PS2 Game Reviews
SOS: The Final Escape
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Saturday 22 March, 2008
June 21st is a very long day for Keith Helm. As he heads into Stiver Island for his first days work as a Journalist for the Town Crier Newspaper, a massive Earthquake hits, derailing the train he is t... Read More...Global Defence Force
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Thursday 20 March, 2008
Reaching #1 in play.com's PS2 sales chart was the defining point in Global Defence Force's unlikely success story. Released as a £9.99 budget title in 2007, GDF was virtually unheard o... Read More...Soulcalibur II
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Monday 3 March, 2008
Upon release, Soul Calibur was by quite a comfortable distance the best beat 'em up in existence, though fate dictated that it would be missed by a great majority of gamers. Part of the reason fo... Read More...Rogue Galaxy
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Tuesday 26 February, 2008
When it emerged that Japanese developers Level-5 were working on a space-based role-playing adventure, it was hard not to be enthusiastic given their previous track record on the PS2, which has includ... Read More...World War Zero: IronStorm
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Tuesday 29 January, 2008
One has to wonder if developers Rebellion are patiently lying in wait for the very end of the PlayStation 2 generation as we know it, so that when the eleventh hour does eventually arrive, they'l... Read More...Medal Of Honor: Rising Sun
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Friday 25 January, 2008
When the original Medal Of Honor burst onto the scene in 1999, it became the mother of all 'sleeper' hits. Not only was it enjoyable, atmospheric and brilliantly designed, it represented one... Read More...Warriors Orochi
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Wednesday 9 January, 2008
You'd think that in an industry that has once again come to embrace simple gameplay, the Dynasty Warriors games would have garnered more acclaim than they have done. KOEI's modern take on an... Read More...Gunbird: Special Edition
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Monday 3 December, 2007
Just as it appeared that true arcade-style gaming was on the way out, the niche seems to have enjoyed a period of relative rebirth on the PlayStation2. It appears that many new gamers prefer the simpl... Read More...Spyro: A Hero's Tail
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Tuesday 2 October, 2007
With the arrival of each new generation of gaming comes a whole new set of trends, as well as the odd anomaly that is difficult to predict. A gaming character/franchise can survive the risky jump to a... Read More...Enter The Matrix
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Saturday 8 September, 2007
While the world awaited a sequel to 1999 epic The Matrix, its creators, the Wachowski brothers, were busy expanding their vision beyond the confines of film. Firstly, there came the fantastic collecti... Read More...Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call
It seemed odd that a Japanese RPG would publicise a minor cameo from Devil May Cry star Dante extensively on its box-art, especially given just how far removed Lucifer’s Call is from the action ...
Crash Tag Team Racing
Crash Bandicoot seemed to be on an all-too-familiar descent from prominence following the departure of its creator Naughty Dog, with the so-so Nitro Kart and lacklustre platformer TwinSanity failing t...
WipEout Pulse
If ever you wanted a textbook example of how not to go about PR, then surely the farcical PS2 release of WipEout Pulse in 2009 is it. Sony’s plan of attack seemed less intent on marketing the ga...
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