International Superstar Soccer Pro ‘98
1998 was a World Cup year, and as you’d expect with the world’s largest sporting event there were a plethora of games to tie in to the occasion. World Cup ‘98, FIFA ‘99 and Actua Soccer 3 were just some of the titles that were contending with International Superstar Soccer ‘98 (ISS for short) for the proverbial Football Game of the Year cup…
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid was perhaps the most talked about game on the floor of the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo (better known as ‘E3’). That was quite the achievement when you consider the competition consisted of heavyweight titles like Quake 2, Unreal, Panzer Dragoon Saga, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, GoldenEye and Banjo Kazooie…
Parasite Eve
The mid to late 90s saw something of a boom for Japanese horror themed books, films and eventually, games. Parasite Eve (1995) is a science fiction horror novel by Hideaki Sena. While it would not be published in English until 2005, the book proved quite popular in Japan and would eventually see a sequel in the form of the video game. The game, released in 1998, was also titled Parasite Eve…
Vigilante 8
It’s a combination that shouldn’t work, but it does. Take a driving game, add a bunch of guns and death-match shooter mechanics, and then cover it all in a heavy coating of 1970s aesthetics. That’s Vigilante 8…
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins
Tenchu: Stealth Assassins holds the honour of being something of a pioneer in the world of video games. Not only is it one of a trio of 1998 games that are credited with popularising the stealth genre in the modern gaming era (the other two being the also extremely well respected Metal Gear: Solid and Thief: The Dark Project), it also was the game that launched the team of Acquire into the gaming world…
Crash Bandicoot: Warped
The PlayStation never really had an ‘official’ mascot in the same vein that Sonic was for Sega and that Mario was for Nintendo, but Crash Bandicoot definitely came close to filling that role. In some gamers’ eyes, he was the de-facto face of the PlayStation…
