It's time that I admit something. As a video game player I'm not much of a sports game fan. If you don't really follow sports then what's the point of playing sports games? It becomes a faceless mass of players doing whatever you instruct them as you do your best to try and make sense of it all. Read More.
When is a Rainbow Six game not a Rainbow Six game?
I never played the original Rainbow Six Vegas title, simply because when it came out, I was too busy playing another Rainbow Six game (might've been Rogue Spear, if I remember correctly) with some friends in a friendly competition of who-can-shoot-the-most-badguys. Read More.
I'll admit it. I am genetically doomed to lose my hair sooner rather than later. Since I've relegated myself to my fate, there are fewer feelings in this world that surpass the one I get when I go for a drive, feeling the wind rush through my receding hairline. Read More.
The Middle Ages spanned hundreds of years, and developer Unicorn Games and publishers Atari and 1C have built upon a single century from that era: the thirteenth century. In XIII Century: Death or Glory, the war is on as the English, the French, the Mongols, the Germans and the Russians let the spittle fly and take up arms. Read More.
It takes a fair amount of guts to release a game like Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 in this day and age. Every single aspect of this game just yells out 1990 at best, and yet here it is on next-gen consoles like a shining beacon of years gone by. Everything from the control scheme to the clown car-like buildings that spew an endless stream of enemies until destroyed; this game has just about every dated gameplay convention ever made. Read More.
It takes a fair amount of guts to release a game like Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 in this day and age. Every single aspect of this game just yells out 1990 at best, and yet here it is on next-gen consoles like a shining beacon of years gone by. Everything from the control scheme to the clown car-like buildings that spew an endless stream of enemies until destroyed; this game has just about every dated gameplay convention ever made. Read More.
When it was announced that Free Radical was creating a next generation first person shooter, interest was understandably piqued. After all, they've developed the well-received Timesplitters series, and many of their top brass put console first person shooting on the map when working for Rare on GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark in the late 1990's. Read More.
It's a sad but true fact about video games today that most games that call themselves "survival horror" are more about the action than anything else. Slowly they are moving away from the disturbing matter and bizarre storylines for more streamlined combat and action set-pieces in a futile hope to match Resident Evil 4. Read More.
Wii Sports proved to gamers everywhere that the Wii's innovative control scheme was much more than a simple gimmick. The limited availability of Nintendo's system a year and a half after its launch is a testament to this fact. However, not every game on the little white box is able to overcome the stigma of having a control scheme that feels gimmicky, which ends up ruining the entire experience. Read More.
I remember City Life 2008 Edition, I remember it well. Why? Because I remember reviewing it when it was called City Life: World Edition. At least it certainly feels that way. Read More.
The "World Famous" Reiner Knizia invites you to tour the world visiting sixteen cities and unlocking puzzles as you go in Eidos' latest puzzle game on the Nintendo DS. Brain Voyage is the latest in a series of "brain building" games on the handheld platform, but how does it compete against more established franchises? Read More.
There are three surefire ways to kill a vampire: gunfire, fruitcake, and the black spot behind your toilet that you're afraid to identify. Of course, most would disagree with that statement, and one man in particular would scoff at such an idea. In Dracula: Origin, a PC title developed by the adventure don Frogwares and published by The Adventure Company and Focus Home Interactive, Professor Van Helsing is that man. Read More.
Have you ever played a game for a few hours and thought to yourself "This is the coolest thing ever" only to discover that a few hours later it all goes terribly wrong. Maybe the voice acting is so bad that you just can't bring yourself to listen to it anymore or the basic fundamental aspect of the game is flawed. Read More.
Recently I was flipping channels on a recent excursion to Baltimore. I came across a show on Nickelodeon called Fairly Odd Parents and was stunned at the sheer amount of adult jokes and double entendres that the show was presenting. Kids likely wouldn't get the secret jokes, making it something that both adults and kids could enjoy together, to an extent. Read More.
A really good strategy game is not easy to find. Sure, any game can have you build units and send them to die, but making a very good real-time strategy (emphasis on strategy) is not an easy task. Enter Sudden Strike 3, the latest game in the World War II strategy genre. Read More.
