For once, a much-touted event movie is exactly that: a glorious throwback to the days when epic storytelling really filled the screen.

He was described as "a glorious throwback to the Golden Age of Empire... the perfect Imperial actor, born out of his time, blue-eyed, square-jawed, clean-cut."

Even in a time when Broadway production has ramped down to a saner pace, and T-shirts and blue jeans are more prevalent than furs, it is still a glorious throwback to walk among the bustling theaters just before curtain time.

It begins with the tram, a glorious double-decker throwback to the first years of the century that trundles along narrow-gauge tracks through cars, trucks and people, to the end of the line in Sheung Wan.

Reviewers were divided, multiple reviewers felt the game was a good fit for Xbox Live, with one reviewer calling it "a glorious throwback to a simpler age in gaming."

OXMUK reviewer Ryan King called V8 Arcade "a glorious throwback to a simpler age in gaming."