Category: VG Review
Take Dead Space 2, subtract the hallucinations, the Zero-G segments, the puzzles, the element of discovery, the fresh (if languished) environments, and Isaac Clarke himself. What’s left? Dead Space 2‘s first single-player DLC Severed stays focused on the implication of… Read More »
There’s a level of primal satisfaction inherent in any game in which the central task is hacking down hordes of enemies with large, medieval weaponry. In some ways, Knights Contract nails this aspect of play, complete with a burly protagonist,… Read More »
Teams 17’s Alien Breed trilogy has come to a close with Alien Breed 3: Descent, and with it comes the familiar top-down, dual-stick action fans of the series have come to know well. For better or for worse, Team 17… Read More »
Dawn of War II has made a name for itself as being the unorthodox RTS game. Instead of focusing on base building and following your way up the tech tree like standard RTS games, Dawn of War II focuses on… Read More »
When you think of the heyday of RPGs in the PlayStation 2 era, you think of a time when things were simple: characters didn’t always run around in a fully-realized 3D world, graphics weren’t nearly as crisp as the HD… Read More »
In the days of the arcade, repetition was enough. Today, cumulative accomplishment is king. Bulletstorm attempts to bridge the valley separating the two, bloodying the hills on either side with delightful irreverence, the gorgeous rubble of an intergalactic resort town,… Read More »
As is customary with video games that follow the exploits of colorful mascots, de Blob 2 was released on a plethora of gaming platforms. However, unlike those other colorful mascots, whose hand-held games are typically sub-par compared to the console… Read More »
Everyone talks about Final Fantasy Tactics being the best turn-based strategy RPG from the PS1 era. While it was certainly a great game with a great premise, I believe calling it the best is a bit short-sighted. Tactics Ogre: Let… Read More »
Q Games has made a habit of producing many small and simple, yet refined and widely appealing downloadable titles with their PixelJunk lineup. For the first time, the developer has chosen to put together a full-fledged sequel to one of… Read More »
Killzone 3 is like a Michael Bay film. The high-concept premise sounds awesome, but that’s where the entertainment factor pretty much stops. Things like warring transforming robots sound amazing when distilled to one sentence, but the execution in such productions… Read More »
