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Preview: Transformers: War For Cyberton
Transformers: War For Cyberton on the Nintendo DS is being made by Vicarious Visions, the veteran studio behind other, recent well-regarded portable 3D Transformers action games. Like the previous ones, the new entry will be sold in Autobot and Decepticon versions, though this time the games won’t link to a web-based meta-game war between the owners of each.
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Review: Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief plays out over three locations: New York, The Hermes Map, and Los Angeles. As the story enfolds through text screens, the action is about winning a series of fights. At first you just have Percy Jackson and his best friend Grover, a satyr, to control. Being the son of Poseidon, Percy has the special ability to control water as a weapon. Grover has the special power to heal.
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Review: Sands of Destruction
Sands of Destruction is a new role-playing game for the DS that unabashedly models itself after the console RPGs of yesteryear. While more recent games in the genre typically eschew certain once-common elements, like random encounters and turn-based combat, Sands of Destruction embraces them. Unfortunately, this effort at recreating the magic of many classic console RPGs is not very successful.
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Review: Glory of Heracles
Glory of Heracles features a fairly engaging storyline and there are tons of characters to interact with, many of which will end up joining you on your quest during various sections of the game. The pacing of the story’s progression can be a tad on the sluggish side at times.
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Review: Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes
Judging from the colorful anime characters and soothing soundtrack, you might mistake Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes for a Japanese-style console role-playing game. But it’s actually a unique hybrid game that offers an RPG-like Story mode complete with character progression, quests, and items — plus some light strategy elements — all wrapped around match-three-style puzzle gameplay similar to that of Puzzle Quest.
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Review: Phantasy Star 0
SEGA is working on a new installment in the Phantasy Star franchise. Phantasy Star 0 supports Nintendo WiFi multiplayer and a Pictochat type chat system that supports sending of stylus sketches to other players.
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Nintendo Unveils Its Video Game Lineup for Early 2010
Consumers nationwide continue to snap up Nintendo products for the holidays, and Nintendo is poised to carry that momentum into 2010. Dozens of games for the Wii, Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi systems are on the way in a wide range of categories from both Nintendo and its third-party partners.
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Review: The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
While plenty of people are still readily awaiting a sequel to Mario Kart DS or New Super Mario Bros., it didn’t take Nintendo much time at all to shoot off a follow-up to its 2007 Nintendo DS Zelda adventure, The Phantom Hourglass. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, set 100 years after Phantom Hourglass and set in a very similar cell-shaded cartoonish universe, at first looks like it might be a pale shadow of the first touch-screen DS game, swapping out train travel for long boat voyages.
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Preview: Nintendo Presents: Crossword Collection
Solve puzzles on the go with Nintendo presents: Crossword Collection, launching exclusively in the UK on December 18th for the Nintendo DS system.
Nintendo presents: Crossword Collection is the perfect companion for puzzle lovers, giving them access to more than a thousand different crossword puzzles and all for just £20.
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Nintendo DS RPG’s: Two Too New To Ignore
I’ve been playing two different role playing games on my Nintendo DS lately. Both Mario and Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky are solid titles that have the basic explore, search, and grow mechanic that tends to draw me in to RPGs. While they both have a sort of Nintendo-esque take on life (no horror or graphic violence here) each one plays out distinctly differently. While the new Mario & Luigi title has a sort of puzzle/platform mixed into the game, the Mystery Dungeon title might be best described as a Pokemon adventure without having to capture any Pokemon.