Rate the Game: Week 134

[M-A-G]

IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!!! OK, but not really. It is time, though, for yet another exciting installment of the greatest weekly series right next to screech's podcast, Rate the Game. It's the 134th edition of this saga and we're still on our search for the next big game to break into the upper elite territory of the top 10. They're all sitting pretty as so far nothing has come close to threatening their spots in these last few weeks. Take Daytona USA from last week for instance....

<select><option selected="">Rate the Game Results

<option>1. Super Mario World (4.81)
<option>2. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (4.8)</option>
<option>3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (4.8)</option>
<option>4. Hitman: Codename 47 (4.75)</option>
<option>5. Mass Effect (4.75)</option>
<option>6. Goldeneye 007 (4.72)</option>
<option>7. Super Mario Bros. 3 (4.7)</option>
<option>8. Silent Hill 2 (4.66)</option>
<option>9. Super Mario Bros. 2 (4.5)</option>
<option>10. Portal (4.5)</option>
<option>11. Red Dead Redemption (4.5)</option>
<option>12. Chrono Trigger (4.5)</option>
<option>13. Final Fantasy 3 (4.5)</option>
<option>14. Silent Hill 3 (4.5)</option>
<option>15. Mega Man 2 (4.44)</option>
<option>16. Donkey Kong Country (4.44)</option>
<option>17. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (4.44)</option>
<option>18. Super Mario Bros. (4.41)</option>
<option>19. God of War (4.4)</option>
<option>20. Mega Man X (4.36)</option>
<option>21. Metal Gear Solid (4.33)</option>
<option>22. BioShock (4.33)</option>
<option>23. Perfect Dark (4.3)</option>
<option>24. Shadow of the Colossus (4.28)</option>
<option>25. The Last of Us (4.28)</option>
<option>26. Super Street Fighter 2 (4.15)</option>
<option>27. Sonic the Hedgehog (4.14)</option>
<option>28. Resident Evil 2 (4.14)</option>
<option>29. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4.125)</option>
<option>30. Super Mario 64 (4.07)</option>
<option>31. Grand Theft Auto 3 (4.06)</option>
<option>32. The Legend of Zelda (4.06)</option>
<option>33. NBA Jam (4.05)</option>
<option>34. Super Mario Kart (4.0)</option>
<option>35. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (4.0)</option>
<option>36. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (4.0)</option>
<option>37. Super Smash Bros. (4.0)</option>
<option>38. Super Metroid (4.0)</option>
<option>39. The Simpsons (4.0)</option>
<option>40. Resident Evil 4 (4.0)</option>
<option>41. EarthBound (4.0)</option>
<option>42. Fallout 3 (4.0)</option>
<option>43. Mirror's Edge (4.0)</option>
<option>44. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (4.0)</option>
<option>45. Donkey Kong Country 2 (4.0)</option>
<option>46. Banjo-Kazooie (4.0)</option>
<option>47. Final Fantasy 7 (3.94)</option>
<option>48. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (3.92)</option>
<option>49. Mega Man (3.89)</option>
<option>50. Castlevania (3.86)</option>
<option>51. Contra (3.86)</option>
<option>52. Devil May Cry (3.86)</option>
<option>53. Half-Life 2 (3.85)</option>
<option>54. Half-Life (3.83)
<option>55. Final Fantasy 8 (3.83)</option>
<option>56. Infamous (3.83)</option>
<option>57. SimCity 2000 (3.8)</option>
<option>58. Final Fight (3.8)</option>
<option>59. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (3.77)</option>
<option>60. Batman: Arkham Asylum (3.76)</option>
<option>61. Double Dragon (3.75)</option>
<option>62. Max Payne (3.75)</option>
<option>63. Tetris (3.69)</option>
<option>64. Mortal Kombat 2 (3.67)</option>
<option>65. Alan Wake (3.66)</option>
<option>66. Diablo (3.66)</option>
<option>67. Xenoblade Chronicles (3.66)</option>
<option>68. F.E.A.R. (3.66)</option>
<option>69. Mortal Kombat (3.65)</option>
<option>70. Doom (3.625)</option>
<option>71. StarFox (3.61)</option>
<option>72. X-Men (3.6)</option>
<option>73. Resident Evil (3.58)</option>
<option>74. Kirby's Adventure (3.57)</option>
<option>75. Daytona USA (3.5)</option>
<option>76. Ninja Gaiden (3.5)</option>
<option>77. Burnout Paradise (3.5)</option>
<option>78. Thief: The Dark Project (3.5)</option>
<option>79. Dark Souls (3.5)</option>
<option>80. Shinobi (3.5)</option>
<option>81. Dead Space (3.4)</option>
<option>82. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (3.39)</option>
<option>83. Resident Evil: Nemesis (3.38)</option>
<option>84. Crash Bandicoot (3.33)</option>
<option>85. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (3.33)</option>
<option>86. Wolfenstein 3D (3.33)</option>
<option>87. Dead Island (3.33)</option>
<option>88. Left 4 Dead (3.33)</option>
<option>89. Nights Into Dreams (3.33)</option>
<option>90. Condemned: Criminal Origins (3.33)</option>
<option>91. Gauntlet Legends (3.28)
<option>92. Gears of War (3.27)</option>
<option>93. Borderlands (3.22)</option>
<option>94. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (3.22)</option>
<option>95. Duke Nukem 3D (3.2)</option>
<option>96. Darkstalkers (3.2)</option>
<option>97. Quake (3.2)</option>
<option>98. SoulCalibur (3.16)</option>
<option>99. Pac-Man (3.125)</option>
<option>100. Killer Instinct (3.11)</option>
<option>101. Virtua Fighter (3.09)</option>
<option>102. Rock Band (3.09)</option>
<option>103. Earthworm Jim (3.0)</option>
<option>104. Metroid (3.0)</option>
<option>105. Time Crisis (3.0)</option>
<option>106. Tekken (3.0)</option>
<option>107. Halo 2 (3.0)</option>
<option>108. Destiny (3.0)</option>
<option>109. The Secret of Monkey Island (3.0)</option>
<option>110. Sonic Adventure (3.0)</option>
<option>111. Shenmue (3.0)</option>
<option>112. Guitar Hero (2.875)</option>
<option>113. Ecco the Dolphin (2.85)</option>
<option>114. Streets of Rage (2.84)</option>
<option>115. Altered Beast (2.8)</option>
<option>116. Bayonetta (2.75)</option>
<option>117. ToeJam & Earl (2.75)</option>
<option>118. Assassin's Creed (2.71)</option>
<option>119. Gauntlet (2.71)</option>
<option>120. Dead Rising (2.71)</option>
<option>121. Bionic Commando (2.66)</option>
<option>122. Saints Row (2.66)</option>
<option>123. The Sims (2.6)</option>
<option>124. Killer Instinct 2 (2.6)</option>
<option>125. Silent Hill (2.6)</option>
<option>126. Tomb Raider (2.55)</option>
<option>127. Halo: Combat Evolved (2.5)</option>
<option>128. Twisted Metal (2.42)</option
<option>129. Crackdown (2.42)</option>
<option>130. Golden Axe (2.33)</option>
<option>131. Gran Turismo (2.3)</option>
<option>132. The Secret of Mana (2.2)</option>
<option>133. Ghosts n' Goblins (2.14)</option>
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Yep. All it's arcade horsepower isn't enough to zoom it past the number 75 spot with a 3.5 average. Still one of the better outings we've had since relaunching this series. What's next in the pipeline? Bowl, let's see what you got....

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Well, I don't feel a great deal of confidence in this next title. It's the platforming, channel-surfing adventure of that smart ass lizard years before Geico, Gex from Crystal Dynamics! I know it's most known for being on the ill-fated 3DO, but, hey, maybe you managed to give it a whirl when it arrived on the Playstation? You tell me. Let's determine the ultimate fate of this wisecracking gecko and get down to our usual business. Until next week!

[Big Vic]

Saw this, never played it.

[Fignuts]

lol come on MAG, why did you even put that in there?

[Lock Jaw]

Not sure, but I think I did actually play this on PC. Have vague memories....

[M-A-G]

lol come on MAG, why did you even put that in there?

He had a gun to my head and a crazed look in his eyes.

[M-A-G]

weather vane is so far the lone man on the branch. Any other brave souls who gave this sucker a whirl?

[ClockShot]

I know this series made its way to the Playstation at some point. I think I had Enter the Gekko and traded it in.

But I never played the 3DO version.

[M-A-G]

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[Destor]

I used to love Gex. Pop culture in games was completely nonexistent at the time. And for a 3d platformer of its era it was pretty tight, especially for the psx.

[M-A-G]

Jokes aside, with the 3DO looking promising to me when I was younger, this was one of the titles that helped stoke that interest. It didn't look THAT advanced especially when you consider what Donkey Kong Country did on the Super Nintendo, but there was enough there. I wasn't familiar with Dana Gould until his work on the vastly overlooked NBC show "Working". I vaguely remember a comedy bit he did on cable companies that I thought was pretty funny. I don't know if nobody else could've done the job for Gex but he seemed serviceable enough. I've always wanted to get my hands on it to see if it was a hidden gem that passed me by. It's funny how he's practically a punchline in this day and age, but like Earthworm Jim, the guy was ALL OVER the place in the nineties. I remember seeing ads for the third game all the God damn time in game magazines, which mainly did more to pique my curiousity about Marliece Andrada than anything else.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Never played it.

[M-A-G]

FINALLY...the DAMN iNATOR...HAS COME BACK...to Rate the Game...