Ghostbusters. One of my favorite childhood films, and one that always seemed to have some sort of connection to video games. I clearly remember Super Mario Bros being mentioned in the first movie, and of course in the second movie the Statue of Liberty is controlled by an NES advantage. Like a lot of games, they flirt fantasy with reality. They deal with fantastic and impossible things happening in the identifiable world you live in. I know a lot of kids my age, including myself, in some capacity pretended to be a Ghostbuster. It’s an easily obtainable fantasy, and that’s why the Ghostbusters films have spawned ten video games over the last twenty five years. Unfortunately a vast majority of them aren’t worth mentioning. They failed to capture that light-hearted chaotic essence of Ghostbusters. The new Ghostbusters: The Video Game starts to approach what made the films great.

Atari was kind enough to send me a copy of the Wii version of Ghostbusters last week, so I’m returning the favor with a review. It’s important to note that there are essentially three builds of this game. There’s the 360, PS3, and PC builds which are more realistically styled and more resemble the look of the films. The Wii and PS2 versions are like what I’m reviewing. They have a far more cartoon graphical look to them. Then there’s the DS version which is unique, I do not have a review for that one. The 360/PS3/PC build was created by developer Terminal Reality, while the Wii/PS2/DS versions were developed by Red Fly.

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The Spiderwick Chronicles is being released for multiple platforms to go along with the movie of the same title. Here I will be reviewing the Wii version. Before I do that though, let me say that this is not the type of game I usually play. In fact, I try to avoid most movie-games. The reason for this is that I have never found them to be worth playing. However, Sierra suggested that we look at it anyway. In fact, they went so far as to send us a review copy to preview. How could I not take them up on it? I was assigned the Wii version and was determined to put aside my bias and review the game based on it’s own merits. The results are somewhat surprising.

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I suspect that this month not many of you muscle bound hardcore gamers are going to rush on out to your local GameCrazy and feverishly grab a copy of “The Spiderwick Chronicles” with your vein popping hands of controller crushing death. There’s a reason for that, and despite movie to games adaptions having a reputation of being gaming atrocities, this is surprisingly not the case with Spiderwick.

Just like Ted, I would normally never try out such a game, but since Sierra Entertainment was nice enough send us some copies we’ve decided to review them. Check the results inside.

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I recently bought the newest installment in one of my favorite franchises for the DS, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. I didn’t want to write an article on it until I had fully beaten the game. Mostly because I didn’t want to put it down. Now that I have made my way through the game successfully, the review is here.

During this review I won’t talk about the plot in any detail. What I am going to do is link to another article /here later/ that will. Also, I will assume that by now you know that the general setting is post-apocalyptic and the game has been hailed as a darker, more realistic version of it’s predecessors. With that out of the way I want to talk about some basics and then get into things.

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FOREWORD:

I’d like to start by saying that there are NO spoilers to be found here. Rather, I will outline some of the features that can be unlocked in the game without giving away any specifics.

I hope you enjoy the review!

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Well, I’ve finished my review of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. I figured that there aren’t that many people out there thinking “Hey, I wonder if that Zelda game is any good.” Instead, I decide to describe why it’s so kick ass and help give an understanding on how the Wii version controls, as well as provide some new screen shots.

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Of course, I can’t rule out the possibility that someone out there sees this game differently than I do. So, if you’ve got a review you’d like us to post, for this game or any other, feel free to send it in via the Contribute Page.

Remember, always tell us why you like or dislike the game. Provide some insight and reasoning and people will believe you a whole lot more.

Be sure to look out for a review of Red Steel with a video in the near future.

Happy gaming

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Forget every portable game system that has ever existed, or is yet to exist. File those memories and ideas in the trash bin brain cell and extract it with old rusty power tools! You won�t be needing any of that anymore! Why you ask? I�ll tell you why Mister!

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