Betting with Heirs in Vegas Tales: An FMV Game
Vegas Tales is an interesting new FMV game where you are hired to interview four sets of people to see who most deserves to inherit a Las Vegas resort when its owner passes away. Featuring light investigation and heavy interviewing, Vegas Tales provides a unique take on interactive movies.
Analyzing an FMV Psychological Thriller: I Saw Black Clouds
The psychological thriller FMV game I Saw Black Clouds plays more like an interactive movie than a videogame. If you are looking for a spooky psychological thriller that is easy to play but difficult to master, then I Saw Black Clouds can provide that mind-blowing and spine-chilling experience.
Exploring The Dark Side of the Moon: An FMV Adventure
The Dark Side of the Moon is an interactive FMV adventure and mystery that begins as one man searching for his lost children and evolves into an epic sci-fi thriller where the fate of his family hangs in the balance.
Checking Out the Horror Adventure of Night Book
Night Book is an occult thriller interactive movie game from Wales Interactive that has players trying to keep the main character and her family alive as she faces off with vindictive spirits and a lingering curse that threatens to destroy everything she loves.
Motesolo: An FMV Adventure of the Heart
Kimo Kang has never had a girlfriend despite being almost 30 years old. Guide this lovable loser through a challenging and sometimes painful blind date in this delightful FMV game from Korean developer Indicava Interactive.
Amazing Dark Nights With Poe and Munro Creeps to Consoles
Set up like a television series, the Dark Nights With Poe and Munro game follows two charismatic radio hosts as they fumble through some strange and at times unsettling supernatural mysteries while also building up their relationship and trying to stay alive.
Williams Pinball Brings Back Classic Arcade Action
Williams Pinball: Volume 5 features three classic tables from the golden age of arcades. All are faithfully reproduced with beautiful graphics and accurate ball and gameplay physics. Tables in this volume include Tales of the Arabian Nights, Cirqus Voltaire and No Good Gofers.
A Plague Tale: Surviving the Rat Race
A Plague Tale: Innocence is one of the most engrossing (and sometimes simply gross) adventure titles to come out in a long time. Set during a time of plague, it finds a vulnerable young French girl and her little brother trying to survive invaders, angry peasantry, the Inquisition, and billions of very hungry rats.
Rock Out, And Learn Something Too
Rocksmith is the next logical step in guitar music games, where you plug in your actual guitar to your console, and then learn how to play it. It’s a neat concept done well, but may not have mass appeal.
Mata Hari: Beauty Meets Brains
Mata Hari offers a gorgeous adventure game that follows the life of the legendary dancer and spy from her humble beginnings and on into The Great War.
Cute And Cuddly Is Family Fun
Sometimes animals have to take the long way home, by way of a shelter. The Happy Tails Animal Shelter game is a wonderful family title that teaches responsibility and care for our furry friends.
Even Crazier Machines
The wacky contraptions of Crazy Machines 2 trump even their predecessor, and now your family can burn, shoot and explode gadgets in full 3D.
Stretching Your Brain
If you want to keep your body fit, you head to the gym. If you want to keep your mind fit, give Brainiversity a workout.
We Be Jammin'
The I Can Play Guitar game system from Mattel is a lot of fun, and unlike most guitar games, can actually teach you a bit about really playing an instrument.
A Grandmaster Jr.
Fritz & Chesster’s Chess For Winners teaches advanced chess concepts to children in a fun and entertaining, yet structurally sound, manner.
Probing Paris
Nancy Drew flies to Paris to discover the source of a fashion designer’s madness in Danger by Design, and gets involved with a much older mystery in the City of Lights.
Hold Em' or Fold Em?
Stacked With Daniel Negreanu is a good poker simulation, but the difficulty levels are a bit out of alignment with your standard player.
A Good Catch
My Sim Aquarium combines realistic tropical fish behavior and stunning panoramic views of dream tanks. And you can make your creation your screensaver.
Erector Set Squared
Crazy Machines is a fun and addicting title that will have you building amazing contraptions to perform simple tasks.
Morning Gromit!
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is, like the hit movie, good Halloween fun that’s not too scary for either kids or adults.
Get a Grip
The GlovesPlay covers will turn your standard PS2, Xbox or GameCube controllers into a luxurious experience.
Getting an Edge
For casual gamers looking for a fun way to pass some time, Edges is a fun diversion that requires both luck and skill.
Fritz 8 is Brains and Beauty
The Fritz 8 chess game is a powerful teacher of chess, and also a powerful opponent. Many times during my tests I felt like a grandmaster was sitting the room with me, analyzing my every move. I can safely say that I am a better chess player because of my experience with Fritz 8. When […]
Fritz checkmates other chess tutors
Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster is a bit like a wolverine in that it’s cute and furry on the outside, but has some real teeth once you get involved with it. Although the game is designed to teach children how to play chess, the underlying engine is Fritz, which is a mighty […]
Nancy Drew Sleuths Out a Winner
In the mood for an interactive mystery adventure? HER Interactive then can fill your order with Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion. This is the third game in a series of 3D Nancy Drew interactive mystery games that HER Interactive has produced. There is a new one about to come out, but in the […]
Jack Attack 2 is for Kids and You
In the family titles realm, playing a game with your children often involves letting the child click around the screen while the adult supervises, offers advice, helps at sticky situations and generally acts as advisor. Jack Attack 2 takes a different approach. It offers a platform where the child and parent can actually play together. […]
Sheep is Wild and Wooly Fun
Empire Interactive’s game Sheep is a puzzle/strategy game that allows us to pull the wool away from over our eyes and seek the truth. Those seemingly innocent little lambs grazing out on the open fields are exposed in this game as being former genius beings from another planet. The story goes that originally these highly […]
Mia 2 Makes Science Cool
The long quest to find a children’s title that actually makes science fun has ended. There are a myriad of programs out there that teach reading and other more basic subjects, and even more that are little more than entertainment wrapped in the cloak of educational software. But a program that could teach children the […]
Max and the Pirates Makes Reading Fun
Max and the Pirates is the latest game in the Max series, where the lovable little bear goes on adventures around their world. This time around Max and his famous inventor Uncle Pong find themselves on vacation along the Jivery Coast. The game starts out with Pong and Max relaxing on the beach. You can […]
Super Scattergories is scatter-brained fun
From the time you hear the beginning swinging tidings of the Super Scattergories’ theme song, you know that you are in for quite a fun and intense ride. Hasbro Interactive has brought the word category board game Scattergories to the CD-ROM platform. Super Scattergories can be played in a variety of ways. Gaming options include […]
Explore Mars with Lego
When Pathfinder touched down on Mars and began exploring the red planet, it was a milestone in human history. But assembling a Pathfinder robot in your living room will be a milestone in family history. The Lego Exploration Mars builder kit is basically an expansion pack for the Robotics Invention System, version 1.5. That means […]
The Sims is Sim-ply amazing
The Sims is a game for anyone who thinks that real life is boring. And that must be a pretty good number because The Sims is the best seller in the nation this week. Created by the same folks who made the popular SimCity series, The Sims drills down to the neighborhood level of a […]
Lego Mindstorms Droid Developer Kit is pure family fun
If I could envision a box of family fun, this would be pretty close to what I would imagine it to be. The Lego Mindstorms Droid Developer Kit is a seamless marriage of tactile exploration and computer enhancement. The computer component of the product does not get in they way of the building phase, but […]
Hoyle Board Games will leave users anything but bored
Nothing can bring a family together like a board game. Especially the really well made ones like Yahtzee, Parchesi and checkers. But although the computer has a world of multimedia to tap into, games originally built for group fun never really successfully made the transition. The computer until very recently was a stationary object, and […]
Yoda’s Challenge will sharpen young minds
Lucas Learning Ltd. has developed an Episode One inspired title for young Jedis-in-training ages 6 to 8. Yoda’s Challenge Activity Center has the player join Yoda in the Jedi Council Chamber. Yoda invites the player to choose from six different missions to work on mastering. Interestingly enough, each mission teach valuable skills. Once the player […]
Mia is a heroine kids can love
Canadian company Kutoka Interactive’s foray into the children’s computer entertainment and educational market is a good one. Mia: The Search for Grandma’s Remedy has all the elements that can capture a child’s attention: a lovable heroine, an interesting plot and lots of visual effects. Players take on the role of over-stuffed mouse Mia as she […]
The Axe strikes a blow for armchair musicians
Air guitarists and musician wanna-be’s everywhere now have an outlet for their musical aspirations and frustrations. Harmonix has developed The Axe – Titans of Classic Rock just for this purpose. Music enthusiasts can jam out to some of their favorite classic rock tunes by using a joystick, mouse or computer keyboard as their makeshift axe. […]
Tonka Raceway takes the checkered flag
Hasbro Interactive has driven car racing games to a new level of fun and complexity for the younger crowd. And this game offers a variety of options entertaining enough to keep the attention of youngsters’ speeding minds. Not only does the player get to race, he or she gets to modify vehicles, change the race […]
Oregon Trail 3rd Edition blazes new educational ground
Once again the Oregon Trail is open for business, or at least for a virtual trip into pioneer times. The Learning Company is allowing gamers to blaze the trail once again through the game The Oregon Trail Pioneer Adventures 3rd Edition. This game in its various editions has been a popular program in schools for […]
Backyard Soccer scores with young gamers
Humongous Entertainment has developed a game that will surely give young soccer enthusiasts a kick. Backyard Soccer takes players into realistic neighborhood soccer competitions with a variety of great features that any sports fanatic (young or old) will enjoy. This game is marketed for kids from ages five to ten years old. This game has […]
DroidWorks uses Star Wars gang as a powerful learning tool
Lucas Learning Ltd. has created a dream program for any Star Wars fans out there who ever fantasized of building their own droids. This game is called Star Wars DroidWorks and it amazingly combines entertainment and scientific learning all into one. Parents should have as much fun solving the many puzzles in the game as […]
Arthur mixes entertainment and education
Fans of Marc Brown’s Arthur series will be happy to know that Broderbund (now The Learning Company) has produced Arthur’s Computer Adventure. Arthur, D.W., Buster, and Arthur’s parents are all featured in this game package. This package revolves around the story of Arthur’s computer adventure. This part of the program offers a narrator reading the […]
Pajama Sam 2 won’t exactly take the industry by storm
Humongous Entertainment’s Pajama Sam 2 Thunder and Lightning Aren’t so Frightening is the follow-up adventure to this company’s award winning release of Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It’s Dark Outside. Pajama Sam 2 was designed with the purpose of easing children’s fears of thunder and lightning in a creative and imaginative manner. This […]
Carmen Sandiego grows up, adds new educational features
Broderbund’s "Carmen Sandiego: World Detective" is quite a package. It not only involves the player in detective work trying to track down Carmen Sandiego and her criminal pals through 50 countries all over the globe, but it also can lead the player to more scholastically-oriented treasures by using the package’s multimedia library, direct Internet access […]