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“Cruising on down to downtown” – The Sims 2: Nightlife

The high sales of boxed copies of expansion packs for The Sims 2 mark a particular transition period for the industry. The success of The Sims and its…

“What is human life but a game of cricket?” – Brian Lara International Cricket 2005

Talk about picking your moment. The back of the box of Brian Lara International Cricket 2005 quotes the Official PlayStation 2 Magazine calling it “the best cricket game…

“Slow in and fast out” – Juiced

I’ve been through many examples of games rushed out for financial reasons, with varying levels of disaster as a result. Juiced is a rarer case of the opposite:…

“Revive used” – Medal of Honor: European Assault

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun didn’t just manage to disgust the likes of me with its approach to telling history. It also got widely dismissed by fans of…

“Objective achieved” – Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith

When I covered The Phantom Menace back in the seemingly Peak Star Wars time of 1999, I ended by commenting on how the game, or rather the film,…

“Need for skills” – FIFA Street

Trying directly to score goals is not always the way to go in FIFA Street’s 4v4 street football matches. Keep the ball away from your opponents with enough…

“Repercussions throughout the Republic” – Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II – The Sith Lords

[Content warning: mention of sexual harassment and sexual assault] 2004 may have been the year of the sequel in a particularly intense way, but it wasn’t much of…

Sonic Mega Collaboration Plus

Fifteen writers explore the most iconic era of Sonic in depth, through the games of Sonic Mega Collection Plus. All twenty of them.

Sonic Blast

[This post is part of a collaborative Sonic retrospective based around the games on Sonic Mega Collection Plus. To read more, please head over to the central post!]…

The Ooze

[This post is part of a collaborative Sonic retrospective based around the games on Sonic Mega Collection Plus. To read more, please head over to the central post!]…