RECENT XBOX GAME REVIEWS


NFL Head Coach
PlayStation 2, Windows PC, Xbox
Surely Electronic Arts paid a pretty penny for the much ballyhooed NFL licensing exclusivity, so you can't really blame them for using it at every turn. You can blame them for using it so very badly.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance
PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360
Also known as "Wolverine and Friends," Marvel Ultimate Alliance does, indeed, have a lot to marvel about. Ultimately, however, it smacks of been-here, done-this, got-the-t-shirt, washing-my-car-with-it.

Family Guy
PlayStation 2, Xbox
With Family Guy for PS2, the tone and humor is pretty much dead-on, but two-thirds of gameplay, to quote one of the show's more memorable lines, has "a weenie like a Christmas-tree light."

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 is pretty much the same old same old, which, fortunately, still makes for same old addictive golf greatness.

NASCAR 07
PlayStation 2, Xbox
"Improvement" is a word that can be loosely associated with NASCAR 07 for PlayStation2 and Xbox. But while there are things that make it marginally better then NASCAR 06, none of it is a particularly big deal.

Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy
GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
Though essentially the same game as Lego Star Wars II The Original Trilogy for Xbox 360, the GameCube, PlayStation2 and Xbox versions of the game just don't quite measure up, mainly in the graphics department.

Madden NFL 07
GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox
Though graphically inferior to its bug-riddled Xbox 360 counterpart, Madden NFL 07 for the current general consoles (GameCube, PS2, Xbox) is a slightly deeper football game--despite little advancement from the previous year’s version.

FlatOut 2
PlayStation 2, Xbox
More established racing series like Gran Turismo or Burnout are respectively more intricate and polished than FlatOut 2, but this is the only game that can actually make you laugh out loud.



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Sony transformed the second floor of a conference center in the suburbs of Toronto into a showcase for the company's product line for the upcoming year. While hard-working employees of retail outlets endure Sony-guided tours, Dave Willson was there strictly for the free lunch. But he took notes, too.

Down Lo on the Downloads: Shop-Store-Market 05/08
With the PlayStation Store closed for virtual renovations the last month -- it's reopened now -- only Microsoft's Xbox Marketplace and Nintendo's Virtual Console offered up any new downloadable games. That's good news and bad news on the competition front; a few good games came available... and a few lousy ones.

Grand Theft Auto IV: No Game for Young Kids
The new pinnacle of videogame development on a technical level, Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) is also representative of the great divide between art and entertainment, or better said, the public's perceptions of it and kids who couldn't care less.