Search results for "Nintendo"

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  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.0 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Mario Party DS offers a diverse collection of fun minigames that you can play alone or with your friends. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Hudson Soft, Party, Miscellaneous - party, 1-4 Players

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
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Specs: Everyone, Nintendo, Action, 1-5 Players

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  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.0 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 5.0 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: No matter how many parties you have going on on your Wii already, this is one that you don't want to miss. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Nd Cube, Party, Miscellaneous - party

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  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.0 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: For families and lovers of casual games, the even more affordable Wii still represents the best console bundle value in terms of dollars spent, but it's also the system that's first on deck to be outdated. With the announcement of the Wii U, the Wii is a declining console. Still, its sizable and often unique back library of games is still worth playing. Read review

Specs: Nintendo Wii - Game console, Flash memory card, Nintendo Wii disc, Nintendo GAMECUBE disc, IBM PowerPC, White

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: External, Game console, Arcade stick, Wireless

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.5 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Wii Music is fun and charming, but it's also simple and shallow. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Nintendo, Simulation, 1-4 Players

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Specs: Game controller gun attachment

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  4.5 stars Spectacular

  Overall score: 9.2 (4.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Anyone looking for thrilling action with refined control and a great premise need look no further than Freedom Fighters. Read review

Specs: Teen, Io Interactive, Action, Tactical Third-Person Shooter, Modern, 1-4 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.0 stars Mediocre

  Overall score: 4.6 (2.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse for the GameCube serves as a bullet-point list of reasons why adventure games are being ignored by the general public. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Capcom, Action, Third-Person Adventure, Fantasy, 1 Player

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Game console, Wireless, Black

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  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.8 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: It offers a lengthy, rewarding, thought-provoking experience that truly makes you feel as though the decisions you make, waging one exciting battle after the next, carry serious consequences. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Intelligent Systems, Strategy, Strategy / tactics / wargame - wargame, Fantasy, 1-4 Players

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  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.9 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: Despite the fact that it's still essentially the same game as Super Mario Kart, there is no denying the innate quality of the production of Double Dash. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Nintendo, Driving, Kart Racing, 1-8 Players

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Game controller wireless sensor bar

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
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  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.3 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: While it lacks the multimedia and graphical finesse of the Sony PSP, the feature-packed Nintendo DS is a worthy successor to the Game Boy Advance--but the new and improved DS Lite is available for the same price. Read review

Specs: Nintendo DS - Handheld game console, Cartridge, 2

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.8 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 4 reviews

The Bottom Line: The tedious collecting and shooting levels are made more frustrating by the game's uncooperative camera, and it's a shame that Sega's latest Sonic game has very little to do with the blue hedgehog. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Sonic Team, Action, Action - platformer, 1-2 Players

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Everyone, Genius Sonority Inc., Strategy, Breeding/Constructing, Science-fiction, 1-4 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.4 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 7 reviews

The Bottom Line: Wild World doesn't toy with the original Animal Crossing formula, but simply being able to take your town with you on the go makes it an easy recommendation. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Nintendo, Role-Playing, 1-4 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.0 stars Mediocre

  Overall score: 4.5 (2.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Pokemon Rumble Blast is an overly simplistic, repetitive action game. Read review

Specs: Everyone 10 and older, Ambrella, Action, Action - adventure, Fantasy, 1-2 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.7 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: While its use may be limited, if you're in the market for a microphone-enabled headset for the DS, the Turtle Beach Ear Force D2 is your best bet. Read review

Specs: Headphones - Binaural, Headset, On-ear, Pink, Stereo

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 4 reviews

Specs: Everyone, Nintendo, Adventure, Action - adventure, 1 Player

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Nintendo DSi - Handheld game console, Flash memory card, Cartridge, ARM9 134 MHz, Matte red

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Games - action, Action - adventure, Fantasy

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.5 stars Spectacular

  Overall score: 9.2 (4.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Ages is a wonderful game in its own right, and as a set with Seasons, it comes as highly recommended as a game can be. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Flagship, Action

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.0 stars Good

  Overall score: 6.2 (3.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Excitebike is a solid trip down memory lane for fans of the original NES game. But is that trip worth $20? Probably not. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Nintendo, Driving, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.7 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: While not all previous DS owners should upgrade, the DSi is an ambitious and solidly designed portable gaming system. Read review

Specs: Nintendo DSi - Handheld game console, Cartridge, Flash memory card, ARM9 134 MHz, White

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: External, Game console, Light gun, Wireless, Orange, AAA type

• CNET Editor rating:
  3.5 stars Very good

  Overall score: 7.2 (3.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 7 reviews

The Bottom Line: Does Brain Age actually make you smarter? We have no idea, but it's still an interesting puzzle game available at a budget price. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Nintendo, Edutainment, Miscellaneous - puzzle, 1-16 Players

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: K-A, SquareSoft, Role-Playing

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.5 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Beetle Adventure Racing is a great deal of fun. It's an excellent game, whatever genre or sub-genre you try to classify it in. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Paradigm Entertainment, Driving, Arcade Racing, 1-4 Players

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Nintendo 3DS - Handheld game console, Cartridge, Flash memory card, 2 GB, Midnight purple, 320 x 240

• CNET Editor rating:
  2.5 stars Average

  Overall score: 5.8 (2.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: The license goes a long way to keep the game and story interesting, but it's frustrating that the game itself wasn't better. Read review

Specs: Mature, Iguana Entertainment, Action, General Action, 1-4 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.5 stars Spectacular

  Overall score: 9.2 (4.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: Although Capcom's Flagship team actually handled development on the two games, both of them pack in everything one expects from a good Zelda adventure. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Flagship, Action, Fantasy Action Adventure, Fantasy

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.5 stars Spectacular

  Overall score: 9.0 (4.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 1 review

The Bottom Line: Time has done nothing to dampen the funky and fresh platforming served up by Super Mario Bros. 3 Read review

Specs: Everyone

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Games - action, Action - platformer, Action - adventure, Fantasy

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  0.5 stars Abysmal

  Overall score: 1.3 (0.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

The Bottom Line: It serves no purpose other than to firmly establish the bottom of the barrel. Read review

Specs: Everyone, Titus Software, Adventure, General Adventure, 1-4 Players

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.0 stars Excellent

  Overall score: 8.2 (4.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 2 reviews

The Bottom Line: Hotel Dusk weaves an absorbing noir-style mystery with traditional adventure game elements and stylish presentation and does it all with a deft touch. Read review

Specs: Teen, Cing, Adventure, Adventure - first person adventure, 1 Player

• CNET Editor rating:
  4.5 stars Spectacular

  Overall score: 9.1 (4.5 stars)
• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 8 reviews

The Bottom Line: The Wii and WarioWare are a perfect match. Read review

Specs: Everyone 10 and older, Intelligent Systems, Party, Miscellaneous - party, 1-4 Players

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  Overall score: 0.0 (0.0 stars)
• Average user rating: 0 stars No reviews, write one!

Specs: Nintendo Entertainment System - Game console, Cartridge, 6508 1.79 MHz, 16 KB - Integrated, 256 x 224