As an average gamer who pays for all her own games, I’m pretty good at avoiding the terrible ones. At £30+ quid a pop in an industry with stupendous marketing budgets I usually make damn sure I’ve done my research before buying anything. Yet I have a terrible disability when it comes to the two
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TheFluffyFist dips his toes into the murky waters of fighting games once again. Is SNKs latest offering any good?

Turok is back, and this time he’s going to bore you to death.

Weefz is totally new to the Harvest Moon franchise. It shows.

Greatest FPS ever made, or a pile of steaming poo? We put Halo 3 under the spotlight to see if it smells a bit or not.

Age Rating: PEGI 16+ What is it? A beat-away-hordes-of-enemies melee combat game set in mythical feudal Japan. Big men, big weapons, scantily-clad warrior women, ropey voice acting… it’s all there. Is it fun? Not really. Is it worth the money? £29.99 Nooooo… Why not? This game has quite possibly the worst camera you will ever
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You wander around from room to room poking things until you trigger a 5-minute-long chunk of plot exposition-through-dialogue. And not even the kind you can leave playing while you walk away to do something interesting. You have to keep poking options. On the rare occasions that you actually get to do something, it’s trivial and not at all challenging. One memorable scene had me drawing circles on the screen to simulate cranking a wheel that opened a gate. Another had me scrubbing the stylus across the screen to rub rust off a plaque. Whoop-dee doo.

Age rating: 7+ (PEGI) What is it? Update of the “classic” side-scrolling, platformer starring Arthur the Knight. Is it fun? No. Annoying and frustrating, yes. Is it worth the money? £24.99 No. Why? To be honest I never really liked the original Ghosts n’ Goblins game when it was released in the arcades during the
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It’s not a game, it’s an interactive story. And by interactive, I mean that you get the exciting tasks of walking around large areas, carrying objects from one section of the level to another (and back) and, if you’re lucky, the chance to hack into locks through a simple mini-game.

The storyline is entertaining – it’s just not a decent game. There’s hardly any challenge and you get no sense of achievement by playing it. For the most part you’re sitting around watching cut-scenes. You get to choose from dialogue options but it still feels like you’re forced into one outcome.

Also, I finished it in two sittings. Rubbish.

Age Rating: 12+ (PEGI) What is it? A bunch of mini-games based around the touch-screen and microphone inputs. Old for a DS game. Is it fun? Very briefly. Is it worth the money? Around £8-£10 preowned. Noooooooo. Not at all. Not even the £7.97 I paid for it. Maybe if you can find it for
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