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Star Raiders Review

tar Raiders achieves the incredible, somehow taking all the fun out of being a hotshot space pilot.

The Bad

• Woefully inadequate tutorials   
• Dull dogfights   
• Destroying capital ships is painfully tedious   
• Bland visuals and annoying sound effects.

The original 1979 Star Raiders was a complex and ambitious space combat game that involved navigating across the galaxy via hyperspace, scanning for hostiles, and managing damage to weapons, engines, and other ship components. It also had a sense of humor; at the end of a game, heroic players might earn the rank of Star Commander, while less successful pilots might be designated Galactic Cooks. Now, following in the footsteps of last month's Yar's Revenge, which also took the title of an Atari classic, is a new game called Star Raiders. But it possesses none of the ambition or fun of its namesake. On the contrary, Star Raiders is an awful space combat game, with nothing to offer to newcomers and only anguish in store for those with fond memories of the original.

AFL Live Review

AFL Live offers up a fun game of Aussie Rules that gets the basics right but little else.

The Good

• Feels and plays like the real thing   
• Fun playing with friends.

The Bad

• Average looks   
• Bare-bones features   
• Some sluggish controls   
• Awful commentary.

Australian Rules Football video games have a long history of mediocrity, so it may not seem much to proclaim AFL Live as the best digital re-creation of the sport to come along in years. The praise may be faint, but it's still deserved, because AFL Live nails the basics of Aussie Rules much more so than other recent attempts, feeling and moving like an authentic re-creation of the fast-moving, bruising sport. It's a pity the rest of the package doesn't match the core gameplay; AFL Live features bugger-all game modes, mediocre looks, and at times dodgy AI. The game doesn't build on its promising foundations, making it fun to play with friends but merely passable at other times.