Rare Review: Perfect Dark Zero
Perfect Dark Zero has a feeling that it doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. It’s a prequel to the much loved Perfect Dark…
Rare Review: Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty’s Revenge
The criminally overlooked Banjo game – even by myself. Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie are loved by many, Nuts & Bolts get unfair hate (it’s a brilliant…
Rare Review: Kameo: Elements of Power
Rare’s take on an epic fantasy, Kameo: Elements of Power gives us a story of Elves and trolls, although interestingly, there are no humans in…
Rare Review: Perfect Dark
The spiritual successor to GoldenEye. Without the Bond license, Rare made their own spy thriller, set in the near-future with the kick-ass Joanna Dark. Then…
Rare Review: Banjo-Tooie
Banjo-Tooie is much bigger than Banjo-Kazooie, with vast, interconnected levels, more variety in terms of minigames, new transformations and worlds with some more amazing music…
Rare Review: Conker Live & Reloaded
A remake of Conker’s Bad Fur Day, I was curious to see how different they feel. In terms of the crazy plot, rude dialogue and…
Rare Review: Grabbed by the Ghoulies
The only thing I really knew about Grabbed by the Ghoulies before going into it is that even Rare themselves mock the game, making fun…
Rare Review: GoldenEye 007
GoldenEye 007 Note: this is a bit of a “what if” review. In 2008, Rare were working on a remastered version of GoldenEye on Xbox…
Rare Review: Conker’s Bad Fur Day
When Rare first showed off Conker 64, it was criticised for being too close to Banjo-Kazooie: a cutesy and cuddly platformer. Rare took this on…
Rare Review: Jet Force Gemini
When I was younger, I got so close to beating Jet Force Gemini but never could because I couldn’t save all the Tribals (cute cuddly…