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There's not a whole lot to say about Art Style: AQUIA, simply because there really isn't very much to the game. It is a DSiWare puzzle game that comes for the easy price of 500 points, and is appropriately sized for that price. The lack of content, however, does not create a lack of enjoyment. This game is a seriously addicting and entertaining experience, and is different enough from any other puzzle game I've ever…
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a group of terrorists completely took over a modern day city, cut it off from the rest of the world completely, and infected everyone inside with a deadly virus? Did you ever then think about what would happen if that city became the grounds for a brutal game where contestants are awarded points for each person they kill, based on how bloody and crazy the death is? Seems…
Deadly Creatures takes a game that is so simple in both concept and design that it makes me wonder why it didn't come along sooner. It really doesn't benefit from any current technology in graphics or game play, and the use of the Wii remote is something that could have easily been done just as well on a standard controller years ago. The games graphics really aren't that great even by Wii standards, and the all too…
I'll be honest, It's been a long time since I played a skating game. I think the last one was Tony Hawk 2... or maybe 3, for the N64. So, some of the things I praise may be things that came along in the first Skate or previous skating games, I just don't feel like doing the research to find out. First of all, an open world really gives a lot to a skating game, allowing you to find cool spots and seek out challenges…
Dead Space was one of those games that I heard about at E3 this past year, and was kind of unsure of. I saw the same thing I had seen in a lot of recent games - a horror themed shooter with good graphics and a little girl creepily singing "Twinkle twinkle little star". I kind of shrugged it off. Then I started seeing actual game play footage, some of the features like zero gravity areas, and realized what Dead Space…
Before Fable 2 came out, I wasn't positive that I was going to want it, but as it came close to release time, I realized that I was going to play it, whether I waited on it or not. Something about Mr. Molyneux just makes me want to play his games, if not for the sole purpose of being able to make fun of them if they don't live up to his fabulous standards. Now, as the title of Fable 2 may suggest, this is the second…
When it comes to low priced indie games, 2008 rocked it out. With games like Braid and World of Goo, I think a whole new level of excellence is inevitable in the area of simple, short, cheap, and most importantly, wildly entertaining games. World of Goo is really the embodiment of this, standing at 1500 points on the Wii, and being basically a physics/building simulator that can last a few hours. It's real…
There's something to be said for a long running series of games. We are all familiar with the modern approach to marketing, that is, if a game does well you immediately say it's a trilogy. That happened with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time way back when on the Game Cube, and I honestly expected the Prince's run to be over after that trilogy came to an end. But the good old boys at Ubisoft had other ideas for our…
Think back to the first Gears of War. Awesome graphics, fluid and easy, yet very tactical controls, as well as big dudes with big weapons splattering blood all over the place. Well guess what, it's all back for round 2, and it's all improved. The visuals of Gears 2 are stunning, with extremely detailed environments and characters, and epic battle scenes that really suck you in. The controls are all familiar, and…
If someone told me last year that I would be tricked into paying 50 bucks for a game with 4 levels, I'm not sure I would have believed that anyone would even release a game like that, much less that I would buy it. But that's exactly what happened with this zombie filled co-op shooter. It's severe lack of content is really its only major problem however, as what you do get plays well and can be a lot of fun.…
Mirror's Edge took a concept that had been used extensively, and excellently, in a 3rd person perspective and said "You know what, we're going to do this from a 1st person view." Pat on the back for trying, DICE. The acrobatic parkour genre of platforming is something I'm a fan of, and I do think there is a lot to be gained from doing that in 1st person, I just think the people behind Mirror's Edge got a little…
First things first, just gotta say it - did GUITAR Hero really need the full band format? Or did they just do it because of the great success that Rock Band saw? Or maybe they really were planning it all along. Hmmm. Couldn't they have just made an awesome guitar game, potentially even allowing multiple guitars for Lead, Rhythm, Bass, or something more original? Whatever, they wanted all the different instruments,…
That's what me and most of my friends thought when we were waiting for Fallout 3 : Oblivion with guns. Turns out, we were closer than I actually expected. The game really feels like the latest Elder Scrolls game in the way you generally interact with the world and its inhabitants. But, instead of large, brightly colored fantasy environments, Fallout 3 employs the ever so lovable browns and grays, and instead of…
The Burnout series is the only set of racing games that I've ever really been able to stomach, and that is for a few reasons. One being the fact that the game is as much (if not more) about wrecking stuff and causing destruction as it is about racing, and the other main reason is that it doesn't do that crap about making it feel more like the "real world" by making you manage money and repair and buy your own cars.…
Could a game that intends to envelop the evolution of a species from a single cell organism into an intergalactic ruler be trying for a bit too much? Yeah, probably. Does that mean they shouldn't have tried? Hell no. Spore is a game that really does do so much, and yet still comes off as incomplete. Instead of trying to talk about this game as a whole, I'm going to talk about its 5 games that it is made up of. We…
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is a game that has had my expectations rising and falling since I first heard of it. Yet, instead of it being a horrible rip off of the Star Wars universe, or on the other end a completely new, amazing gameplay experience, it sort of ended up in between, not really doing either one. To start off, this is an action game. Its as simple as that. You can certainly look at it, watch it…
