Post by Woo on Jan 22, 2010 0:15:21 GMT -1
Here is a link to Part 1 & Part 2 and at long last here is part 3!
80. Lemmings Compliation
Builders, miners, bombers? These rodents coming over here and take our jobs...
Lemmings Compliation is two games in one! Up first is the original classic Lemmings game handily titled- ‘Lemmings’ and second is the brilliantly named- ‘Oh No! Not More Lemmings!’ Lemmings has been ported to almost every single console since it was released on the Commodore Amiga back in 1991 and has been played by millions and millions of people. So I shouldn’t really have to justify it’s inclusion here- it’s Lemmings! That’s all you need to know.
Okay for those of you who have been living under rock this game stars green haired rodents, wearing giant blue smocks, who continuously walk forwards off cliffs, into death-traps or into deep water and the only one who can save them is you! They can dig, mine, bash through walls, climb, build stairs, block other lemmings from walking to their doom, explode themselves to clear pathways and most famously use orange umbrellas to safely float off high ledges. All you need to know is that it’s the classic Lemmings formula and addictive as it's ever been. Best to use the Playstation mouse however.
79. Warzone 2100
100 years in the future and they’ve discovered 3D!
So it’s the year 2100 and in typical sc-fi fashion the world is pretty much a wasteland. What is it with sci-fi that always make the future out to be a terrible place? Do the writers have a complex that makes them want to destroy Earth or something? It turns out the planet has been destroyed by nuclear weapons launched ’accidentally’ by satellites. You control a group of called ‘The Project’ who have to fend off attacks from an organization called Nexus who may have been responsible for the atomic holocaust.
They’re were a few Real Time Strategy games on the PSone, but Warzone separated itself from them the rest by being in 3D, which makes the game look much prettier over it’s competition. As for the gameplay it’s the usual RTS yarn involving defeating the enemies armies while collecting materials that you can use to build buildings and vehicles, which you can customize, in fact you can assemble 2000 types of vehicles to use however you choose! The only real problem with the game is that all your missions have a time limit. The first time I played I was completely dominating the battle and very close to accomplishing my goal when the time expired. What? There’s not time limit in war!
78. Sydney 2000
X, O, X, O, X, O, X, O, X, O.
This spot nearly went to the excellent International Track & Field, but I think this is the superior game. Sydney 2000 has better graphics, is 8-Player rather than 4-player and has more varied events, though not all of these are successful. International Track and Field focused solely on athletics, aside from the exhausting 100m freestyle (which was probably the most fun in part of that game) while 'Sydney' includes cycling, diving, shooting, weight lifting and kayaking, which join the usual events such as the 100m sprint, 110m hurdles and the triple jump. Shooting is fun at first but in the end as it’s more about remembering where the clay pigeons are shot from than any skill and kayaking is just abysmal. Seriously just ignore it.
However cycling is brilliant, even more tiring than the 100m freestyle swim, but it’s the weightlifting that’s the star of the show. During this event you have to hammer the X and O buttons fast enough for your on-screen character to lift the weight and then keep pressing them until all three judges lights turn on, which can be an agonising wait as you fingers slowly lose strength. Interestingly though while International Track & Field got good reviews with critics calling it a great game they all hated Sydney 2000, most of them dismissing it for it’s simplicity. Yeah, they kind of missed the point. It's ture that it is simple, but that’s why it works. By being so straight-forard and easy to grasp Sydney 2000 is a game that can be played and enjoyed by anybody and is one of the best party games on the console as a result. Even my Mum had a go on it and had a great time…the same cannot be said for my embarrassed friend who was beaten by her however.
77. G-Police Weapons of Justice
Jupiter’s policemen are so much cooler
Back in the early days of the Playstation a little studio from Liverpool called Psygnosis, who were previously known for the legendary Lemmings, were making great game after great game for Sony‘s little grey box. Formula One, Destruction Derby 2, Colony Wars, and a small futuristic racing game you may have heard of called Wipeout. They also made Spice World, but I think we can forgive them for that right?…
Weapons of Justice is the follow-up to the successful hellicopter-em-up game G-Police. It's set in the 22nd century on one of Jupiter’s moons Callisto and puts you in the cockpit of a helicopter/harrier gunship as a member of the G-Police. The first game’s plot was about a war on Callisto, but now that the war is over it’s your job to maintain the peace which you naturally do by shooting people. A lot. New to the sequel is the chance to leave your gunship and drive armed cars and even a bi-pedal tank! All in all the sequel is superior to the original. It didn’t sell much however and as a result this was the end of the series.
76. Kula World
Who knew the adventures of a beach ball would be so exciting?
In Kula World you play as a beach ball. Yep not a heavily armed solider brought out of retirement for one last job, not an archaeologist with a preposterously large cleavage and not a cool animal with attitude, but a beach ball. Already the game wins points in originality but what’s it all about?
Kula World involves you getting from point A to point B, but much like with British Rail it isn’t as simple as it sounds. Getting to point B requires you navigate a maze full of spikes and other such hazards while engaged in a race against the clock as an egg timer ticks down. While that is all well and good, what makes things so briliant though is that the ball is glued to the floor, but if you roll over the edges the whole maze flips over and you can then roll on the walls or the ceiling! As the levels get tougher and tougher things become very strategic and your head begins to spin as you can the walls and ceilings trying to find the quickest route to the goal before being beat by the sands of time. It’s a fantastic game, though Isaac Newton would hate it.
75. Tomba!
And you thought Swine Flu was bad!
There is a phrase “Be the best, or at least be different” and with the likes of Crash, Spyro, Abe and escaped apes trying to be the best platformer on the PSone there was a lot of competition to be the best. So Tomba goes for the ’different’ approach and is a mix of platform, RPG and an adventure genres and is all the better for it.
And if you thought that was different…. Throw in a plot of seven magical demon pigs who have kidnapped the main character's grandfather, transformed the former peaceful world into their evil-pig kingdom and stolen lots of gold because…. Why I don’t know why they did that…. They are evil pigs, they don’t need reasons.
74. Warcraft II: The Dark Saga
A Warcraft game? That’ll never catch on…
Yes before Warcraft WoWed gamers and grew into a massive franchise, slowly began taking over the globe, enslaved the human race, turned them into nothing more than batteries and created a fake world to make them think everything was still okay they actually made other games which were rather good including this gem.
Again like many titles here this sadly hasn’t held up in the looks department, but since it was never much of a looker in the first place it hasn't really aged. Anyway unlike the videogame defining MMORPG that was to come this has more humble roots playing as a simple Real Time Strategy. Kind of like Command & Conquer only set in medieval times rather than World War 2.…. And that the Soviets have been replaced by orcs… but we’ll let that slide….
73. Final Doom
Small guns, large guns and one Big Fuc….
It’s Doom. On the Playstation. Anyway….
72.….
Okay seriously what do you need to me to say about the legendary game that while not the first FPS is certainly the one that gave the genre a huge kick start… or maybe that should be ‘a huge Super Shotgun blast up the rear’? There where two Doom's released on the Playstation 1, the original and Final Doom. This is basically a special edition of the first game with fan created levels by PC users given the green light to be included and other such improvemets.
That’s all you really need to know about this as Doom still remains one of the pinnacles of gaming and still finishes near the top of any sensible ‘Best Ever Videogame’ lists. It may be dated and those dodgy sprites and sound effects may no longer shock or frighten you like before, but the basic gameplay is still intact despite it’s limitations (who needs to aim up or down anyway?). Final Doom is one of the best reasons to haved purchased a link-cable for the Playstation and I have great memories playing against my brother in various death matches till the early hours of the morning. If you like shooters and you haven’t played Doom before you should slap yourself for being so silly and look for a copy of it as it may be “Too Young To Die” but it’s not ‘Too Old To Play.’
72. Mr. Driller
If real mining was this fun they would never have closed the pits.
Mr. Driller is a drill-em-up puzzle game from Japan (shocking I know) and the unofficial sequel to the classic Dig Dug puzzle series. Like most games of the genre Mr. Driller’s gameplay is very simple. So simple in fact that I have no idea how I am going to fill these two paragraphs of text.
Okay so the basic premise of Mr. Driller is that you have to drill down through to the earth (or in this case blue, yellow, green and red blocks) as deep as you can go, for reasons never specified, in the fastest amount of time. Problem is that obviously there is a lack of oxygen underground which means you need to try and collect air capsules. Another problem is being squashed to death by blocks, though if you manage to get four of the same colour together they vanish ala’ Columns which gives you points and perhaps more importantly reduces the risk of being flattened! It’s bizarre, addictive and rarer than gold dust.
71. G-Darius
Thought demon pigs were strange? This features robotic fish…. In space!
“You will see the creation of new lives” is the tagline for the game and it’s quite big words for what is essentially a prettier version of Defender. The Darius series obviously took inspiration from the arcade classic, although without Defender’s infamously difficult learning curve. It also plays a lot like R-Types and trying to chose which game is the better one is more of a personal preference than an exact science and if you’re a big fan of old school side-scrolling shooters you’d do well to hunt down both as they are both classics.
I went with G-Darius over R-Types however due to the stronger graphics, G-Darius was the first of the series to branch out into the third dimension while R-Types is strictly a 2D affair, (although it’s more gimmick than anything and doesn’t effect the gameplay), it’s better soundtrack and it’s more original power-ups. Oh and the robot fish of course. The Darius series levels have more replayability too due to the way you can chose multiple routes to go down and the boss fights differ slightly depending on the course you take. It’s best innovation is the ‘Capture Ball’ weapon which when fired allows you capture your enemies crafts so you can use them as shields, extra artillery or simply detonate them and take out any adversaries within the vicinity. And yes, it has robotic fish spaceships.
So that's all for now! In the next part there will be roller coasters, bouncing boobs, lesbians and the classic light-gun game!
80. Lemmings Compliation
Builders, miners, bombers? These rodents coming over here and take our jobs...
Lemmings Compliation is two games in one! Up first is the original classic Lemmings game handily titled- ‘Lemmings’ and second is the brilliantly named- ‘Oh No! Not More Lemmings!’ Lemmings has been ported to almost every single console since it was released on the Commodore Amiga back in 1991 and has been played by millions and millions of people. So I shouldn’t really have to justify it’s inclusion here- it’s Lemmings! That’s all you need to know.
Okay for those of you who have been living under rock this game stars green haired rodents, wearing giant blue smocks, who continuously walk forwards off cliffs, into death-traps or into deep water and the only one who can save them is you! They can dig, mine, bash through walls, climb, build stairs, block other lemmings from walking to their doom, explode themselves to clear pathways and most famously use orange umbrellas to safely float off high ledges. All you need to know is that it’s the classic Lemmings formula and addictive as it's ever been. Best to use the Playstation mouse however.
79. Warzone 2100
100 years in the future and they’ve discovered 3D!
So it’s the year 2100 and in typical sc-fi fashion the world is pretty much a wasteland. What is it with sci-fi that always make the future out to be a terrible place? Do the writers have a complex that makes them want to destroy Earth or something? It turns out the planet has been destroyed by nuclear weapons launched ’accidentally’ by satellites. You control a group of called ‘The Project’ who have to fend off attacks from an organization called Nexus who may have been responsible for the atomic holocaust.
They’re were a few Real Time Strategy games on the PSone, but Warzone separated itself from them the rest by being in 3D, which makes the game look much prettier over it’s competition. As for the gameplay it’s the usual RTS yarn involving defeating the enemies armies while collecting materials that you can use to build buildings and vehicles, which you can customize, in fact you can assemble 2000 types of vehicles to use however you choose! The only real problem with the game is that all your missions have a time limit. The first time I played I was completely dominating the battle and very close to accomplishing my goal when the time expired. What? There’s not time limit in war!
78. Sydney 2000
X, O, X, O, X, O, X, O, X, O.
This spot nearly went to the excellent International Track & Field, but I think this is the superior game. Sydney 2000 has better graphics, is 8-Player rather than 4-player and has more varied events, though not all of these are successful. International Track and Field focused solely on athletics, aside from the exhausting 100m freestyle (which was probably the most fun in part of that game) while 'Sydney' includes cycling, diving, shooting, weight lifting and kayaking, which join the usual events such as the 100m sprint, 110m hurdles and the triple jump. Shooting is fun at first but in the end as it’s more about remembering where the clay pigeons are shot from than any skill and kayaking is just abysmal. Seriously just ignore it.
However cycling is brilliant, even more tiring than the 100m freestyle swim, but it’s the weightlifting that’s the star of the show. During this event you have to hammer the X and O buttons fast enough for your on-screen character to lift the weight and then keep pressing them until all three judges lights turn on, which can be an agonising wait as you fingers slowly lose strength. Interestingly though while International Track & Field got good reviews with critics calling it a great game they all hated Sydney 2000, most of them dismissing it for it’s simplicity. Yeah, they kind of missed the point. It's ture that it is simple, but that’s why it works. By being so straight-forard and easy to grasp Sydney 2000 is a game that can be played and enjoyed by anybody and is one of the best party games on the console as a result. Even my Mum had a go on it and had a great time…the same cannot be said for my embarrassed friend who was beaten by her however.
77. G-Police Weapons of Justice
Jupiter’s policemen are so much cooler
Back in the early days of the Playstation a little studio from Liverpool called Psygnosis, who were previously known for the legendary Lemmings, were making great game after great game for Sony‘s little grey box. Formula One, Destruction Derby 2, Colony Wars, and a small futuristic racing game you may have heard of called Wipeout. They also made Spice World, but I think we can forgive them for that right?…
Weapons of Justice is the follow-up to the successful hellicopter-em-up game G-Police. It's set in the 22nd century on one of Jupiter’s moons Callisto and puts you in the cockpit of a helicopter/harrier gunship as a member of the G-Police. The first game’s plot was about a war on Callisto, but now that the war is over it’s your job to maintain the peace which you naturally do by shooting people. A lot. New to the sequel is the chance to leave your gunship and drive armed cars and even a bi-pedal tank! All in all the sequel is superior to the original. It didn’t sell much however and as a result this was the end of the series.
76. Kula World
Who knew the adventures of a beach ball would be so exciting?
In Kula World you play as a beach ball. Yep not a heavily armed solider brought out of retirement for one last job, not an archaeologist with a preposterously large cleavage and not a cool animal with attitude, but a beach ball. Already the game wins points in originality but what’s it all about?
Kula World involves you getting from point A to point B, but much like with British Rail it isn’t as simple as it sounds. Getting to point B requires you navigate a maze full of spikes and other such hazards while engaged in a race against the clock as an egg timer ticks down. While that is all well and good, what makes things so briliant though is that the ball is glued to the floor, but if you roll over the edges the whole maze flips over and you can then roll on the walls or the ceiling! As the levels get tougher and tougher things become very strategic and your head begins to spin as you can the walls and ceilings trying to find the quickest route to the goal before being beat by the sands of time. It’s a fantastic game, though Isaac Newton would hate it.
75. Tomba!
And you thought Swine Flu was bad!
There is a phrase “Be the best, or at least be different” and with the likes of Crash, Spyro, Abe and escaped apes trying to be the best platformer on the PSone there was a lot of competition to be the best. So Tomba goes for the ’different’ approach and is a mix of platform, RPG and an adventure genres and is all the better for it.
And if you thought that was different…. Throw in a plot of seven magical demon pigs who have kidnapped the main character's grandfather, transformed the former peaceful world into their evil-pig kingdom and stolen lots of gold because…. Why I don’t know why they did that…. They are evil pigs, they don’t need reasons.
74. Warcraft II: The Dark Saga
A Warcraft game? That’ll never catch on…
Yes before Warcraft WoWed gamers and grew into a massive franchise, slowly began taking over the globe, enslaved the human race, turned them into nothing more than batteries and created a fake world to make them think everything was still okay they actually made other games which were rather good including this gem.
Again like many titles here this sadly hasn’t held up in the looks department, but since it was never much of a looker in the first place it hasn't really aged. Anyway unlike the videogame defining MMORPG that was to come this has more humble roots playing as a simple Real Time Strategy. Kind of like Command & Conquer only set in medieval times rather than World War 2.…. And that the Soviets have been replaced by orcs… but we’ll let that slide….
73. Final Doom
Small guns, large guns and one Big Fuc….
It’s Doom. On the Playstation. Anyway….
72.….
Okay seriously what do you need to me to say about the legendary game that while not the first FPS is certainly the one that gave the genre a huge kick start… or maybe that should be ‘a huge Super Shotgun blast up the rear’? There where two Doom's released on the Playstation 1, the original and Final Doom. This is basically a special edition of the first game with fan created levels by PC users given the green light to be included and other such improvemets.
That’s all you really need to know about this as Doom still remains one of the pinnacles of gaming and still finishes near the top of any sensible ‘Best Ever Videogame’ lists. It may be dated and those dodgy sprites and sound effects may no longer shock or frighten you like before, but the basic gameplay is still intact despite it’s limitations (who needs to aim up or down anyway?). Final Doom is one of the best reasons to haved purchased a link-cable for the Playstation and I have great memories playing against my brother in various death matches till the early hours of the morning. If you like shooters and you haven’t played Doom before you should slap yourself for being so silly and look for a copy of it as it may be “Too Young To Die” but it’s not ‘Too Old To Play.’
72. Mr. Driller
If real mining was this fun they would never have closed the pits.
Mr. Driller is a drill-em-up puzzle game from Japan (shocking I know) and the unofficial sequel to the classic Dig Dug puzzle series. Like most games of the genre Mr. Driller’s gameplay is very simple. So simple in fact that I have no idea how I am going to fill these two paragraphs of text.
Okay so the basic premise of Mr. Driller is that you have to drill down through to the earth (or in this case blue, yellow, green and red blocks) as deep as you can go, for reasons never specified, in the fastest amount of time. Problem is that obviously there is a lack of oxygen underground which means you need to try and collect air capsules. Another problem is being squashed to death by blocks, though if you manage to get four of the same colour together they vanish ala’ Columns which gives you points and perhaps more importantly reduces the risk of being flattened! It’s bizarre, addictive and rarer than gold dust.
71. G-Darius
Thought demon pigs were strange? This features robotic fish…. In space!
“You will see the creation of new lives” is the tagline for the game and it’s quite big words for what is essentially a prettier version of Defender. The Darius series obviously took inspiration from the arcade classic, although without Defender’s infamously difficult learning curve. It also plays a lot like R-Types and trying to chose which game is the better one is more of a personal preference than an exact science and if you’re a big fan of old school side-scrolling shooters you’d do well to hunt down both as they are both classics.
I went with G-Darius over R-Types however due to the stronger graphics, G-Darius was the first of the series to branch out into the third dimension while R-Types is strictly a 2D affair, (although it’s more gimmick than anything and doesn’t effect the gameplay), it’s better soundtrack and it’s more original power-ups. Oh and the robot fish of course. The Darius series levels have more replayability too due to the way you can chose multiple routes to go down and the boss fights differ slightly depending on the course you take. It’s best innovation is the ‘Capture Ball’ weapon which when fired allows you capture your enemies crafts so you can use them as shields, extra artillery or simply detonate them and take out any adversaries within the vicinity. And yes, it has robotic fish spaceships.
So that's all for now! In the next part there will be roller coasters, bouncing boobs, lesbians and the classic light-gun game!
