Notes de presse

• GBA
• 6.5 / 10
• États-Unis

Goemon's GBA debut starts off slow, but gets better as you delve deeper into the game. Sadly, you can never quite shake the feeling that you've seen everything before -- but with more interesting characters and more original level design. As a part of the Goemon franchise, New Age is a bit of a disappointment. It's a competent sidescroller that shows glimpses of Konami's past genius here and there, but never comes close to the quality of the old SNES sidescrollers. I hope that after this brief trip into the future, Konami brings the Goemon franchise back to its roots or even re-releases the much more charming SNES Goemon games on GBA -- complete with 2-player link-up gameplay, of course.

• PS2
• 11 / 20
• France

• XBOX
• 92%
• France

• PS2
• 72%
• Allemagne

• NGC
• 6.3 / 10
• États-Unis

• XBOX
• 6 / 10
• États-Unis

• XBOX
• 6 / 10
• États-Unis

• PS2
• 92%
• France

• PS2
• 8 / 20
• France

Le passage de la borne d'arcade à la console n'aura pas réussi à Police 24/7. Les grosses incompatibilités matériel que nous avons rencontrées prouvent que le titre ne fonctionnera pas correctement chez la plupart d'entre vous. Inutile de préciser que sans webcam ni pistolet appropriés, le jeu perd tout de son intérêt. C'est pourquoi nous vous conseillons de bien vous renseigner avant achat. Si votre équipement convient, vous pouvez rajouter 4 points à la note globale.

• XBOX
• 7 / 10
• France

• PS2
• 81%
• Allemagne

• PS2
• 88%
• France

• GBA
• 10 / 20
• France

• NGC
• 8.5 / 10
• États-Unis

• PC
• 7 / 10
• États-Unis

Bottom line -- if you have High Heat MLB 2002, you can skip this year's edition, unless you're willing to drop $30+ for some tweaks and a roster update -- and even then, you're getting outdated rosters anyway. But if on the other hand if you're sick of the arcade-style console games masquerading as PC sports games, are looking for a richer, deeper, more satisfying baseball experience, and have yet to give High Heat a try, then 2003 is a good way to go. I feel a little dirty giving a good score to what is basically last year's game, but the fact is there's little to no competition for High Heat on the PC. It's this, or statistical sim-management games like Season Ticket or Baseball Mogul, which are fine games, but since there's no on-the-field action, that's a different genre entirely. Everybody else is dead. Stormfront, Accolade, and Sierra Sports have all hung up their cleats. Even EA Sports is sitting out this season, with last year's Triple Play Baseball still sitting in stores with Jason Giambi in his old A's uniform. Congratulations, High Heat. You're the champion. By default.

• NGC
• 8.5 / 10
• États-Unis

• PC
• 50%
• Allemagne

• PS2
• 6 / 10
• États-Unis

• PS2
• 82%
• Allemagne

• XBOX
• 4.6 / 10
• États-Unis

• PS2
• 7 / 10
• France

• PS2
• 8.3 / 10
• États-Unis

• PC
• 6.7 / 10
• États-Unis

Since finishing this review, I haven't played M&M IX. Not even once. This is a first for me. Even M&M VIII, which I thought was a duller, shorter version of M&M VII, kept me more engaged. The only time I felt the old need-to-play assert itself was in the M&M IX's dungeons, which used to be only mildly entertaining in M&M games. Combat is much improved, and a real challenge, now. However, every other activity has been reduced to a chore, against a frustratingly attractive but noninteractive background. Generic is a good word for this game. It's got reasonably good balance, fine graphics and exciting combat, and the old sense of humor is still there in out-of-the-way places (Robert and Douglas, Ludwig Van's Beet Hoven, etc). But the wild imagination and pull of distant desirable goals -- to walk on water, to fly over inaccessible mountain peaks, to visit far off cities only hinted at in the early game -- is gone. Certainly playable, M&M IX just isn't memorable.

• PC
• 17 / 20
• France

Une fois encore Civ devrait s'imposer comme la référence du genre. Un titre particulièrement soigné, doté d'un gameplay d'une formidable richesse ce qui devrait tenir en haleine les nombreux fans des titres de Sid Meier pendant un bon bout de temps.