I remember the first time I played Resident Evil 4, back on the Gamecube in 2005: I had preordered the game months in advance, and I had poured over every glowing preview, review, and interview with the dev team, and despite the years of hype, it …
The third installment in the Call of Juarez series takes on the more modern Columbian cartel with heavy focus on human and drug trafficking. The RPG style mixes surprisingly well with linear gameplay, although sometimes it feels too much like an on-rails shooter to enjoy fully, …
2007 was a good year for pretending to be a skateboarder. What could possibly have been the greatest installment in the Tony Hawk franchise, Proving Ground, pacified me for two full years. Up until that point, every Tony Hawk game had been worth revisiting time and …
As an ATLUS fan, I had this game pre-ordered with its Deluxe Edition for the XBOX 360 as soon as it was available. Knowing ATLUS, they’re going to make a game that has great character development and an interesting story line, the two features I praise …
Since we’re in the middle of the usual late summer lull of new game releases, I thought it would be a good idea to go work down my substantial backlog of games that I bought but never played; my inability to resist a good bargain and …
It’s becoming a tradition for Rockstar. They make an immersive sandbox game about criminal activity, name it GTA, slap on a bigger number than the last one and make loads of money off of it. That much we know. However, they then use the engine from …
Vanquish, the latest game by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, was released in the middle of last year’s holiday rush and went mostly ignored at retail… and that’s a damn shame too, because it’s honestly one of the best third person shooters ever made.
Every so often, a game comes along that totally blows the competition out of the water. This is not that game. However, it does try to change things up and I’m pretty sure that, in time, many of the ideas in this game will become standard …
Homefront is a first person shooter which has obtained a lot of attention, possibly due to its completely refreshing setting, when compared to similar games, such as Battlefield or Call of duty. Homefront was developed by a fairly inexperienced developer; Kaos studio. Kaos studio has just …
I’ve had a tumultuous relationship with the Assassin’s Creed series: I hated the first game and thought it was completely overrated, but it’s sequel was such a massive improvement that I fell in love with it instantly and consider it one of my favorite games of …
The gaming console wars seem to be heating up quite fast in 2011! In estimates for the first half of 2010, it was quite clear that the PS3 was beating Microsoft’s Xbox 360 by a small margin. However, with newer figures released with the end of …