Richys Game Reviews

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Rockstar Table Tennis Xbox 360 review!

Name: Rockstar Table Tennis
Format: Xbox 360
Company: Rockstar
Price: £20-30
Players: 2 (including online via Xbox Live)

Rockstar are most famous for the Grand Theft Auto games on the PS2, so this Xbox 360 exclusive Table Tennis sim is a welcome diversion from them. The graphics and gameplay on this game are excellent, the controls are dead easy to pick up, even for newbies, in fact they're pretty similar to the 360's other exclusive Tennis sim Top Spin 2, which I will also be reviewing soon on this site.

As well as the single player Exhibition and Tournament modes, there's also loads of multiplayer options including online play via Xbox Live Gold (sold seperately) which also includes voice chat facilities.

In short, if you fancy a game of virtual Table Tennis and can find this cheap, buy it! It's probably one of the best Xbox 360 exclusives so far this year in my opinion.

Final rating: 89%

Bomberman DS review!

Name: Bomberman
Format: Nintendo DS or DS Lite
Company: Nintendo
Price: £29.99
Players: 1 or up to 16 via wireless link up.

Bomberman has been around for years so I don't need to tell you all what it's about, you control Bomberman himself and have to run around a single screen 2D maze blowing stuff up with your bombs.

Graphically the game is very functional, if a little basic, and the sound/music is also decent. Gameplay wise it's classic Bomberman, run around the screen blowing up the baddies on level upon level of bomb-tastic fun, where the game really comes into its own though is the wireless multiplayer link up facility for up to 16 players, this is probably one of the best multiplayer games on the DS in my opinion, just a shame there's no online play.

Final rating: 82%

Pokemon Link DS Review!

Name: Pokemon Trozei (Link)
Company: Nintendo
Price: £29.99
Players: 1 or Multiplayer wireless or online

Pokemon Link is a Puzzle game based on the ever popular Pokemon franchise, in the game you have to use your Stylus pen to link up to 4 of the same Pokemon to make a line, sort of like Tetris with Pokemons really.

Anyway, the graphics on the game are pretty decent, as is the sound, and the game is extremely playable as well, and loads of fun.

Basically if you like Puzzle games and are a Pokemon fanatic, you should probably buy this game, as it's a great way to kill a couple of hours.

Final rating: 79%