Every so often, a game comes along and based solely on its concept is able to generate some hype. Vampire Rain is one of those titles that very well may have piqued the interest of gamers by providing an interesting twist to the somewhat stale genre of stealth-action games. Read More.
Halo is a cultural phenomenon. Early sales reports indicate that Halo 3 has a higher first day gross than other major media releases such as Spider-Man 3 and Harry Potter's final book. Halo is the franchise that saved Xbox for Microsoft, and essentially legitimized first person shooters on a console (1997's Goldeneye on the N64 perhaps not withstanding). Read More.
A lot can be said about Lara Croft.
For more than ten years, Croft has served as something of an unofficial mascot for PC gaming. Developing with the industry (no pun intended), Lara has faced controversy, became a major motion picture, released a slew of sequels on multiple platforms and went from a few dozen to a few thousand polygons. Read More.
Tarr Chronicles starts out as your standard fly-and-shoot space fighter game, and doesn't really deviate from the formula. However, it throws in enough content, as well as a pretty decent amount of customization to satisfy quick action cravings. Read More.
Back in 1990's, free roaming space shooters were much more popular than they are today. Games like Descent Freespace and the Wing Commander series proved that you could have satisfying outer space flying action with a deep and fulfilling story. While space shooters are still common, most don't have the depth of gameplay that these titles offered. Read More.
Dungeons and Dragons has a long and storied history in the video game world. Not only has it been responsible for a number of games that were ahead of their time, like the original Pools of Radiance series, but they produced some of the greatest PC role-playing games out on the market, the Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights series. Read More.
The Xenosaga universe began as a vision of considerable magnitude - a six-part storyline that would evolve across different gaming platforms and fuel the passion of fans for years to come. Somewhat similar to Square Soft's Xenogears, a title for the original PlayStation, the universe of Xenosaga (beginning with Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille Zur Macht in February of 2003) lured players into a powerful plotline supported by a cast of passionate and believable characters. Read More.
The Transformers have come to the DS to wage war, and though the style of gameplay is interesting to see (especially on a movie-to-game conversion), it's too ambitious for its own good. The game sells in two cartridges, one for the just Autobots, and one for the devious Decepticons, but the only difference between them is the story you follow and your allegiance in the Allspark Wars, so pick a side and, as a great big talking truck says, roll out. Read More.
The Transformers have come to the DS to wage war, and though the style of gameplay is interesting to see (especially on a movie-to-game conversion), it's too ambitious for its own good. The game sells in two cartridges, one for the just Autobots, and one for the devious Decepticons, but the only difference between them is the story you follow and your allegiance in the Allspark Wars, so pick a side and, as a great big talking truck says, roll out. Read More.
Taito released Bubble Bobble in December of 1988 and became a huge success on the NES and in arcades around the world. The original Rainbow Islands was an unseen and unpopular spinoff released almost two years after the hype had died around Bubble Bobble. So, this is a remake of a spinoff, most of us weren't expecting too much. Read More.
The popular cartoon series and toy line from the '80s finally made its way to the big screen this summer in Michael Bay's Transformers. It just wouldn't be a blockbuster without a video game of the same name. Thanks to Activision, we have Transformers: The Game, which allows you to run around as an Autobot or a Decepticon, depending on which side you prefer to grow bored with first. Read More.
Especially on consoles, real-time strategy titles tend to be hit or miss. As the genre has matured on the PC platform, it's snowballed up a wealth of features that have hardened into conventions: squadding units together, juggling resources, setting waypoints, and so on. Read More.
Glory Days 2 plays as a side-scrolling piloting action game with elements of strategy and resource management to keep your mind whirring. Each battle involves two sides (the generically named Union and Liberty) fighting for control of a battlefield. You, the player, control one pilot in a single airborne vehicle, either a helicopter or a jet, aiding the battle by shooting down other aircraft, bombing tanks and bunkers, and strafe-gunning infantry before they get too close. Read More.
Ideally, we'd be glad NASCAR's getting to the next-gen party late. Why? The second-favorite sport of the United States making its Xbox 360 debut nearly two years after the system's launch means EA had that much more time to build up a stock car racer stocky with features, right? Read More.
Gamers who have been around for a few years have seen some Russian games ported over to us English-speaking users. Games like Cossacks and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. are of particular note due to their widespread popularity and the unique concepts injected into their respective genres. Read More.
