Best Puzzle/Rhythm Game
Guitar Hero |
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Developer: Harmonix Music Systems Platform: PlayStation 2 ESRB: Teen Check Prices Guitar Hero plays fantastically, it has great music, and, for a change, it's a rhythm game that's accessible to beginners. |
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Lumines |
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Developer: Q Entertainment Platform: PSP ESRB: Everyone 10+ Check Prices Between the beautiful presentation, the innovative gameplay, and the excellent single-player and multiplayer modes, Lumines may very well be the greatest Tetris-style puzzle game since Tetris itself. |
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Meteos |
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Developer: Q Entertainment Platform: DS ESRB: Everyone Check Prices One of the best DS games yet, Meteos delivers a unique and successful twist on the puzzle game formula. |
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WarioWare: Twisted! |
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Developer: Nintendo Platform: Game Boy Advance ESRB: Everyone Check Prices WarioWare: Twisted! is a great game that any Nintendo portable owner can enjoy. |
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We Love Katamari |
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Developer: Now Production Platform: PlayStation 2 ESRB: Everyone Check Prices We Love Katamari delivers more of the same fetchingly enjoyable gameplay and whimsical humor that made Katamari Damacy so much fun. |
Platform: PlayStation 2 ESRB: Teen At first glance, Guitar Hero might not seem like much, especially if you're one of the handful of people dedicated enough to the genre to have played or imported games from Konami's Guitar Freaks series. But it doesn't take much time to realize that Guitar Hero is much, much more than a clone. It has an attention to detail that makes all of the cover songs contained on the disc almost as great as the originals. It has a song list that spans many generations of rock, from Jimi Hendrix to Franz Ferdinand. And it has a nice, sloping learning curve that lets new players get their feet wet with the easy version of "I Love Rock & Roll," while tougher players can work their way up to something truly villainous, like Ozzy's "Bark at the Moon" on expert. Toss in a whammy bar, and you've got 2005's best puzzle/rhythm game, by a long shot. |