Category: VG Review
Hitman: Absolution is like Groundhog’s Day. For those unfamiliar, Groundhog’s Day is a mid-’90s film in which the indelible Bill Murray lives one day over and over again: Groundhog’s Day. The point was for him to find purpose and humility by living the… Read More »
“Kelly seems to think you’ll face him like a glorious Samurai. Guess he doesn’t know Ninja.” Mark of the Ninja is nothing if not a purified, unblemished example of the stealth genre. But just what is stealth? For me, stealth… Read More »
It’s never easy being the new guy. PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is a fresh face in a genre dominated by a single franchise. From its initial reveal, gamers instantly jumped on it as a “clone,” “rip-off,” and whatever other derogatory… Read More »
After several months locked in the bowels of Dunwall, a once-great city turned into a shrieking, squeaking nightmare of rats and plague sufferers, something visits Corvo Attano. Corvo has been accused of the murder of the Empress, a most heinous… Read More »
Puzzles and platforms hark back to the glory days of gaming, when Mario and Sonic were the order of the day. Or was that just nostalgia? Regardless, they were big, mean worlds bursting with pitfalls, traps, and conundrums, but these… Read More »
As a game critic, I continuously look forward to what’s coming down the road of releases. Even now, my mind wonders about games like DmC, Tomb Raider, BioShock Infinite, and South Park: The Stick of Truth. It’s a necessary mindset,… Read More »
It’s been a long time since gamers last saw Master Chief. Halo 4 arrives five years after the conclusion of the series’ original trilogy, and a lot has happened in that time. The franchise is now under new management –… Read More »
There’s a certain craft to perfecting the expanded re-release. I’ve seen enough director’s cuts of films to know that some changes aren’t for the best. That problem isn’t as severe in the videogame medium, but there have been cases in… Read More »
Four people are in a lounge, each manning one of Rock Band’s plastic peripherals. The drums perform a thundering fill, the bass ends on a trill, the guitar climbs a scale to a high note, and there’s a sustained wail… Read More »
SpellForce 2: Faith in Destiny wants to be the true RPG-RTS hybrid. It wants to evoke a story that transcends its gameplay and rewards players for deeply exploring the world. These aspects that Nordic Games strived to achieve have been miserably… Read More »
