The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning [European] (PS2) (PlayStation 2 Games)

With the multitude of First Person Shooters and games where you take aim at people in numerous different ways, we here at DarkZero Towers (check Google Earth… it's real!!) are not ashamed of opening our hearts to a cutesy platformer every now a then....

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, as the title suggests, is an all-out new adventure for the small, purple dragon with lots of spunk. Critics are already heralding it as the best in the series and it aims to be a re-birth and a benchmark for the...

The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning is not a particularly bad game; it has a very solid formula. It does not do anything wrong but then it does not really do anything right, or to a noticeable degree. What could have been a killer IP for the DS, one...

Graphically, the game is a step forward from the last two installments, with more refined visuals and slightly better detail throughout. We have a lot of nice color (that does tend to blur a bit here and there) and some deep shading in the picturesque...

The camera works well, but every once in a while, you lose control at the worst possible time. For whatever reason, the camera likes to zoom in at strange times, and you have to fight to pull it back. This poses a problem, especially in cramped areas...

Teach an old dragon some new tricks in this prequel to an almost forgotten franchise

Some of the voice work ; The colorful stages ; Upgradeable powers

Obtrusive training stages ; Getting lost in the effects-heavy action ; David Spade as Sparx

The purple dragon returns in his best adventure in a while, but "best" is relative.

Good graphics; solid control; competent action

Becomes repetitive pretty quickly; voice talent wasted; feels very generic

The levels are designed to accommodate this new focus, and it might be a bit jarring for fans of the previous games. Many worlds are not freely exploreable environments so much as linear treks between designated combat arenas. After you vanquish all...

I loved Spyro ever since it came out on the PSX back in the day and played it all the way through to its ending. There was just something so cool about this little dragon and his dragonfly buddy as they made their way through the various worlds that...

In an effort to appeal to all types of gamers, Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning is designed to be a new experience that shows a darker side of the cuddly purple dragon. With an attack system designed to make use of four elements (earth, fire, ice, and ele

While there have been many Spyro games over the years this is actually the first one we've played. Fortunately it explains everything from the very beginning. The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning tells of how an evil black dragon by the name of Cynder...

All things considered The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning is a fairly enjoyable action platform games that younger gamers should enjoy. It does contain a little too much combat and not enough platform game elements though. The level design could have...