With the release of Dead or Alive 5 almost upon us, the newbreview.com team have decided to go back and play (arguably) the best entry in the series, Dead or Alive 2 on the Sega Dreamcast.When it was released back in the year 2000 it was a true breath of fresh air for 3D fighting [...]
Tags: Adam Radcliffe, Dead or Alive, Dead or Alive 2, Dremcast, Jason Borlase, Luke Mears, retrospective, Tecmo
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Wed, September 12 2012 » Articles, Retro Quick Look, Retrospectives, Videos » No Comments
While Marvel Super Heroes is actually Capcom’s second fighting game featuring the bright and colourful heroes of the Marvel Universe (the first was the brilliant X-Men: Children of the Atom), arguably it is the game that kicked off the entire franchise. Featuring a diverse roster of heroes and villains (hands up anyone that had heard [...]
Tags: Adam Radcliffe, Capcom, captain america, Hulk, iron man, Jason Borlase, Luke Mears, Marvel Super Heroes, PS1, retrospective, Saturn, spider-man, video, wolverine
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Wed, September 5 2012 » Articles, Retro Quick Look, Retrospectives, Videos » No Comments
One of the most exciting things to come out of Nintendo’s E3 press conference a few months ago was the announcement that Pikmin 3 will be coming to their new console the Wii U. Seeing series creator, Shingeru Miyamoto, hop on stage with a Pikmin in his pocket resulted in a roar of applause from [...]
Tags: GameCube, Kieran Roycroft, Luke Mears, Nintendo, Pikmin, retrospective, Tom Wallis, video, Wii
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Wed, August 29 2012 » Articles, Retro Quick Look, Retrospectives, Videos » No Comments
If you believed the comments sections of popular gaming websites then you’d know that the Nintendo Wii is a haven of awful generic rush job games with no value to any serious gamer out there. Any one that has actually spent a significant amount of time playing Wii games will be able to tell you [...]
Tags: Adam Radcliffe, Kieran Roycroft, Konami, Luke Mears, Silent Hill, Silent Hill Shattered Memories, Thoroughly Underrated Games You Probably Should Play, Wii
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Thu, August 23 2012 » Articles, Thoroughly Underated Games..., Videos » No Comments
Originally released as a Sega Dreamcast launch title, Capcom’s arena combat game Power Stone is an incredibly charming fighting game that has worked its way into the hearts of almost everyone that has played it. Putting players in the role of a treasure hunter that seeks to find the legendary Power Stone, a mystical gem [...]
Tags: Adam Radcliffe, Capcom, dreamcast, Jason Borlase, Luke Mears, Power Stone, retrospective, video
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Wed, August 22 2012 » Articles, Retro Quick Look, Retrospectives, Videos » No Comments