Category: VG Review
My experience with motocross and off-road games begins and ends with Excitebike, but being the wide-eyed gamer I still am, I’m always looking to expand my gaming horizons. So I played MX vs. ATV Alive anticipating a new experience, but… Read More »
L.A. Noire challenges many of the preconceptions associated with modern gaming. What it does to separate itself from the usual action, adventure, and open-world trends, as well as the standards of acting and “maturity” in video games, can leave a… Read More »
To give you an idea of how truly bad Thor: God of Thunder is, it should be noted that my wife would frequently ask me to stop playing the game as I was preparing for this review. It wasn’t because… Read More »
Square Enix rekindled interest in Final Fantasy IV a few years ago when they updated and re-released the RPG classic on the Nintendo DS. Now it looks like the company is trying to capitalize on that yet again with Final… Read More »
In 2009 High Voltage Software and SEGA unleashed motion-controlled first-person shooter hell on the Wii with The Conduit. Two years later, the developer promised to have all the bugs worked out, the graphics polished, the side-spins all but eliminated in… Read More »
In 2003, a small British game modding firm with a tradition in id Software space brought class-based multiplayer excitement to the world of Wolfenstein with the free expansion Enemy Territory. In 2011, that same firm made the same game out… Read More »
Ubisoft did not pioneer the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia franchise, but some might say that it reached its peak with the company’s Sands of Time trilogy from the early 2000s. Now, after one departure and one revisitation to the… Read More »
I am a big fan of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie franchise. I’ve seen all three so far, and I’m anxiously awaiting the fourth. When I found out that Pirates was getting the LEGO treatment, I thought for sure… Read More »
There aren’t many franchises that have had as tumultous a run as Mortal Kombat. What began as a bloody good time degenerated into mediocrity and, of all things, a T-rated run-in with comic book characters. This isn’t what MK was,… Read More »
Skyscrapers topple as the world’s biggest city crumbles above the devastating movement of an apocalyptic earthquake. Now let’s race! The premise for MotorStorm: Apocalypse isn’t the most lucid or cohesive set of ideas but the combination of Armageddon and racing… Read More »
