Reviews
The Horde 3DO Review: Tower Defence Before It Had a Name
Build the village by day, defend it by sword when the Hordlings come: Toys for Bob’s strategy-action hybrid invented tower defence with a storybook and Kirk Cameron.
Author: Sal Benedetto
From the Vault columnist. Grew up feeding quarters to the Ms. Pac-Man machine at his uncle's pizza place; still owns his childhood SNES and every Nintendo Power he ever begged his mother for. Writes the retrospectives and the hidden-gem hunts.
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Super Street Fighter II Turbo 3DO Review: The Arcade Comes Home
For one year the best home version of the world’s best fighting game lived on the 3DO: complete Turbo rules, arranged CD soundtrack and Akuma intact.
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Star Control II 3DO Review: The Ur-Quan Masters, Fully Voiced
The greatest space adventure ever made, completed by a full voice cast: Toys for Bob’s masterpiece on 3DO is the definitive way to meet the Ur-Quan.
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Road Rash 3DO Review: Fists, Chains and 32-Bit Tarmac
The Mega Drive brawler rebuilt with 3D roads, digitised riders and a Soundgarden soundtrack: the 3DO’s Road Rash is the version every other is measured against.
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Gex 3DO Review: The Gecko Who Talked His Way Into History
Crystal Dynamics’ wisecracking gecko took over the Media Dimension in one of the finest 2D platformers of 1995 — and the 3DO original is still the definitive edition.
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The Need for Speed 3DO Review: Where the Supercar Sim Was Born
Road & Track’s magazine licence, eight poster cars and the open road: the original Need for Speed on 3DO invented the modern street-racing duel, police and all.
Features
PlayStation Home Remembered: The Metaverse That Arrived a Decade Early
Before the metaverse was a slogan, Sony built one inside the PS3: apartments, plazas, chess boards and tens of millions of residents. PlayStation Home, remembered in full.
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The Cell Broadband Engine: The Processor That Was Too Clever for Its Own Good
One PowerPC core, eight specialist helpers and a decade of developer tears: the full story of the strangest, boldest processor ever put in a games console.
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PlayStation 3 Hidden Gems: 10 Exclusives the Charts Forgot
A Pomeranian survival epic, a boy made of rain, a safari camera and seven more: ten PS3 exclusives the charts forgot and the shelf should not, each with its story told.
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Puppeteer Review: The Puppet-Theatre Masterpiece
Japan Studio staged a platformer as a full puppet-theatre production — spotlights, narrator, applauding audience and a hero whose head keeps getting stolen. Reviewed.