8-Bit Reviews – 29/09/09

Hello to one and all!

We are back for a slightly belated (health grumble grumble) look at some more 8-bit reviews from the team and our listeners. What are 8-bit reviews I hear you ask? To put it simply they are “Short, snappy, informative reviews in exactly eight words.”

I hope you enjoy this weeks batch and please send us your own in any of the following ways: You can email us, post a comment below, post them on the forums, send us a tweet, leave us a facebook message, tell us in person (tue/wed 8pm onwards), or any other way your fancy.

We will be back on Episode 116 with more “bite sized opinionated chunks of digital gaming goodness” and as always here on the blog.

Jack@WiiDS

Cursed Mountain – Slower than a dead turtle, but incredibly atmospheric.

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity – Zero gravity racing boards don’t make everything better.

James@WiiDS

Chrono Trigger – Travel. Classic SNES role playing epic involving time

Jason@WiiDS

Guitar Hero 5 – Despite unimpressive tracklist, it amazes through technical achievements.

Far Cry Vengeance – So broken gamers will cry vengeance. Embarrassing Ubisoft…

Lost Winds – From start to finish, lost, but unforgettable, genius.

Daan@WiiDS

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat – It’s a brilliant game, but only with bongos.

Polarium – Great puzzler on DS, until it becomes evil.

Spy101

Advance Wars – With kids in charge, great wars become fun.

Hysteria

Wario Ware: Smooth Moves – Hilarious insane fun in five second chunks. HULA!

Zen

Animal Crossing: Wild World – We grew, We stung, We fished, We discovered.

Welcome To 8-Bit Review

Reviews can be good fun useful things. They let the writer express the games premise and their thoughts and feelings into an informative digest. This is all good, but sometimes they can be like a wordy quagmire of literacy turning even the most alphabetical accomplice into a grammatical mush. So we tried to come up with a (not particularly) scientific formula for finding the best mix of information and opinions, while keeping guff to an absolute minimum. After minutes months of research, debate and failed experiments our supercomputers churned out a single number. That number was eight. Eight words to perfectly sum up even the most preplexing purchases and cover the highs, the lows, the good, the bad, what made the game brilliant and what at the same time made it fall before the last hurdle.

Or to but that explanation more simply…

8-Bit Reviews – Short, snappy, informative reviews in exactly eight words.

We want to hear your thoughts and feeling of games old and new in exactly eight words and we will be posting them on the blog as well as reading out the best on the show. If you want to get involved it’s simple. Just send us your review and your done. You could email us, post a comment below, post them on the forums, send us a tweet, leave us a facebook message, tell us in person (tue/wed 8pm onwards), or even send a carrier pigeon with the information (it’s faster than broadband you know).

Here are this weeks batch of 8-bit reviews from the team as well as our focus group to get your creative juices flowing: Read more »