Daniel Acaba
Persona 2: Innocent Sin is a hard beast to review. Technically speaking, what we're looking at here are two very distinct experiences. This is basically a slightly updated port of a twelve year old game, kind of like when the first Shin Megami Tensei was released on PSP just recently. Read More.
When I first saw Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine at E3 2009 I became a bundle of excitement. I wanted that game in my Xbox right the heck now and the idea of waiting at least a year was sheer blasphemy. Luckily Dawn of War 2 managed to fill in the time, thank you Retribution. Read More.
Rock of Ages is an incredibly weird game to describe to people. It's one of those games that you try to talk to your friends about but only find them giving you funny looks that seem to say "This guy has been hitting the bottle again." For a game as simple to pick up and play as this one it's so bizarre that most attempts to describe it end up falling short. Read More.
As a game reviewer there are few times when you can honestly say something was the first time you felt a particular way for a game. It's often just hyperbole or something being a bit overblown. But this is definitely one of those times when it's genuine – Catherine has got to be the first time that I was so confused, enthralled, horrified and simultaneously unable to look away from a video game. Read More.
The F.E.A.R. games have an incredibly interesting relationship with Monolith Productions other big game series, Condemned. While Condemned was a more down to earth game with some quasi-supernatural elements to it, it focused more on creating an atmosphere of gripping terror and a lesser emphasis on the combat. Read More.
Let it never be said that Relic, the developers behind Dawn of War II, doesn't understand the concept of an expansion pack. With Chaos Rising they upped the stakes, of both the storyline and the gameplay by introducing new gameplay elements, the story getting grander and introducing another faction to multiplayer. Read More.
When word came around that Red Faction Armageddon was going to trade in the wide open dunes of Mars' surface for the underground tunnels of the first game reactions were mixed. Some thought that the loss of the open world environment would harm the gameplay or that it would make the game bland to look at. Read More.
If you're a fan of fighting games then you've probably been keenly aware of the ten years since we last saw one of the Marvel vs. Capcom games. For awhile there they were churning them out at a rapid pace, bringing out new games in the series on basically a yearly basis. Read More.
Kinectimals isn't just a cute game. Oh no, the developers weren't going to stop at just making it cute. No this game is so damn cute that it almost goes entirely back on itself to become almost horrific. Sure having a Black Panther cub purring and rolling around in the dirt might seem adorable at first until you realize that the flying idiot bee thing implies that these animals have been kittens for the past 200 years. Read More.
As much as I love the gaming industry, unique games aren't exactly common nowadays. Most games can easily be summed up as "X meets Y", for example the phenomenal Dead Space series easily boils down to Resident Evil 4 meets Aliens. Even if these games do end up being good they're still working off of a formula and it's a rare developer who chooses to wholly buck this trend and try something unique. Read More.
Okay, let's get one thing out of the way right now – this game is not "just an expansion pack." The definition of an expansion pack is something that builds upon the original game in some fashion. Fallout: New Vegas is an entirely new story, totally unconnected from the story we experienced in Fallout 3. Read More.
Vanquish doesn't exactly get off on the right foot. Oh sure the graphics are awesome, the gameplay is frantic as hell and everything is almost ridiculously responsive but almost as soon as you turn the game on you start dying. Vanquish is a very hard game that doesn't exactly ease newcomers into the experience plus there are numerous quirks with the gameplay itself that take a whole lot of warming up. Read More.
Ninja Theory is a fairly impressive title. Their first title, Kung Fu Chaos, was released in 2003 to fairly middling reviews. It wasn't until 2007 when they wowed the gaming world with Heavenly Sword for the PS3. While that game had some issues it's free-form combat, Hollywood quality motion capture and some of the best voice acting ever featured in a video game. Read More.
It's always dicey buying platformer games. Most of the time games in this genre are boring, repetitive or laughably short. Regardless of the fault with this genre most of these games are just far from worth the price tag attached. But sometimes, just sometimes, they are sparkling gems that shine amidst the drudge out there. Read More.
One thing that can easily make someone very leery of a game in development is when it's something unexpected from a game developer. If a company famously known for making RPG's suddenly announces an action adventure title you can never be entirely sure of how it's going to come out. Read More.
