Nicholas Bale
Infernal seems promising at first: the classic heaven-versus-hell storyline, shiny graphics, and hellish powers. What could go wrong? Apparently, a lot. More specifically, nothing seems to be right. Frankly, it seems that there's nothing to the game itself, and that feeling permeates to almost every element of the title. Read More.
Welcome to the battlefield, soldier. It's time to suit up, ship out, and make sure to take out the enemies before they get you in your sights. Do this, and you may survive long enough to actually live until tomorrow. Fail, and you'll be returning home in a bag - paper or plastic? Read More.
The idea of Genesis Rising is a fairly unique one: breed your own ships using genetics, customize your fleet with a variety of abilities, and wage space war while executing special attacks across the battlefield with your living spaceships. If done well, it would've been fun, but Genesis Rising fails to be enjoyable on so many levels that it just ends up being a huge disappointment. Read More.
The announcement of a new TMNT movie hitting the theatres set many fans hearts a-twitter at the thought of seeing the turtles ju-jitsu their way through bad guys once again. On the other hand, the thought of a new TMNT game hitting the consoles didn't have quite the same effect. Read More.
Way back in the day, I played The Guild and felt it was something new in the strategy genre, a tycoon game set in the middle ages. I had fun running a smithy in olde-time England, and so when I heard there was a sequel coming out, I was obviously quite interested. Read More.
Caesar IV is a fairly unique take on the standard city simulator. While most deal with building placement and macro economies, this game instead forces you to focus on each household, on how happy each group of your citizens are, and how to manage a complex, branching economic system. Read More.
The original City Life is a city-building game that re-evaluates how a city functions. Instead of the standard model of building homes, businesses, and industries and leaving it at that, City Life tries to bring in more depth to the citizens themselves and how they interact - both with the city and with each other. Read More.
So who doesn't hear "Eye of the Tiger" and immediately think of that slurry-voiced boxer from the low end of the city rising up to meet the challenge and become something? With the latest (and last, supposedly) Rocky offering on the big screen, a PSP game has been released that, despite its name, focuses on the fictional boxing legend from all six movies, not just the most recent one. Read More.
When Lumines came out on the PSP, it was an immediate and addictive hit. Though simple in concept, the game was fun and appealing to many, and the visual and audio style was a pleasant experience. For those who didn't own a PSP though, it was a long wait. Now, however, those who own PS2s can finally experience what this unique puzzle game has to offer. Read More.
Of Dragon Ball Z, I've seen a couple episodes, read a couple of the comics, and played some of the SNES games. Anything I know of the plot beyond that I've learned from friends. Often games like DBZ:BT2 are catered specifically towards fans of the series, completely alienating anyone else who just wants to play an enjoyable fighting game. Read More.
I think the best way to summarize Scurge: Hive for the Nintendo DS would be to liken it to a top-down, isometric RPG version of a Metroid game, though definitely not as good. The main character is even a female space bounty hunter in a special suit, sent on a dangerous mission. Read More.
Spectrobes for the Nintendo DS is one of those games that tries to put a unique spin on an established concept. Unfortunately, it's one of those games that fails to accomplish this. It takes the monster-collecting formula that became popularized ever so long ago by the Pokemon series, tries to play around with it and breathe new life into it, but just ends up becoming a hash of half-finished concepts and ideas. Read More.
When I started playing video games, I never though I'd be talking about how I have to rest between sessions to recuperate my strength and relax my shoulders. Alas, here we are. Wii Sports offers up five different events (baseball, tennis, golf, boxing, and bowling), each using the Wii remote and nunchuck in a variety of interesting ways. Read More.
Living in a world filled with adventurers must be pretty convenient. If you've got a problem, stand outside your house, put up a little arrow pointing at you, and just wait for someone to come by, offering to solve your problem. They'll be so grateful from the experience they gain that they won't even care that you're paying them pennies for hours of labour. Read More.
So who hasn't had a dream of running a zoo?
Okay, so it's not exactly a popular aspiration. But what if you were told you could breed and keep ancient creatures, train your animals, and breed them for fun and profit? A little more interested now, aren't we? Read More.
