By Ron Duwell |
Four years have passed since Criterion Games delivered their first open-world world racer, Burnout Paradise, to a lot of head-scratching praise. They kept their patented high-risk racing mechanics intact, but many were confused and turned off by how poorly streamlined the experience was. Racing fans sometimes…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Part 4 is the best time to get into something, right? It worked with Star Wars.For whatever reason, I never got into the Halo games. I never really had anything bad to say about them, but they just never caught me. I did play through Reach, but Halo 4 is the…
By Eric Frederiksen |
Assassin’s Creed III is so close. So close to being Game of the Year material, and so close to being what anyone who loved Assassin’s Creed II knows the series is capable of. So much of it works, but more of it is broken than it should be.…
By Ron Duwell |
References are always nice when they pop up in any form of entertainment. They are a cheap gag designed to provide an easy laugh, a quick break from the story you are invested in, as you remember a happy moment from your past. Who doesn’t…
By Joey Davidson |
In what’s turned out to be one of Nintendo’s best games for 2012, players will guide Mario through the paper craft world of Paper Mario: Sticker Star in order to, you guessed it, save Mushroom Kingdom.This turn-based, classic RPG-esque game, tasks players to use logic, timing and a little…
By Joey Davidson |
There are going to be and have been a lot of wonderful games available at retail during 2012. Covering just about every genre under the sun, the gaming industry is a wonderful place this year when it comes to titles. I’m here, unfortunately, to tell…
By Joey Davidson |
RollerCoaster Tycoon fans freshly equipped with a Nintendo 3DS might have once thought that this year would bring unto them a portable entry in an amazing series. RollerCoaster Tycoon 3D promised such a thing. Too bad it fails on almost every level. This is just plain lazy. n-Space, the…
By Joey Davidson |
The Walking Dead from the team at Telltale Games is slowly but surely becoming one of the best gaming experiences of 2012. Each episode has been a great work of fiction, character development, stress and depression. The air that wafts over this first season of five episodes reeks…
By Ron Duwell |
Given the option to become God, how would you treat the people you lorded over? Would you be a loving God, caring of his subjects and meeting their needs? Would you be a ruthless, cold-hearted God, building the civilization to its holding point only to…
By Eric Frederiksen |
While I was playing through Resident Evil, my wife tweeted the following: “When my husband starts holding a one-sided conversation with a video game he’s playing, that’s when I know it’s really making him angry.” You guys, I had a really long conversation with Resident Evil 6.…
By Joey Davidson |
Arkane Studios, a developer built with a team of gaming industry veterans, has created a wonderful world of revenge, choice and stealth. Dishonored puts players in the boots of Corvo, a guard to the Royal Empress of Dunwall. Dunwall is a strange whaling city where whale…
By Joey Davidson |
FIFA 13 is absolutely the best soccer game available for this year. The physics, the mechanics and all of the UI enhancements have created a great experience for fans of the beautiful game. When reviewing sports titles, capturing the essence of what makes them so good…
By Ron Duwell |
No, seriously. This is a game where Beagles eat Golden Retrievers, and a pack of yip-yapping Pomeranians can take down a mighty Japanese Tosa. All human life has vanished mysteriously from the world, and the vacated cities of their vast civilization remain a war zone for…
By Eric Frederiksen |
The Dead or Alive fighting tournament is back, and a few things have changed. The man in black, Tomonobu Itagaki, having left Team Ninja and Tecmo a few years back, is no longer in charge of the series. For the first time in over a decade, Dead or…
By Joey Davidson |
This upcoming Sunday, Nintendo will launch a brand new entry in the Pokémon franchise with Pokémon Black and White Version 2. Gamers will dive back into the Unova region in order to save the world once again. Game Freak, the constant studio behind this world famous franchise, has…
By Joey Davidson |
For a lot of gamers, Borderlands 2 stands as potentially one of the best gaming experiences, the biggest values and the title with the coolest aesthetic the industry has to offer this year. It’s been preceded by a wealth of hype, thanks to the relative obscurity of the original’s pre-release,…
By Joey Davidson |
If you’re a hockey fan, then you likely already know about the lockout. The NHL has been put on hold this year, and the game won’t resume until the owners and players can get together and hash out a brand new Collective Bargaining Agreement. That…
By Joey Davidson |
Another year, another Madden. EA Sports has been producing this yearly football series for a long, long time now. With age, the title has fallen victim to minute changes and predetermined perceptions. People see a new Madden, and they think they know exactly what the game has to…
By Joey Davidson |
Hi, my name is Joey Davidson and I am a Ratchet & Clank addict. I’ve played every adventure in the franchise and look forward to each new entry that Insomniac slowly drip-feeds the world. Yes, even the disastrous All 4 One. When Sony and Insomniac announced…
By Joey Davidson |
The Walking Dead from Telltale games is one of the best gaming efforts being developed this year. The five episode season has now crossed the halfway point, and every single beat along the way has been even better than the last. This is Telltale’s finest work,…
By Sean P. Aune |
As a child of the 70s and 80s, I love the Transformers brand, especially anything related to the original Generation 1 storyline. And it is that fact that makes me even sadder at the effort High Moon put into Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. From uninspired level…
By Eric Frederiksen |
There’s a lot that’s remarkable about the Darksiders series. It’s a first from a new developer, Vigil Games. It’s a new IP from a struggling publisher, THQ. It sports high production values across the board with a unified art direction, strong level design, and solid combat. And…
By Ron Duwell |
Hi. This is just a little experiment we are trying, where I am allowed to rant about my favorite games from years past, and you are more than welcome to share in my nostalgic waxings or deride me for my differing opinions on your most…
By Joey Davidson |
On the surface, Spec Ops: The Line is nothing more than a run-of-the-mill military shooter set in the Middle East. This skirmish in Dubai features third person, cover-based gunplay and a linear campaign reminiscent of today’s top war titles. Forget the surface. Spec Ops: The Line represents a strong shot…
