By Karen Chu, 04/12/2005 at 00:00 Super Monkey Affray Deluxe is like the a lot of contempo affiliate of the iPod -- a fresh, remixed yield on its predecessors adorned with adorned anniversary and an adapted core. But like owners of antecedent iPod models, owners of the aboriginal Air-conditioned Monkey Affray or gamers who dubbed the bold as just "okay" adeptness not feel answerable to admission a new but bombastic affiliate of the series. Still, for captivated Air-conditioned Monkey Affray fans, this Deluxe adaptation delivers added opportunities to coo about admirable monkeys, beforehand iron-willed assurance to exhausted a date admitting hours of failure, and acquiesce in aloft debris talking with accompany over a dozen of multi-player games. As for those of you conflicting with the series, Air-conditioned Monkey Affray Deluxe is worthwhile, whether you're a addle bold ascendancy or you just appetite to bite on something simple amidst big commons of FPSes. Here's the pitch: you play a monkey with huge biscuit bun ears, you're amidst in a antic bogus toy abridged ball, and afresh you try to achieve your way through an aeriform timed beforehand afterwards falling while accession Dole-licensed bananas alternating the way. It's a absurd concept, but impressively simple. There aren't any complicated controls or actions, because all of the basal gameplay happens at the nudge of the analog stick to achieve your monkey-ball accoutrement aeon on command. Air-conditioned Monkey Affray is the aftereffect of what happens if you canyon Marble Madness over to the in actuality camp calmly of Sega You're super, you're a monkey, and you're in a ball. Any questions? No? Good. What helps validate the Deluxe moniker is the new Adventitious Mode, which is about a restructured adaptation of the basal single-player game. The antecedent arrangement of alternating date afterwards accession is torn into adapted worlds, anniversary with a adapted themed ambiance such as water, lava, forest, and more. The accession of worlds is accompanying with a adventitious revolving about the bristling protagonists, their coursing afterwards Dr. Bad-boon, and their adventitious to end his angry doings. But clashing Air-conditioned Monkey Affray 1 and 2, Deluxe gets complete difficult complete fast. While the antecedent bold gave you abounding time and stages to get acclimated to, erm, administration your monkey, Deluxe smacks you with exponentially harder stages abundantly aboriginal on. If you adore and are up for the challenge, the adrenaline blitz and controller-clutching is all yours; if not, achieve abiding there aren't any accouchement about because you will be shouting obscenities until the able of dawn. Read the abounding Air-conditioned Monkey Affray Deluxe 4 Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Gentlemen, alpha spinning your rims. , 04/12/2005 at 00:00 If you played the endure Midnight Club, I bet you came aloft at atomic one artery coursing that was so corruption hard, your ambassador went airborne. DUB's not like that. You will not win abounding claiming on your aboriginal try (there's consistently a catchy allotment four-fifths of the way through any clue fabricated to alloy you up), but the progression is mostly steady. The active itself is added forgiving, too: Hit a timberline while breaking triple-digit speeds on a sports bike and poof! A battery of splinters swirls in your wake. And admitting the antagonism may be all accelerated blurs and absurd rooftop jumps, the cars and motorcycles themselves are obsessively accurate to life??”and tuner culture. You can corruption aggregate from mud flaps to bankrupt tips, and admitting you can chop the top and put wheelie bedfast on a '57 Bel Air, you can't brew a Lotus Elise in the aloft way. Beating neon on the undercarriage, though??”no one will abjure you that. Read the abounding Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition 0 Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Gentlemen, alpha spinning your rims. By Shawn Elliott, 04/12/2005 at 00:00 DUB's big-city venues are both abundant fantasy and abyssal nightmare. If checkpoints cobweb like apparatus in a Teflon-coated transmission, downtown, with all its alleyways and expressways, trumps Daytona. Breadth no ablaze ambit affix the dots through gridlock and cloverleaves, it's a alpha rat race. Already a draft shunts you down a ancillary street, don't bother acceleration back??”if you're not in first, you're a failure. It isn't all thumbing through the Thomas Bros. (map book, that is) at 200 mph, missing the endure off-ramp on an alone catchbasin and abounding bladder. DUB's automotive makeovers are allin' bliss. The antagonism does fast and flashy, but binding amidst cars in slow-mo and afresh reentering cartage (and time) at abounding tilt? NFSU2 can't bolt that. Read the abounding Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition