Issue 63: December 2008

Prince of Persia (PC, PS3, X360)
Developer: Ubisoft
Publisher: Ubisoft
Genre: Adventure
PLUS: Incredible design, nice controls, epic music
MINUS: Repetitive setup, automatic jumps
7/10 [graphics: 9, sound: 8, gameplay: 7, durability: 7]
Comment: Repetitive loveliness.



Call of Duty: World at War (PC, PS3, X360)
Developer: Treyarch
Publisher: Activision
Genre: Action
PLUS: The Berlin-maps are amazing, co-op support, momentally really good-looking
MINUS: Boring Pacific-campaign, horrible music
7/10 [graphics: 7, sound: 6, gameplay: 7, durability: 8]
Comment: Stable battles.



Shaun White Snowboarding (PC, PS3, X360)
Developer: Ubisoft
Publisher: Ubisoft
Genre: Sports
PLUS: Nice snow-world, momentally good sense of speed, big mountains, nice graphics
MINUS: Annoying transportation-distances, boring missions
7/10 [graphics: 8, sound: 7, gameplay: 7, durability: 7]
Comment: Decent boardplay.



Sonic Unleashed (PS2, PS3, Wii, X360)
Developer: Sega
Publisher: Sega
Genre: Platform
PLUS: Cool Sonic-levels, nice graphics, good music
MINUS: Completely worthless werewolf-levels, extremely uneven quality
5/10 [graphics: 8, sound: 6, gameplay: 5, durability: 5]
Comment: Schizophrenic.



Naruto: The Broken Bond (X360)
Developer: Ubisoft
Publisher: Ubisoft
Genre: Action
PLUS: Extremely big variation, really good story, stunning graphics, big world
MINUS: A bit messy camera, a little too simple fightingsystem
8/10 [graphics: 8, sound: 7, gameplay: 8, durability: 8]
Comment: Narutooooooooooo!



Animal Crossing: Let's go to the City (Wii)
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Simulation
PLUS: Incredibly charming, rich of content, addicting
MINUS: No news, simple graphics, messy online-support
7/10 [graphics: 6, sound: 7, gameplay: 6, durability: 8]
Comment: Tasty leftovers.



Left 4 Dead (PC, X360)
Developer: Valve
Publisher: Valve
Genre: Action
PLUS: Nice co-operation mode, tons of zombies, nice pace
MINUS: Boring singleplayer-mode, half-decent graphics
8/10 [graphics: 7, sound: 8, gameplay: 8, durability: 8]
Comment: Zombies for life.



Wii Music (Wii)
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Music
PLUS: Some good minigames
MINUS: Terrible controls, bad midi-music, really boring idea
3/10 [graphics: 4, sound: 3, gameplay: 3, durability: 2]
Comment: Completely stupid.



Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (X360)
Developer: Rare
Publisher: Microsoft
Genre: Platform/Racing
PLUS: Really charming graphics, nice design, good humour
MINUS: Lots of boring vehicle missions
7/10 [graphics: 9, sound: 7, gameplay: 7, durability: 7]
Comment: Nice mechanic sweetness.



Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe (PS3, X360)
Developer: Midway
Publisher: Midway
Genre: Fighting
PLUS: Sub-Zero is still cool
MINUS: Terrible gamesystem, really ugly graphics, worthless animations
3/10 [graphics: 3, sound: 3, gameplay: 3, durability: 3]
Comment: Terrible comic-spanking.



Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon (Multi)
Developer: Etranges Libellules
Publisher: Activision
Genre: Platform
PLUS: Super-cool voice-actors, charming graphics
MINUS: Bad camera, uneven difficulty, partly buggy
5/10 [graphics: 6, sound: 7, gameplay: 4, durability: 5]
Comment: Averagely boring.



Skate It (Wii)
Developer: EA
Publisher: EA
Genre: Sports
PLUS: Good soundeffects, groovy soundtrack
MINUS: Rotten controls, ugly and boring graphics, dead world
5/10 [graphics: 5, sound: 7, gameplay: 4, durability: 5]
Comment: Boring compromise.



Lips (X360)
Developer: Inis
Publisher: Microsoft
Genre: Music
PLUS: Good modes, easy to create playlists, good microphones
MINUS: No difficulties, impossible to add text to songs
6/10 [graphics: 7, sound: 8, gameplay: 6, durability: 7]
Comment: Decent partygame.



Rock Band 2 (PS2, PS3, Wii, X360)
Developer: Harmonix
Publisher: MTV Games
Genre: Music
PLUS: Incredible amount of music, cool instruments, cool design
MINUS: No cymbals on the drums
9/10 [graphics: 8, sound: 9, gameplay: 9, durability: 9]
Comment: Livin' On A Prayer.



Resistance 2 (PS3)
Developer: Insomniac Games
Publisher: Sony
Genre: Action
PLUS: Nice design, good weapon-selection, fantastic multiplayer component
MINUS: Pretty stupid enemies, extremely linear maps
8/10 [graphics: 8, sound: 7, gameplay: 7, durability: 8]
Comment: Charming butchering.



The Last Remnant (X360)
Developer: Square Enix
Publisher: Square Enix
Genre: RPG
PLUS: Epic world, cool story, fatastic music, playful design
MINUS: Terrible screenupdating, graphical bugs, bad checkpoints
6/10 [graphics: 6, sound: 8, gameplay: 5, durability: 6]
Comment: Unpolished diamond.