Batman vs. Superman is out, and moviegoers everywhere finally got to see the Caped Crusader square off against the Man of Steel! Of course, this is old news if you’ve already been playing 2008’s Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.
Yup! Mortal Kombat – the super-violent fighting game where the heroes kill each other at the end of their matches VERSUS the DC Universe, known for its heroes who won’t kill no matter what.
On this episode of THAT WAS A GAME, we look at Fortress, a Tetris/Tower Defense mashup with space aliens, pterodactyls, and pirates!
We conclude our look at Star Wars racing games (for the moment) by checking out Disney Infinity 3.0’s “Toy Box Speedway” mode. We also comment on the weirdness of Disney Infinity 3.0 in general, like Hulk piloting an AT-ST and Chewbacca driving through Gravity Falls!
Hey everybody, do you like Mario Kart? Do you like Star Wars? What if I told you there was a Star Wars racing game in the style of Mario Kart? Today, we’re talking about Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing.
Yes, today we’re talking about Star Wars: Racer Revenge for the PlayStation 2.
Remember Star Wars: Episode One Racer, the futuristic F-Zero X/Extreme-G-esque racing game for the Nintendo 64? Well…we’re not looking at that game. We’re looking at the Game Boy Color port of Star Wars: Episode One Racer.
What we got was a fairly generic early 16-bit platformer.
We continue our James Bond series by looking at a Muppets/007 parody – Spy Muppets: License to Croak for the Game Boy Advance. Kermit stars as Agent Frog, Gonzo plays villain Dr. Nose, and Miss Piggy appears as double-agent Piggy Galore!
We continue looking at weird James Bond 007 videogames by looking at 2004’s JAMES BOND 007: EVERYTHING OR NOTHING for the Gamecube, Playstation 2, and original Xbox. EVERYTHING OR NOTHING marks Pierce Brosnan’s last turn as the British superspy.
It’s also incredibly strange because publisher Electronic Arts pulled out all the stops to make this as close as possible to “The next James Bond movie, but in game form!” To do this, they hired Bruce Feirstein, writer of Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, and The World is Not Enough, to pen the game script. And they filled the game with a star-studded cast of motion-captured automatons, played by Pierce Brosnan, Willem Dafoe, Heidi Klum, John Cleese, and Dame Judi Dench.
You guys, 2004 was a weird time for videogames.
I am very pleased to announce THAT WAS A GAME – the newest show on the All My Friends Network!
THAT WAS A GAME is our first video series, specifically looking at odd uses of classic IPs and licenses in videogame form. On our first episode, we look at 1998’s “James Bond 007”, a Game Boy game made in the wake of the Nintendo 64’s “Goldeneye 007”.
James Bond 007 is a very odd game, and it shares more in common with The Legend of Zelda than Goldeneye. On THAT WAS A GAME, we explore what makes the game so odd and recommend if it’s worth your time.
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