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Late Night Consoling

by jason bergman, Sep 23, 2002 8:30pm PDT
Related Topics – Sega, Games: Console

As those of you who have the Games We're Playing box on your ShackBar may have noticed, I've finished up Super Mario Sunshine and have moved on to Kingdom Hearts. SMS was fun, and better than most games, but it had a surprising number of problems for a Mario game. I'll elaborate on this in my eventual review of the game, but I did have a lot of issues with the game. For one thing, I liked the fact that they were trying to do something different from the usual "Koopa kidnaps Princess" storyline...but then they did it anyway. And the plot they did stick on there made no sense whatsoever. I'm not asking for in-depth storytelling here, but why exactly was a water Mario running around? I have absolutely no idea. The whole game felt rushed to me, and for a Nintendo game, really unpolished. But don't get me wrong, I liked it. But on my Scale o' Mario, this ranks below Mario 64, Super Mario World and Super Mario 3. But still above Super Mario 2, of course.

GameCube PS2 Xbox I hope it's better than that Timeline game Variety is reporting that Michael Crichton, the best-selling author of great books like The Andromeda Strain, Sphere and Jurassic Park (not to mention ER and the super-goofy WestWorld), is working on an original game with none other than Sega. This will be an original project, although it may move on to other media afterwards. No platforms have been announced, and it's still a ways off, so don't expect to hear much for a while.
Xbox Xbox News In an attempt to "increase security and reduce overall costs," Microsoft has slightly modified the insides of the Xbox. Among other things, it eliminates the fan over the GPU, which doesn't sound like a particularly good idea to me. On a related note, some analysts have said that Microsoft needs a really good holiday, or else it'll be "a few years" before it pulls a profit, which could seriously impact its chances for longevity at the company.
GameCube Xbox Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance Screenshots GameSpot has posted new screenshots from the Xbox and recently announced GameCube ports of Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance.
PS2 Red Faction II Shots Also at GameSpot tonight are new shots from Red Faction II. If you were accepted as one of the first 20,000 people to sign up for a free Red Faction II demo, you should have heard by now.
PS2 Hardcore Dating Action A direct-feed clip from Sega's new Sakura Taisen game for PS2 is up at IGN tonight. Sega has said one of the various new Sakura Taisen games will be released in America...chances are it won't be this one, which is an enhanced version of the first game in the series.
GameCube GameBoy Advance Zelda 2 Zelda Screenshots Computer and Video Games has posted some new screenshots that show off how the upcoming GameCube and GBA Zelda games interact with each other.
PS2 Xbox MGS3? Apparently during the Tokyo Game Show, Hideo Kojima hinted that work has begun on a new game in the Metal Gear Solid series. That probably won't come as a surprise to anyone, but what's unclear at this time is how involved Kojima will be in the actual development process.
GameCube Summoner 2 GameCube-bound Once thought to be a PS2-exclusive, THQ has announced that Volition's Summoner 2 is headed to the GameCube, care of THQ-subsidiary Cranky Pants Games.
GameCube PS2 Xbox Sega's TGS Video As noted in this story at PlanetXbox, Sega has posted a movie showing off all of their games from the Tokyo Game Show.
GameBoy Advance Mother 3 on...GBA? According to this month's issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, Mother 3, which at one point was to be a 64DD title, will now be released for GBA.
GameCube PS2 Xbox Robotech Ships Attention fanboys: the PS2 and Xbox versions of Robotech: Battlecry have shipped, and should be arriving in stores tomorrow, so go get 'em. The GameCube version will be out next month.
Console Game of the Evening: Revenge of Shinobi for the Sega Genesis. Like the other games in the series, this is fun, but really freakin' hard.


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