Much like a perennial sport series, the Tony Hawk games seem consistent in their yearly releases. But unlike the Maddens and the MLBs, Neversoft seems to always refine the gameplay or add a new nuance that makes every older title archaic. Try as anyone might, it is exceptionally hard to go back to a Tony Hawk game that doesn't have the revert or flatland tricks in them. Read More.
Ninja Gaiden has been a fan favorite ever since the early days of the 8-bit Nintendo. Building on this cult favourite, Tecmo decided to put a modern spin on the original and released Ninja Gaiden for the Xbox last March. The title was widely hailed as a new classic and the best game that could have been made using the franchise. Read More.
With the success that Marvel had with the release of the 2002 movie Spider-Man, and each proceeding sequel, the gaming community has been blessed with an influx of Marvel game titles. While the original Spider-Man series is largely centered on the movies, Ultimate Spider-Man breaks away from the movie franchise and focuses on its own modified version of the Spider-Man story. Read More.
The first RPG I ever played was Enix's Dragon Warrior on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game came free with a year's subscription to Nintendo Power magazine and while I didn't know what to expect from it at the time, it is the game most responsible for changing my view on gaming. Read More.
The President is dead. Washington has been destroyed by a nuclear explosion. The country is divided. Are you a bad enough dude to lead your people to victory? Read More.
Although it's very unlikely to be remembered as such, 2005 proved to be a great year for movie tie-in games. From Batman Begins to Fantastic 4 and Aeon Flux, developers no longer seemed content with simply rushing a game to market for the sake of cashing in on a movie's opening. Read More.
The Dragon Ball license seems to be a popular one on the Game Boy Advance. It seems to me that these days all I am playing is Dragon Ball, which would not be a bad thing except for the fact that I was not particularly a fan of the series beforehand, and I really cannot say that I am any more of a fan now. Read More.
After playing Dawn of War, I was very intrigued to see whether Winter Assault would live up to the high standard set by its predecessor. Warhammer 40,000 Winter Assault introduces a variety of new features to the game, including a new playable race, and while it didn't take long for me to dive into the campaign, my hope of a better gaming experience was rapidly suppressed. Read More.
When I first picked up Dawn of War, I wasn't sure what kind of game I was going to get. I've been a big fan of real-time strategy games, but I wasn't sure if this product would live up to all the hype that had been going around. After playing the game for only fifteen minutes, I was already impressed at the quality of both the gameplay and visual effects. Read More.
Upon its launch, the Xbox 360 boasted a few first person shooters, a platformer here and there and quite a few sport titles. Nowhere did we really see an RPG or a fighting game, but that's another story. The one genre best represented however, was clearly the racing world. Read More.
In late 1998, the PlayStation was given one of its greatest adventure games in the surprise title of MediEvil. At the time, MediEvil was considered completely offbeat, creative and wholly original. Now, almost seven years later, we are given a reinvention of the PlayStation classic with a few new twists here and there. Read More.
When the GamingExcellence team went to X'05 in Toronto, Canada, we noticed that the game with the most playable stations (and with the most visible presence) was Kameo. This was no big surprise considering that this was one of the three Microsoft published titles at the event. Read More.
In gaming circles, as in regular everyday life, there are always categories to be named which separate seemingly normal individuals. When first person shooters are discussed, for example, there are two very distinct camps. The first is a fanatical, loud, proud bunch who believe that, without question, Halo and Halo 2 are the greatest games every made. Read More.
The PSP is almost a year old and it seems like we haven't yet had our onslaught of original titles yet. Say what you will, the best games on the handheld at the moment are puzzle games (Lumines) and racers (Wipeout, Burnout, Ridge Racer, Need for Speed, Midnight Club). Read More.
It takes a great company to design, create and bring a title such as the Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction to life; in this case, that company is Radical Entertainment. Many superhero games have come and gone over the years, but none have ever captured the image of the Incredible Hulk with as much style as this one. Read More.
