Everyone loved that murderous shark… And now you can play as him! yes – you play as Jaws, faffing around doing missions and being hunted down by a rich man who’s son is chomped by you.
The gameplay’s great fun because you can do what you always wanted – be jaws – you can mulla ships, terrorise people in the sea, and genrally be a giant killer shark! But by far the best bit is taking a chunk out of a person, and see him still try and escape!!! (yeah, like he’s going to escape!!!)
But like all freeroaming games, after doing the missions(including you escaping from an aquarium) it feels boring, and no amount of jaws can take away the boredom, but the feeling of that shark will still make me happy any day.
RATING: 60%
Jaws is old, but that shark will live on!!! Jaws is always good enough for me!!!
If you liked this, try playing Dead Rising on Xbox
Donkey Kong: Barrel Blast was origionally intended as a Gamecube game. And you can tell – It really feels as though it’s just not right with the Wii controls.
This ‘monkey in a barrel’ racing game works simply enough – a drumroll accelerates the barrel, and drumming on the left or right sters it.
This game was never going to be one for depth, but this is just plain BORING! Even drumming away in the old DK: Jungle Beat was more fun! Yes, It’s Ok to start with, but soon you can see through the game’s translucent disguise and see the true simplicity. The levels are all the same, with a different backdrop.
There are a lot of different tracks to choose ( Even if they all are made of of the same things) and a lot of weapons to play with will keep you hooked for a couple of hours. The graphics are great, but not as good as Mario Galaxy. But that still dosesn’t put it up on the league tables with the likes of MarioKart.
RATING: 45%
If you like this, try Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat for the Gamecube.
We all know about this game. In fact, probablly almost everyone looking on this blog once had a worms game. There’s these worms (thus the name) which are waging a war on other worms. A bit simple.
Worms games are really funny, and this is no exeption. But, when has suicidal worms ever not been funny?! You get to use a variety of funny weapons, like the Super Sheep which is hilarious and a new weapon – the star burst. This sees you sacrificing a worm by strapping him onto a rocket which is really hard to control and launching it at a rival worm in the vain hope that you dont screw it all up!!
There’s also this thing where you customise your motley crew of homicidal (and suicidal) worms with clothes, voices, and even their team weapon!!!
The bad thing is the weapon you make can never be very powerful because of the limiter. This means that it’s just a waste of time. Also, after a while, no amount of humour can beat that feeling of boredom after a while of doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over…
That is a lot of bad things, so I’m rating Worms 4: Mayhem as…
Canis Canem Edit (also known as ‘Bully’) is a sandbox game based around you, a missfit rebel named Jimmy Hopkins, that gets stuffed in a hell hole called Bullworth Academy and sees you beating kids up just to be feared and respected… Well, feared.
At the start, you’re picked on by the other kids because of your differences and you’ll end up running to the nearest prefect, being chased by kids. Don’t worry – later you will be tough enough to kick those bullys heads in (not in front of prefects or teachers, mind). The best bit though is that you are free to explore the school and town, you can attend classes, be truant, bully kids, get detention (this means mowing the lawn but, if you keep getting into trouble, esculates to a football field)!
Bully is made up of lots of main missions, and a lot of smaller mini-games, so as to earn money, or built on your abilities. The lessons are made up of minigames and range in difficulty – you earn something for completing each level – for example, English is a word scramble minigame – when you complete a level, you get to be more fluent in the language of bullies – you work out how to say sorry to other bulies, prefects, and eventually the police!
You get a multitude of weapons,ranging from a slingshot to a spud gun. There are also vehicles to drive throughout the game, like a skateboard, bike, moped and a lawn mower!!
Your character will interact with loads of others. Most fall into the catagory of Bully, Nerd, Preppies, Greasers, Jocks, Townies and School Faculty. Be sure to help out some people, as you’l get rewards, but beat the snot out of others – you’ll get rewards for that too.
Canis Canem Edit was created by rockstar so you’ll get that brilliant, fun gameplay. But, as with all rockstar games, it can get repetitive and boring after completing all the missions (involving, helping nerds, stealing things at school and one which involves peeing in a container of drinks to annoy the jocks), but I can garrantee that the fun lasts a lot longer than the gameplay.
This game has fine graphics, great controls and decent gameplay. IGN rated it as an 8.5/10, whilst it got a 5/5 from Jive Magazine.
RATING: 70%
Even if bullying is a bad thing, this game makes it look fun!!!
If you liked this game, try Sims 2 on most platforms.
Riding down mountains and hitting rival racers with bottles so they get badly hurt -if not killed? This is by far the best bike riding game ever!!!
You race down a series of mountains dodging natural obstacles (animals, trees, the odd monk or hiker) against other opponents to get to the finish line. Sounds simple – WRONG!!!! You race downhill VICIOUSLY hitting other racers and doing death defying tricks to get a better weapon to teach a lesson to the muppet that drove you into a tree!!!!!!!
You will get addicted to this wacky game because it’s just so competitive and hilariously funny. I love the fact that you run poor hikers and Bamby look-a-likes over just to get to a finish line! The maps are varied and the game goes through 24 courses of mayhem, through different countries, too. The aim is to win a big medal (for all the damage we caused?)
But sometimes Downhill Domination can be very frustrating. You go really fast and most of the time your off your bike (because you crashed so often).the game loses it’s touch because this, but at least the crashes are funny. I mean, once, I practically flew off my bike and fell down a cliff!
CHEATS:
Get Money for … Not Winning? -Play the arcade mode with two controllers… But only you playing. Finish the race as player 1, leaving the Player 2 at the starting line. Next, as player 2, finnish the race. Player one will have (obviously) won, and you get money!
Cheat Codes – For the cheat menu, press Up, Triangle, Down, Square, Left, O, Right, Square. Now bash in one of the following codes to get something new:
Upgrade To Bottle – Up, Down, Left, Left, Right, Right.
Energy Restore – Down, Right, Right, Left, Left.
No Combat – Left, Square, O, Square, Left.
Infinite Bottles – Up, Square, Right, Right, O, O.
More $$$ – Right, Up, Up, O, O, Square.
Unlimited Energy – Down, Triangle, Left, Left, Square
Unlock Everything – Press Pause, then hold L1 and R1 and press O, X, O. Now let go of all the buttons and press Square, then hold R1 and Triangle together.
The game’s really good fun, but it is old and it gets REALLY frustrating.
RATING: 70%
–Really good fun, and that cancels out the fact that it’s just so frustrating and the fact that it’s a really old game.
Caring for wittering, 2D blobs has worn a bit thin over the years, but Tamagotchi is still big news in Japan. This is why Namco made a sequel to the first bizzare (and…. Cute) Tamagotchi game.
Like before, this is made up of 12 mini-games – each being played in a different place, from a burger bar to a doctor’s surgery. Your goal is to make enough money to expand your shops and buy cut furniture for your Tama’s pad.
Everything is this game is incredibly simple – both the gameplay (which uses just screen-tapping controls) and the colourful graphics. And this what makes Tamagotchi Cornershop 2 so appealing. The conversations are hilarious – random lines of speech are delivered in speaky voices from each character. The childish chatter fits Tamagotchi perfectly!
You can’t fail to love it’s personality, but it’s the mini-games where some might falter. Like Electroplankton, it’s really more of an experience. In some shops you are given so much creative license it’s almost impossible to fail! Which is good for anyone who wants to create a bouquet of flowers, then send a photo of it to a friend. But not for those expecting a cute version of Wario Ware.
Tamagotchi cornershop 2 is a bit of a disapointment to anyone who just wanted a nice batch of minigames. Yes, this is overwhelmingly endearing to start with, but it becomes very repetitive and is so puzzlingly simple, you kill 3 braincells from just playing it (ok, maybe not but that’s how it feels like!!!) The most enjoyable thing is making the cakes, I mean, everyone loves making cakes, right?!? Oh dear…
The graphics are simple and perfectly suited to the gameplay, but then, they aren’t the best around! Oh, and it is too easily completed!!! I would only reccomend this game to younger children who love simple minigames, or people that collect rubbish games.
RATING: 56%
Hint: Strive to get all your shops approved by the Queen, and reap the amazingly boring rewards. Well, it’s kind of worth it, OK!!!
Well, that’s what I think, got any tips to make this a little more challenging? please leave a comment!
Kungfoo meets slow mo, gun totting, gangster violence!??? Yes, It’s another brillian John Woo idea!
Stranglehold is the sequel to John Woo’s 1992 film – ‘Hard Boiled’ and looks fantastic!! It’s set in Hong Kong, where a policeman has gone missing. everyone is bewildered by his disappearance. Then they get the ransom note…
In Stranglehold, you can earn these style points when you kill someone (perferably a baddie) in a really stylish way, like diving slow mo off a balcony while taking out goons or riding on a trolley down a corridor whilst firing a machine gun and (here’s the cool bit)there is this move where you spin a round firing a machine gun over and over till everything in the rooms dead!!! NICE!!!!
The areas in the game are nice and detailed, but you won’t really be paying attention to it because your fighting for you life and most of the time the real detailed thing your looking at gets blown to peices. Yep – there’s never a dull moment in the game, which usully a good thing but not in Stranglehold. This is because YOU CAN’T GET A BREAK!!!!
The game tires you out very quickly so you can’t play it in long bursts. This is a pity so I’ll rate it as…
Ok, I made that last one up, but Havest Moon is still quite strange. Apparently, the Harvest Goddess needs your help really badly…and your supposed to help her by farming?
This is like a smaller, peaceful, human Animal Crossing. You start off in a rubbish farm – with no animals or crops at all. But after a while, you’re a proper little virtual farmer! You’ll have tons of animals, lots of crops, and lots of farming stuff, but you’ll need to work hard.
The main point is to rescue the Harvest Spirits by doing different things. When you collect enough Harvest Spirits, you can rescue the Harvest Goddess and save your world from the not ‘that’ evil, Evil Witch. Wow.
There are also a few girls in the game that you can marry after a while (you can only play as a boy.) But you’ve got to be nice to them and be quick about it – after a while they marry someone that is not you!!!!!
There is a glitch in the europea version of Harvest Moon – the mailbox does not work!!! So, sorry, if you’re dying for a mailbox, you’re going to have to buy it from another country!
The graphics are Ok, and everything is as it should be with festivals like the Harvest Festival (which you can wreck for fun!). But it all feels repetitive after a while and you just can’t but help feel jealous as you look apon the rival farmer’s abundance of crop and then look at uhh… your farm.
RATING:60%
-Fun for a while, but gets boring quickly, and then there’s that rival farmer!!!!
If you liked this, try Animal Crossing: Wild World on DS (BUT CHECK MY REVIEW OF IT FIRST!!!!!!!)
Lets get this out in the open – the sieges are brilliant!!!! The graphics are great (but then, most games on the xbox are) and everyone loves being the wizard!!! Ok, the game is based during the third movie. Even better – after playing as the wizard in Helms Deep, you can play as almost anyone (except orcs)! This is good (I love playing as the wizard defending mini tereth as an infinte amount of orcs ravage it!!!
It has got a bad side though – the missions sometimes feel repetitive and linear and it doesn’t help that it’s a really hard game. Overall, I think that Lord Of The Rings fans will love this… But I don’t think anyone else would. Because of this I’m going to rate it as..
This game was HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!! You’re playing a pokemon ranger and you fight this SINGING, ROCK ADDICTED, EVIL GROUP!!!!!!!!! In the golden years of pokemon, at least the baddies were sinister, now their just, weird…
Truthfully, the graphics are ok, but that’s no excuse for ruining your touch screen!!! You had you draw circles (like a crazy person) around a pokemon to catch it and let it help you – that RUINED THE BOTTOM SCREEN WITH SCRATCHES!!!!!!!!!!! Here is a short clip of the gameplay during Pokemon Ranger;
Ok, the game is made of a few, short missions. These missions are linear. Plus, you stupidly can’t keep pokemon (except for one which is an idiot and you never wanted in the first place). Oh, and it ruined the touch screen. You’re better off getting pokemon Pearl/Diamond instead…
RATING: 30%
(IT RUINED MY D.S WITH SCRATCHES!)
If you liked this, try Pokemon Diamond/Pearl on Ds
A game you may never get to play – but what’s it really like?
Manhunt is an old game and was banned in a couple of places for its gore!! You get to play a murderer who was on the death penalty but someone saved – to make horrific movies about!!!
The aim of the game is to get from A to B, doing horrific and disgusting murders for some sicko’s movie. He films every horrific kill as you fight for your life, in the name of entertainment!!
But now this game is old and lost it’s status as the goriest and most horrible game in the world to other games (Dead Rising being one). Luckily, it wasn’t banned in the uk. Heck, it was so gory that rumour has it that a murder was commited because of the influence of this game!!! But that’s only a urban myth…
(Or is it??) At least the govermants surrendered to the fact that horrible games will always be made(so developers can sleep easy).
This is a horrific game which invoved knifes, plastic bags and more ghastly deaths than any other game.
the rating for this game would only be a..
RATING: 61%
– Most people can’t play manhunt, so what was Rockstar thinking when they brought out a sequel?!
(This game is really gory, so squeamish or crazy people refrain from playing it!!!)
The Godfather is about a lowtime thug who gets pulled into the Corleone family at their time of need, to help out…
A bit like grand theft auto, you can acces all of New York and New Jersey causing hell or developing the story. There’s this threatening thing you can do the owners of shops to get money, but it don’t come easy; you have destroy things in there shop (objects,cash registers, customers,) to make them pay, but push to much and you’ll kill them or thell start fighting back – and their dangerous!!!!
There are rival gangs to watch out for as well because they have guns and are hard to kill. You can shoot at different body parts to cripplle or disarm them, which is a god send in one level (I’m not going to tell you which!)
CHEATS:
Stolen Money – When you see a bank robbery taking place, stick around. When the cops come and start shooting, quietly pinch all the dropped money! You can make loads from this – I mean LOADS!!!!
PS2: Unlock All Movies – Pause the game, then enter: O, SQUARE, O, SQUARE, SQUARE, L3. This only works for Ps2.
Xbox: Unlock All Movies – Pause the game, then press: Y, X, Y, X, then click left analogue stick. This only works for the Xbox.
Pc: Codes – Press [ESC] to pause game, then enter one these codes:
Full Health – Corleone.
Max Amunition – Stracci.
$5.000 – Cuneo
All Movies – Tattaglia (All these codes only work for PC).
The Godfather has Great graphics, hardly any loading, and the game blends into the storyline of the film – the only bad thing is that you can’t kill any of your family (gang) and that’s disapointing, but you can hit the godfather!
RATING: 75%
Great graphics, little loading and a large area to free-roam gives this game a unique quality.
All the pokemon from Diamond and Pearl -plus some extra moves- ALL IN 3D!!!!
Pokemon Battle Revolution has moved on a lot from those first Pokemon stadium games on the N64. Back then, everyone dreamed of a proper version, but we all knew this was near impossible. Then came Colosseum for GameCube, followed by Pokemon XD, and we all knew then that soon we’ll be seeing pokemon walking around – in 3D – for sure!
But for now, we have to go back to dreaming. You see, yes, it is in 3D, but somehow, we’ve lost the true escence of what was a proper Pokemon game. Yes, it has every monster from every game so far, but the Adventure Mode has disapeared, leaving only the Battle Mode, similar to Diamond/Pearl on Ds, and a sadness in all our hearts. If you already have one of the Ds games, you’ve got everything you’ll get out of the Wii’s version already.
The actual battle gameplay has not changed much at all. Each player takes it in turn to choose which moves their current pokemon will use, then the monster attacks the opponent’s. When all a player’s team has fainted, the opponent has won. matches can One-on-One, or Two-on-two. Below is a video of an offline battle:
At least there is a few good points about this game. For a start, the graphics are brilliant, and the detail of each and every Pokemon is amazing! The landscapes of each of the locations look great too. Each attack is brilliant in their own way – no way could you imagine that the humble move ‘surf’ could look so madjestic. Then there’s the good moves which make you stare in awe at the screen!
The online option on Battle Revolution is good. you can pit your team against any other around the world, just like in Mario Strikers. The problem is that there is no kind of league table to try and progress onto, so the online option is a bit useless. Also, the motto you choose to say at the beginningof each match is not shown to the opposition. STUPID!!!
Overall, I don’t belive anyone (exept maybe a serious pokemon fan who wants to add this to their collection) would want to buy this alone. It’s more of a beutiful companion to the Ds version.
RATING: 64%
The graphics are good, but the rest is inferior to the Ds version.
If you like this, try Pokemon Diamond/Pearl on Ds (see my reveiw first!!)
This is an old Ps2 game which you may never of heard of.
The setting is that you – an elite riot response soldier called Nick Mason who’s trying to (with other forces) control some murderous, mask wearing nutters called the Burners. They wield meat cleavers and love fire…
For Ps2, the graphics are good and the missions are always different – like saving medics or escorting firemen through burning buildings and the like. Plus, the game never feels dull! The fighting’s brutal, as you use a riot shield and over 20 other weapons to block molotovs or cleavers. I said the game is brutal, and I mean brutal…
And that is about all I can say about Riot Response. It’s a brilliant game with visuals perfectly suiting the type of game. If only more games were like this…
Urban Chaos is a brilliant game that is rarely seen anymore because it’s so old, but it will live on in my heart (and my blog) as one of the most violent games I have ever played… EVER!
RATING: 97%
If you do want this game, try looking it up on Amazon.com, or Play.com – I could not find it anywhere in Gamestation or the like!
Let’s not exaggerate this; it’s on Ds, so it isn’t going to have brilliant graphics like ps2. But, its very addictive as you can get really competitive as you try to destroy the idiot that mullered you with a machine gun. That’s right, you get to have weapons to mash your opponents…
If you have ever played Burnout Legends, you’ll know how a handheld racer should not feel. MM V-4 does not feel at all like that. It isn’t empty and the handling is’nt rubbish either. Maybe the graphics could be improved…
There are a couple of modes such as, racing, demolition and time trial and they are all addictive. Demolition is the best because it gives the best of the game. But, after completing the game and collecting all the cars it’s just another boring game.
RATING: 70%
-because of how fun it is – well, until you complete it!!!
this (strange) game is based around a boy who has to kill poor giant creatures in the hope of bringing a girl back to life, which DOES NOT MAKE SENSE.
anyway,your supposed to go to these giant (I mean giant) creatures, climb up then(without being squased by the scared and frightened creatures) stab them in the head!!!And its not quick – you have to stab the poor creature in head or other body parts over and over to put them out of their misery. But what is the point of killing colossuses: Killing 16 Colossus creatures does the ritual of Dormin…
besides this, the graphics are good and (for horse lovers) you ride a horse. But for me its just to STRANGE so I’d rate it as..
RATING: 70%
-different people like different things – even if they like killing creatures for no reason.
Pippa Funnel on Ds the first time around was mildly enjoyable, athough you had to put up with the annoyingly simple missions and the graphics (the horses look like they’re walking on stilts) Pippa Funnel 2 is quite an improvement and guess what, you don’t have to do so many annoyingly simple missions!
You get to go freelance, making world class horses, raising foals to gain a profit and basically having a laugh when it all goes a bit wrong (i love falling off!!!) You can also breed your own foals when your horse has full stats in care, cross, jump and skill (this can get a little repititive but it is definitely worth it, pure prophet when you sell him/her!!)
Although again, the graphics are nothing to write home about there is a wide variety of different tracks and competitions. The most irritating thing is that it does not explain how to do a pirouette and so I’m stuck, if you know how, please leave a comment!! Jumping is the most enjoyable, i think anyway, and the horses jump actually depends on the horse (I find that the Haflinger is very flat over jumps but will jump anything cross country and will give you a lovely dressage round, if you can put up with it forever taking poles showjumping) I would not reccomend the French saddle to a beginner, altyough it is probably the most talented, it takes a LOT of work to raise its stats and, eventually, to sell it for a prophet (its the most expensive at £10 000)
For a first timer I would reccomend the Appaloosa, although not one of the most attractive of the choices, it is very sane and will jump everything at quite an amazing angle, its stats are reasonably easy to raise and you will get a good foal, and a good prophet when selling both the horse and foal.
I would reccomend this game to most horse lovers, whom can’t stand to be away from them for too long! (pippa Funnel 2 is the next best thing)
I would give this game…
RATING: 75%
Graphics could be improved…
Hint: Always strive to raise the stats
Full stats-good foal-good prophet!!
This was the first game I saw which had the health which replenished itself. This is a god send due to the game…
Anyway, the world is fighting the Helghast(mutated humans) and, is losing. You start off as a battle hardened soldier fighting (and losing) in the trenches and your about to retreat…
This was probablly once one of the hardest games because the Helghast are as hard as nails and looked hard as well – with the glowing, yellow eyes and gas masks. The areas vary from trenches to an island as you meet other troops fighting and helping them out. The missions sadly, do not vary as much, as you usualy just had to get to A to B. Somtimes you would do smething different like retrive something or other. The rag doll phisics are rubbish; you’d shoot up the Helghast so many times just to see them crumple slightly – which didn’t give you that feeling of bulk…
CHEATS:
Unlock All Movies – Enter O, Square, Triangle, O, Square.
Enemies Have Big Heads – O, Square, X, O, O.
Killzone 1 is a very good game but lacking in omph. Aty least the graphics are alright and the controls are good…
RATING:65%
(P.S look at the helghasts masks, cool and scary!!)
Even though this is an old game, I loved the space battles!!!
The game doesn’t really focus on the story line of Star Wars but more on the fighting; I love the space battles as you desperately try to lose the fighter before crashing into the ships engines and blowing up. The battles can vary – sometimes it really feels like your right in the heat of battle as you take cover behind a tank, and sometimes, you have to treck for ages to an area before dieing and starting all over again…
The graphics are good here, whilst the gameplay could be made better. Thinking about it, this game is very similar to Battlefront 1!
The main problem with Battlefront II is that it’s hard to get stuck into it. Also, the other game modes don’t even feel like game modes at all – JUST mini-games!!!!
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 is a good game. But then in some ways it’s a disapointment; it is too hard, you can’t get stuck into as well as other games of this genre and it just hasn’t moved on from Battlefront 1. Here is the trailer for Battlefront 2, please enjoy;
CHEATS: Infinite Health:
To get infinite health, pause the game in Story, Instant Action or Galactic Conquest mode and press UP,UP, UP, LEFT, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, UP, UP, UP, LEFT, RIGHT.
Resistance is set just after WW2. The world is just getting over the worst war ever and then a disease spreads and turns people into beings called the Chimera. Good timing…
Your character is an American, working with the world to fight the Chimera forces ravaging the world. Then he gets infected by the creatures which isn’t the best thing that could have happened.
CHEATS: Skill Points:
by getting SP, you can gradually unlock some nice extras…
10 SP – Concept Art Pack One.
20 SP – Concept Art Pack two. (both Art Packs will appear under extras in your pause menu.)
40 SP – Resistance Behind The Scenes Documentary. (This willl appear in the Cinema viewer.)
70 SP – Flip Levels.
100 SP – Clank Backpacks.
126 SP – Mechanic Skin.
Resistance is a good game. The gameplay is fine, and the graphics are great, but it just does not compare to Gears Of War or Killzone. But it does show some variety to the creatures you face.
No, Resistance isn’t anything special. It’s not worth buying because you feel very empty when you play the game, as if something is missing. These other games have that bulk when you play, Resistance however doesn’t.
RATING:70%
Ok, I liked Resistance, but it’s just too empty and doesn’t have that attitude…
If you liked this, try Gears Of War on Xbox, or Killzone 2 on Ps3.
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