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Kind of an under-the-radar title, which you can find on trade-in racks for cheap, this is actually a very fun ride. Sparing you most of the story summary, which you can find anywhere, you play Jackie Estacado, a mob button man who falls out of favor with Uncle Paulie, the local don. Why you fall out of favor is not exactly clear, nor is why the Darkness powers first appear, but it doesn't matter. Using the shadows,…
I have much less good to say about the first game based on the wildly successful movie franchise based on the Robert Ludlum books, The Bourne Conspiracy . Phew. Basically, you play Bourne from the movie "The Bourne Identity," but you are not Matt Damon. Follow me on this one. The game follows the events of the movie with additional scenes/missions acting as flashbacks, as if Bourne remembers his previous life in…
Copying the game mechanics from Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter seems like a no-brainer – until Rainbow 6: Vegas , nobody had done the cover mechanic better. Even the simple squad controls – cover, move, attack – are borrowed from GRAW . And then, the ambition was to craft an elegant story. That's what we heard all through the run-up to this game's release – two men thrown together... the struggles, the choices. I…
Now, this is worth playing, if just for the badass-ness (if you will). I played through the single player, since my co-op buddy (you know who you are!) is too busy playing Soul Sucker (WoW). The partner controls are easy to use and a snap to control aggression/cover/attack conventions. With co-op this would be even easier, as you don't need to control your partner (though you might want to at times). Don't look for…
Ok, so I love the original R6:V. It's great. Period. Not only is the single player engaging, but the multiplayer rocks, too. The best part about it? You can play the entire single player experience in co-op, a la Gears of War . So when Vegas 2 was announced, we all lost our collective minds. More Vegas? More Logan? More killer co-op? Yippee, someone hand me my pants! Gamefly delivery, pop it in the 360, settle in…
So having played through the first chapter of Alone in the Dark, the Atari update to the classic adventure game, I have only one thing to say. I don't want to play this damn game. Ok, so I have a few more things to say. First of all, you just need to peruse the critics' scores on Metacritic to get a sense of the playability of this, um, thing. I think I like Team Xbox's abstract the best. Comparing it to a nice car…
"That chopper is still up there. Like Airwolf. I love that." You can't help but laugh at the inanity of some of the comments that the comic foils Sweetwater and Haggard make throughout. They even make fun of the "Sarge" and his grasp of overused war-movie squad-leader Sergeant clichés. And you, Preston, the "New Guy" are seemingly as inept as the rest of these mopes. Except the four of you, who are supposed to be a…
