Features

• Each character has its own strenghts and weaknesses
• Control 3 characters at once for a whole new gaming experience
• For 1 or 2 players
• Maneuver a team of 3 Sonic characters through massive levels to overcome Dr. Eggman
• Choose from 4 teams with a total of 12 Sonic characters

Reviews (20)

Sonic's master game!
This game is one of sonics all time best.
Im not just saying that because im a mad sonic fan.
Its got great graphics and to me it seems 3d. Its great if
your looking for fast moving action packed
games. No matter how many times i
play any of the sonic games it never
gets boring! Me and two of my bests friends
are the best we always play sonic we even make
up are own sonic games.

I like this game!
While the two player mode is rather limited, the rest of the game is cool. I like the differnt places in the game even though the graphics are only ok. The game is fast and it makes my Dad dizzy. The four teams have differnt abilities which make each level vary in difficulty. Overall, a great experience.

Features

• Authentic X-Files characters, music, and storyline involving the mysterious black oil
• Contains three separate episdoes created by the show's producers
• For 1 player
• Third person adventure game set in the seventh season of the hit TV show, The X-Files
• Voiceovers by David Duchovny, Gillian Andersen and the rest of the original cast

Reviews (5)

I WANT X-FILES
WHY DID THEY RELEASE THIS GAME STRICTLY FOR PS2???I THINK THAT'S PRETTY DUMB...I MEAN I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE X-FILES AND ALL, BUT I WILL NOT WASTE MONEY FOR A PS2 OR LET ALONE BORROW OR PLAY ON ONE JUST SO I CAN PLAY THIS GAME...NOOOO.I HATE PLAYSTATION!!!!!

GAME DOES NOT EXIST
I tried to order this game and it shouldn't be on amazon anymore because it does not exist. It's only being made available for Playstation 2. If anyone from Black Ops or another developer reads this, then RELEASE THE GAME ON XBOX! It is the superior gaming consol anyway so you are only releasing your game on a lower plane.

So customers, save your energy and do not order this item. It will just sit there unshipped on your account. This game was supposed to be released on xbox originally but I guess they warned us dorks.... trust no one. hahaha. And seriously, mysterious xfile creator (you know who you are), give the conspiracy a rest for once and just give the fans what they want in a timely fashion or pretty soon you won't have any fans at all.

Features

• Customize and name your own tricks
• Create parks with Skate Park Editor
• For 1 player
• You are an unknown local skate punk trying to make it big
• Get off your board and explore 9 expansive levels

Reviews (41)

I was surprised
I thought this game was going to be like the other tony hawk games. Sure those are great but this one is unbelievable! There is really a story line being played throughout the game. you can also get off your board and run and climb on buildings.
Well the graphics arent amazing but once you start playing you wont care. you start off like a regular skate punk and keep playing to become the number one Skater. you really compete to get sponsered by real sponsers! I give this game 5 stars and i think you will too.

alright...
I've played Tony Hawk since the first one came out on N64. Graphics are good in TH Underground. Gets boring after you've beat it. The objectives should have more to do with skating. Some objectives on that game have to do with crap like rescuing ppl. I buy the frekin game to SKATE. Thats why it only deserves a 3 outta 5, cuz it needs a new edge. Its not fun after you beat it becuz if you play it again, its pointless. LaTer.

Editorial Review

Halo 2 is one of those rare video games that garnishes attention from regular folk who wouldn't know which direction to point a game controller. With more than 1.5 million pre-orders and a massive release party in Times Square, the game enjoys the sort of buzz, and sales, generally reserved for boy wizards. But does it merit the hype?

Opening Scene

Halo 2 opens with a cut scene in the Covenant Holy City of High Charity. Much has happened since Master Chief (that's you) created so much havoc for the Covenant in the first Halo, and the Arbiter has much atoning to do for his failures. This first cut scene is long, but the lush graphics, orchestral sound, and polished voice talent for both this and other cut scenes as well as the game itself put most animated television shows to shame.

Much has happened since Master Chief created so much havoc for the Covenant in the first Halo, and the Arbiter has much atoning to do.

In the end, though, Halo 2 is unabashedly a first-person shooter. It has a Mature rating and is not meant for kids. Gameplay is constant and intense. No sooner is one bunch of aliens taken care of than another descends. The controls are identical to the first game so those familiar with it will be up and blasting in no time. And the sound and graphics have been beefed up so that Halo 2 is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful console games available.

Opening Fire

Most of the weapons from the first game return, although strangely the MA5B Assault Rifle (the default weapon in the first game) is not available. There is a single melee weapon known as the Covenant Sword, but the controls for it are the same as that for all the shooter weapons, making it difficult to direct. Also, for a new twist, you can hold two of the smaller guns at the same time and shoot double-fisted.

As for vehicles, the old favorites are back and joined by a few new, mostly Covenant wheeled monsters. Some improvements have been made to the AI so that the nonplayer characters can drive without running into too many obstacles while you man the turret. This improved AI also has enemies ducking for cover, and the banter from both the Marines and the bad guys has undergone massive improvements so that it no longer sounds quite so repetitive.

On Your Own

The most significant change in the single-player game is with Master Chief's much-touted defensive suit. At the beginning of the game, he is told that the suit has been upgraded, but it's really undergone a severe downgrade. In Halo 2, the player has only one lifeline. Unlike in the first game, there is basically no defensive shield on the suit, making gameplay tougher. It can often take multiple--sometimes a maddening number--attempts to make it through thorny parts of the game.

Or with a Friend

Finally, no review of a Halo game is complete without mentioning multiplayer. One of the main reasons to buy Halo 2 is the ability to play through Xbox Live, a feature not included in the first game, which was among the original releases for the Xbox. Multiplayer for Halo 2 uses all of the same weapons and vehicles as in the single-player game, and the types of games available in Halo (King of the Hill, Slayer, Capture the Flag) return with a host of new maps. Multiplayer Halo 2 offers customizable profiles, control layout, and screens as well as a voice proximity feature, where you can talk with other players via an Xbox Communicator so that those closer to you sound louder than those farther away. Players can also create both permanent clans and temporary parties in the Xbox Live world. Undoubtedly, this multiplayer feature alone ensures that Halo 2 will remain a top-selling game for years to come. --David Morel

Pros:

• Lush graphics and orchestral sound
• Constant, thumping shoot-'em-up action
• Multiplayer available through Xbox live

Cons:

• Suit downgrade makes single-player often overly difficult
• Get ready for some bleary-eyed mornings

Editorial Review

Praised for brilliant scripts and open-ended gameplay, vilified for unapologetic violence and mature themes, Grand Theft Auto has deservedly become one of the most popular game franchises in history. This double pack contains the full versions of both Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto III: Vice City, enhanced for Xbox. Xbox gamers can rejoice that the grand king of video games--The Sopranos with a gamepad--is finally available on the big black box.

Grand Theft Auto
With Grand Theft Auto III Rockstar proves that not all developers are concerned with toning down the violence in their games. This sequel is even more bloody, violent, and sadistic than its popular predecessors, offering up an enormous 3-D city in which nearly any criminal act is possible. Players are free to steal cars, beat up the local population for their money (or weapons), make time with prostitutes, or simply roam to their heart's content. Those seeking more structure can embark on dozens of missions driven by a genuinely interesting crime-story plot or steal cars that let them play minigames. Nab a cop car and you can go on vigilante missions. Grab a cab and you can play a deadly version of Crazy Taxi. Take a fire truck and you can earn money putting out fires. The minigames are a good way to unwind after a particularly difficult mission. With so much to do, the game just never gets boring.

As you'd expect, there are consequences for criminality. As your random acts of mayhem mount up the police start hounding you, eventually calling in SWAT trucks, the FBI, and even the army if you continue down the path of destruction. Shaking these pursuers is easily the most fun part of the game, especially when a bunch of friends are packed in the room to witness your narrow escapes.

Grand Theft Auto III is fine-tuned to near perfection in every category. All the vehicles, from slick sports cars to lumbering dump trucks, handle exactly as you'd expect and smash apart realistically when abused. The three islands in the game are rendered in terrific detail considering their size, and are packed with traffic, pedestrians, and hidden jumps. The audio is equally amazing. Pedestrians talk, cops scream at you, and you can tune in nine different radio stations whenever you are in a car. It all adds up to a monumental achievement: the rare console game for adults that manages to get everything right.--T. Byrl Baker

Grand Theft Auto III: Vice City
How big is this game? Even publicists for other games end up talking about Vice City when they call our office, babbling in the same helplessly intoxicated way that afflicts everyone who plays it. The achievement of Vice City (which, as everyone knows by now, is set in the 1980s and offers an all-new, Miami Vice-inspired story) is not only that it manages to live up to an absurd level of expectation, but that it takes the game places that fans of its predecessor Grand Theft Auto III never dreamed of, and that it achieves this astonishing level of innovation without losing anything that made GTA3 the bestselling PS2 game of all time.

After a brilliant homage to the era of the Commodore 64 in the opening credits, the first thing you'll notice is the improved graphics, which are smoother and more detailed, and--with effects like neon lights reflected on rain-slick streets, and intense Florida sunlight--have a lush, tropical look that immediately gives you a strong sense of place. The architecture is more fabulous by tenfold, with art deco buildings, high-rise hotels, and believably seedy back alleys. The control scheme is essentially the same as in GTA3, but the cars handle much better, and in pedestrian mode there is a new crouch move. You will have access to fast, great-handling cars right away, as opposed to GTA3 which made you unlock the second island before you could get your hands on any respectable wheels. This game has such riches to offer that there is no need to be chintzy with the vehicles.

Cops are more vigilant this time--minor offenses like whacking innocent bystanders will more often than not get you a two-star wanted level--and are harder to elude (though they still can't seem to climb stairs or negotiate sharp turns). So while free-roaming exploration is as fun as ever, there is more incentive to perform the missions instead of randomly raising hell. Not that that's a bad thing: even lazy criminals like myself (in GTA3, I would rather toss hand grenades into traffic than follow orders from some rude Mafia boss) will be quickly caught up in the vivid characters and hilarious, fascinating story, in which you play an acid-washed-jeans-wearing thug named Tommy Vercetti. Where in GTA3 missions were blocky, schematic affairs only nominally connected to the story, this time tasks move the story briskly along and deftly blend cinematics and game action. For example, there is a scene of a character throwing Tommy a gun, at which point you are suddenly thrown back into the action and must make an instant decision about whom to trust and what to do.

There are more, and more detailed, indoor environments, including a hotel, police station, and mall (a slight downside to this is that some of the more elaborate indoor environments require load times). The layout of the city, with tons of backyards, narrow alleys, and fire escapes, encourages creativity when eluding pursuit, as does greater access to rooftops. Get your motorcycle up the fire escape and a whole new world of action is possible, including... well, use your imagination.

This overview barely scratches the surface of the Vice City experience, its colorful explosion of music, clothes, combat, and brilliant voice acting, not to mention the plot twist midway through the game that changes the very nature of the game itself. Though it was the outrageous, amoral violence that got all the press, the essential genius of GTA3 was its intoxicating blend of script and open-ended action. In Vice City this is--to use a cliché that is for once apropos--taken to a whole new level.--David Stoesz

Pros:

• Open-ended gameplay; player can chose to be relatively law-abiding or engage in wanton virtual destruction
• Varied missions
• Brilliant scripts with Hollywood voice acting
• Rocking sound track (also available in our Music store)
• Xbox-enhanced graphics

• As the The Sopranos of games, GTA 3 draws unwanted attention from overzealous legislators
• No multiplayer

Features

• Experience a wide variety of gameplay -- make cunning use of human shield and use XIII's "sixth sense"
• Handle a dizzying array of weapons ranging from silent crossbows to precision sniper rifles
• For 1 or more players
• Unravel a whirling conspiracy plot in this cell-shaded first person shooter
• Graphic novel presentation, flashback graphics and pop-up windows create a groundbreaking entry into the genre

Reviews (21)

Not the most original game, but definetly one of the funnest
XIII is a VERY cool game. It has a story you'll actually care about, awesome multiplayer modes (especially sabatoge) and some WAY cool graphics. This is no HALO-beater but this is still a solid entry into the crowded market of XBOX first person shooters. If you are a good gamer and want to have a challenge, play the game on the most difficult setting (it isnt that hard). The quality of this game is incredible and the weapons and everything are incredibly detailed. For example, when carrying the M60 Heavy Machine Gun, you will run slower than when you are carrying a whimpy pistol. Overall, I would give this game a 9 out of 10. This is a definite MUST BUY not only because of its quality, but because of its bargain basement price. WORD UP PZ OUT.

A really great game
I really enjoyed this game and I can't wait for the sequel.
Some people didn't like the cel shading graphics, but I think it looks fantastic. The graphics remind me a little of anime. The story line is great, being based on a French comic book. I had this for PS2 and when I gave that to my brother and bought an Xbox, I made sure to buy this one again. It also has a lot of "replay" value. I like the control setup. I could play this game all day after beating it. I much prefer this game to Halo (which is also a good game, but kinda boring after a while.) The other games I like are Hitman 2 and Hitman contracts.So if you like those, you'll like XIII. In Hitman you can't punch a guy, but in XIII you can. Some people didn't like the save features, (using checkpoints) but you get used to it. For $20 you can't go wrong. For example, I just bought Freedom Fighters for $20 and finished it in about 3 hours. XIII took a few days. Buy this game!

Editorial Review

With its Poe-like atmosphere, dense fog, pitch-black hallways, and a cryptic letter from a dead wife, Silent Hill 2: Restless Dreams promises to surpass the paranoia created by its predecessor, Silent Hill. The sequel opens with James Sunderland, the series' average joe protagonist, reading a mysterious message that says, "Silent Hill, our sanctuary of memories. I'll be waiting for you there." More puzzling is that the note is signed by Mary, his deceased wife.

James sets out for Silent Hill hopeful that he'll find a trace of Mary. After an aborted attempt by car, James plunges into the dank fog and embarks on his quest by foot. Enter Angela, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to Mary, and who also beckons him with another curious message. It seems James can't go back; strange things are happening in Silent Hill.

Silent Hill 2 offers 10 new formidable foes, plenty of puzzles, and bone-chilling gameplay. The sequel's new story and characters promise to thrill and terrify. The visual and sound effects are amazingly detailed and macabre, and, if you're playing on a system with surround sound, you may find yourself keeping the lights on.

Editorial Review

The long-delayed cinematic adventure game D2 has finally surfaced on the Dreamcast.Despite several years in development by innovative Japanese game design team Warp, D2 seems tosuffer from a lack of solid gameplay. Fortunately, the gaming environment is stunning to look at.

D2 offers gamers a curious combination of adventurous exploration and first-person shooting.Gamers assume the role of airplane crash survivor Laura (not to be confused with game icon Lara Croft ofTomb Raider infamy). The game begins with Laura embarking on an airplane flight that soon goeshorribly wrong. The plane is hijacked by a handful of terrorists--but that effort is foiled when a meteorcrashes into the plane. Laura emerges as one of the few survivors of the plane wreck, which has occurredsomewhere in the mountains of Canada. Laura must try to survive the icy elements by routinely killing andcooking cute bunnies for food as she travels through the snowy terrain. Animal activists might object to thecasual nature of these deaths, which are essential to winning the game.

Several tentacle-wielding creatures attack Laura frequently during her travels. When this occurs, the gameimmediately shifts from third-person to first-person perspective. While these point-and-shoot segments arechallenging at first, they soon become tedious. It is impossible to travel more than a few feet without beingattacked--and Laura must travel quite a bit to advance the game. Despite the presence of impressivegraphics, these action segments amount to little more than a glorified version of the mass-market PC gameDeer Hunter.

Still, the ambitious world of D2 is worth a look and a listen. This game is highly stylized in design,including several artistic cinema sequences that will keep you riveted. A stunning new age-meets-operasoundtrack accompanies the title screen, while creepy instrumental music adds tension in all the rightplaces.

With an awkward balance of both adventure and action elements, D2 ultimately succeeds more as acuriosity than a remarkable gaming coup. --Brett Atwood

Pros:

• Art-house appeal for eclectic gamers
• High-quality animation

• Awkward gameplay
• Tedious and repetitious action sequences

Features

• Brave jam-packed routes and time-saving short-cuts
• Compete for passengers in 2-player split-screen action
• For 1 or 2 players
• Features over 30 of your favorite Simpsons characters
• Huge levels with over 100 Springfield landmarks

Reviews (38)

Beautiful Recreation of the Simpsons but terrible game play
The game reproduces the world of the Simpsons faithful down to the humor and the voices. Unfortunately, as a video game it's more a test of memory than a game of challenge and skill. The more times you go through the maze the quicker you get. You can drive mostly any vehicle that comes along but it's best to stick with the assorted lots offered in the menu. I wanted badly to like this game since I love the Simpsons and got this game for the kids. They stopped playing it after running into so many false level-endings. That's where I took over fresh from playing "Need for Speed: Underground". You become various characters driving around Springfield to find clues to a mystery regarding black vans and crop circles. The automatic camera controls are by far the worst. It jumps erratically from chase view to overhead view if you get stuck in a tight corner or running on foot. This greatly interferes with game play. The physic's gravity is terrible. I had my car hanging on the pier edge forever unable to decide whether to fall or not. The graphics is 3-D cartoon. At times, I find myself manually circling the camera several times to see where items are positioned and where the ledges are "really" located to jump on. The vehicle jump cam is also a big problem. It's set to "On" by default but can be turned "Off" in Options. It's no good if I can't see where you're going to land after doing a ramp jump. The task themselves are simple but after getting to a certain location or collecting such and such an items under a time limit, the player is then immediately tasked to go to another location before time runs out to start yet another part of the level.There can be 2-4 parts to these levels and failure at anytime along the way results in the player starting the level all over. There is no way for anybody other than the programmers themselves to get through all the levels the first time. The game is unforgiving making a wrong turn or get stuck by a car will mean doing the level over. There's no room for error. When tasked to go to a location, you have to rely heavily on the overlay map and green arrows on the road to know where to go while dodging pedestrians and vehicles that to me seem to have a death wish to jump into the path of your vehicle. Hitting the items gains you coins. Another problem is that some items you can crash through and some items are solid like the Rock of Gibraltar. There's no way to tell the difference without trial and error. If too many items are hit in a certain amount of time then the police comes in hot pursuit of you. If you're caught; you pay a 50 coin fine. Finally, the game cheats the player by running over your character trying to get to your vehicle, placing your vehicle way down the street orstopping the game with time still left on the clock. I'm sure that the creators licensed the game to the video game developers and may have even wrote a basic story plot but as the video game part it's totally weak. By changing the XBOX's clock to holiday dates like Christmas, Springfield will change it's appearance to match the holiday moods. This is true of Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc. It's good enough just to drive around Springfield and forget the missions.

addictive and hard mixed
I heard about this game for simpsons fans so i bought it. In the begining the game is a blast. Then when you get to level 2 it gets really hard and at the same time addictive. As an example right now i'm on level 3 (lisa's level) and i'm supposed to find kamp krusty to get a school bus. I still cant find it but yet i cant put down the controller. After a while i start feeling like a lazy bum. So if your in for a challenge buy hit and run.
p.s. This is like GTA so if your not aloud to play GTA this is the next choice.

An exceptional title!
Highly highly recommmended to any Simpsons fan.The game features exceptional graphics in a true to TV free-too-roam environment.You have the pleasure of exploring Springfield in seven levels of increasing difficulty, and while driving all the vehicles from your favourite Simpsons episodes.With a setup very similar to Grand Theft Auto 3 -- but without the extreme violence -- you will meet your favourite Simpsons characters and go through a series of fun, diverse and not-too-challenging missions.The game is really true to the TV show and incorporates little details from certain episodes (such as the escalator to nowhere from the monorail episode) that make it even more special to the Simpsons fan.

And you can drive around as 300 lb. Homer.I think that alone makes it a must-buy.

Features

• Simple gameplay, easy to pick up without instruction and completely addictive
• Xbox Live: Go online and test your Tetris skills against other people all over the world
• For 1 or more players over Xbox Live
• Take the stop online with the world's most popular electronic game
• Six variations of gameplay including the all new Hot-Line Tetris, Fusion Tetris and Cascade Tetris

Reviews (6)

Don't Waste your money
The biggest problem with this game is IT DOES NOT SUPPORT HDTV.If you have and use the XBox HDTV pack, then don't waste your money because this game WILL NOT PLAY on the xbox using the HDTV pack.You must use the standard XBox cable.

Eh...I don't know
Do you already own a version of Tetris? If so, stick with that, and pretend that this one doesn't exist. It's not that Tetris Worlds is a bad game, it just...ok, it's bad. Though I admire the developers for trying to do new things with the concept of Tetris, they just didn't seem to think of anything very good.

There are a few modes of Tetris here, in addition to the original one. Really, you won't be playing any of those, as they don't make any sense. I don't think anyone wants to play Tetris, but only clear out specific lines and colors. It's not challenging, just annoying. I won't describe the other variations of the game, since really, I only played them once and left them for dead. What really sucks regarding gameplay though, is that the box where the pieces fall in is narrow. Remember how the original Tetris for NES and GB took up a good amount of the screen? Well it only takes up like 1/3 here...maybe a little more. But unless you're close to the tv, you'll be squinting at the pieces trying to pin-point where they should go. There's also a "ghost" feature. What it is is whichever piece you're moving around will have a faded version at the bottom of the box, showing where it'll be and how it'll look. I thought it was kind of annoying, since you're paying attention to the block you're moving, and there's something at the bottom that distracts you. Luckily, you can turn this feature off.

At least the music's good. It's all techno/ambient and somehow, fits the game pretty well. If you don't like the music, then you can always use the Xbox's custom soundtrack feature and make your own to hear during gameplay. There's only one problem with that: whenever you restart or pick a different mode, the soundtrack automatically skips to the next track even if you weren't finished with the current one. The graphics, well, there aren't much to them. The blocks are well animated (that sounds so lame), and the things going on in the background are nice looking I guess. It's not like Tetris was ever meant to break the graphic chart or anything.

Somehow, there's a story mode. I could read the instruction book to find out what it is, but that's ok, I'll pass. Looking over the other reviews here, I guess it has something to do with getting robots off a planet. *sigh* TETRIS WAS NEVER MEANT TO HAVE A STORY MODE. What's next? A Tetris rpg or 3-part movie series? Also, there's of course the online mode. But I don't care about online games. If you do play 'em, then there you go. I guess it'd be fun taking on other people via Xbox Live, especially since it can get boring once in a while in single mode.

Again, if you already own Tetris, stick with that version. $20 for a flashy version of it isn't really worth it. I'm lucky I got this with my Xbox and didn't have to pay for it. But if you don't have Tetris in any form, then you can probably find this in a used section for less than half the retail price.

Features

• Use power-ups like Warp Whistle and Frog Suits
• Battle in the land, air and sea
• For 1-4 players with Game Link cable
• Help Mario and Luigi stop Bowser and his trouble-making kids
• Run, crush and stomp over your enemies as you conquer 8 different worlds

Reviews (149)

Excellent!
My niece got this game and some other games but i think she likes it the best. so do i. She is so shellfish that she doesn't let me play. so i told my mom to buy one for me.FUN. I HIGHLY RECOMMENDED IT.

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE MARIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a really good game and I strongly reccommend it for ANYBODY!!!!! I love all if the levels and they never get old!!!! This game is AWESOME!!!!

Editorial Review

The year is 1943. You are William "B.J." Blazkowicz, the Allies' bad boy of espionage. Your mission is to infiltrate the Nazi fortress and find the plans for Operation Eisenfaust, the Nazi's blueprint for building the perfect army. Captured in the attempt, you're taken to a Nazi prison where you await execution. However, you know where the plans are kept, and the Allies face a great defeat if you don't escape and risk the horrors of the prison known as Wolfenstein. Playing as an escaped prisoner in a Nazi war prison, you will move smoothly through a 3-D world full of guards, snarling canines, and rooms packed with Nazi treasure. With 60 action-packed levels full of secret passages and hidden rooms, Wolfenstein 3D for Game Boy Advance will appeal to audiences from the novice to the experienced.

Reviews (12)

You really need some hours to play this
Look for a few hours the game is fun if you enjoyed it on the pc; actually I completed the game on pc, but somehow the controls don't add up to the addictive playability i had expected. Glad that i sold the game.

Problem of the game is you can't save, only inbetween levels. This means playing over and over a level and each one is quite big, so a replay of 1 level takes half an hour easily.

Either rent it, or buy it for max $10 (and sell it for $10 some weeks later) - I did.

Doom 2
Compared to the first it has better graphics, gameplay, sound, and levels, but it doesent have that lasting effect or replayability as the first one. Don't get me worng its one of the best fps on the gba but personaly i like the original the best. You travel on earth this time killing thousands of demonic creatures for almost no reason but its alot of fun. But once you complete it there is no need or want to do it again. Also why is the gore edited so much?? Aw well its still a good game regardless.

Editorial Review

Fans of Mega Man side scrollers, rejoice--Mega Man Zero has finally come to the GBA. It may be the best Mega Man game designed on any platform, even though it doesn't exactly star Mega Man himself.

Mega Man Zero has basic Mega Man gameplay, though there are some notable differences. Zero can run, jump, dash, shoot, and swing a sword like Mega Man, but now he can also slide down the sides of walls and jump from wall to wall like Jackie Chan. Despite the fancy new moves, be warned: This is probably the most difficult Mega Man game ever made. Zero can't duck, nor can he shoot above or below himself. This makes fighting the many, many enemies difficult--especially when they approach from various angles.

While a side-scrolling action game, Mega Man Zero has definite role-playing game elements. For starters, Zero's skills improve over time. As Zero uses the sword, he will eventually be able to make double--and subsequently triple--attacks. Between missions, Zero can explore the resistance base, talk to people, and "download" various skills via the new Cyber Elf system. There are 70 Cyber Elves scattered throughout the game, and they're broadly lumped into three groups: Nurse Elves that heal, Hacker Elves that alter surroundings, and Animal Elves that boost Zero's abilities. Zero can even feed his Cyber Elves, and increase their power.

In some ways, the graphics of this game surpass the Mega Man games for the PlayStation. There are some outstanding anime cutscenes, the levels are well designed, and the sprites are tight and amazingly detailed. For looks alone, you should buy this game. The sound isn’t as stellar, but adds good ambience. --Bryan Karsh

Pros:

• New moves
• Gorgeous graphics
• Engaging story (including surprising twist with Mega Man)
• Cyber Elf system

Cons:

• The game is very difficult--you can’t duck, nor can you shoot up or down
• You no longer absorb skills from defeated bosses

Reviews (4)

there hasn't been a review for this awesome game in 3 years?
I remember having a fun time playing this game with a friend many years ago, when the game was brand new.Basically you go around shooting people.Well, the computer pushes you to the next area after you are done shooting in one area, but that's okay, any video game where you get to let loose and just shoot things is fine by me.Though I don't recommend doing that in real life.You'd get in trouble!I love this game and you should to!

Virtua Cop
Organized crime. . . its your turn to be afraid. . .

Before ever reaching the Sega Saturn system, Virtua Cop hit arcades nationwide and was an immediate success, which soon gave way to the sequel Virtua Cop II also a major arcade hit. Virtua Cop for the Saturn delivers the same great action as the arcade version. The graphics are almost flawless as they deliver pulse throbbing action sequences and nonstop excitement. One of the factors that makes this game a winner is the option that lets you choose where you lead your cop, which the game does at many points throughout the story. Virtua Cop also leaves off that irritating part of Time Crisis no hiding behind barrels or overturned cars, and wondering: "Where the hell is my enemy going to pop up at." However sometimes you just wish that you could direct your cop anywhere at anytime in the game. Oh well, but its not supposed to be Quake II or Half Life, for the most part arcade point and shoot hasn't changed much, since Duckhunt for the NES. If there is a shooter that you need for your Sega Saturn System its Virtua Cop. This is an award winning game, and a must buy, but you don't have to take my advice: "talk to the guys at Sega:-)"