Al Menconi Ministries - Video Game Reviews

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty

Imagine if you will that the United States never entered World War II. Many questions immediately come to mind......What would have happened to Europe, or England? The premise of this game is just that. The U.S. stayed out of WWII -- due mainly to Winston Churchill being hit by a taxi and dyi

Avatar The Last Bender - The Burning Earth

Avatar The Last Air Bender -- The Burning Earth is based off of the popular cartoon Avatar that airs on Nickelodeon. Personally I have never watched an entire episode, but my son gets a lot of information about Avatar from his friends so I thought playing this game would be a good way to lear

Bee Movie Game

Bee Movie is based off the movie of the same name. You the player will control the movie's main character, Barry B. Benson, through different levels based off of the movie. These levels include a bit of everything we have seen in video games before such as cart racing, plat-forming and even s

Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors

Five years ago, the evil Xiphos was destroyed, and peace returned to the kingdom of Avelonia. At the five-year jubilee celebrating this victory, monsters return and plague the kingdom once again. To make matters worse, the Queen suddenly begins wearing a strange mask and becomes a recluse. Wh

Lost Odyssey (Disks 1 and 2)

Reviewers Note:
Lost Odyssey is contained on 4 disks. This review is based off of the first two disks of the game and not the entire game. Still, we felt that there is enough information from the first two disks to help parents decide if this is a good game for their fam

Need For Speed: Pro Street

Need For Speed: ProStreet takes street racing out of the Underground and puts in a more "legal" format. Instead of racing at night and away from police, Pro Street has you participating in weekend "Race Day" events. It reminds me when I used to live in Tennessee.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 is the latest edition to the line of video golf games made by EA Sports. If you are an avid golfer or weekend hacker, you have probably dreamt about playing Pebble Beach, Pinehurst or even the old course at St. Andrews, Scotland. Tiger Woods 08 allows you to do just th

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

IT's FINALLY HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, sorry: had to get that out of my system. This is quite possibly the single most anticipated Wii game to ever come out for the system. The Smash Bros. series has been running since the N64 era, and the previous

Lost: Via Domus

Game Reviewed: LOST: VIA DOMUS

Publisher: UBISOFT

Reviewer: NATHAN SWARTZ

Platform: XBOX 360, PS3 and PC

Category: ACTION ADVENTURE

Skate

For the past 10 to 12 years or so, if you wanted to play a good skateboarding game, it was Tony Hawk or nothing. And for good reason. His games are fun, had tight controls and are easy to pick up and play. Now EA has entered the skateboarding fray with their entry, simply titled Skat

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker

I went into Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker having no idea what the game was like. So I went in and was introduced to my character, a confident kid with crazy blue hair and an apparent inability to speak. When sent to investigate a scouting tournament (scouting is the action of capturing monster

NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams

Will has a father he rarely ever sees. He often wonders why, and thinks that his father has abandoned him. Helen is a little girl who does not spend nearly as much time with her mother as she should: something she recognizes and feels bad about. However, both of these kids are about to have t

The Golden Compass

Matching the controversial film based on Phillip Pullman's His Dark Materials books (in which the first entry was actually called Northern Lights), The Golden Compass is based on the events of the film. The controversy surrounding the film is based on Pullman's outs

Trauma Center: New Blood

"Trauma Center: New Blood" takes you 40 years into the future, where you follow the stories of two young surgeons who end up on the front lines of a battle against bioterrorism. You play as either Dr. Markus Vaughn or Dr. Valerie Blaylock as you perform cutting edge surgeries and sa

Medal of Honor: Heroes 2

There is an air of familiarity when loading up Medal of Honor: Heroes 2. I guess it could be the familiar sounds of war; assault rifles firing, grenades exploding, or maybe that same looking Nazi you defeated in all the previous WW2 shooters you have played before this one?

You

Rock Band

When Harmonix was not asked to help develop Guitar Hero III, it seems they took it personally, because they turned around and created, quite possibly, the best music game ever created in Rock Band. While the Guitar Hero franchise certainly is not anything to sneeze

Viva Piñata Party Animals

Viva Pinata Party Animals is a party game, much like Mario Party, based off the popular kids show Viva Pinata. The game play is pretty simple. Pick a pinata and then compete in a series of races and mini-games against other pinatas on Pinata Island. If you are looking for a good game to play

WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008 featuring ECW

The WWE Smackdown vs. Raw series is quickly becoming the "Madden" of the Wrestling game business. By that I mean that there is no other decent wrestling/football games out there that have the roster of wrestlers/players you want. Each year brings little to no improvement in

Ghost Squad

Apparently, some people go to the arcade for some gaming fun now and then. I do not really know what that is like, as the only thing we have that resembles an arcade in my town is a small room in the back of the bowling alley. But from my experience there, I know one thing about arcade shoote

Kane and Lynch: Dead Men

Reviewer's Note (Why our M rated reviews look different): M rated games are not designed with teens or children in mind and therefore usually (but not always) get a low score based on our family-grading key. Still, many parents ask us about popular M rated games. So the purpo

Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All

I never was one for legal process. Court dramas never interested me, and I tend not to enjoy things based on process and rules (why do you think I am a writer instead of a mathematician?). But when the first The Rabbids are back again! (Just in case you forgot, Rabbids are psychotic bunnies who cause lots of trouble and make funny noises.) This time, they are trying to invade the real world! Rayman, the hero of the series, attempts to infiltrate the Rabbids army disguised as one of t