Category: VG Review
Pandemic Studios may have fallen victim to Electronic Arts’ improved “cost structure” back in November, but before drifting loudly away on the late autumn wind, the Mercenaries and Star Wars: Battlefront series developer had one final message for Nazi Germany… Read More »
The Silent Hill franchise has always been the highbrow entry in the survival horror genre. Eschewing jump scares and blatant gore for psychological terror and creepy atmosphere, Silent Hill has always presented dark examinations of its main protagonists psyches, interwoven… Read More »
The storyline of the Resident Evil games has always been a schlocky, B-grade yarn you either feel is taken way to seriously or find to be a competent tale that weaves together its entries in interesting ways. No matter what… Read More »
I recently broke from my regularly scheduled action/adventure/shooter/platformer/fighting/sports/strategy/rpg playing to take a critical look at a game that I can honestly say I never expected to see in my Nintendo Wii. Fortunately, though, I did try out Ubisoft’s Just Dance,… Read More »
The God of War franchise has the distinction of being one of the most revered and recognized action-adventure games of current and previous generations. They were games that made you proud to own a PS2. God of War‘s brutality and… Read More »
Left 4 Dead 2 was announced to the world last July to a lot of noise, both supporting and opposing it. Those who loved the original Left 4 Dead couldn’t wait to see how the creative brains at Valve could… Read More »
Snowboarding videogames have really been all over the map in terms of quality. From the bad (Evolution Snowboarding, Trick’N Snowboarder) to the great (SSX Tricky, SSX 3, Amped 3), it’s a genre that really can be divisive. It is also… Read More »
Two years ago, I called Assassin’s Creed “the foundation for future games to build upon,” with the potential to be considered among the best games of all time. With Assassin’s Creed II, Ubisoft has taken leaps and bounds that rival… Read More »
The Secret Saturdays: Beasts of the 5th Sun Review
Based on the Cartoon Network show, The Secret Saturdays: Beasts of the 5th Sun is an action-platformer that does little to stand out from the sea of mediocrity that plagues the Nintendo Wii’s game library. What starts out as a… Read More »
I honestly enjoyed Machinarium, which, coming from me, is saying quite a bit. I usually detest adventure games. They’re frequently exercises in defusing the obtuse logic of the puzzle designers, and, at worst, they devolve into maddening pixel-hunts as you… Read More »
