Monday, November 29, 2010

About Wii Games: 'Tony Hawk: Shred' and 'NFS: Hot Pursuit' Reviewed

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From Charles Herold, your Guide to Wii Games

This week I have reviews of skateboarding game Tony Hawk: Shred and racing game Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit. I might have also managed to finish reviews of Rock Band 3 and Donkey Kong Country Returns, both of which are quite good, if not for the arrival of Disney Epic Mickey, which I dropped everything else for when it arrived. I'm really enjoying it, and would have finished it by now if not for Thanksgiving, which ate into my gaming time. I'm sure I'll have a review of it by next week, and hopefully one or both of the others as well. Then I need to take a look at Call of Duty: Black Ops, which is sitting, unopened, patiently waiting in line for its turn.

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Tony Hawk: Shred
For me, Tony Hawk has always been about crashing through plate glass windows. The early Tony Hawk skateboarding games were fanciful concoctions in which the extreme sports star would skate through fragile windows and collapsing floors. When the more realistic Tony Hawk Underground game out, I was frankly bored by the realism and frustrated by the finicky controls. But Tony Hawk: Shred reminds me of ... Read more

Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit
Sometimes it's the little things that indicate how much care has been taken in the creation of a game. Of course, the big things are also important, and if a game fails in both the big small facets of game design, it looks a lot like the Wii racing game Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, a game apparently made by people who just really didn't care.... Read more

Celebrity Runs a Cash Register for 'Epic Mickey'
You would think one of the points of becoming a celebrity is to avoid working in retail, but November 30th Disney Channel star Kyle Massey, the high-energy runner up in this season's Dancing With the Stars, will be a "celebrity cashier" for... Read more

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