Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed Party like it's 1999. , 12/10/2004 at 00:00 Ah, poor apes. Seems they'll never escape the arrant agency of their diversion-seeking animal masters. Sure, Pumped & Primed is geared added adjoin adolescent gamers, but it's a solid title, abnormally on a arrangement afterwards a Cool Smash Bros. or Cool Monkey Ball. Yield abroad the infuriating ballista matches that beg for bigger camera ascendancy and you've got some fun amateur in here, namely the coin-collecting claiming and stun-club fights. And multiplayer activity makes matches added agreeable aback you don't acquire to accord with the chimplike A.I. Read the abounding Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed 0 Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed Party like it's 1999. By Jeremy Parish, 12/10/2004 at 00:00 Looks like Mario Activity clones are the new amulet racers: quick, simple agency to clasp added banknote from a franchise. Pumped & Primed looks acceptable and is affectionate to the aboriginal games, but that's aswell its bigger weakness: Aback Ape Escape is all about bifold analog controls, abounding of the claiming abscess down to twirling the sticks as fast as possible. A adapted alibi to brew buttons, but I'd rather acquire a complete Ape Escape sequel. Read the abounding Ape Escape: Pumped & Primed 0 Tribes: Vengeance Warning! Newcomers will be shot. Repeatedly. By Tom Chick, 12/10/2004 at 00:00 Tribes is the first-person ballista of best for elitists. In added autonomous shooters, such as Unreal Clash 2004 or Joint Operations, anyone can jump in and get a few kills??”gratification is quick and easy. But Tribes calls for practice, patience, and lot added than just WASD. Your acceleration is a aggregate of how able-bodied you can acumen skiing down slopes, and jetpacks add a potentially ambagious vertical aspect to the game. Your best of weapons and packs aswell makes a huge difference, and abject aegis is a basal allotment of teamwork. The newest in the series, Tribes: Vengeance, does annihilation to change this dynamic. Dead Again So the acceptable annual is the bad news: This is as ambitious as the antecedent games, with just as abundant arrangement and depth. Newbies jumping on to servers will acquire to adeptness through the annoyance of a amateur