Not as adolescent as it looks. , 11/17/2004 at 00:00 Although abracadabra these days, the appellation "car-PG" is altogether apt for Takara's latest archetype to the ChoroQ/Penny Racers franchise. More circuitous than its forebears, ChoroQ is a bold with an actualization crisis. Its adolescent visuals and toy-based apriorism accomplish it attending like it's aimed at the under-10 crowd, but the diffuse adventitious access is far added circuitous than your boilerplate adolescent would accept the backbone for. ChoroQ avalanche into a absorbing average arena amid full-on racers and RPGs, with characters embodied by toylike caricatures of cars and challenge of accretion complication to plan through. Aboriginal on, the bold seems absolute abundant like a simple kart-style racer anchored by a admirable story. Already you alpha affective amid the altered towns in the game, you anon acquisition a greater faculty of purpose for your admirable little racer. Aboriginal on the beforehand are simple ovals and acceptable antagonism fare, but things anon get absurd as you cross off-road courses and, later, off-world courses with altered force and affected ecology hazards. The antagonism abandoned is abnormally addictive, and you can calmly get absent in the challenge afterwards in actuality cerebration about the abundantly ambagious mission-based adventitious that's active over in the background. Read the abounding ChoroQ 0 Mega Man X Command Mission When robots attack. , 11/17/2004 at 00:00 When you sit down and play Mega Man X: Command Mission for the aboriginal time, you'll ask yourself: Why didn't Capcom accomplish a acceptable Mega Man RPG sooner? The catechism isn't prompted by accuracy in RPG architectonics or adept storytelling. No, you'll ask it because Command Mission uses so abounding accepted elements that it would've been bigger arise in 2001. There just isn't annihilation amazing about it, except for the accurately done graphics. There are accidental battles, but they aren't absolutely aggravating aback they don't activity every 5 abnormal and it's simple to run abroad from them. Activity is turn-based, but there's activity circuitous aback turns are bent by specific actualization statistics. Speedier characters get added turns, while slower characters accept beneath opportunities to administer accident unless they're in a powered-up form, which about boosts all stats and gives characters adapted attacks. Plus, you can about-face out your characters during activity just like you can in Final Fantasy X, so there's some activity involved??”but honestly, a cat beating the ambassador could accomplish just as able-bodied as you in a lot of battles. Fans will dig Command Mission because it adapts the Mega Man blueprint so able-bodied into an RPG setting, but anyone searching for a across-the-board ballsy with absorbing characters or altered gameplay mechanics will be hardly aghast by what it has to offer. Read the abounding Mega Man X Command Mission