I was so stoked when I was offered the chance to review Brutal Legend. I love Jack Black. I love metal music. Unfortunately I don't love this game. The schizophrenic gameplay modes and interface issues within those modes leads to an uneven interactive experience that feels a mile wide and an inch deep. Read More.
Innovative, imaginative and charming are just a few words that can be used to describe Scribblenauts. This game for the DS will challenge you to think up the most zany and outrageous creations possible. The objectives in Scribblenauts are simple enough, but the methods you can use to achieve those goals are endless. Read More.
Rainbow Studios and publisher THQ are possibly better known for their MX vs. ATV series, but with Deadly Creatures for the Wii, they provide a refreshing, albeit creepy, new perspective from the dirt. Read More.
As far as this reviewer is concerned, few games in this hardware generation were as fun and memorable as EA's Dead Space. The combination of intense action, frightening atmosphere, light RPG elements, and fantastic universe all came together to create a gaming experience like few that I have ever experienced. Read More.
New Mombasa is under attack and it's your duty to drop in and eradicate all the Covenant forces attacking the city. You are an elite Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, trained to be an efficient killing machine. You drop in from the sky and slam the hammer down on some alien butt, or rather, that's how it would have been if everything went to plan. Read More.
It seems in the past year, the big superhero on everybody's mine has been Batman. The Batman R.I.P. arc began in May and by the end of it, we were promised Batman wouldn't be Batman anymore. Then The Dark Knight premiered last July and the entire world went nuts over him breaking all sorts of box-office records. Read More.
Wolfenstein is a rarity in the world of gaming. Sure, first person shooters based in World War II that have you blasting wave after wave of Nazis are a penny a dozen, but that's not what I'm talking about. As one of the major franchise players in the genesis of the first person shooter genre, it's absolutely surprising that this franchise hasn't been run into the ground with constant yearly updates and expansion packs. Read More.
Need for Speed Shift is the latest entry into the NFS franchise and fans of the racing genre will be happy to hear that this game does not disappoint. Gone are the old attempts at cheesy stories of you rising up on the streets to become the king of the racers. Read More.
Demon's Souls...Demon's Souls is not a game about success and victory. Demon's Souls is a game about death, about dying, and about mistakes.
You may have heard this already, but let me say this, just to make sure: Demon's Souls is hard. This is not the same kind of hard that comes from too many enemies attack at once, from having your level too low to fight a boss, or from having too many guards to take out, lest you be seen. Read More.
Now here's a game based on a Michael Bay film if ever there was one. However, while Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen stunk up multiplexes earlier this summer with its idiotic storyline, terrible acting; overblown special effects, and an interminable runtime, the video game adaptation is a surprisingly fun romp. Read More.
Something has gone horribly wrong. Toasters are burning people instead of bread. Paper shredders and fans alike have become horribly evil. Who are you going to call? Ghost Bus-, wait, scratch that. Read More.
Are you a Guitar Hero fan or do you follow the way of Rock Band? While the differences between the two games might have once been huge they're slowly getting closer to one another in most respects. Rock Band was the more social experience; generally easier songs paired up with a music video approach to the visuals gave the game a more user friendly feeling. Read More.
There aren't many games out there that successfully make the transitions from the age of simplistic, wireframe, graphics. Generally speaking these games were based on incredibly basic gameplay paired up with equally basic graphics. It doesn't get any more bare bones than a game based entirely on green wires that form shapes. Read More.
Personally I've always found that Sorry! is one of the more amusing board games simply due to the sheer frustration factor. There's nothing quite like watching your friends getting agitated as you send back one of his pawns that was just about to reach the safety of his base. Read More.
If there was ever a game that was tailor made for the pick up and play mentality of Xbox Live Arcade, Trials HD is it. On the surface, the game is deceptively simple. You control a faceless motorcycle stuntman on a 2 dimensional plane, and your goal is usually to guide him through a lethal obstacle course. Read More.
