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Our Games Of The Year (Part 2)

Our Games Of The Year (Part 2)

We aren’t quite done with our ‘Our Games of the Year’ piece as three riders in the night have appeared ready to supply their thoughts on the best games of the past year. Hit the jump to see what Steph, Nick and Andrew had to say.

Our Games Of The Year

Our Games Of The Year

I think we can all agree that it has been quite a year for games with a heap of great titles appearing on our computers and consoles over the past twelve months. It is only fitting then that a few of us here from The Reticule share our Game of the Year lists. Hit the jump to find out what we have loved this year.

Mario Kart 7 – The Verdict

Mario Kart 7 – The Verdict

The Mario Kart series has been a firm favourite with Nintendo fans ever since Super Mario Kart was released on the SNES back in 1992. Its (then) unique blend of manic racing action and weapons both offensive and defensive has since become the template for all other mascot-based racing games to base themselves upon – everyone from Sonic the Hedgehog to the M&Ms has had a finger in the kart-racing game pie in the last twenty years – which isn’t…

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Mario Kart 7 – A Few Words

Mario Kart 7 – A Few Words

I spoke to our part-time contributor Mark Reece earlier today ahead of his review of Mario Kart 7M and he had a few words to describe the game. “It is Mario Kart, what more needs to be said. Red Mist easily.” Look out for Mark’s review soon here on The Reticule.

Super Mario 3D Land – The Verdict

Super Mario 3D Land – The Verdict

So it would seem that the wait is finally over. Yes, after eight months of third party software – the quality of which has been extremely erratic – and some admittedly good remakes of classic N64 games from Nintendo, the 3DS finally seemingly has that killer-app that makes owning Nintendo’s newest foray into portable gaming so worthwhile. Indeed, it certainly goes without saying that any platform game starring Mario is by very definition going to well and truly exhibit itself…

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The Autumn/Winter Games Crush

The Autumn/Winter Games Crush

My word, what a time it is to be a gamer, we are being spoilt for choice in new games right now. The major titles normally get released around this time of the year, everyone is used to that by now, but this year it is something else as the number of major titles being released seems to keep growing and growing. There really is a mad crush of games all being released together right now, and judging by some of the sales figures we are seeing, people are happy enough to buy the games they want despite the current economic climate.

Star Fox 64 3D – The Verdict

Star Fox 64 3D – The Verdict

Nintendo is making a habit of forcing early 3DS adopters to make do with remastered versions of old games while they wait for the company’s big guns to materialise at the tail end of the year. We already had the admittedly excellent Ocarina of Time 3D back in June, and now Nintendo has unleashed Star Fox 64 3D upon the 3DS faithful. However, whereas the remastered adventure to rescue the land of Hyrule offered players a tweaked-to-perfection nostalgia trip through…

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Resident Evil: Revelations Trailer Leaked

Resident Evil: Revelations Trailer Leaked

Capcom’s new trailer for their upcoming 3DS survival horror has been leaked. I have to say, I had mixed reactions when watching it – I liked the setting and they certainly have retained the old school Resident Evil atmosphere, but WHO is that woman with the hair?! She is ridiculous! Nice twist at the end though – maybe this will become one of the main reasons to pick up a 3DS.

Cubic Ninja – The Verdict

Cubic Ninja – The Verdict

Speaking as a gamer with some twenty years worth of experience, I personally believe that there are few things that bring about such a colossal feeling of disappointment than seeing a game which fails to fully realise its blatantly obvious potential. Most of the games I’ve played that have fallen into this category have been the licenced cash-ins; those games that have been based upon widely popular and usually awesome properties and lend themselves so well to a game adaptation…

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