Gamers Universe writes: "
Another day, another turn-based strategy game. It wasn't always like this, dear readers. I used to write about stuff like WipEout. I had aspirations, damn it.So thick and fast has been the onslaught of late that I've exhausted my stock of role-playing game article introductions. There's the one where you harken back to the gilded days of pen-and-paper dungeon crawling. There's the one where you comment contemptuously on the tendency to harken back to the gilded days of pen-and-paper dungeon crawling. There's the one where you simply list all the classic tropes and foibles- random battles, leveling etc- in the hope that somewhere along the line you'll find a thread. And finally there's the one where you get a bit sick of it all, down a few high-powered mixers and wake up six hours later clutching seven pages of tearful fan fiction."
From Atlanta Video Game News Examiner:
"Halloween is past and Thanksgiving is fast approaching. That means it is time to start planning for your holiday shopping. One of the biggest problems when shopping for gamers is making sure that you buy a quality game that they will enjoy. There's nothing worse than getting a game for someone and finding out that it is buggy, has bad controls, or just isn't fun at all. So, we've come up with the best bets of recent releases for the two major hand-held platforms (Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP) for the 2009 holiday shopping season. We've broken it down not just by hand-helds but by genres as well. So click through on the links below for the hand-held and genre you'll be shopping for this year."
John Tucker writes "In any genre of games, there are some entries that appeal to the masses, some that only hardcore fans have the background to enjoy, and some that are intended to bring in new fans. Many times, these last efforts are geared at younger players, and that makes sense. Zubo is clearly one of these "gateway" games, intended to bring younger players into the fold of RPG fans, and I was actually surprised to see it come out of EA."
SV:
Zubo is a music-based rhythm action game featuring a likeable set of characters. Players enter the world of Zubalon to help its inhabitants, the Zubos, defeat an evil force bent on world domination. Players befriend the Zubos they meet along the way. You will feed and nurture them, help them gain skills and strength, and assist them in their battles with the enemy, the Zombos.
