in development since the Nintendo 64 and is easily the best soccer engine out there.

The bottom line is that if you want a soccer game that works out of box, that you can play almost right away with anybody, then FIFA has it. If you want a real soccer sim that takes longer to get into but is far better, then choose Winning 11.

Fifa 2005
Fifa 2005 is very simialar to Fifa 2004. But there are differences between the two. I really like 2005 more for the reasons that the new style is really cool. The music in the game is killer [they went for a more international music approach, rather than just the American music scene], and there is a visible differnece in the graphics upgrade. Basically, its an updated version of 2004. However, I bought this just for the hell of it, but 2005 doesnt come anywhere close to Winning Eleven 7. I bought Winning Eleven 8 recently, but it was in Japanese, but the gameplay is so much better. In F2005, no matter how many times you press sprint, the players just move so slow. The stadiums itselfs are not very lively, [i only saw one flag waving in the enitre crowd]. I bought 2005 mainly because I lost Winning Eleven 7, but Fifa 2005 is still pretty worth the buy. I do, however, prefer the winning eleven series. Gameplay is much easier and better at the same time.

Buy on PC if you can
I bought this game first on the playstation 2 but soon realized,(by playing the PC demo, and then surfing all the fan sites) that the the PC version is a smarter purchse. The game is great soccer gaming experience, and by far the best gameplay engine to date. (Still not perfect yet, though) The most frustrating aspects are the missing teams, incorrect player faces, incorrect uniforms, and missing stadiums. However, all these issues can be addressed if you have the pc version, through the many fan/user created websites designed to fix these discrepancies. And that is my recomendation to the soccer gamer.

Another [...] By EA!!
I'm a true footie fan and always will be, it's the only sport around the globe that is worth watching. Oh and by the way people who call this wonderful sport soccer are people who don't know anything about the true Football sport. I didn't actually buy this game and I never intended to but one of my friends had given me his copy which he didn't like to try. Boy was that worthless. EA sports managed over the years to bring a game for footie fans and make them enjoy it. Lately they have been trying to cheat off the Winning Eleven 7 game by Konami and it is evident in every move. No matter how hard EA will try they will never even come close to Winning Eleven 7 because they just simply don't haveFootball-true engineers working on this game and they are only after the money. Speaking to a lot of people(AMERICANS to be exact) they choose graphics over true realistic gameplay that represents true Football, and that just tells me one thing that they know nothing of the sport and should not come near it in whatever way. EA had said they had corrected errors in previous games but that's all a [...]because players in the game still wait for the ball to come to them instead of running towards it and also EA still haven't figured out a way past their formulated way of scorring goals. A good example of that if you want to score a goal all you have to do is cross and I guarantee a goal no matter what. EA sports FIFA "FOOTBALL" 2005 is simply a shadow imitation of Winning Eleven 7, and the only difference between the 2 is the graphics in EA is better and that is why I gave a 1 star. Whoever gives it more is no Footie Fan you just remember that. If you simply want good graphics then buy the game but keep in mind you are no footie fan, but if you want a realistic wonderful game you play Winning Eleven 7 which I give a 6 out of 5. Winning Eleven 8 is coming out soon it will erase every attempt by EA to succeed in Football games.

3 1/2 stars
its pretty good.

my previous fifa game was fifa 2002, and to be honest, 2002s graphics are as good or better than 2005s.

also, the menus are probably the worst ever.why cant they just use a simple layout like 2002 and 2002 world cup?it was so much easier to use.Dont get me wrong though.its a very ogod game, and if youre going to get a soccer game, this is defintely the one to get. ... Read more

Product Description

Along the way, youll get help from your past and future selves as you travel through the ages to infiltrate historic castles, annihilate evil robots, and more. In addition to the improved story mode the depth of gameplay will be endless with a co-op, arcade and online multi-player mode, which will give gamers hundreds of hours of exciting gameplay. ... Read more

Features

• Multiple gameplay modes: Featuring a story mode with co-op, an arcade and challenge mode and a split screen multiplayer and online mode.
• Sony Online Support: Play online with friends in 16 player death match or co-op modes.
• Create and Share Maps Online: An improved mapmaker interface makes it easier to create multi-player maps and share and play them online with friends.
• Time Travel Gameplay: An innovative meet and assist yourself time travel gameplay lets players be their own ally by teaming up with past and future versions of themselves.
• The game will also feature a single an extensive Arcade mode, and a Multiplayer mode that allows gamers to battle in 16-player death match or co-op play online on the PlayStation 2 console, and much more.

Reviews (10)

For a Good Time, Play Me
The first word that comes to mind when I think of this game is...SWEEEEEEEEEET!!!I was impressed with the game before I even started playing the story mode.How?Well, the fact that you can customize the controls the way you want to is a great option.That earned this game a star right away.

Do I even need to tell you about the graphics?They're SWEEET.Did I already use that adjective?Well, I'm using it again.I always loved their cartoonish style, and in this edition they're better than ever.Also, the addition of blood was a nice touch.

Gameplay is very fluent.There's plenty of action and I like the characters I interact with.Checkpoints are smartly placed at regular intervals and the ability to set different difficulty levels gives it great replay value.I've only played through four missions, but I can tell that this is easily the best shooter on the PS2 this year, so far.There are no flaws.I give it 5 stars!

This great series is finally online, but with some problems
TimeSplitters has always been the most fun First Person Shooter series around.Smooth graphics, fun characters, really fast action.TimeSplitters 2 has to be my favorite shooter ever.Needless to say that I was looking forward to this finally being online.

Well, the online portion is the reason why this game exists.In terms of how the game looks and plays, it's just like it's predecessor, TimeSplitters 2.This in not a bad thing by any means.

So, the first question is, how is the online?It's a mixed bag.When the games are fun and fair, it's amazing.But those times are increasingly becoming few and far between.First off, technically, there is no lag.Playing online is almost as fast as playing against your friend.You can play up to four players on one console, and up to eight in one game (NOT 16 like the preview says!).The games consist of the normal fair: deathmatch, team deathmatch, assault, capture the bag, and more.You can choose something like 10 different levels or use custom made levels.You can join a game, or you can host a game (so you can choose the setup, kick out players, etc.).

There a few technical problems though.The first and most obvious is that the headsets don't work over PPPoE.Which is strange because it's pretty standard on many DSL connections, I can't see why it is so technically different than other types of connections.Second is the lack of diagnostics.What I mean by that is that if you're behind a firewall without port forwarding, you'll won't be able to host games.However, it'll still let you set up the game.For the longest time I thought I was unpopular because no one joined my game.The server let me set up the game even though I was not set up to handle it.Finally, the game freezes on many custom maps online.The only way to get around is to reset the PS2 and go through the annoying 5 minute process of getting it back up and online.

Now it terms of play, sometimes it's just downright amazing.A properly set up capture the bag in "Training Grounds", or a team deathmatch in "Mexican Mission" is the most amazing game experience around.The kills keep coming.Strategies start developing.You start to recognize tendencies, tend to work in groups, etc.All in all, if those perfect scenarios with the right mix of people are set up correctly, you've got the best gaming experience ever.

Notice that I used the word "if"?Well, that's because many people are cheap online, or many people don't know how to setup a game.It's tough to host a non-deathmatch because no one will wait for eight slots to fill up before the game starts.That often leads you to the mercy of the host of another game.Many times, the game will have short characters (monkeys, a little girl).The short characters, being smaller, have a huge, cheap advantage, and their cheapness annoys and aggravates many people.Often times, in custom maps, weapons will be placed in obscure places where only the mapmaker can find them, giving them another cheap advantage.Also, there's camping.The worst offense imaginable (I was doing it by accident when I first started playing).Basically, a person waits for you to respawn with a weak weapon or waits for you to cross a narrow opening, and then shoots you.There is no real way to defend against it if the host doesn't kick them out.This ruins a lot of games.If you look on EA website, they rank the players.I played against 2 of the top 10, and one was guilty of using a monkey, one was camping.EA is rewarding cheap play.Finally, many hosts don't know how to set up a game (e.g. they set it up for camping or they have really boring scenarios or maps).This just makes the whole hit or miss phenomenon of getting the right game even worse.Only about 1 out of every 5 games I join are enjoyable or playable, which caused me to abandon online play after just a few weeks.

Other than online, it offers the standard offline fair.There is still the ultra fun offline deathmatches against bots.There is nothing greater than having my friend and I use a split screen fighting off many bots.They also included the greatest level of all, Mexican Mission from the TimeSplitters 2.That is a huge plus.There is the standard story mode.Despite the numerous changes in level backgrounds, I found the latter levels tobe uninspiring and boring, with stupid little mini games or escort missions.There is also co-op, but it's the exact same missions as the single player, so if you've played single player, co-op is not that great, and vice versa.Also, there are challenges which are just a bunch of little scenarios.Shoot a bunch of zombie monkeys, time yourself as you throw bricks through windows, race a car shaped like a cat around walls to get the best time.Just a whole bunch of things that seemed sort of tacked on.I played a few before I quickly got bored.

All in all, the online flaws prove too frustrating and take away from a really great game.If you're not playing online, you can easily purchase TimeSplitters 2 and have the same great experience for about one-fourth the price.

Pros:
No lag time online
Best engine around
Mexican Mission!
When it's setup correctly, boy is it fun

Cons:
Campers and monkeys online
Mostly boring online matches
Technical online problems
Boring, uninspired story missions
Arcade mini-games just seem lame

Time to complete: 7 hours (single player or co-op story mode)

Frustration: Low (on normal)

Difficulty: Low (on normal)

Truly impressed
This game is extremely entertaining and funny. The ability travel through time fighting everything from robots to zombies is exciting. The Story Co-op is perfect for playing with a buddy!!! Absolutely great game.

Much better on xbox or gamecube
i endorse evry word there. Much better on the xbox on gamecube, and i'm not biased 'cos i have a ps2 with 26 games and i'm just hurt that the games is more fun on those two consoles.

Simply awsome
This game is simply awsome. There is so much replay value and just so much to do. The graphics are very nice and sort of cartoonish. 150 playable characters, you just cant go wrong in buying this even if you havent played the others ;) ... Read more

Features

• 16 pros in the game include Jennifer Capriati, Serena Williams, Lindsay Davenport, and Anna Kournikova
• Hard court, turf, clay and carpet surfaces
• For 1 player
• Tennis sports game
• Play in all 4 Grand Slam tournaments: the Australian Open, Roland Garros (French Open), Wimbledon and the US Open

Reviews (10)

can't actually play a match in tour mode
I just bought this game, relying on other reviews here on the site, explaining that in tour mode, you can switch off mission play and play 'normal' mode, which means you can play as you'd expect.

Well, I have to disagree, as I'd actually expect to play a FULL MATCH.You never get to play a match in tour mode...the maximum you get to play is a set (6 games).In the qualifying rounds, you only get to play TWO GAMES!(you never even get to play a whole set until the final match in a tournament!).

The gameplay and physics are amazing...just beware that you don't actually get to play a set....there will be no dramatics, like squeaking through a set, dropping one, and then coming back to win the third, at least not in Pro Tour mode (the only mode I'm interested in playing).

My 2 cents on serves
There are some complaints about serves in this game. I have some experiences. I get at least 1 aces every game. For some weak opponents, I score a game by 4 straight aces. The trick is to use the direction buttons instead of left stick to control your serves! To receive a serve, remember to react early. So when I played against Andy Roddick in US Open, I never let him serve an ace. Instead, I served two aces to knock him out!

Hope this is useful for someone.

Fun and accessible, though nagging flaws make it imperfect.
I'm a big fan of tennis games as well as the sport, so this release is right up my alley.It helps inspire confidence that the producer of this game is Namco, which has consistently given us quality gameplay and design -- witness the Tekken, Soul Calibur, and Time Crisis game franchises.

Smash Court Tennis 2 Pro Tournament gets most of its pieces right.There are a couple of problems in the game, but I can also say fairly that most tennis games have the same problems.

The pros:

- Good controls; you don't ever feel disconnected from your character.
- Decent graphics.Obviously there's a limit as to how much eye candy you can put into this kind of game, and this game's looks are neither deficient nor excessive.
- Excellent breadth.You get a complete tutorial so you can feel out the controls, 16 stock characters with their own quirks (for example, they throw the ball differently when they serve) plus the ability to create your own; hundreds of unlockables such as tips from the stars, sound tests, tournament histories and so on; and a fascinating Pro Tour mode (see below).
- The Pro Tour mode lets you play through your own character through a calendar-based system, going into training sessions with your coach, playing tournaments, and accepting training matches from players usually much more powerful than yourself.The great thing about the system is that it's so close to real life -- for example, if you train for three weeks non-stop before a tournament, you'll get more points and make your characters stronger, but your stamina goes down and you'll move slower and hit less hard.

The downsides of the game:

- Serving is a pain in the neck.This is the one complaint I have about the controls -- it's too easy for your player to serve faults, and so I'm forced to avoid the corners.
- The enemy never flunks a serve, nor does he/she ever fail to return your serve.I'm not looking for enemies who are sitting ducks, but how about making a tiny mistake once in a while?After about a hundred serves on my end, you would think they'd miss just one.Nope.And to have low-level enemies hit 110mph serves that go for the corner every time, while your character barely nicks 90mph even if you execute the serve perfectly, is a drag.
- The enemy can do things you can never do, such as run from one side of the court to the other and then hit a perfect cross-court shot.I've tried this -- when you attempt it, you would only ever get it to the middle of the court no matter how early you get to the ball.So it feels like you're not 100 per cent able to direct the ball where you want.
- The tutorial levels and training missions are useful -- but could have been more so.The game doesn't tell you what you're doing wrong when you fail a training mission, so it doesn't always help you improve your playing.
- The instant replays are so quick that you might as well not have them.Also, the camera tends to be at a bad spot for capturing the move.
- The interface of some of the menus is a little confusing.The designs look good, but could have been simplified.There is some clutter in the layout.
- Long loading times.And there are too many little presentations (such as that Dolby logo in the beginning) you have to wait out without being able to skip them.

The flaws are minor but enough to take a little out of the enjoyment.I'd still call this a quality game, and to give Namco credit, I've never played a tennis game that doesn't have most of the above problems (eg. enemies who never fail to return a serve, problems aiming your serve, and mechanical inability to hit cross-court shots).As far as tennis games go, this is still one of the best I've ever played.

Andy, Serena
On this game andy serves awsome still you can't get a ace. I just don't understand.

Best Tennis Game
This game is just brilliant. It's the most realistic tennis sim out there, but it's still accessible, fun and incredibly addictive. The gameplay is very deep due to the huge ball control at your disposal.

In Pro Tour mode you can choose BETWEEN Mission Mode (where you have to achieve certain objectives, e.g. come back from 0-40 down) *OR* Normal Mode. Some people don't realise you can turn off Mission Mode and just play the game in the normal way. In Normal Mode, you just play the tennis games as you'd expect, e.g. You serve, then the computer etc. until you win.

The gameplay is just great, you get involved in the most absorbing and realistic tennis rallies ever. It's such a pleasure to play. It does require skill though. It's not as simple or 'arcadey' as Sega's Tennis or Top Spin, but it is more rewarding and challenging. Smash Court Tennis 2 feels much more like a real game of tennis.

If you play tennis for real, enjoy the sport or just want to try something different then I would definitely recommend this game. ... Read more

Reviews (37)

Under-rated Game
I've owned every other Star Wars game on the 64, and without a doubht, nothing suprasses Rougue Squadren.

I had my doubhts about this game. I started off playing Rougue Squadren, then Naboo, and Racer, both Racer and Naboo lost there reply value after a weel for me, but RS i one I will always go back to now and then... So I thought I might give Shadows Of The Empire a go. I had low expectations for it, but actualy comparing it to RS is useless because this version is completly different to RS and BFN! It suprised me when I got to the 2nd stage and it had gone Goldeneye style! You run around as a guy named Dash, you start with a laser, but you can find missiles, proton thingies, stun guns and my fvorite that just blows half the room away, I dunno what it was called but it's great...oh, and a flame thrower!!! Would have been nice if the enemys caught fire or something, instead of act like the where shot, but it's still cool.

Half the game is on foot in a Goldeneye/Duke Nukem kind of way. You open doors, collect things, can fly around with a jet pack, have to do things to get to certain area first before moving on the level and things like that. The rest of the game is flying and shooting in your ships.

Level one is the battle of hoth, and where this games story begins. It is is almost like the Battle Of Hoth in RS on one of the bonus missions. The graphics arnt RS, but that didnt matter. You gun down the probe driods, go after the Chicken Walkers, then trip the Walkers. Then the story begins, whats happening is this game starts from Empire Strikes Back (the movie) and after the Battle Of Hoth, it's following the story of another Rebellion, Dash. And what it leads to is the events that have happened inbetween Empire Strikes Back & Return Of The Jedi.

From the movies, you only see the end of Empire as they go looking for Han, then the next movies starts with his rescue. Well this game is what happened inbetween then.

The graphics are decent, there not RS but it's still fun. I know it's the original, but it felt good to actualy get out of the crafts and vehicles and do some running around for a change.

Only 3 negative things I have to say.
1) You kill Boba Fett in this, so that makes no continuity sense.
2) No multiplayer :( wouldve made a great 2 or more layer game I reckon.
3) it would have been nice to be able to do a custom edit to the controls, and be able to choose what button you want to do what with. Because of the 100's of other shoot'em up games, everytime I went to shoot I was pressing the Z button by mistake. Theres no programmed control setting to use the Z button to fire. Which makes no sense, because the Z button is known as the trigger button, but all it does in this game is either veiw, or run left, depending on what control setting you have set.

So, basicly, the graphics arnt superb, it was one of the 1st games for the 64, and you can see the many advancments they made for RS. But this game is still good. SOFE & RS are 2 completly different games. If you love RS or BFN, and you havent played this one 'cause you think it is inferior, then think again. It holds its own and stands up still. There is even a level on speeder bikes! Reminded me a bit of Racer, but not quite the same; it's hard to go fast and stay in control in this. There isnt any ships to choose in mission like RS, basicly you start with the Snow Speeder, go onto Dash's ship that is much like the Falcon. And apparently theres a code to fly an X wing in the last level, and cheats to play as the AT-ST, but I didnt try them.

I found it tougher then you'd think to stay alive, so I recomend you enter the Debug code.

What you do is start a new game in a fresh slot, (earase if you none free) then enter your name as ".Wampa..Stompa" and note the . on there. There is a space at the start, and 2 between Stompa. It is case sensative, so make sure you press the L button to change from upper case to lower case. Then ok it all and start the game. Press pause as soon as the level starts, and on the pause menu, hold down all the c buttons, the L, R, & Z buttons and left on the arrow pad (hold them all at once together. Then while holding them down, move the control stick to the left for about 5 seconds, you will hear a noise. Then hold it right for 5 seconds. Then left, then right, then left for the same time. And you should get pink writing come up.
(TIP: the way I did it was used my finger to hold the button, then used my lips to hold the stick left and right)
That pink writing you can toggle through by press L or R, and then Start to enable it. You basicly just need the invincabilty and all weapens. Maybe the level skip or teleport(to another location of the level your on). Have fun with it. Each time you want to use it again, hold all the buttons down again (all C's, L, R, Z, left) and then tap the analog to the left and the menu will display again whenever you want it.

May the shwartz be with you.

Childhood Game-Nostalgia
I recently went crazy and bought an N64 system, an expansion pak, a memory card, and 13 games. Thing was, it all happened in less than 2 days and it happened cause the sweet memories I had when I was a child. I bought the N64 mainly for the game Zelda: Ocarina of Time (by the way if you've never played it, by all cost and means, do so). However, this game was also part of that sweet memory which I'm trying to relive again.

This game, from my experience a long time ago, was fun. The only minor problem is sometimes the lack of directions, camera angle can be changed but sometimes even with the change you don't exactly get just what you want still, and controlling is a little hard sometimes so jumping from one spot to another usually ends up in falling to your doom, but again not if you get use to it. Same for walking on ledges.

You start out with a small spaceship (don't know the names that well not much of a star wars fan) and you use your laser guns to kill the small two legged robots (at-st?) and these ropes to entangle and destroy the big ones. Than for the next two levels or so are first person shooters.

The thing about this game is that soon it gets boring so what you do is be creative in killing your enemies. For example: Level 2 or something, where you meet these hairy beasts haha, wow, anyways what I do is, they are locked in this room with some guys. So what I do is run in, save up my guns, and run around and open the cages and let them handle those guys. Afterwards you let the two beasts fight each other to save ammo. Trick is to not let them see you and don't disturb them while they are fighting each other. And in the first level I love killing the smaller robots with my own ship. Suicidal style.

This game is nice still. I think its quite replayable. It was hard for me to play it then cause I didn't have a memory card and each time I turned the game off I got to start in the beginning of that level again. I never beated the train level.
You really can't go wrong with this game. Just don't buy it for more than $15. I bought one that worked great for $7.50. Shop around. Nice day to everyone.

Better than it's given credit for
Shadows of the Empire was one of those Star Wars games that had a few strikes against it before it was ever released. First it was a game based off a book and not a movie, so right away the casual fan was a little lost. Second, although you come in contact with characters from the movies, you play as an original one from the book. So It didn't suprise me when the game was released that people treated it a little too harshley.

So is the game as bad as they say? No. True the game isn't perfect, but it is still a pretty fun game. I found the control scheme easy to use and the graphics were some of the best on the N64 at the time. Also it featured both on foot missions and flight sim-styled combat missions. Both gave you the option of playing in a first or third person perspective. Now while a majority of the missions were on foot, the game really shined during the flight levels. The final level was a fast paced space battle that included dozens of ships on screen at once, all well rendered with a minimum amount of slowdown.

If I had to gripe about anything in this game I'd say that the on foot missions get a little boring. You'll spend alot of time going back and forth solving puzzles that only slow the game down. On the plus side you do get to fight one of the most popular villians from the films, Boba Fett, in an all out shoot out includind dueling jet pack action.

So if you're a Star wars fan and own an N64 but never played this game, you might be suprised how fun it is!

A Game That is a Lot of Fun with Cool Cheats
This game was the very first N64 game I've ever played. You're Dash Render a Han Solo like character. This game is a lot of fun, accurate to the book, and has the best debugger cheat I've ever seen. There is a three ship levels where you're in the Outrider(Dash's Ship) or a snow speeder. Thereis four camera modes so you can play it either James Bond first person style or Laura Croft Second person style either way it's fun. Your choices of weapons are aewsome, from laser, to seeker(a heat seeking gun), to disrupter(half grenade, half atom bomb this bay will fry everything including Dash). A great game that doesn't waste your money.

awesome game
I thought this was one of the best games ever. It is so awesome. Whatever U do B-U-Y I-T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ... Read more

Product Description

"The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay" interactive game2004 Vivendi Universal Games, Inc. All Rights Reserved. "The Chronicles of Riddick"&Universal Studios. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing LLLP. All Rights Reserved. Vivendi Universal Games and the Vivendi Universal Games logo are trademarks of Vivendi Universal Games, Inc. The ratings icon is a trademark of the Interactive Digital Software Association. Microsoft, Xbox, Xbox Live and the Xbox logos ... Read more

Features

• featuress the likeness and voice-over talent of Vin Diesel as Riddick
• Explore over 30 levels, 20 enemy types, and 15 different weapons
• For 1 player
• Become Riddick and break out of the galaxy's most deadly prison in this 1st person action experience
• Fight with fists or knives or use stealth to defeat your enemies

Reviews (69)

Great Game from a Movie!
Great graphics and great gameplay! The only problem is the aiming of your weapon, but overall this is a fantastic game! Superb storyline, great levels, good replay, this is just great. Get it!

Hey! Its actually a good movie licensed game!
This game is awesom. Just purly awesom. Probably one of the best X-Box games ever. The gameplay is verry fun, it mixes FPS with meeley and stealth. Verry fun stuff.

Not only is this game fun to play, its one of the best looking games ever made. The animation, the character models, enviroments, everything. Its just awesom.

The sound is great as well. There are voice overs by Vin Deisel, Xzibit, and many more. The music is top notch as well.

I have to say that this is one of the best playing games on the X-Box ever as well. It plays as good as halo. Its that good.

The only real downfall is that there is no multiplayer for he game, so its just single player. The campaigh is also fairly short.

Overall, this is a must buy game destined to become a classic.

Concept- Make a good movie licensed game

Presintation- 9.25- The box art is perfect, but the menues are kinda weird.

Graphics- 9.8- One of the best looking games on the X-box, you really have to see it to believe it.

Sound- 9.7- great, Good voiceovers by Vin, and the music is good too

Playability- 10- Its like Halo without the vehicles. In other words, perfect

Entertainment- 9.6- extreamly fun to play, verry entertaining

Replay Value- 7.5- You will play the single player again and again, but no multiplayer hurts

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay
A game prequel to the film series featuring the sinister ex-criminal from the films Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick. The game features an advanced graphics engine which makes extensive use of normal mapping and other advanced texturing techniques in a first-person shooter/adventure game starring Vin Diesel as the titular anti-hero. The character Riddick has heightened sensory abilities that allow him to see and hear beyond normal human ranges and these abilities are engaged whenever he's crouched in "stealth mode." You'll have the option to use different combinations of stealth, action and even the environment to your advantage.

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay is an excellent hybrid of first-person shooting, adventure and RPG elements, stealth and combat. What's even more impressive is that Vivendi Universal Games and Starbreeze were able to put a creative, original game out that's not been created in a movie box, like so many other awful games based on licenses. The equal blend of game elements is superbly crafted, and I am honestly surprised at how much I enjoyed the stealth and hand-to-hand combat.

Still, if you consider a 10-12 hour game short, then Riddick is just that. But I doubt you'll complete every mission or collect every cigarette pack the first time through, so there is incentive to play it a second time. Also, because the game saves at each checkpoint, you can start it up from any checkpoint in the game. Nifty.

While Riddick is an impressive hybrid, and it's also a unique looking game, bolstered by excellent graphics and top-notch technology, the game's biggest bummer is its lack of multiplayer options. I SOOO badly want to play this online it hurts. In a genre that's inherently defined with multiplayer online missions, and on a console that's now defined by its superior online capabilities, Riddick's lack of multiplayer options is a huge bummer.

Still, would I buy this -- knowing it's only a single-player game? YES!

Pretty Good
This game is quite good. Graphics are awesome. Lighting effects are stellar. Sound is perfect. Voice acting by Vin Diesel, whether you like him are not, are the best I have ever heard on any game. I also like the variability of play between stealth and outright shooting the heck out of enemies with a healthy variety of weapons. The stealth sections were a bit long, by my opinion, but fans of Tom Clancy Splinter Cell games will love these sections.
There are a few downers that prevented me from giving 5 stars, but should not discourage you from owning this title. The only weaknesses I saw were: No XBOX live play & game is short; you can complete it less than 10 hours.

Story based "Adult" First Person Shooter
**Not for children**

Butcher Bay happens to fit the niche nicely. After Half-Life 2 there was only really the Call of Duty: United Offensive as a good first person shooter (Doom 3 being an older game now and Far Cry also... you should play all of these if you have not). Riddick comes off the back of a very bad sequel to the surprise hit Pitch Black. Here we actually play a game that should maybe have been the sequel. It is certainly heaps better.

The premise is very good. You are Riddick in a maximum security prison somewhere on a planet with inmates voiced by leading actors and facial expressions that are nearly as good as HL2. The atmosphere of the prison is A+ as you go about the place taking on various missions in the cells (fighting, buying drugs, snubbing out bosses, causing a riot, doing jobs for people) so that you can... escape Butcher Bay.

The menu is astonishing at first as it opens up like a cube and the buttons move around. Riddick is mostly about stealth moves, like grabbing people from behind and either slicing them or breaking their neck. You can get into hand-to-hand combat where the enemies face actually bruises and bleeds. Clubs and knives have a similar effect. The story breaks nicely at the end of each level where you meet your foes. Riddick banters off some classic one-liners and there is quite a bit of swearing. You can talk to some of the characters and choose your answers.

Once the prison riot starts, you are given weapons to escape the prison and the real rush begins (Doom 3 type fast and furious blasting). Enemy AI is quite good and the game plays very smoothly from start to finish. For all intensive purposes, the game play is very much like DEUS EX but the graphics are a way better. It is surprising how long this game is, given that it just seems like a movie tie-in package. It is not. This is a FULLY FLEDGED first person shooter all the way.

It seems that high-end graphics "adult" first person shooters are back again! Bottom line is to play it.

Pros:
- Great Story
- Great Graphics
- As good as any new 1st person shooter.
- It is long.

Cons:
- Not enough stealth jump moves.
- Enemy AI can sometimes get a little repetitive.
- Needs a fast high spec machine to run properly. ... Read more

Amazon.com Product Description

To help you start your Game Boy Advance collection, we've created this special bundle, which includes the games Fire Pro Wrestling , Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, and selected accessories. With Fire Pro Wrestling, you can enter the ring solo--or with a friend for some tag-team action--and execute dozens of moves, holds, and throws. In Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, players perform hundreds of complicated tricks for points, and can ride as T. Hawk or any of a dozen other pros in the game. We've also included an AC power adapter to help you save on batteries and a Worm Light Advance to help you play through those low-light situations.

The Game Boy platform (which includes the original unit, the Game Boy Pocket, and the Game Boy Color) came to market when most video game consoles had a life expectancy of just a few years. More than a decade later, the system is still going strong. How did the Game Boy successfully compete--and in some cases bury--an onslaught of faster, more powerful handheld and home console systems? Let us count the ways: affordability; a huge library of games that consistently made the most of the hardware's limitations; smart power management that extended battery life; and uncluttered controls. But perhaps it was the system's ultra-portable design that allowed devotees to play video games around their schedules, making it the must-have system for kids and adults alike.

Now the Game Boy Advance (or GBA, as it's already being called) comes to us with power that would have been unthinkable back in the day. The portable's 32-bit RISC CPU runs circles around the former's 8-bit workhorse, allowing it to process program instructions much faster. What that means to everyday gamers is more intricate visuals, more simultaneous movement on the screen, and better sound. In fact, the often-annoying beeps and boops of old-school Game Boy titles are being replaced with digitized stereo sound. The extra processing muscle also means you can network up to four Game Boy Advance units together, via the communication cable, for multiplayer fun off of one shared cartridge. Only two Game Boy Color units could link together, and each unit had to have its own copy of the game.

What's not being replaced, however, is the wide selection of Game Boy games. Because the Game Boy Advance system is backward-compatible, it will play its own line of colorful games--including such launch titles as Super Mario Advance, F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, Army Men Advance, High Heat Major League Baseball 2002, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2--as well as all of the monochrome and color games that have already been released for the previous Game Boy systems (nearly 500 in total). Players can view the older games in their smaller, originally square dimensions, or, with the touch of the shoulder button, expand the game to fit the GBA's larger screen. We tried enlarging the screen on a Game Boy Color edition of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, and found that Mr. Hawk was much easier to see.

When you first pick up the system, you'll be amazed how lightweight it is. At fewer than 5 ounces and a little larger than a deck of playing cards, the system easily fits into a shirt pocket without any sag. The GBA's wider shape fits better into a wider range of hands. The former design too often pushed the left and right thumb knuckles together during gameplay. The new layout should be comfortable for all ages, and the center screen orientation makes it easy to see.

Game Boy Color owners will find the GBA's larger screen somewhat darker than they're used to, but that's because the screen is outfitted with antiglare technology. Like the old Game Boy Color, the color LCD is not backlit, so you need pretty good light to play by. Unlike that system, though, you won't be craning your neck and tilting the unit to see around the hot-spot reflection of the light bulb in your screen.

But you'll also notice the graphics. Sporting what's basically a redesigned SNES technology, you'll see things on the GBA that you'd see on the big consoles, such as scaling (making objects larger or smaller) and rotation effects--technological advances that will affect the look of everything from crossing a finish line to throwing a touchdown pass to crawling through a dungeon.

Some might argue that Nintendo could have put even more power into the Game Boy Advance. After all, the 32-bit video game had its heyday more than five years ago. Perhaps, but after handling this new handheld, we're inclined to think that Nintendo wisely struck a balance between size, price, and power consumption. And considering how well the old 8-bit system weathered the decade's technological storms, we think the Game Boy Advance is here to stay, and we're glad. --Porter B. Hall

Unit Specifications

• CPU: 32-bit RISC CPU with embedded memory
• Screen: 2.9-inch reflective TFT color LCD
• Display size: 1.6 by 2.4 inches (40.8 by 61.2 mm)
• Resolution: 38,000 pixels in a wide-screen aspect ratio (10,000 per square inch)
• Colors: 512 simultaneous colors from a palette of 32,768
• Size: 3.2 by 5.6 by 1 inches (82 by 144.5 by 24.5 mm)
• Weight: Approximately 5 ounces (140 grams)
• Power supply: 2 AA alkaline batteries
• Battery life: Approximately 15 hours continuous play

Reviews (3)

THE COOLEST
This is the coolest thing! My friend just got one for his birthday and it's neat! I haven't played tony hawk on gba yet, but I played it on N64 and it was the chad!

Happy with GBA and TH2, forget the rest
As a Nintendo fan I was happy to see this unit come out.However, stay away from this bundle.The light unit and the power back can be bought seperately for less than the cumulatice price of the bundle and the wrestling game is just not fun.My advice get the GBA and Tony Hawk 2, just don't buy it in this package deal!

Much ado about nothing!
As an avid Nintendo fan, I was really excited about purchasing a Game Boy Advance this summer.So I got one, and was thoroughly disappointed.Not that the games aren't awesome and the graphics aren't smooth.I am disappointed that the screen is so difficult to see.Without a wormlight or other illumination, the screen of the Game Boy Advance is too dark to facilitate gameplay.Nintendo says they didn't include a backlit screen because it would have drained the batteries too quickly.They should have built in rechargable batteries and gone with the backlit screen.I am highly disappointed with my Game Boy Advance.Save your money.If you just HAVE to get one, Pelican sells a hooded light that also doubles as a screen protector.That gives you the brightest light with the least amount of glare on the screen. ... Read more

Amazon.com Review

Pok&eacute;mon Crystal is to Pok&eacute;mon Gold and Silver what Pok&eacute;mon Yellow is toPok&eacute;mon Red and Blue. It features severalminor upgrades from its predecessors, but in essence it's still the same game.The classic Pok&eacute;mon formula of adventuring, collecting, and battling isat a series best with Crystal. This is one of the best and most addictiverole-playing games for the Game Boy Color.

The most notable feature is theselectable female trainer who has her own set of animations and backgrounds.This is a great option for female Pok&eacute;mon fans who were previously stuckplaying the game as a male character. There are also subtle improvements to thecell phone system, HM moves, and prebattle animations. Rival trainers' phonecalls are now more plentiful and pragmatic. HM moves, which are requiredthroughout the game, are available at the push of a button--you'll no longerhave to navigate menus to use these moves. Lastly, seeing a Pok&eacute;mon's newanimation makes encountering new creatures more fun than before.

If youhaven't played Gold or Silver yet, Crystal is definitelythe way to go. If you've played those previous games, Crystal has onlyenough new features to justify a purchase from Pok&eacute;mon fanatics. Thisgame is compatible with the link cable, Game Boy printer, and Pok&eacute;monPikachu 2. It's playable on Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance only, and can beplayed on a television using Pok&eacute;mon Stadium 2 and a Transfer Pak.--Raymond M. Padilla

Pros:

• New female trainer
• Prebattle animations are cute
• Lots of subtle improvements

• Too similar to Gold and Silver
• Mobile phone features not in the U.S. version

Reviews (254)

Crystal ?, You betcha!
After the new gold and silver, Pokemon Crystal might be one of the greatest games Pokemon created. Unlike all of the revisions and new versions of Pokemon, You might want something better. What crystal allows you to do is that it is the only game to capture 90-95% of johto Pokemon wild.More things is that crystal was the first pokemon game that allows you to choose if you are a boy or a girl. You can make Pokemon hold items.You can also play in real time. After 150 Pokemon, you might think there is more. Well there is!! Crystal also includes 2 dirfferent types of Pokemon, steel and Dark. It was also the first to have these types. Bad things about crystal also means it seem to be a long game that might take forever! But can you handel 16 gym leaders through the game? However, the greatest thing Crystal can do is that you can get legendary Pokemon before the game. the badest thing for crystal is that you need to trade 27 out of 250 poke'mon.That's the number doubled of red blue or yellow!!

In all, this is a great game for long trips inside a airplane or a car.

This is really Awesome!
I like the crystal, gold, and silver line better than all the rest of the pokemon games. 1.) you have to get 16 badges, which include Jhoto, the new world and Kanto, the old world. Kanto is 4x harder too. 2) no more annoying legendary birds! 3.) eevee gets 2 new evolutions, Espeon (the best one) and Umbreon (the average one.) you can be a girl too!

My All Time Favorite
For people who have started to read my reviews I am a all time gamer, and this is my all time favorite game. This game is LOADED with stuff to do, figure out puzzles, capture pokemon, win battles and more! Here are the good and bad in my opinion:
Good
-Loaded with stuff takes a while to play (a good thing)
-So many pokemon to catch and raise
-The battles bring out the true trainer in you
-The pokemon now make noises and move when summoned
-You can choose gender
Bad
-Sometimes you can get very stuck
-Some of the puzzles need the game guide to figure out in my opinion
-The graphics aren't as good nowdays
Note that all the pokemon games are good and that I think this game appeals to all ages.

I wish people would stop writing bad reviews about Pokemon
I have grown up with Pokemon. My whole life has been spent growing up on Anime and Manga. So, I feel at home playing these games, but, this review is for G/S/C, yes all 3 of them. THESE GAMES ROCK!!! If you get bored by this game, you probably are, well, picky. Yep, picky. I mean, if you, like I, are a true Pokemon veteran, you would know that it is Nintendo and Gamefreak's duty to create a third Pokemon game that includes more than its predecessors. All Pokemon games are deeper than they look, you just have to play them long enough. Sometimes, if you train and put effort into these games, you will be satisfied and weirdly enough, attached to your Pokemon. I keep a special case full of all of my favorite GB/GBC/GBA games, and these are in it. So, who cares if Crystal is the same as G/S, these games are good enough that you can change the course of everything. So, if you are an RPG fan or a fan of the show, or anybody who plays video games (well actually, I'd say most video gamers are people who have grown up around them, so, if you didn't, this is not for you) this is the game for you. And now, for my trademark ending *Peace Out*.

"I had to see the city with my own eyes" Tidus, Final Fantasy X
P.S. There is no GB/GBC/GBA game better than the Pokemon games (ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

This is the best pokemon game
This is really the best pokemoin game, nothin' to do with Blue/Red versions, it has more things to do than Silver and gold, The story is the same, but there's some differences.
a) New female trainer (Named Jenny, Mariah, Kelis or Blu)
b) New puzzles and chambers at the Ruins of Alf
c) Suicune is easier to catch
d) When you reach to certain point in the game an ol' man gives you an egg that may contain a shiny pokemon like the red Gyarados, something like a yellow Marrill
e) More detailed graphics
d) New battle tower, ubicated near of Olivine City
Overall, the story doesn't change at all, but there's more things to do, Another thing that like me is the time.
You can set the clock as the real time. It's very important, beacause you can get pokemons only at night, or day
I wish Ruby and Saphire had a clock... ... Read more