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"Cool, now try to do it with a mouse and keyboard." Easiest thing in the world for most gamers, but the hardest thing in the world for me. I'm not the type that hovers my face over a keyboard and pokes at keys with my pointer fingers, but put a PC game in front of me and you might as well ask me to pilot a space shuttle. I'm no better than my father was at controlling Lara Croft when he tried to play the original…
As gamers, we always hearken back to memorable moments in video games that go down as the best experiences we've ever had, from encountering the first towering colossus in Shadow of the Colossus, the jaw-dropping "would you kindly" revelation from the original BioShock to the first medley you play on a crusty ocarina; and that just naming a few. Well, imagine 'wow moments' like that happening throughout an entire…
"Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?" Apparently not, Vaas. Apparently not. We thought insanity meant watching a crew of privileged white kids survive your outlandish antics amid the unrelenting jungles of Rook island with Far Cry 3. We thought insanity meant watching an everyday tourist turn into a trained assassin to save himself and his friends from rape, slavery and eventually murder.…
You have to leave the past behind. Without doing so, the zest of the Resident Evil 6 experience will matter less, or not matter at all. It's crude, dismissive and very unfair, but compliance is absolutely mandatory. Such a thing is a lot to ask for, but no video game franchise in recent memory is as demanding of that as Resident Evil. But, even "demanding" is too kind of a term for Capcom, as requests for conformity…
Allow me to reintroduce myself. My name is Hova, but you know me as Jay-Z. You’re going to see a lot of me because I’m listed as the Executive Producer for NBA 2k13. My fingerprints are all over this game, from the menu design to the soundtrack, from the boot-up intro to the pre-game hype promos. You’re going to see some of my music videos, hear my freestyle tracks and watch a few clips of my live performances.…
Remember when ‘fun factor’ was a major component of a video game’s review score? Whatever happened to that? Playing a game like SSX — a fun, adrenaline-fueled sensory overload of an experience — makes me wonder. ‘Fun factor’ clearly isn’t as big of a factor anymore, because if it was, people would be raving about SSX to this day. But instead, its been long forgotten as the holiday season’s hype train makes its way…
Every time you think its about to change, it stays the same. It’s a fact of life for a Call of Duty fan, and as evident by it’s record-breaking commercial success, one that most are content with. But for others, the state of the franchise is a little more bittersweet… and sometimes just flat-out bitter. And in the end, your appreciation for Call of Duty: Black Ops II will depend on which of the said categories you…
Halo, in many ways, is a machine. It’s a well-oiled mechanism that’s been in use for eleven years and counting. When it was created, it helped evolve a bustling industry with breakthrough ideas, cutting-edge technology and first-class perfection. But all these years later, does the Halo machine still purr like a kitten, or has this revolutionary piece of video game history begun to chug, sputter and rust as newer,…
