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There never has been a game for me that has started so strong, lasted so long as strong and then crashed quicker then Mafia II. I mean that whole heartedly. If the last four chapters had not existed then this game would have been a four out of five, if the last six hadn’t existed I would have given it a five out of five and with out qualms put it on any game of the year consideration list I might be building.…
I skipped the first Kane & Lynch. At first I wanted it, because its multiplayer looked so promising, however early reviews cured me of wanting the game. So when its sequel came out, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, I certainly didn't run out to get it. I expected the game to be poor, and besides a striking visual style, I was right. The game opens with the caption "2 days earlier" and a scene of Lynch being tortured by…
I’m going to preface this review with the fact that I am not a Halo fan, that doesn’t mean I hate the series; I’m just not enamored with it. My purchase history of the Halo series is spotty at best, with Halo and Halo 3 being the only two I purchased. Halo 2, Halo Wars, Halo: ODST and Halo: Reach were all either given to me or I Gamefly’d them. Now I am not saying all this to excuse my forthcoming review, I’m saying…
I came to this game already writing the review in my head. I had seen what everyone else had said about it, I had played the demo and I had seen the screen shots. I was fully expecting to have this game anger and frustrate me and leave me wishing I had never played it. Amazingly, I was wrong. This isn’t to say that the game is not bad, because over whelmingly it is. It lacks in all the major categories that a game…
Im finding writing a review of 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand exceedingly difficult. On one hand this game is the very definition of mediocre. The level design is repetitive, the graphics are nearly as bad as a launch title for the 360 and the character models and vehicle models are atrocious. Yet for some reason I love this game, there’s this secret sauce in this games mix that leaves me enjoying it immensely. There’s…
When it was announced that Firaxis was going to make a console version of Civilization I was skeptical to say the least. Civilization and other 4X games (which stands for "e x plore, e x pand, e x ploit, and e x terminate" a term coined by Alan Emrich during his Masters of Orion preview for any game in the vein of Civilization) have always seemed too large in scope and too dependent on keyboard and mouse to ever…
Reviewing a CSI game is distinctly hard. Not because of the content or quality of the product or experience, but because a significant portion of the players enjoyment of this game will be based souly on how much they like (or how big their tolerance is for) the TV show. Spread across 5 “episodes” this game is a point and click detective experience, tasking you in the role of the new guy in the Las Vegas CSI lab.…
Having been a fan of the Bourne movies, seeing that a more direct adaptation of what is in the books was being made into a video game perked my interest. I had not, and still have not read the books, so I can not speak to the quality of transition between mediums, but I can say that the stories of the game and movies only roughly follow the same track. However, even though the parts that make this a visual…
The Western genre is something that has historically not been explored often or well in corporate made games. There are a few notable exceptions here and there, but for the most part people that love gunslingers are left playing make believe with their siblings, screaming “I got you” over and over again over your brother’s un-yielding protests to the contrary. Thankfully, off of the framework of what was originally…
It would be entirely unfair to not preface this review with the fact that one of my favorite game series is Diablo. When Diablo first came out I was play ing Command & Conquer and X-COM exclusively, partially because they were what I preferred but also because of ignorance to video games as a whole. Then on a faithful day sometime late in my junior year of high school a friend handed me a burned CD with the word…
