![]() But what little it does is done very poorly. There’s not much to this game, you race some AI opponents down a snowy hill and can do the occasional mid-air stunt. But the cheapness of Ski Air Mix is highlighted by its simplicity. There are a lot of great budget games in this era, especially from the Simple Series on PS1 and PS2. Developer KID and their European publisher Midas Interactive specialize in games on the cheap, and unleashed a fury of games just like this on the cheap for years.īeing a budget title isn’t what makes this a bad game. Such is the case with Ski Air Mix, a skiing game exclusive to Japan and mainland Europe. When the two come together, chances are the results won’t be pretty. Some of these are pretty good, but many of them are crap. The original PlayStation (and PS2, to a lesser extent) is loaded with budget games produced on the cheap and sports games. That might sound petty, but try listening to that horse-clopping noise for hours-on-end without stop and see how much of it you can take. And don’t get me started on the footsteps sounds. You wander around mostly empty, bland corridors looking for things to shoot, most of which poses no challenge, and you move on to the next terribly written and acted cutscene. However, while Eon Digital took all the superficial elements from Resident Evil, they forgot one thing: good gameplay. It turns out there are zombies and monsters there and, using third person shooting mechanics, you have to progress through dark, horrific environments to survive terrible voice acting that never matches the subtitles. Stop reading if you’ve heard this one before: you control one of two characters who is part of a government organization sent to investigate and clean up a mysterious incident that happened in what was thought to be a deserted biochemistry lab in the middle of nowhere. ![]() It pretty much is Resident Evil, in so far as the plot and gameplay elements are concerned. That’s assuming you can even make it that far, because simple walking really does look and feel more like riding a unicycle.ĭeveloper Eon Digital Entertainment did everything it could to essentially remake Resident Evil with Chaos Break. ![]() If you are luckily enough to spot an enemy before they spot you, you can try your luck at throwing a knife at them for an insta-kill, which feels like a cheap carnival game at the best of times. You instead go into fist-fights in which the winner is decided at random. ![]() Luckily, this isn’t one of those old stealth games where it’s instantly Game Over because you were spotted, though it may as well be. You get spotted very quickly by enemies on the other side of levels and the camera is so close to the player character, it’s hard to see anyway. I say “supposed to be” because the stealth is almost impossible. Commando Sar is supposed to be a stealth game. Commando Sar though, a PS1 game by Rebellion Games from 2001. Since then there have been several movies, a documentary, and a TV show based on the series. It should come as no surprise that this too is an adaptation, this time of a Belgian comic book from which itself is an adaptation from a series of books from the 1970s. ![]() Ten points to Gryffindor, or at least anyone who can accurately pronounce this game’s title. But that strangeness fits with the overall tone of the game, full of terrible platforming, a camera that makes it impossible to see what’s in front of you, and boring gameplay. It was an odd decision to mash-up both Tomb Raider and Crash Bandicoot, considering both franchises were in steep decline by 2001, and the PlayStation 2 had been out for a year. There’s the desert level in Egypt, the snow level in Tibet, the jungle level in Africa (I guess Egypt isn’t in Africa in Barbie’s world), and then Babylon at the end for the supernatural flair. Barbie: Explorer features a scant four levels, each one being an utterly generic “adventure game” cliché. What kind of game do you make based on a doll? Apparently the answer Runecraft came up with was a Human Centipede monstrosity featuring Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot, and every broken gameplay mechanic they could think to include crammed into a beheaded Ken doll.Īs far as these licensed tie-in games go, Barbie games in particular always seem to be a cut below the rest. ![]()
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