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- mattmartinez, on 01/12/2009, -0/+241"We boast the shortest time required from development to product release in the industry. Ordinarily the average development period for a game is 18 months, whereas Phoenix need a mere 3-5 months."
It certainly shows. - doshindude, on 01/12/2009, -0/+235that london cab challenge game was the worst. Wow. It a had draw distance of like, 10 feet in front of the car. That's worse than Superman 64's draw distance.
- Rikushix, on 01/12/2009, -3/+213"Back to menu."
"Backbackbackbackbackbackbackback..." - inactive, on 01/12/2009, -2/+193dugg for user playlist: http://i41.tinypic.com/970aq0.jpg
- PHJames88, on 01/12/2009, -1/+191I think more time went into the logo than any of those games.
- SiliconRain, on 01/12/2009, -1/+170"Dinosaur Adventure" nearly made me piss my pants.
"What's wrong with you!? Come on! Get up!" That was ***** bananas. I felt like I was having a stroke. - lancedice, on 01/12/2009, -0/+164I kinda want to play White Van Racer now...
- darkchild82, on 01/12/2009, -2/+155From their website:
"Major corporations are solely geared to money making and sometimes lose grip of the nature of the creative enterprise in which they are engaged. The creators of original products are usually independent development companies that have a creative dream. Commercial success is important, but the product comes first and developers live or die by the quality of the product they create. More and more, the smaller developers are being taken over by large companies and there tends to be a vacuum between people who want to get involved in the games industry and people working on commercial products. The smaller developers have less chance to get their original new product to the market. This is the main strategy adopted by Phoenix, to give the smaller publishers their opportunity to launch their products at retail, with a high degree of success already assured." - victoryguy, on 01/12/2009, -2/+131 Wow, so these guys are genuine shovelware makers.
- diggspirit, on 01/12/2009, -1/+113avoided
- morcheeba, on 01/12/2009, -0/+96Not only that, all the other cars were driving on the wrong side of the road!! ;-)
- louiebaur, on 01/12/2009, -3/+95Will do
- joshcollie, on 01/12/2009, -1/+89Dear god, that was truly shocking. There's a reason these are budget games. The voice acting is like watching a kids school play.
- tEhKewleSt, on 01/12/2009, -0/+69Subtitle - Why old people and misinformed consumers should not be allowed to purchase video games.
- wontstoptalking, on 01/12/2009, -0/+68LOL at extremely obvious Land Before Time rip off
(http://www.pillarstoneproductions.com/img/resume/t ... , http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5194CH6GATL. ... )
Also, LOL at terrible, terrrrrible draw area on the cab game.
And elevator music all around. - darthdusty, on 01/12/2009, -1/+63Skateboard Madness Xtreme Edition? How lame was it when it was just Skateboard Madness??
- r0g3r, on 01/12/2009, -1/+62Mind that Child!
- number11, on 01/12/2009, -0/+60looking forward to the release of car wash tycoon:
http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/uk/games/ps2/carw ... - Sneezyx, on 01/12/2009, -3/+60"Mammoth Mayhem" is my new catchphrase.
- chaad, on 01/12/2009, -0/+55MAMMOTH MAYHEM!
- OneRottenTomato, on 01/12/2009, -0/+54Who is their targeted demographic? The blind and deaf gamer?
- Grazfather, on 01/12/2009, -0/+50They just make games that look like popular games so stupid parents buy them for their kids.
- moolcool, on 01/12/2009, -1/+49i try to imagine the meeting where they came up with THAT bright idea.
- 8bitflu, on 01/12/2009, -7/+52The accidentally the whole game.
- aidanwhiteley, on 01/12/2009, -0/+42The only review for any of their games on metacritic
0/10
Official Playstation 2 Magazine UK
Easily the lowest ebb of the card-game boom, this horrifying mess is the most joy-sapping thing we've ever slotted into a PS2. [Sept 2006, p.95]
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ps2/21ca ... - ryan83189, on 01/12/2009, -0/+42A neglected demographic after the death of the pinball industry.
- Khast, on 01/12/2009, -0/+42Whilst I think it is cool that a company will publish games for small game designing companies.....there should be a level of professional QC to prevent the name of the publisher from being tarnished.
You know, if you are going to publish everything that no other company was willing to....at least make sure the games are not crap....because a publisher will get the reputation that most of their games do. - sonick, on 01/12/2009, -0/+38Hmm, White Van Racers... Is there a stage where you pull up to random pedestrians and try to sell them ***** stereo equipment at exorbitant prices?
- Kajarago, on 01/13/2009, -0/+37dont act like you didnt watch them
- PlattiJ, on 01/12/2009, -2/+39I would love to play Dinosaur Adventure. White Van Racing looks really good too. Someone should make a game called "Racing in my 91 Honda Civic"
- joellyjoel, on 01/12/2009, -6/+42We actually ran across these guys a few years back at E3...checked out a few games and decided against reselling their stuff..lol
- inactive, on 01/12/2009, -0/+35that first sequence of the vans looked like G rated Twisted Metal.
- ZeeZee2k, on 01/13/2009, -0/+35What are you talking about?!? the collision detection was awesome!
- Browzer, on 01/12/2009, -0/+35The dinosaur game was clearly a rip off of "The Land Before Time".
The London cab game was a rip off of "Crazy Taxi". - AzureRise, on 01/13/2009, -0/+34I've seen better games developed by amateurs in shorter time frames.
- jserio, on 01/12/2009, -0/+32Just like with thr old Atari games, the box artwork looks better than the games!
- immatellyouwhat, on 01/12/2009, -1/+33Probably a group of middle age white guys going , " Hey! wouldn't be crazy if we had like a racing game with like ONLY white vans that are supposed to be like delivery trucks and ice cream trucks OHHH MAN!!!! People would buy that because it's so out of the ordinary!!! "
- immatellyouwhat, on 01/12/2009, -1/+32What a bunch of crap
- DaffyDuck, on 01/13/2009, -0/+30At the end of the game you park it down by the river.
- inactive, on 01/12/2009, -1/+29That is painful.
- darkchild82, on 01/12/2009, -0/+26Oops, forgot to link: http://www.phoenixgamesgroup.com/
- SirFatalx, on 01/12/2009, -0/+25Cab Challenge almost ties right up there with Big Rigs.
- duckiedeity, on 01/12/2009, -1/+24Surely you actually mean buy every game this company makes...
- dnb1997, on 01/13/2009, -0/+23Jizz in my pants.
- annjay, on 01/12/2009, -2/+25Surely, I will try to avoid...
- punkcat, on 01/12/2009, -3/+25and wtf they weren't yellow.
- generaleet, on 01/12/2009, -1/+23That was actually mildly entertaining and comical.
- Delta009, on 01/12/2009, -3/+24I love how the logo is the best part of the games.
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -0/+20syntaxgs fails again...
- inactive, on 01/13/2009, -0/+20Hell, I thought White Van Racer was a 4chan photoshop joke until I saw this!
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