Nigel Pizey12 April 2012
Mortal Kombat Advance

Game Boy Advance

It's been a very hard week in my gaming world. Where have all the good games gone? I think there's a bit of a 'waiting for the X-Box' feeling around. So I'm afraid this is the best of a bad bunch... Mortal Kombat Advance is based on Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3.
Unfortunately, as much fun as this portable incarnation is, it's very hard to enjoy it after experiencing the seamless gameplay of MK3, and compared with other great portable fighting games, such as Street Fighter II, Turbo Revival and Tekken Advance it seems to fade into the background. It's not a bad game - in fact, it's a great game that plays badly. The timing is way off, the graphics are poor and, perhaps worst of all, you punch the button to instruct your fighter to punch his opponent, but it seems to takes him three days to do so. (HM)

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ESPN X-Games Skateboarding

PlayStation 2

I don't think this game's publisher, Konami, could have heard about Tony Hawk's Skateboarding games. Because if they had, I'm sure someone there would have put up a red flag when they saw ESPN X Games Skateboarding. Everything that Tony Hawk does right, this does wrong.
Unimaginative environments, skateboarders that just won't respond the way they should and the music is Godawful college rock, care of Linkin Park, Sum 41 and other assorted muppets. It's bizarre to think that Konami also release Metal Gear Solid 2. It just don't add up. (NP)

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Cruis'n Velocity

Game Boy Advance

Hop into the driver's seat and prepare yourself for a rather bumpy ride in Cruis'n Velocity. With ten different speed machines and 14 tracks, including Las Vegas and, wait for it, Mars, you'd think you might be on to a winner. Sadly not. The animation on the cars is way too sluggish and at times the frames blend into one another, creating a weird visual mirage, causing an experienced racer like myself to crash.
This great workman is going to blame her tools. This is games company Midway's attempt to cash in on the portable side of their popular series Cruis'n USA, but this seems to have taken a turn for the worse. (HM)

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