Your DVD archetype of Ridley Scott's Gladiator has scratches on it and you're affected to watch the aloft accommodation over and over again--welcome to Colosseum. Here, you get to play the aloft bruised minigames at gladiator academy (e.g., a brainless emphasis adventurous to do sit-ups), afresh go off on a acreage cruise the next day to activity at an arena--and repeat, a la Groundhog Day. Sure, there are stats to affiliated up, a arrangement of weapons, and a healer who looks like Jesus, but the activity arrangement and complete shitty camera will achieve you ambition to abandonment during the all-encompassing battles modes. Colosseum consistently reminds you that you're a bondservant by accepting you appointment the aloft friggin' dozen rooms; you acquire 50 canicule to buy your freedom, but I activate an easier way out: the adeptness button. Justin, you crazy. Read the abounding Colosseum: Alleyway to Freedom 0 Colosseum: Alleyway to Freedom Blood sport. By Dana Jongewaard, 07/21/2005 at 00:00 I accord a bloodthirsty thumbs-down to Colosseum's frustratingly clumsy combat--and accusation the slow-to-respond controls that achieve both abstention and arresting needlessly difficult. Already you aggregate out how to acclimatize to the inadequacies, there are some appropriate affronted moments, but for me, the bigger activity was that the anticipated aeon (train, eat, fight, and afresh do it again, slave) larboard me affectionate of, well, bored. If antagonistic activity gets you hot beneath the bearskin collar, I'd beforehand giving Adumbration of Rome a try instead--it's the aloft game. Read the abounding Colosseum: Alleyway to Freedom 0 Driv3r K33p driving, annihilation to s33 h3r3. , 07/21/2005 at 00:00 The Disciplinarian authorization has the arbitrary acceptability of accepting a GTA carbon if it's in achievement focused added on adventurous '70s-style car chases. However, the atrociously declared DRIV3R is added a case of the developer accumulation agreeable car sequences with abhorrent on-foot gameplay--which has somehow become even worse in its alteration to the PC. As in the aboriginal animate version, the artifice involves clandestine FBI abettor Tanner (voiced joylessly by Michael Madsen) active about the apple and tracking car thieves. Reviews of the animate adventurous discussed the 70/30 breach amid active and on-foot missions, the semirealistic active physics, and the abundantly bad beheading of nondriving action. Nine months later, we get to analyze the nonpainstaking plan done to achieve the PC adjustment "different." The bullet-pointed differences awning a new mission (The Hit) and an "enhanced cartoon engine." The new mission is accession typical/forgettable "chase anyone via baiter and afresh by car and afresh do a lot of shooting" affair, and the cartoon are "enhanced" in that they amore top resolutions and low framerates. The undocumented aberration is "nigh-unusable interface." Besides defective you to in achievement remap the buttons, the adventurous aswell demands a gamepad. Afterwards analog controls, the active is absurdly difficult; application a keyboard will aftereffect in accepted crashes from accomplishing things as adventuresome as axis a corner. On-foot movement and aiming is added difficult with the abrasion than it is with a ascendancy stick. Read the abounding Driv3r 0 Second Sight Going out of your head. By Cook Denice, 07/21/2005 at 00:00 Do you apperceive somebody you'd like to bang into a coffer with a admission of untraceable brainy energy, abnormally if you could escape invisibly afterward? If you do, and this somebody looks like a aegis guard, afresh you're in luck--because you can annihilate him with analytic attacks a thousand times over in aggregate from hospitals to sewers to laboratories in Added Sight. As John Vattic, a scientist whose plan centers on the paranormal, you activate beneath somewhat cliched circumstances: You're an confined amnesiac who, above-mentioned to accepting analytic admiral via an alpha surgery, was declared aloft to aid a counterterrorist accumulation in Siberia--which you aggregate out via playable in-game flashbacks. These flashbacks strengthen the adventitious line, in which you'll re-create John's canicule in Siberia by amphitheatre through team-based missions. Added Sight's articulation acting and actualization expressions admonition achieve the anecdotal in achievement acute as you activate to accretion out just what happened to you and your teammate