This is one of the hardest reviews I’ve ever had to write. ”Max Payne 3″ may be the most polished and thoughtfully executed entry the franchise has yet had, but that doesn’t necessarily make it the best. Rockstar Vancouver clearly set out to modernize Max, to put a fresh coat of paint on him and bring [...]
Very few sequels have ever changed so little, yet come so far. “Prototype 2″ looks and feels much like its ancestor, and yet where the original was frustratingly incomplete, the sequel is the real deal. It’s not perfect, but its victories overpower its weaknesses, resulting in one of the best sandbox mayhem machines ever built. [...]
(Another from our new contributor, GP) It’s Springtime and even though most of us really haven’t had that much of a winter, it’s time once again to dust off our virtual gloves, pick up our pixelated bats, and head out to our digital ballpark of choice. And to what do we owe our time [...]
Here’s a trippy little game for you, a Half Life 2 mod called “The Stanley Parable” that was downloaded 100,000 in 3 weeks when it was released a couple months ago. It’s gotten a lot of well deserved buzz in the gaming world, and since I TAed one of creator Davey Wreden‘s film [...]
Thanks to my finicky gaming tastes, which drive me away from most FPS, RTS, and platformers, I’m excited when I find a new genre to explore. “The Cat and the Coup” is the first “documentary puzzle” game I’ve played, and it far exceeded my expectations of how historical events could be related in [...]
Oh hai, reader! I didn’t know it was you. You know what’s great? Tommy Wiseau’s amazingly campy movie The Room. You know what’s even better? The incredibly campy game The Room Tribute! You haven’t heard of The Room, you say? Well, you’ve been missing out. It’s L.A.’s favorite “midnight movie” cult classic, filling theaters [...]
Ah, this game brings me back. This is the sort of innovative game we haven’t seen since… well, since 1989. A simulation game that speaks to the little guy, like one of my favorite 80s games, Paperboy. A game with hooks like TOTALLY RAD celebrities, a SUPER COOL story and ENDLESS PLAY. Oh [...]
It’s back to school time, which means no more time for games with long, sprawling storylines. Instead I turn to quick bite games to carry me through the semester, phone games, Flash games, games with levels I can play for two minutes and still feel satisfied. Now for some reason I’ve never gotten caught up [...]
First off, I should lead by saying that this game does not suck. It says something, really, that I have to state this outright. I mean, we’re dealing with multiple factors here: the legacy of “Transformers Revenge of the Fallen,” not to mention movie games in general. There’s the gaming industry’s past [...]
(This review was completed on the Xbox 360 version. Please note that the Windows release is due out on May 24.) Avast! Thar may be some of ye out there who have not yet played a bloody Lego franchise game… Ye scurvy sons of wenches, this be an unacceptable course! *COUGH COUGH* Ok, enough with [...]
I can still remember that bright Spring afternoon, coming home from school and discovering that all my friends had gathered at my neighbors house. What mystery was contained that would stir up such a ruckus? A working lightsaber? A Neo Geo? I walked down the stairs into his basement to find the only light coming [...]
Big life changes always make me a bit nostalgic, and as I’m getting dangerously close to finishing grad school and being chucked into the cold harsh real world, I’ve started revisiting old childhood loves, like listening to David Bowie mix CDs, painting my nails black, and watching episodes of Buffy on Netflix. That nostalgia is [...]
The biggest factor in reviewing a fighting game for home console is usually how faithfully the original arcade version is represented (unless the even the arcade version is terrible). I good port of a popular arcade game can be a system seller. In the 16-bit era, the Super Nintendo had a heads-up on the [...]
I’ve played around with a number of RPGs for the iPhone (Dungeon Hunter: meh; Song Summoner: unbearably awful). Ash has been my favorite, by leaps and bounds. I mean, I actually beat it. And not only did I beat it, I’ve been playing it pretty compulsively for the past week, every time I’ve had 30 [...]
Here it is: Padinga’s first 3DS title reviewed. Fancy, huh? To celebrate, this whole review is going to be rendered and posted at a later date in true stereoscopic! That’s right, Padinga’s going 3D. So how does Pilotwings Resort, the latest entry in the rather small Pilotwings franchise, stack up against the other games available [...]
I love LittleBigPlanet. Now, you may think I’m biased, because I do tend to love things that are adorable, but let’s be honest, there are plenty of adorable games out there that suck. Fortunately, LittleBigPlanet 2 is not one of those games. Media Molecule took everything that was enjoyable about the original LittleBigPlanet and enhanced [...]
Killzone is a series that has always confused me. It always wanted to be a Halo-killer, but it chose to have mechanics that resembled Call of Duty on paper and a garbage barge in execution. That is, the idea of these massive combat action sequences, but your character moves with a real-world weight, an actual [...]
…half-assed because I didn’t finish the game, and probably never will, which kind of shocks me. As a fan of all things RPG and Disney, the combination of the two usually equals instant obsession and a loss of several months for me (Kingdom Hearts…. ahh, now that was a good summer). It’s not that I [...]
I have an addiction… to a game. This is a safe environment right? I can talk about it? No one will judge me? Okay… enough BS-ing… here we go. I’m addicted to Touch Pets Cats, my online iPod Touch game. Yes it’s available for all of those other Apple devices. But I can only afford [...]
After 13 years of wondering what the heck happened in Sonic lore after Sonic & Knuckles, we finally have our answer in Sonic 4- Episode 1. There’s a death star, and uhh… Tails and Knuckles are… ummm… well yea Robtnik goes by Eggman now. Did you know that? And… well, there’s more emeralds. Ok so [...]
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