SEGA POWER REVIEW

Rocket Knight Adventures

Were Sparkster’s charms able to win over a platformer-fatigued Sega Power in 1993? Find out here…

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Dan Dare: Pilot Of The Future

Nick laments being born a bit too late to get on board with this excellent comic adventure…

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Mercenary

Adventures in scumbaggery, not with a reader but our own team. (We’re awful)

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Classic Moments: Atic Atac

We look back at all the greatest moments from this classic Spectrum adventure. How many of the following bits do you remember?

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Burning Rangers

Sonic Team takes a look at the Saturn’s limitations and decides to systematically smash them.

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Katamari Damacy

If there’s one thing that we can be truly thankful for, it’s the fact that gaming enjoys – by and large – a global market now

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Bandana City

How good is the other side of that C64 head alignment tape? Let’s find out…

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Rasterscan

Retrobate Mark Howlett looks back at Mastertronic’s arcade adventure

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Popeye

A cartoon caper that does an admirable job of representing its source material

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Conan: The Cimmerian

Retrobate Nostromo is here with a look back at this PC adventure

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Syphon Filter

There’s a reason that nobody remembers Eidetic as “the Bubsy 3D guys” – and that’s because they did something far more impressive…

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Sonic Adventure

Darran Jones takes a look back at Sonic’s first proper 3D game.

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Knightmare

Spellcasting: F, R, U, S, T, R, A…

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Headhunter

Arriving in the wake of the late Nineties stealth boom, Headhunter was one of the last hurrahs for the Dreamcast. Find out if it lived up to expectations…

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Haunted House

Darran returns to this innovative survival horror game.

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Geordie Racer

We didn’t learn much from this BBC Micro educational adventure…

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Thanatos

Johnny Marr recalls how great it felt to take control of a proper fire-breathing dragon.

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Bureaucracy

Douglas Adams’ painfully satirical text adventure has its forms rubber-stamped by Retrobate ncf1.

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The Last Of Us

Why Naughty Dog’s epic game is probably the best you’ll ever play. Warning, spoilers included.

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Bimbo

Given the time of year, here’s a treat: a game about a bunny by a man named Easter.

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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Snake Eater is one of the best Metal Gear Solid games around. Don’t believe us? Then read on.

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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

We go back to one of the greatest Eighties homages of all time.

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Ico

We take a look at one of the most enchanting games you’re ever likely to play.

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Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny

Discover why Capcom’s sequel is the best game in the Onimusha series.

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Metroid Prime

Discover how Retro Studios turned Metroid Prime into one of the best first-person adventures of all time.

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Shenmue

Was Yu Suzuki’s expensive epic worth the hype? Ryan McNeilly thinks so.

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Total Recall

A little behind the scenes insight into Ocean’s fun shooter.

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Fantastic Dizzy

Dizzy may look cute, but this is one tough game.

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Alien 8

Ultimate made superb isometric adventure games on the Amstrad. Here’s one of the best.

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Eden Blues

Stuart Hunt returns to this quirky French Amstrad release.

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Lost in Time

An interesting take on the point-and-click adventures of old.

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Demon’s Crest

The demon from Ghosts N Goblins gets to star in his very own game.

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Super Robin Hood

We take a look back at this fun little adventure from the Oliver twins.

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Jaws

Another terrible game from LJN based on a popular film licence.

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Back To The Future

Is this truly one of the worst games of all time? We think it is.

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The Legend Of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures

Find out what happened when Nintendo split Link into four

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Metroid: Zero Mission

We explain why everyone should play Nintendo’s GBA reboot of its classic NES game

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Red Dead Redemption

How Rockstar made the Wild West cool again

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La Abadia del Crimen

Relatively unknown, this fantastic Spanish game from Opera Software and the genius of Paco Menendez recreates in a masterful way the novel by Umberto Eco "The Name of the Rose" pushing the Amstrad CPC to its limit…

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Clock Tower

This game is such a mis-match of nonesense and awesome I’m really not sure if I love or loathe it.