EGM Review Scores: July 2003

Return to Castle Wolfenstein: ToW (Xbox) - 8.5, 9.5, 8.5
Arc the Lad: TotS (PS2) - 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
Moto GP 2 (Xbox) - 8.5, 8.0, 8.0
Unlimited SaGa (PS2) - 2.0, 4.0, 4.0
Wakeboarding Unleashed (PS2) - 9.0, 8.0, 7.5
Robocop (Xbox) - 2.5, 2.5, 3.0
Tube Slider (GCN) - 3.5, 4.5, 4.0
Chaos Legion (PS2) - 8.5, 6.5, 8.5
Ultimate Muscle: LvNG (GCN) - 8.5, 7.5, 7.5
Wario World (GCN) - 7.5, 7.0, 6.0
Phantasy Star Online: EI&II (Xbox) - 9.0, 9.0, 9.0
Resident Evil: Dead Aim (PS2) - 5.0, 4.0, 4.0
Sonic Pinball Party (GBA) - 8.0, 7.5, 7.0
Donkey Kong Country (GBA) - 5.0, 6.0, 7.0
Evil Dead: FFoB (PS2) - 2.0, 3.0, 3.0
X2: Wolverine's Revenge (PS2) - 5.5, 5.5, 4.0
Burnout 2: PoI (Xbox) - 8.5, 8.5, 7.5
Advance Wars 2: BHR (GBA) - 8.0, 8.0, 8.5
Bloody Roar Extreme (Xbox) - 4.0, 5.0, 4.0
Dragonball Z: LoG2 (GBA) - 5.5, 5.0, 6.0

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thanks anyway :)

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thanks anyway :)

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God damn it. Now I know just how late my EGMs get here. :mad:

I still haven't gotten mine..lol

Same here

Mines not here yet. MOG ANGRY!

the very earliest subscriptions to the distribution points started getting them today, so it's not that weird that you guys haven't gotten them yet.

yay im an early thing cause i got mine today


by the way i love how much space you guys gave the new Vania very interesting read

Thanks, SPv... it was a pleasure to write about my one of my favorite game franchises.

I'm saddened by the low scores Evil Dead recieved. That $20 game is actually fun IMO. Hell, I finished it too. That has to be the worst rated game I have ever liked. I thought the combat was fun. Bruce Campbell made it worth playing. I hope the game sells enough to warrant a sequel. Ash in a feudal Japan setting could be amusing. I think the game is at least a 5 or 6. 2 is just stupid low.

bah, I forgot to send in a change of address thingy when I came home from school. No EGM this month.

Wario score is disappoining, but it doesn't seem like a game with wide appeal, and if the main criticism was length, then I should have no problem.

I'm a big PSO fan...but I don't think PSO is a 9 game. More like an 8. Then again, scores don't say a lot about a game, do they?

So thray, I'm guessing you played Lament? What did you think of it?

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The gameplay is excellent (even at this early stage in dev.) and overall, it shows tons of promise. I'm really looking forward to it.

Oh yeah, which reviewers gave what scores for Wario?

Was the Wario World an early build? Cause the game isn't out for another month, and then there was the lead time it took to publish it. I can't imagine it being complete.

The Wario reviewers were CJ, G. Ford, and Jen. And yes, it was reviewable... like all of our games are. A reviewable lockbox given to us by Nintendo for the express purpose of being reviewed. sheesh.

Seems like a fair score to me.

from what I played, Wario World is solid fun, but nothing outstanding.

Castlevania - I'm still unsure about. The E3 demo felt like DMC with a whip, and I don't care for DMC. The item/element combinations were cool though.

It just seemed stange to me because Nintendo often works on their games till the last possible minute. I'm not questioning the opinoins of the reviewers.

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The Wario reviewers were CJ, G. Ford, and Jen. And yes, it was reviewable... like all of our games are. A reviewable lockbox given to us by Nintendo for the express purpose of being reviewed. sheesh.

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Come on. I'm not saying Wario wasn't final, but I've caught EGM on a few pre-final reviews. Like when you said Pinball of the Dead didn't have battery save, or when you reviewed Silpheed: TLP like 6 months before it came out. It has been known to happen.

what the hell is wrong with everyone for suggesting this? people were saying this in the GA thread too. in fact going so far as to suggest that EGM just made up the reviews based on never having played the game at all.

nintendo works on their games until the last minute in japan, maybe. but they are insanely anally retentive about giving out review copies to US press.

and in the US they usually have packaged retail copies of their games well before they hit release. i remember in the n64 days, we got a copy of majora's mask about 3 months before it hit stores. usually they have GBA final retail a month before release or so.

if nintendo gives the magazine something and asks them to review it, it's final code. they get their games in order well in advance of the ship date.

I can say im alot more excited about the new Vania after reading the EGM article

i dont knwo to me it sounds like the game is coming out very well

some of the shots bothered me with some of the texturing work but i put that blaime on the PS2s craptacular texturing abilities then on Konami right now

Every time EGM has done a review on an unfinished version of the game, they put a disclaimer on it. I remember this happening for Excitebike 64, where Nintendo sent them a copy of the game marked "reviewable" when it was missing the track creation feature. AIA Games recently did this to www.Game2Extreme.com, sending an 80% build of the game and marking it as "reviewable" when it was missing key parts of the translation.

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I can say im alot more excited about the new Vania after reading the EGM article

i dont knwo to me it sounds like the game is coming out very well

some of the shots bothered me with some of the texturing work but i put that blaime on the PS2s craptacular texturing abilities then on Konami right now

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You should watch the E3 edition of the crappass X-Play. They showed a bunch of cinemas and gameplay portions that weren't even in the E3 demo(Which was a pretty poor demo) that re-sparked my excitement for the game. Can't wait to read the new EGM article.

what is this X-play that you speak of

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what is this X-play that you speak of

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TechTV's Extended Play with a new title and tons more fluff and bad comedy.

Thray-Walsh works for EGM? I thought it was IGN. (Or is it both?)

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TechTV's Extended Play with a new title and tons more fluff and bad comedy.

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ahhhh hmm I get tech tv on my Digital cable with something that lets me watch some of their hsows when ever need to see if X-play is on there

Yeah I seen that X Play last night. Castlevania did look pretty cool from their preview on it.


Xplay is on Mon-Thur 10:30 PM Central time. Fri at 7:30 but thats been a rerun lately.

The best show they had so far was last nights, the one with Castlevania, Halo 2, Halflife2, Metal Gear Solid 3 and a bunch of others. I say it was good because they had a LOT of videos and not so much damn chit chat about stupid shit.

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God damn it. Now I know just how late my EGMs get here. :mad:

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Yeah, I don't get mine until the first or second of the month.

I hate how I get all my game mags within a few days of each other. PSM, OXBM, EGM, GMR

PSM may suck but for $10 a year its worth it.

The best part of EGM this month was the red head with the big tits on the celeberty page.


Im in love :D