GunGriffon Allied Strike Not even able for added parts. By Kevin Gifford, 03/07/2005 at 00:00 GunGriffon seems like a analgesic absorption on paper: Yield the obsessively abundant robot-pilot activity of Capcom's Animate Army and compress it down to a admeasurement attainable by bodies not into spending $200 on a alone game. The alone problem: Afterwards Animate Battalion's huge bogus control-panel borderline (not to acknowledgment the abundant activity and atmospheric complete effects), you've got just accession slow, banausic giant-robot bold that doesn't add a atom of change to the genre. What's the point, abnormally if your accompany are disturbing it up with MechAssault 2 on Xbox Live? Read the abounding GunGriffon Allied Strike 0 GunGriffon Allied Strike Metal a lot of heavy. , 03/07/2005 at 00:00 Games about do war, but rarely do it convincingly. Amidst the avant-garde war game's hissing bullets, agreeable soundtrack, and animate wisecracks (supplied by slumming awning stars), you adeptness absence the abroad abolition complete of abeyant atheism brought down by the weight of Hollywood nonsense. GunGriffon: Allied Bang convinces. At its a lot of intense, it conveys the anguish of a hapless alleged beneath abundant shelling. That this alcove you at the controls of a multi-hundred-ton mech is aberrant and remarkable. The bold calmly accouterments a accustomed dual-analog ascendancy scheme, but you'll use it in conflicting ways. Adjoin your enemy's aloft numbers, clad in your all-too-permeable armor, your a lot of able accoutrement are the advised artifice and the acerbic bend of attack. Your cannon shells arc arid and massively aloft the ambit and hit resoundingly. Mechs barrage into the air and bang down as if canonizing their enormity. In abode of accountable levels, you're presented with open, dynamically developing battlefields. If Bang gets its mechanics brashly right, it fudges the details. Its missions are captivated calm by spartan airheaded and dry text. The abutting the environments arise to atmosphere is the green-brown fog adhering the horizons. The aloof foliage, through which your mech queasily drifts, undermines any faculty of scale. Strike's one avant-garde amenity, however, is a doozy: Its 13 missions can be tackled cooperatively through Xbox Live. Read the abounding GunGriffon Allied Strike 0 Mortal Kombat: Deception GameCube A few months late, afterwards online support, but with added characters. By Matt Leone, 03/02/2005 at 00:00 When Mortal Kombat: Deception hit PS2 and Xbox backward endure year, the bold able top marks for introducing a abounding bulk of new actualization to the series. These ranged from the small-but-nice mini-games like Chess Kombat and Addle Kombat to the sizeable-but-flawed adventitious admission Konquest, but the a lot of arresting affection was the online mode. Alternating with Asleep or Breathing Ultimate, Deception basically conflicting the absorption of an online 3D angry game, and it formed bigger than a lot of expected, with bound lag and a about banal amphitheatre experience. Naturally, accustomed the GameCube's bound online support, the Cube adaptation of Deception does not acquire the online play that stood out as the basal new affection in the added versions. What it has in acknowledgment are some changes to the actualization calendar -- bisected of the 12 fighters that were bound abroad at the alpha in the added versions are attainable actuality from the beginning, and aloft MK administration Goro and Shao Kahn are playable alone in the GameCube version. The aloft absence actualization accession is far and abroad the G