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Bulletstorm is a nonstop action packed filled ride of gunplay and excitement. The developer People Can Fly has put together an interesting experience and experiment that tests what a first person shooter can be. Does this is experiment into a genre that is filled with some many contenders able to hold up against the best of them? You play as Grayson Hunt a member of an elite ex-squad called Dark Echo, who was once…
De Blob is ready to paint the town red or blue or yellow and every color in-between with this release from THQ. De Blob is a colorful romp of an adventure game. Does this platformer give Mario a run for his money on his own system or does the game make just a big splat? De Blob takes place in Chroma City where everything is all bright and colorful until one day the I.N.K.T. Corporation invades the city and steals…
Visceral Games came out of know where when they released Dead Space two years ago and a year ago with Dante's Inferno. Dead Space came out in a time when EA was experimenting with new IP's. Dead Space didn't sell quite like EA hoped but they knew they had to give Dead Space another chance. Fast forward two years later Dead Space 2 is released and the marketing behind Dead Space 2 is more present, granted it is not…
Donkey Kong is back to his old SNES self in, Donkey Kong Country Returns. Retro Studios is the same developer that brought back Metroid with the Metroid Prime series. Are they able to capture that same amount of success or do they fall short of every ones expectations? Are they able to take over where Rare left off and developer a new series of Donkey Kong games for a new generation? Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong…
Lost is Shadow subscribes to the theory that less is more when it comes to the look and story. With a look that is similar to the PS2 game ICO, does this puzzle platformer have the capability to hold up next to the aforementioned ICO? First off, Lost in the Shadow is small when it comes to its story. The game picks up with a boy hanging from chains at the top of a very tall tower. A knight hooded character comes out…
New Super Mario Bros. Wii, holy shit what a title. For the sake of this review I will be referring to this game as Mario Bros Wii. The game follows in the same line as the DS game called New Super Mario Bros. DS. If you are new to these Mario spin offs let me give you a quick rundown about them. They are Mario games set in the same vain as the old Mario games for the NES and SNES. It is a 2D platformer, you jump…
Transformers what are you doing in a game that doesn’t have anything to do with a movie? Transformers: War for Cybertron is based on the events leading up to the Transformers seeking refuge on Earth. Since War for Cybertron is not based on any of the movies, its source material gives the developer room to make an actual game and not a movie game. War for Cybertron is a pretty good sub title, because it tells you…
Do you have rocket knees in Gears of War? No you don’t, let me tell you about who does have rocket knees. Vanquish is the new game by Platinum Games the same developers who brought you Bayonetta earlier this year.(2010) Does Vanquish have what it takes to set it apart from other third person cover based shooters or is it just another Gears of War clone? You play as Sam Gideon who works for a research company that…
Enslaved Odyssey to the West is a third person action game similar to Ninja Theory's second game Heavenly Sword for the PS3. Enslaved plays differently then what Heavenly Sword in that Enslaved is an action plat former. Does Ninja Theory have the talent to accomplish what they are trying to do in Enslaved or does it fall short? Enslaved takes place in a post apocalyptic world where you play Monkey. The game picks up…
Movie games are usually never any good. With the release of Tron Evolution the game based on the upcoming Tron Legacy movie, does this movie game have what it takes to deliver an engrossing and fully realized game that is able to hold up on its own merit? In Tron Evolution you play as a silent protagonist, unnamed system monitor who is tasked with securing Tron a city inside of a computer. You first meet up with…
Need for Speed is back and better than ever with the help from Criterion Games, the people that have brought you the amazing Burnout series. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is EA's return to put some life back into the Need for Speed franchise. Need for Speed has been getting dull and has not been exciting for awhile, so EA looked to Criterion to take time out from the Burnout series to make them a new starting off…
Call of Duty: Black Ops is this year’s new installment in the Call of Duty franchise. Most people have heard the name Call of Duty and have made several appearances’ in main stream media; does this game deserve as much recognition as its predecessors? If you are like me, you enjoy your far share of First Person Shooters, especially anything that has the title of Call of Duty on it. I was ready to jump into Black Ops…
Star Killer has returned for the next installment in the Lucas Arts Publish Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2. Has this sequel push the franchise into a new galaxy or does it fall short and end up in a black hole for videogame also known as the clearance bin. First a side note, I did not play the first Force Unleashed, I wanted to but never got around to it. After playing this game through I will probably not want to…
007 is back and with little to no fanfare. The new installment in the 007 saga is published by Activsion and developed by Bizarre Creations the team that brought you Blur and The Club. This game comes out alongside the release of the remake of 007 for the Wii and DS. Is this game worth your time, when the holiday game season is in full effect with tons of options to choose from? In Blood Stone you play as the Daniel…
Fable 3 did not finish as good as it started. I have always enjoyed the Fable franchise, and I though the second one was leaps and bounds better then the first one. With the completion of the third game I felt like I didn’t know what Fable was trying to do. I do not want to go into great detail about the last quarter of the game but it did leave a bad lasting impression. In your return to Albion you play as the son…
Fallout New Vegas is Obsidians return to the Fallout Series since Bethesda Software took over and created Fallout 3. It’s been two years since Fallout 3 was released and I was very excited to get my hands onto New Vegas. You play a courier in the Mojave wasteland that is trying to deliver a package but gets ambushed. You soon find out that the package contained a platinum chip and is stolen from you just before you…
I have enjoyed my far share of FPS shooters so when this game arrived I was very excited to throw it in and see what kind of experience I would have. Medal of Honor throws you into a modern day battlefield facing off against the likes of al-Qaida and the Taliban forces. This EA publish and developed by Danger Close studios FPS is there first foray into an FPS. You play as multiple armed forces units that have been…
Does this zombie apocalypse hold up to today’s games or is it just an undead game walking? Between rescuing survivors, escaping zombies, executing psychos, finding Zombrex for your daughter, and clearing your name, you will have no problem spending 10- 12 hours playing through Dead Rising 2. In order to survive this zombie apocalypse you will need and want to make combo weapons to gain as much PP (Prestige Points)…
