1996. Nineteen years before The Force Awakens, three years before the start of the dreaded “prequel trilogy” and even before the slippery slope of remasters where the phrase “Greedo shot first” got its origin. In 1996 Lucasfilm set to expand the Star Wars canon with a multimedia project that would span a novel, a comic book series, and…
Between the rumour that Japanese developer Platinium is possibly making a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game and the new trailer that was released for 2016’s Out of the Shadows, it put me in a Turtles mood and I decided to revisit the game that started it all: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Konami/Ultra for the NES. Buy why look back…
Manga and anime were two things I absolutely loved in my junior and senior high school years, but something that I don’t pay much attention to now as I’ve gravitated to traditional North American comics in my adult years. That being said, one series that I’ve found myself completely engrossed in is the Kodansha published Attack…
And with the final review of Turok (2008) on Xbox 360, The Year of Acclaim comes to an end. Over the past twelve months I’ve looked at fifteen games through multiple console, handhelds and console generations. While some of the games I’ve looked at have confirmed that certain games are bonafided classics or huge surprises, others are…
Movie games being sold to retail have gone the way of the dinosaur or the dodo, but no one sent the memo to Activision. While everyone else pushes free-to-play match-3 games to mobile devices based on popular films, Activision is still busy producing games based on properties like last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man…
In its short time in the video game spotlight, Acclaim’s Turok franchise was a lot of things: A series of traditional first-person shooters, a multi-player focuses arena shooter, several side-scrollers and overhead action games mixed with beat-em-up and vehicular gameplay. That all being said, I didn’t expect what I got when I slotted the Game…
Cover based shooters existed before the year 2006, a few examples being the WinBack series, Namco’s Kill Switch or even Time Crisis in the arcade’s. Ask most people though what game they think of when they think cover based shooter, and they’ll probably say Microsoft’s big game for the Xbox 360 that year, Gears of War. What I didn’t know is that earlier…
Something I don’t do very often when it comes to writing reviews is to look on what other people have written, a trend I broke with Turok 3: Shadows of Oblivion. I personally really loved the first Turok Game Boy outing, and while disappointed by the simplicity in its sequel, I still enjoyed it much more than…
Back when the PlayStation first game out, I honestly had no idea what it was. At the time there was an arcade that had just launched in Canada called Playdium and I legitmately thought they were the same thing. I had no knowledge of the botched SNES add-on vaporware that never happened, and in my mind…
It was an undertaking to translate the original Turok: Dinosaur Hunter into an 8-bit handheld game, yet somehow developer Bits Managers managed to make an experience that very much felt like the N64 classic. But how does one adapt a game like Turok: Rage Wars, a piece of software built around fast-paced, twitch multi-player action into a Game…
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