Donkey Kong Country Returns
With the land having fallen into the suffocating clutches of a palpable darkness, it falls to a thief to seek out the people’s last chance to fight back – the Majin. A golem-like magical being, only the Majin can destroy the forces of the darkness – at least once he’s remembered how to use his powers. What follows is a co-op adventure where the slight thief and lumbering Majin must combine forces to progress through puzzles and encounters. Commanding the Majin to attack, cast spells and more sounds entertaining and, at times,
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Price: £44.99
Format: Wii
Publisher: Nintendo
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Price: £34.99
Format: Wii
Publisher: Ubisoft
SplatterHouse
Price: £ 44.99
Format: PS3, Xbox 360
Publisher: Namco
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Price: £44.99
Format: PS3, Xbox 360
Publisher: Bandai
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Gore rules OK in Namco’s SplatterHouse, a beat-em-up with its routes in 1980’s arcades. In the intervening decades the videogaming world has evolved and, for the most part, matured – SplatterHouse must have missed that meeting. When protagonist, Nick, is left for dead and his girlfriend abducted, he makes a pact with a possessed mask to seek revenge, the price? Blood, gallons of it. By bludgeoning, ripping and slicing his ghoulish foes it’s blood he’ll get, the next kill never far away. Oddly the unrefined blood-letting is something of a guilty pleasure, but surely the games industry has moved on since the days when blood-saturation guaranteed sales?
Michael Jackson: The Experience
Nintendo look to revisit their routes as Donkey Kong gets back into the swing of the side-scrolling platformer. While it won’t win any awards for visuals – unlike its Super Nintendo precursor – its vivid, bold and colourful style will bring a smile to anyone’s face. The action too, in which Kong must jump, climb and puzzle his way through a great variety of environments – from the jungle to icy mountain tops – proves similarly delightful; the addition of a ground-pound attack particularly amusing. Variety is provided by the various vehicles (usually rideable animals) and rollercoaster style mine cart levels – enough to test anyone’s reflexes. Diddy Kong is even on-hand for a second player to take control of making this a late contender for Wii’s must have game this Christmas.
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Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom