Excerpt: The rise of Nintendo can be directly tied to games that commanded the imagination of the player. Those games can also be directly tied to the man who designed most of...
Excerpt: Pikmin is an unusual blend that works magnificently: the characters and even the enemies have a certain "cuteness" to them, but the fatalistic struggle is placed in a
Pros: Excellently realized world, Easy to pick up real-time strategy, Great learning curve
Cons: Short length, In-game camera is challenging to use
Excerpt: Have you ever wondered what it would be like if your garden came to life? The carrots fighting with a head of lettuce, some celery snoozing in the sun, a couple of Lima...
Pros: The ability to control an entire army of pikmin makes this game incredible. It's like having control over a school of fish!
Cons: This game has a 30-day time limit, so there's no time for dilly-dally.
Excerpt: Pikmin is a wildly original real time strategy game that is quite a bit of fun. You play as Olimar, a stranded astronaut that crashed on an alien planet.