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In December of 2001, a new RPG series hit the scene for PlayStation 2, entitled Shadow Hearts. With its Lovecraftian horror and distorted take on historical events and characters, the franchise was a unique, dark, and unpredictable. In this episode of Replay, we take a look the first Shadow Hearts, the... More

Years before Arkham Asylum blew Batman fans away with its treatment of the character, Volition attempted to give a similar treatment to The Punisher. While it wasn't a massive success, it's hard to deny that the game captures the spirit of the hyper-violent revenge story. We decided to revisit... More

After Rare gave Donkey Kong his own game and crafted a 3D model of Pierce Brosnan for Goldeneye, the developer made a cinematic sci-fi shooter called Jet Force Gemini. It was the true start of the popular helmeted-space-soldier-alien-shooter motif nearly two years before Halo released on the Xbox. Jet... More

Grand Theft Auto III was the first entry in the series to feature a 3D open world, but it wasn't the first time that the development team tackled the concept. That honor goes to the N64 game Body Harvest, which DMA Design released three years before GTA III. Watch as Reiner, Dan, Tim, and I go on... More

Earlier this week, I saw Game Informer reviews editor Joe Juba jump up and do a little dance around the office. The reason? He had just read a headline stating that action drama 24 will be returning for a ninth season. Reiner and myself started talking to him about the insane adventures of Jack Bauer... More

Capcom's Onimusha series took real life characters from history and retold actual historical battles with supernatural elements. The game follows a couple of ghost busting Samurai who travel through the country killing demonic monsters and absorbing their souls with a mystical gauntlet. It's... More

A long-time Replay viewer suggested we take a look at Dinosaurs for Hire, a Sega Genesis title based on the short-lived Malibu Comic book series of the same name. We're going to have to listen to our viewership more often. Seeing dinosaurs as protagonists in a Contra-like sidescroller is as fascinating... More

In this year's Super Replay Showdown , the game I was fighting for was arguably the worst of the bunch. I had heard stories of the insane and hilarious physics of Jurassic Park: Trespasser, and the whole boob tattoo health meter sounded ridiculous. Despite hearing these stories on several occasions... More

This year's Super Replay Showdown ended with an unexpected dance-off between Ben Reeves and I. Even more unexpected was my fleet-footed rise to victory, but my triumph comes at a terrible toll; I now have to grind my way through the original NES installment of Ninja Gaiden, an infuriatingly challenging... More

Earthbound is finally coming to the Wii U's Virtual Console , but we refused to wait any longer to play Nintendo's quirky RPG classic again, so we dove into our vault and took it for a nostalgic spin. Join three Earthbound fans (Jeff Cork, Kyle Hilliard, and Kimberley Wallace ), and one person... More

A few weeks ago, we asked the Overblood/Replay Facebook community what they'd like to see for a Replay. We let them organize the poll and vote among themselves, and the winner was the fondly-remembered Eternal Darkness for Gamecube. Watch below to see Tim Turi, Andrew Reiner, Jeff Cork, and myself... More

Licensed titles have seen a spotty history throughout console generations, The Playstation 2 era was filled with many mediocre-to-terrible titles like 24, The Sopranos: Road To Respect, Reservoir Dogs, Scarface, and plenty more. Another licensed title that didn't exactly set the world on fire is... More

On March 6, Andrew Reiner, Ben Reeves, and myself made our weekly visit to the Vault to pick a game to play for Replay. Reiner knelt down by the GameCube wall, Ben Reeves scoured our PSone shelves, and I looked over our Dreamcast selection. Near the top was a game that I had never heard of, but instantly... More

Back in the mid-90s, FMV games were destined to become the future of the industry. Consoles were technically capable of presenting actual images of people and environments, so why would any sucker go back to boring old sprites and polygons? Well, it turns out that being limited to actual footage limits... More

Every year we hold a series of multiplayer matches chosen by video producer Ben Hanson. The last person standing wins the honor of choosing the next Super Replay game that we play through in its entirety. We've had some exciting matches this year, but this episode marks the most tense duel yet. Watch... More

In the mid '90s, Looking Glass Studios innovated on the FPS genre by creating a slow-placed stealth game fraught with tension. The game won numerous awards and was praised by critics, but does this innovative title still hold up a decade and a half later? We find out. Watch Andrew Reiner, Ben Hanson... More

Every year we hold a series of multiplayer matches chosen by video producer Ben Hanson, the last person standing wins the honor of choosing the next Super Replay game that we play through in its entirety. In case you missed it during last week's Replay , the annual Super Replay Showdown competition... More

Game Informer's Replay crew has played a ton of crappy games. First there was Overblood , then Galerians , then Overblood 2 , then Cyberia , and we just finished up Blue Stinger . While these games are unforgivably awful, I wouldn't trade my time with them for anything. From the statue falling... More

Crystal Dynamics is best known for their work on Tomb Raider, Legacy of Kain, and Gex. One of their Playstation titles is rarely talked about when discussing the company's history, and that's the action platformer Akuji the Heartless. We were curious to revisit the title to see if it was an underappreciated... More

Every year we hold a series of multiplayer matches chosen by video producer Ben Hanson, the last person standing wins the honor of choosing the next Super Replay game that we play through in its entirety. In case you missed it during last week's Replay , the annual Super Replay Showdown competition... More