PS2 Game Reviews
SEGA Classics Collection
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Saturday 7 October, 2006
Retro compilations seem to be the flavour of the month in gaming right now, with industry heavyweights Atari, Capcom, Midway and Taito all bundling together stacks of their golden oldies and introduci... Read More...Grandia 2
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Thursday 21 September, 2006
Game Arts' RPG Grandia was (at the risk of making a sweeping statement) one of the best games ever made. Sadly, it is also among the most criminally overlooked. It was first released in Japan in 1997 ... Read More...Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Sunday 10 September, 2006
It seems the success of Baldur's Gate as a console game has proven a slow-burner - though it has been a hit on the PC, I only recall reading about the console iteration in passing when it was ported t... Read More...Wipeout Fusion
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Tuesday 5 September, 2006
In the mid and late nineties, what single gaming series was most influential in helping Sony gain a foothold in the European gaming market they have since come to dominate? Well, Ridge Racer; Tekken; ... Read More...Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Sunday 27 August, 2006
Perusing through some old issues of Play magazine, I recall the immense, all-consuming hype that surrounded the release of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty. The coverage of Konami's next-generation... Read More...Resident Evil Outbreak
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Thursday 24 August, 2006
It doesn't feel like it, but it has now been over a decade since the original Resident Evil (or Biohazard, if you're Japanese) title burst onto the then still-youthful PlayStation scene. 1996's best g... Read More...Dynasty Warriors 5
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Friday 21 July, 2006
Another day, another Dynasty, or so it would seem. Rewind back to 2005, and the series that has seen more sequels and spin-off's than Halloween and Friday The 13th put together has just seen the relea... Read More...SWAT: Global Strike Team
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Tuesday 11 July, 2006
With the rapid advancement in gaming technology over the past ten years or so, few genres have flourished quite like that of the first-person shoot 'em up. This generation alone has played witness to ... Read More...Samurai Warriors
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Saturday 1 July, 2006
Fair play to the people at KOEI - sensing that they were on to something big with the Dynasty Warriors franchise, they've really 'provided' for the die-hard fans (or milked the cash-cow for all it's w... Read More...World Rally Championship
Written by Tom Clare in PS2 Game Reviews, Thursday 22 June, 2006
With a bit of shrewd advertising, it seems Sony managed to rekindle gamers' interests in the rally genre with their 2001 release of World Rally Championship (WRC), to the kind of levels not seen since... 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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