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  • Electronic Gaming Monthly (March 2008)

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    Source: Electronic Gaming Monthly – March 2008

    It’s hard for me to even consider this issue of EGM “retro” but it is over a decade old now. The March 2008 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly includes:

    Letters

    • Disgruntled fish-petters speak out

    Press Start

    • Overachievers – Find out why worthless virtual accolades mean so much to so many…
    • Foreign Object
    • Preview: FaceBreaker – EA’s zany new pugilism offering is more Rocky IV than Raging Bull
    • Funny Business – Developers recount the shenanigans that go on behind the scenes
    • Take This Job – This month: The dude who get today’s hottest tunes into your videogames
    • Preview: Soulcalibur IV – Incongruous guest characters from a galaxy far, far away infiltrate the action
    • Preview: Ninja Gaiden – Ryu Hyabusa leaps back into the fray on Xbox 360 and Nintendo DS
    • Preview: Bully: Scholarship Edition – School’s back in session on both Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii
    • Small Wonders – Five tiny titles proving that mobile gaming doesn’t have to suck
    • Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII – Prep yourself for the most anticipated prequel since The Phantom Menace
    • Rumor Mill – Dead Rising’s undead mob plots its revenge from an unlikely place

    Reviews

    • Reviews
    • Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen of Mirrors
    • FIFA Street 3
    • Devil May Cry 4
    • Turok
    • The Club
    • Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
    • Wipeout Pulse
    • Patapon
    • Reviews Wrap-Up

    Game Over

    • EGM’s Sixth Annual Tobias Bruckner Memorial Awards – Noted humorist Seanbaby presides over this year’s crop of crap
    • Retro: Matters of Import – Long-forgotten gems from abroad get a second shot at success on the Virtual Console
    • Seek and Enjoy: Space Chase – EGM’s loving tribute to Highlights for Children blasts into orbit
    • Hsu & Chen

    …and more!




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  • Mario Kart Wii

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    Mario Kart Wii, Nintendo Wii.

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    Mario Kart Wii was released for the Wii in 2008. Nintendo has released a version of Mario Kart for every system since the Super Nintendo. The first I ever played was Mario Kart Double Dash on the GameCube. I have also played the Wii version and didn’t like it quite as much but then I heard the same thing from people who played the Gamecube version after playing the Nintendo 64 version. I think this is one of those games that you tend to like the first version you played the most.

    My initial dislike for Mario Kart Wii came from the motion control aspect. While holding a steering wheel in the air to steer with is a neat gimick, it really doesn’t give you quite the same level of control and ends up being more frustrating than fun in the long run. Playing with the standard Wii controller is ok but it’s really just not as good as using the GameCube controller. So my dislike comes from the controllers available by default more than anything else. Also, since the Gamecube version was the first one i played, I got used to having two characters and switching back and forth between them. The Wii version goes back to having only a single driver.

    Mario Kart Wii provides 16 new tracks along with 16 classic tracks from previous versions of the game. This seems to be the formula with these games – include a bunch of new tracks and some ‘best of’ tracks in each new version. Maybe one day we will get a version that includes all of the tracks ever made. The same formula seems to be true of the vehicles as well. There is always something new but many of the ones from previous games return as well.

    One thing I find particularly annoying with Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart DS is that they dropped support for online play. I suppose this comes with the territory of modern online games and centralized game servers but it sure is annoying. I miss the days of being able to host your online game without the need for centralized servers. It wasn’t just Mario Kart Wii, and Mario Kart DS that lost online multi-player connectivity, it was dozens of other games as well. What needs to be supported is something similar to LAN gaming but over the internet.

    Whining aside, the Mario Kart series, including the Wii version, is a great series of games and is still one of my favorites. Mario Kart Wii is still a great game, even if you can’t conveniently play it online any longer. Just use a GameCube or third party controller.



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  • Top 20 Video Games of Sept./Oct. 2007

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    Source: Electronic Gaming Monthly – Holiday 2007

    Amazon.com’s top 20 games of Sept./Oct. 2007 (from the Holiday 2007 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly):

    1. Halo 3 (Xbox 360)
    2. Halo 3 Limited Edition (Xbox 360)
    3. Halo 3 Legendary Edition (Xbox 360)
    4. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo DS)
    5. Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party Bundle (Wii)
    6. Wii Play (with Wii Remote)
    7. Carnival Games (Wii)
    8. Brain Age 2: More training in Minutes a Day! (Nintendo DS)
    9. Heavenly Sword (PS3)
    10. Half-Life 2: The Orange Box (Xbox 360)
    11. BioShock (Xbox 360)
    12. Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! (Nintendo DS)
    13. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)
    14. Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions (PSP)
    15. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo DS)
    16. MySims (Wii)
    17. Madden NFL ’08 (PS2)
    18. Mario Party 8 (Wii)
    19. Pokemon Diamons (Nintendo DS)
    20. Skate (Xbox 360)

    The most surprising things on this list to me? 1) There are three versions of Halo 3 in the top 3 spots. 2) I can’t believe MOST of this stuff is a decade old but 3) there’s a PS2 game at #17…





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