Category: VG Review
The road ahead is shocking, lonely, infuriating, and empty. It demands that you act coldly. It begs you to offer comfort. It forces you to feel weak, but requires that you remain strong. The desperation of surviving the zombie apocalypse… Read More »
Take beefcake gunman Chris Redfield, alone, in a mansion, turning a corner down a hallway, a new static camera, and an unexpected dog-through-window. Now imagine it’s all being rendered by a 32-bit processor, and there’s no music, and it’s just… Read More »
This was a series of 100-plus hour RPGs that was about to transcend its genre for a new frontier. The risk is nothing to scoff at; this game would need to lure fighting fans to a brand new name in… Read More »
Having played through LEGO Batman 2: DC Super Heroes, one question keeps running through my mind: Is this a game meant for kids? Well, it certainly is meant for kids, I thought, but not today’s kids. I convinced myself that LEGO Batman 2:… Read More »
As compelling and charismatic as videogame protagonists have been, Death carries an inescapable gravitas. In Darksiders II, players step into the shoes of a fearsome, arrogant horseman of the Apocalypse. His imposing shadow is matched by a huge world, colossal… Read More »
There’s a certain inescapable, old-school appeal to point-and-click adventure games. It may be the nostalgia, or perhaps it’s the genre’s ability to tell an authored tale without giving the player very much opportunity to muck it up. Love or hate… Read More »
GamerNode Public Service Announcement: There be SPOILERS ahead!! There is only one way to investigate areas and get a closer look at objects and people in the periphery of Spec Ops: The Line: down the barrel of a gun. That may seem… Read More »
Zen Studios is relentless in its effort to produce the world’s best stylized virtual pinball tables. Take Monty Python and the Holy Grail, turn it into a cartoon and throw it into a pinball machine; from this, Epic Quest Pinball… Read More »
Awesomenauts has made the jump over to PC via Steam. The transition to the new platform, with accompanying control-scheme changes and new user interface, has had an effect on the experience, but to what extent does this change my impressions in my… Read More »
First there was entrenchment, when we bunkered down in vast starbases. Next came diplomacy, when we attempted to settle our differences with words, alliances, and pathetic paper pacts. Now there is rebellion in the ranks – in the Advent, the… Read More »
