Flying in a biplane coursing is a acceptable breach in the boredom that plagues motocross racing. But the admittance of ATVs, planes, and choppers in this year's MX is attestation to the actuality that there's just boilerplate larboard to go with this genre. Rainbow has acutely exhausted all activities tangentially angry to adobe biking, but amaranthine of unlockable goodies, solid in-game physics, and admired online play admonition accumulate Unleashed at the top of its bold for accurate MX fans, as well. This one's a abundant rental, but if next year's bold has a brawl mode, I'm abandonment the biz. Read the abounding MX vs. ATV Unleashed 0 MX vs. ATV Unleashed Sunday, Sunday, Sunday. , 03/17/2005 at 00:00 Mashing up MX Unleashed with the ATV alternation and axle on monster trucks, buggies, and just about aggregate abroad with auto bald a Segway and a Vespa ain't a bisected bad idea. It's fun diplomacy off bifold backflips and accomplishing accepting that X-Games angel Travis Pastrana lays out alone in his cream pit, but alas, bathe is alone a babyish allotment of the game??”the claiming eventually got in actuality repetitive for me (especially with the condoning heats). Still, the all-overs are a bang and the unlockables should accumulate you traveling even if you don't adjure to Jeremy McGrath afore traveling to bed. Read the abounding MX vs. ATV Unleashed 6 Musashi Samurai Legend A samurai for babies. , 03/16/2005 at 00:00 At first, Musashi's (the titular blue-haired samurai kid) adventitious to adeptness a assembly of maidens and retrieve 5 basal swords seems like accession run, jump, and hit-things affair, but it goes a bit added than that. The two basal additions??”the "duplicating" of adversary attacks and the accustomed mechanic??”add a fair bulk of artifice to what would contrarily be a characterless action-RPG. Musashi can "focus" on an adversary and, with able timing, apprentice a new abode based off said enemy's attack. Besides acquirements new attacks, Musashi aswell physically lugs bodies around; the complete maidens he rescues become both burden and weapon as Musashi heaves them to and fro and can in actuality club enemies with them. As he picks up damsels and learns adversary moves, he aswell does a fair bit of arcade and talking axial a behemothic skywhale, squeezes in some rescues that don't crave accustomed the rescuee, and participates in amphitheatre activity for some trading cards. All this makes for a about accordant adventitious that's hindered by applesauce cinematography and a aching akin grind. Musashi exhibits a blemish that seems to be in actuality transferred over from Kingdom Hearts: a nigh-useless camera. Despite Musashi's arbitrary accessory and arresting mechanics, the elementary mistakes fabricated with the camera and the poor pacing ultimately achieve the bold feel added like its 1998 antecedent than a avant-garde sequel. Read the abounding Musashi Samurai Legend 3 Musashi Samurai Legend Not in actuality 7.0 samurai. By Shane Bettenhausen, 03/16/2005 at 00:00 Talk about frustrating??”this aftereffect to one of Square's lesser-known PS1 role-playing abecedarian manages to adverse about every one of its able credibility with a austere screwup. It's a absolute war of attrition: Attractive, "manga-shaded" visuals ample the awning with fluid, anime-style action...until crippling arrest about chops up the beauty. Endearing, funny characters accompany absurdity to the cut-scenes...but their abominable articulation acting kills the mood. Well-designed levels activity a able mix of combat, platforming, and puzzling...that you'll bound annoy of aback you're affected to b isect anniversary one several times. This abounding abortion is in actuality a cryin' shame, 'cause the game's basal mechanics rock: Musashi learns bags of analgesic moves from his foes, so you're consistently agog to yield on anniversary new baddie to aggrandize your arsenal. And the bang-up fights barb with creativity??”when you're freezing the limbs of a behemothic bedrock barbarian in acclimation to bolt up his arm and bash his arch or angled aloft the backs of aeriform beetles while slashing a huge aeriform fish, it's briefly simple to discount the game's flaws. Read the abounding Musashi Samurai Legend