Backyard Kings
Backyard Wrestling 2 really improves over its lukewarm predecessor. This is crazy wrestling action where anything from garden hoses to office equipment are weapons.
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A Sexy Battle Royal
If you like to see girls wrestling each other, look no further than DOA Ultimate as catfight week continues at GiN.
Real Roses Have Thorns
GiN concentrates this week on Rumble Roses and Dead or Alive Ultimate, for the most cat-fighting, mud-wrestling action ever seen!
Football 2005 Roundup
Todd Hargosh brings us his yearly football roundup, showing which games are worthy of your console gridiron. It’s down to two, but the action is still red hot!
Court is in Session
Smash Court Tennis 2: Pro Tournament serves up a good deal of tennis strategy, but the interface is a bit difficult to master.
Wipeout!
Carve tries to ride the popular wave of aquatic racing games, but poor graphics and gameplay make this title wipeout.
Beach Bums
If the Better Business Bureau were ever to do a seminar on how to identify false advertising, Ultimate Beach Soccer should be their centerpiece. With the word "beach" in the title and a cover adorned by two bikini-clad women you would think Ultimate Beach Soccer was just another title trying to capitalize on the popularity of other hormone-enraging titles such as DOA: Xtreme Beach Volleyball or Outlaw Volleyball. Unfortunately, like those games the gameplay absolutely sucks in UBV, but there isn’t a single digital gal to give at least the guys some relief. What we’re left with instead is a … Continue reading Beach Bums
Violent, Demented Fun
Backyard Wrestling is not something for the kiddies. Though a very fascinating American subculture, the Backyard Wrestling videos contain everything you wouldn’t want your little brother seeing. Backyard Wrestlers aren’t just athletes – they’re machines. Immune to pain, backyard wrestlers do everything from stab each other with bottles, hit each other with barbed wire enwrapped bats, and even fall three stories through tables engulfed in flames. It’s sick, it’s demented, and unbelievably entertaining to anyone who doesn’t have a weak stomach. So, when Eidos announced half a year or so ago that they would be release a game based on … Continue reading Violent, Demented Fun
Takin' it to the Street
Let me take you to a place where there are no "Mile High Stadiums" or "Lombardi Fields." No camera crews or sellout crowds. No big commercial deals or million dollar contracts and no playoff berths or Superbowl appearances. Just a place where serious ballers go to live their dreams, play for bragging rights, defend their honor and their turf and of course do a little trash-talking. Any true baller knows that the origin of all football began in a backyard, or in a wide-open field, on the blacktop of an abandoned parking lot, in the alleyways of a Slum, or … Continue reading Takin' it to the Street
GiN 2004 Hockey Report
Last years virtual NHL season saw a new champion emerge in the form of Sega Sports’ NHL 2K3, whose realistic gameplay and newly acquired ESPN presentation was able to overcome the shadow created by EA Sports. EA’s NHL 2003 fell below expectations with gameplay that felt way too arcade-like, and the addition of the "Gamebreaker" feature (used mainly in the NBA Street series) didn’t help much for NHL purists, which was sad considering how I considered the previous NHL 2002 to be a vast improvement on the series. What Madden used to suffer with an "odd year curse" seems to … Continue reading GiN 2004 Hockey Report