Second Opinion: Mario Kart DS

Another year, another Mario Kart. It’s 2005 and the long awaited Mario Kart DS is finally released onto the shelves of video game stores nation-wide, the title originally preped for release in May of this year. This is for those that don’t follow the series, the 5th Mario Kart to be released since it’s ancestor: ‘Super Mario Kart’ on the good old SNES, these games are reborn fairly sparsely when compared to other Mario games, namely the Mario party series which seems to have a new incarnation with the changing of the guard.
Mario Kart DS is the first of it’s kind to be released on the DS and is somewhat of a saving grace for the fledling console; with many great titles appearing on the DS, none of them seem to be having a huge impact on the gaming community and Mario Kart DS is just the sort of high profile game that the console needs to regain some of the gaming community’s attention.

Second Opinion – Far Cry (PC)

by Sideath
original review

The PC is no place for Generic shooters! Munki cries.

Far Cry is not generic. Far from it. Indeed, it couldn’t last a match against Half Life 2, but at least it’s better than Doom 3… and surely it’s worth more than 6 and a half out of ten! OK, the storyline isn’t sublime, the control system and gameplay isn’t revolutionary, and the audio isn’t the best in the world, and definetly does not match up to the amazing atmosphere of Thief: Deadly Shadows.