Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reviewing pre-2008 FAs

The video games WikiProject has a large number of featured articles, many of which were promoted to featured status years ago. This page lists the project's featured articles that have not had a formal review process after 2008. Articles should be reviewed to ensure that they comply with current quality standards. Once reviewed, recommend what action (if any) is required to improve the article; please include descriptive notes for other editors. If the article is determined to require a featured article review (FAR), please wait before submitting it. If an article needs improvement, please contact the primary contributor to see if they can assist with any actions.

Reviewing instructions

When reviewing articles, please examine the prose, media, and sources. Content should comply with the applicable manuals of style and Featured article criteria.

I.	Read the article, watching for: grammar and spelling sentence and word flow accuracy completeness
II.	Review the media for: file size fair use rationale captions
III.	Review the sources for: reliability formatting
IV.	Update the table Update the table accordingly, filling in the necessary information based on your review. Table headings Article: Article title and link Last FAC/FAR: Last date that the article went through a Wikipedia-wide review process for Featured content Importance: The article's importance ranking per Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Assessment#Importance scale Reviewed: Whether an editor has reviewed the article to determine issues and necessary actions Action: Recommended action from initial or subsequent reviews (copy edit, clean up, FAR, none, etc.) Collaborators: Any editor that is working on or would like to work on the article (sign with ~~~) Notes: Issues and other information that will assist collaboration

Table

Article	Last FAC/FAR	Importance	Reviewed	Action	Collaborators	Notes
1080° Snowboarding	January 7, 2008	Mid	No
4X	August 20, 2008	High	No
Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None	June 28, 2007	Low	delisted			Synopsis section completely unsourced; Reception table in non-standard style; Reception section rather short and summative; messy prose and structure; poor organisation and explanation of Gameplay; overwrought plot section
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express	July 7, 2007	Low	No			Noticed for FAR, 2021-05-26
Age of Empires	April 29, 2008	High	No
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings	October 4, 2008	Mid	delisted			Gameplay overly long and divided into too many subsections; too many short paragraphs in Development and Sequels; intro a little too detailed (e.g. does it really need to list all 13 civilizations?); Reception a little long (perhaps a Legacy subsection is in order); some awkward wording and sentence structure
Age of Mythology	October 14, 2007	Mid	delisted			Gameplay overly long and divided into too many subsections; some parts of Gameplay unsourced; some short paragraphs in Gameplay; intro too short and doesn't cover development; some awkward wording and sentence structure. Article was demoted in January 2014.
Alleyway	August 4, 2008	Mid	No
BioShock	November 18, 2007	Mid	No			Questionable sources, Development section is not comprehensive
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare	May 6, 2008	High	No
Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow	February 15, 2008	Mid	No
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow	November 18, 2007	Mid	No
Characters of Final Fantasy VIII	March 30, 2007	Low	No
Chrono Cross	August 21, 2006	Mid	No			Notes given on talk page, 2021-03-13
Conan (2007 video game)	August 22, 2008	Low	No
Cortana	December 15, 2007	Low	delisted			Became a good article after demotion from FA status.
Crackdown	June 13, 2008	Low	No
Crazy Taxi (series)	November 26, 2007	Low	No
Crush (video game)	October 13, 2008	Low	No
Defense of the Ancients	March 17, 2008	High	No			Noticed for FAR, June 10, 2021.
Development of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion	August 30, 2007	Low	No
Devil May Cry (video game)	April 12, 2007	High	No			Needs expansion
Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening	April 28, 2007	Mid	delisted	FAR		Needs additional references/soruces, has prose issues, and must be expanded. Often gets into mediocre grammar. Demoted.
Diary of a Camper	August 29, 2006	Low	No
Donkey Kong (video game)	February 28, 2006	High	delisted	Clean up		Excessive non-free images, available free images unused, excess gameguide info, structure is dissimilar to current trends, references need further inspection, prose could use some light copy editing, paragraphs need evening out
Empires: Dawn of the Modern World	December 3, 2006	Low	Yes			Its its FA status in 2015
F-Zero GX	March 15, 2007	Low	No
Final Fantasy IX	June 28, 2007	Mid	No
Final Fantasy Tactics	December 22, 2007	Mid	No
Final Fantasy X	December 21, 2008	High	No			Notes left on talk page 2021-04-17
Final Fantasy X-2	August 9, 2006	Mid	No			Kept at FAR Oct. 2020
Flood (Halo)	July 23, 2008	Low	No
GameFAQs	November 26, 2007	Low	delisted	FAR		Was demoted in September 2012 and has "outdated" tag since June 2013.
Giants: Citizen Kabuto	March 25, 2008	Low	No
Golden Sun	October 8, 2007	Mid	No
Grim Fandango	March 26, 2008	Mid	No
Guitar Hero (video game)	April 16, 2008	High	Yes	Clean up		Screenshot is not fair use, grammar and content is solid.
Half-Life 2: Episode One	October 31, 2008	High	Pending		Nicereddy (talk)	Prose could be improved, only contains a single non-free screenshot, most likely not replaceable. The references likely require a sweep and archiving for the purpose of future-proofing, as most are over half a decade old.
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast	December 31, 2008	Low	No		Nicereddy (talk)
Halo: Combat Evolved	September 21, 2006	High	delisted
Halo 2	April 21, 2007	High	No
Halo 3 Original Soundtrack	May 6, 2008	Low	No
Ico	November 22, 2008	Mid	Pending	Clean up		Awards section short for what it has received
Iridion 3D	May 15, 2007	Low	No
Katamari Damacy	September 10, 2008	Mid	No
Kingdom Hearts	September 9, 2007	Low	No
Kingdom Hearts (video game)	July 16, 2007	Mid	No
Kingdom Hearts II	August 14, 2007	Mid	No
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories	August 3, 2007	Low	No
Frank Klepacki	September 3, 2006	Low	delisted			Could be divided into subsections, sourcing quality
Mana (series)	February 26, 2008	Mid	No
Marble Madness	December 21, 2008	Mid	No			Guyinblack25 copy edited and reviewed in Dec. 2011, but an independent review would be good
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games	September 6, 2008	Mid	No
Mario Power Tennis	September 10, 2008	Low	No
Master Chief (Halo)	October 14, 2007	High	No
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater	October 8, 2006	Low	Pending			Major issues with 1b, 1c, 2c and 4.
Metroid Prime	February 26, 2008	High	No
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes	December 13, 2008	Mid	No
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption	November 15, 2008	Mid	No
Midtown Madness	August 8, 2008	Low	Yes	FAR		Informal, vague, and awkward grammar/prose (by the time FAR started).
Myst III: Exile	June 28, 2008	Low	No
Myst IV: Revelation	September 19, 2008	Low	No
Myst V: End of Ages	November 25, 2008	Low	No
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon	December 8, 2006	Low	delisted
Ōkami	September 24, 2007	Mid	No
Perfect Dark	April 13, 2006	Mid	No		Niwi3 (talk)	...Actually, holds up surprisingly well (as of February 2014) for something from almost eight years ago
Populous: The Beginning	October 23, 2007	Low	No
Radical Dreamers: Nusumenai Hōseki	February 9, 2008	Low	Pending			Contains poor grammar and questionable sources. Lead has poor prose and includes unimportant details, and its fourth paragraph is unsourced. The "Development" section is too much quotes and too little original text, and it has only 3 references ("Music" has 2 references, 1 less than "Development"). "Biohazard" is not italicized in the section's first quote.
Red vs. Blue	March 9, 2006	Low	delisted	Delisted at 2012-10 FAR		Several full-length sections completely unsourced; article may be out-of-date
Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War	March 15, 2007	Low	delisted
Riven	June 4, 2008	Mid	No
Shadow of the Colossus	August 9, 2006	Mid	Pending	FAR		Sections need medium to light copy editing, Plot section has redundancies, new PS3 content needs clean up and sourcing, references need consistency, excess non-free images, images should have ALT text
Silent Hill 4: The Room	January 28, 2008	Low	No
Space Invaders	September 29, 2008	High	No
Spyro: Year of the Dragon	March 30, 2008	Low	No
StarCraft	August 22, 2006	High	Yes	Expansion		Legacy could use more. Noticed for FAR 2020-12-15
StarCraft: Ghost	October 16, 2008	Low	No
Super Mario 64	February 4, 2008	High	delisted
Super Nintendo Entertainment System	July 26, 2007	Top	delisted
Super Smash Bros. Brawl	July 16, 2008	Mid	No
Super Smash Bros. Melee	March 20, 2008	High	No
System Shock	May 15, 2007	Mid	Pending	Expansion, clean up	JimmyBlackwing (talk)	The lead and Development, Reception and Legacy sections could be beefed up. Quotes appear without Cite video game template. Gameplay section probably too long; Plot paragraphs too short.
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind	May 25, 2007	Mid	No
The Halo Graphic Novel	February 17, 2008	Low	No
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time	May 8, 2008	High	Pending	Clean up		Grammar mistakes throughout; parts of Gameplay unsourced
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages	May 4, 2008	Mid	No
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker	July 14, 2006	High	delisted	Delisted at 2012-02 FAR		Gameplay and Plot are unreferenced
Vagrant Story	June 10, 2007	Mid	No
Voyage: Inspired by Jules Verne	June 28, 2007	Low	delisted			Badly written with choppy, short paragraphs, poor grammar, and WP:BALANCE problems. "Intelligence Management System" consists mostly of quotes. "Development" has poor prose. The "Reception" table is too long. "Differences with the novels" is an underdeveloped and unsourced section.
Wii	March 16, 2007	Top	Yes			Kept at FAR March 2021
Wii Sports	February 20, 2008	High	No			Development can be expanded, Impact and legacy may need updating
Wipeout 3	August 14, 2008	Low	No