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Spiderman
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Genre: Action
Developer: Neversoft
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What makes this
video game great is
that it captures the
essence of the Spiderman comic
books perfectly. It is fun to play,
easy to follow and full of great
characters such as Dr. Octopus,
Venom and The Rhino to keep the
game interesting.
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as he leaps from building to build
ing, swinging and catapulting off of
anything he can get his hands on.
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Chrorio Cross
System: Playstation
Genre: RPG
Developer: Squaresoft
Chrorio Cross has a lot to live up to. Almost five
years ago, Chrono Trigger, one of the best role-playing
games ever to be released, debuted on the Super Nin
tendo. Chrono Cross, the sequel to this legendary game,
does not live up to its predecessor.
Not to say this is a bad game. The game has very
good qualities that easily make it one of the better
RPGs to be released on the Playstation, but it is not up
to the usual fare of Squaresoft games that keep players
up late at night not only to play the game, but to see
what happens next in an innovative plot.
What made Chrono Trigger a great game was how it
limited the fantasy element of the game, making it a
Jules Verne-like adventure through time and space.
Chrono Cross heavily follows a fantasy plotline with
the same boring qualities that make the modemRP
genre stagnant.
The graphics are. of course, top-notch and batik
quences are smooth and fun. But the plot does not
pare with Chrono Trigger. Most of the plot is then
fantasy fare, with dragons and mystical items. The
game does break out of the mold with cross-dim®
al time travel, some excellent time distortions and
amazing lands at the edge of time and space. These
twists make the game worth playing, but one haste
wonder why the twists constitute so little of theta'
while the boring fantasy in the main world makes;
the rest.
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Squaresoft’s greatest, hut it is one of the bettergi
has produced in recent years. (Grade: B)
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