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Game Review: Half Life 2: Episode 2 Episode 2 was released October 10th 2007 as part of the Orange Box. It was one of the 3 new games released for the first time in the Orange Box. It met massive critical acclaim, and was praised as the best the Half Life series had ever been. Like Episode 1, improvements for the Source Engine had happened that were not available to the previous game. The major improvement is even…
Game Review: Half Life 2: Episode 1 Half Life 2: Episode 1 was released in 2006, and is the first part of a three part trilogy that essentially are meant to be Half Life 3. Several major changes to the Source engine such as better facial animation and graphics overall make the graphics seem like HL2, just given a little boost. While it can be bought and played without having HL2 installed, the game is so story…
Game Review: Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim Majesty was developed by Cyberlore Studios and published for Windows by MicroProse in 2000. An expansion pack was released later on as well, but this review will not take into account the additions made by the expansion pack. The basic gameplay is that of a real time strategy game except that it revolves around the fact that the player has no direct control over their…
Game Review: Star Wars Battlefront II Star Wars Battlefront, the previous game in the series, was released on September 21, 2004 and was met with quite a lot of critical praise. And as with any developer that ends up with cash due to one of their games, Lucas Arts decided to make a sequel. And good for them! Because this game is a very worthy sequel to a great game. The Battlefront games are class-based team…
Game Review: Counter Strike: Source Let's start with the history of the Counter Strike franchise. Counter Strike started out as a Half Life 1 modification. The modification pitted terrorists against counter-terrorists and was a smash hit in the Half Life community. It was soon picked up by Valve, the makers of Half Life, and packaged as an entirely different game for those who didn't own Half Life. A few versions of…
Game Review: Custom Robo Custom Robo for the Gamecube was released in North America on May 10, 2004 and is part of the long running Custom Robo series that is owned by Nintendo. While the game got a fairly negative response from several reputable game review sites, it seems to have done fairly well and a new Custom Robo game for the DS came out in March 19, 2007 (North American release) And I have to say, this game…
Game Review: Half Life 2 Half Life 1 was released in 1998 ( A year of note for the sheer number of fantastic games that came out .) Developed by Valve and published by Sierra, it was a smash hit. It pioneered scripted in-game events that helped move the story around. It also spawned a large modding community, from which games like Counter Strike and Day of Defeat were born. Half life 2 was in the making for a long…
Game Review: Team Fortress 2 The last game in the Orange Box is also the one that gives it the replay value it needs. Valve realized that their Orange Box, while great, has lots of short games in it. To make up for it they put a game in the genre that never dies, Online First Person Shooters. Team Fortress 2's development took a long time, a very long time. It was often compared to Duke Nukem Forever in the way that…
Game Review: Day of Defeat: Source Day of Defeat started out like many multi-player shooting games, as a Half Life 1 modification. And DoD just like Counter Strike was discovered by Half Life developer Valve and made into a full fledged game. And with Half Life 2 and the incredibly powerful source engine a reality, Day of Defeat: Source was made. I myself have not played the original Day of Defeat, but I can be…
*Please note that this review was made to encompass both Seasons AND Ages, and I will post this on both game's pages* Game Review: Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/ Ages, released May 14, 2001 for the Gameboy Color, are the only two games ( Or at least that I know of ) that are not developed first-party by Nintendo. They are instead developed by a company called…
*Please note that this review was made to encompass both Seasons AND Ages, and I will post this on both game's pages* Game Review: Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/Ages The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons/ Ages, released May 14, 2001 for the Gameboy Color, are the only two games ( Or at least that I know of ) that are not developed first-party by Nintendo. They are instead developed by a company called…
Game Review: 1080 Avalanche 1080 Avalanche is a Gamecube game released on December 1st 2003 and is the sequel to the rather popular Nintendo 64 game 1080 Snowboarding. The gameplay is very racing based, unlike other snowboarding games such as the SSX series where tricks are the main attraction. The races take place on numerous stages and pit you against another computer player or human player in a race to the…
Game Review: Dungeon Keeper 2 Dungeon Keeper 2 was released in 1999 by Bullfrog Productions ( Now owned by EA ). It is the sequel to Peter Moleneux's Dungeon Keeper, which was released in 1997. The game has you, the Dungeon Keeper, creating a dungeon and fighting the heros who are trying to cleanse hell of evil. You start off with a dungeon heart ( Which is literally a beating heart ) and a few imps. These imps are…
