Greg Miller writes:
"So, how much do you value ten dollars? Sure, Toy Home is pretty at times, has a nice leaderboard option and is fun to tear through, but you'll have seen all the eight courses have to offer after your first run. That leaves you to complain about the game's two cars, repetitive gameplay and laggy online battle mode. To me, Toy Home is fun for a while but not worth my Hamilton."
6.7/10
15 screenshots from Toy Home's expansion pack.
While Xbox 360 and Wii owners are spoilt for choice when it comes to their respective online game services, with XBLA now housing a huge catalogue with a number of true gems, and Nintendo's Virtual Console steadily building an archive of retro classics, Sony's PlayStation Store has been slower to build up momentum. A glance around the store still reveals a relative paucity of quality titles – whether new or retro, but the good news is that there are a number of titles well worth your time on the service already, and there are plenty more on the way.
PlayStation Network Games? I thought Sony gave up on that Idea... how many games do they get a month? when was the last time they got one? the xbox 360 gets 4 a month... and they are already on the tripple diggits... Developers obviously aren't going crazy over making games for the Playstation network. I wonder how many downloads these games sell?
The majority of the games that are in Xbox Live Marketplace are 5h1t, on the other side the mojority of the games that are in the playstation network are awesome some of them are:
PAIN
High Velocity Bowling
Calling All Cars
Everyday Shooter
Super Stardust HD
Blast Factor & more
So Bladesh1t please shut up!
Sorry Bladestar, but Warhawk beats anything i've downloaded on my 360.
Got Pixal Junk Racers 2 weeks ago & still waiting for PAIN,
High Velocity Bowling & Everyday Shooter in UK (hopefully today).
Wii is a joke, and ppl actually pay for those retro games. I am amazed. When little big planet come out, 2D market will be redefined (which is good, because I love 2Ds, Mega man and such). The wii 2D games will most likily appear in the forms of Little big planet.
The X360 has some good online DLC, but on a ounce for ounce PSN is far more classier. It's really like going into a honda Dealer and seeing a bunch of Civic and accord as compare to going into a BMW dealer seeing the crappiest car is a 325i (everyday shooter) and upward 7 series (Warhawk) if you will.. Less games? yes..quality wise. there is some pretty good stuff on PSN right now. More innovation less of the "Same stuff" sorry Wii.
Snakeball
"Such delicate concepts often fly to pieces when updated and weighed down with modern clutter, but Snakeball holds itself together surprisingly well."
Score: 7/10
Toy Home
"Pretty much any item in the game can be knocked over if you hit it hard enough, and while such mayhem is part of the fun, it can also leave you ping-ponging off debris or even demolishing a ramp that was vital for completing the level. Still, it's got charm to spare and - if you don't mind wrestling with controls that occasionally leave you gritting your teeth - this is a groovy little romp."
Score: 7/10
High Velocity Bowling
"For those who were frustrated in Wii Sports when an unconscious mid-swing wrist rotation sent the ball inexorably gutter-bound, this means that you can concentrate on getting your aim right and then swing without worrying about hand-wobble affecting your aim. But it also makes you wonder why the game uses motion sensing at all, since all you're really doing during the swing itself is setting the power of your shot."
Score: 6/10
Feel Ski
"While the side-to-side swooshy skiing action is very nice, the jumping and stunts do the hardware no favours and there's no getting away from the fact that Feel Ski seems more like a shortlived demo than a complete experience in its own right."
Score: 5/10
Judging by the trailer it looks terrible. I much prefer Micro Machines (by Codemasters)
Btw: SnakeBall interests me.
I played the demo of Toy Home and wrote a review for my friend's blog, it's dire. Really bad.
im buying
High Velocity Bowling
i love bowling plus the game
has custom sound track
Toy Home my kids like it
so im buying this 2
I'll pick up Snakeball and probably High Velocity as well. Getting Pain and Pixel Junk Monsters when they come out and Dark Mist if it leaves Japan, that'll bump my PSN purchased titles to 12 if you count Warhawk. It'd be more but Wipeout and Rat Race aren't coming out this year. That's pretty weird considering I didn't think I'd like much at the beginning.
i really liked this game.
I have to say this game fails.
I thought the demo was crap. I'm surprised that it scored as well as it did. Maybe it could be fun for kids.
the forced use of motion controls is what ruined this game for me. It might have been ok otherwise.