841st played so far Genre: Action/Platform Platform: Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2004 Developer: Sucker Punch Productions Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment The Sly series is another one where we have a big gap between the two games of the series. We played Sly Cooper about nine years ago, as part of a collection of games […]
Archive for January, 2020
#607 Sly 2: Band of Thieves
Posted: 28th January 2020 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2004, action, platform, playstation 2, sony computer entertainment, Sucker Punch Productions
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#763 GrimGrimoire
Posted: 24th January 2020 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2007, koei, nippon ichi, nis america, playstation 2, Strategy, vanillaware
840th played so far Genre: Strategy Platform: Playstation 2 Year of Release: 2007 Developer: Vanillaware/Nippon Ichi Publisher: Nippon Ichi/NIS America/Koei With GrimGrimoire, I continue my exploration of strategy games on the console. While a game like Halo Wars draws on the RTS genre, it looks like GrimGrimoire draws more on the likes of Dungeon Keeper, […]
839th played so far Genre: Puzzle Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1999 Developer: Namco Publisher: Namco As the last of this batch of Dreamcast games (for now – the real last one of the batch needs some more time to play), Mr. Driller has always reminded me of early list game Drill Dozer – drilling […]
#370 Cyber Troopers Virtual-On: Oratorio Tangram
Posted: 16th January 2020 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1998, action, arcade, dreamcast, sega, sega am 2
838th played so far Genre: Action Platform: Arcade/Dreamcast Year of Release: 1998 Developer: Sega AM 2 Publisher: Sega I think today’s game has one of the longest titles on the list, as well as one that has some of the more random words thrown together – I don’t expect tangrams to feature at all in […]
#448 Power Stone 2
Posted: 12th January 2020 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2000, capcom, dreamcast, fighting
837th played so far Genre: Fighting Platform: Dreamcast Year of Release: 2000 Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom I haven’t played many Dreamcast games recently, in part because I have to go out and retrieve it from semi storage (the bedroom TV) and connect it to a TV that is too new to handle aerial connections gracefully. […]
#750 Contra 4
Posted: 8th January 2020 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2007, konami, konami digital entertainment, nintendo ds, shoot 'em up, wayforward technologies
836th played so far Genre: Shoot ‘Em Up Platform: Nintendo DS Year of Release: 2007 Developer: WayForward Technologies Publisher: Konami Digital Entertainments Contra III was a pretty standard run and gun game, with some level based enhancements that made it stand out, but ultimately existing in a genre that doesn’t appeal to me. Contra 4 […]
#920 F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
Posted: 4th January 2020 by Jeroen in GamesTags: first person shooter, monolith productions, pc, playstation 3, warner bros games, xbox 360
835th played so far Genre: First-Person Shooter Platform: PC/Playstation 3/Xbox 360 Year of Release: 2009 Developer: Monolith Productions Publisher: Warner Bros. Games Bringing in another sequel, we return to the world of F.E.A.R., an FPS with a horror-based story that we played about a year ago that was effective in its story telling, but didn’t […]