Armorines (N64)

*A review of Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M. for the N64 which primarily focuses on the single-player experience.* The game - an FPS based on the Armorines comic book by Valiant Comics - is said to use the same engine as in Turok 2: Seeds Of Evil. VISUAL Despite the missions being in locations such as Siberia and Egypt, the textures throughout Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M. are bland. There are levels where too often it was dark, with there being little to show when it came to the lighting effects. Now, with the infrared goggles there is a sniper mode - the fogging in this game is not too heavy - and a night-vision mode. In the latter the view is ...  Read the complete review

While the Nintendo 64 probably won't be remembered, certainly not by this gamer, as a particulart highlight in the history of videogaming, it did boast one major positive that no console before it managed; the ability to truly enjoy a First-Person-Shooter(FPS) without a PC. Rare's Goldeneye 007 was the game that essentially made the console FPS, and without it we may never have had Halo amongst many other good console FPS games. However, as you would expect, with Goldeneye being such a huge success, hundreds of companies decided to try their hand at capturing some of the money that new fans of the FPS would be looking to spend, and the console was inundated ...  Read the complete review