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F.E.A.R. Perseus Mandate Perseus Mandate is not as good as the original installment of F.E.A.R., though it has it’s moments. The first two or three chapters are quite drab, to say the least. There’s a pretty cool looking two-tiered server room with glass floors, but that’s it. Nothing spectacular happens until the fourth chapter. The fourth chapter and certain parts of the following chapters are the best that…
Spectraball Spectraball is a marble platformer with some puzzle elements. Basically, you’re a marble and you have to roll around to get to the finish line. There are several worlds split up into multiple stages. Each stage must be completed within a time limit, though you have infinite lives and there are checkpoints along the way to alleviate some of the frustration. There are plenty of moving platforms, bridges,…
Thoughts on Shadowgrounds: Survivor Shadowgrounds is a sci-fi themed shooter which takes place on Ganymede (the third moon of the Jupiter system) and by the year 2096, a colony of eight thousand humans live on Ganymede. As the story goes: an alien race fronts an all out assault on the moon colony, destroying nearly everything. The whole point of the game is survival. Shadowgrounds: Survivor is the second game in the…
COLIN MCRAE: DIRT I haven’t played a ton of Rally games, but out of the few I’ve tried, this one is definitely my favorite. DiRT just feels right. To get the best experience out of DiRT though you will need an XBOX 360 controller or one of the supported racing wheels. While I do like certain racing games – namely Trackmania United, Need For Speed Most Wanted and DiRT – I have absolutely no interest in real-life…
CRYSIS: WARHEAD This was an awesome expansion to the original Crysis, though it ends a bit abruptly. There were numerous set piece battles in Warhead which I enjoyed greatly. Many of these standoffs were larger and more intense than those in the original game. Warhead definitely ramps up the difficulty by throwing more enemies at you all the time, but that removes a lot of the strategic element from the game. In the…
Peggle Deluxe To all of you who haven’t played Peggle yet: What’s the hold up? Are you scared of “casual” games? I assure you, while Peggle may be casual in that it’s pick-up-and-play and go-at-your-own-pace, to actually complete Peggle is far from a casual affair. Some have said that there is no strategy in Peggle beyond shooting the ball in any direction and hoping that something good happens, but they are wrong.…
Gravitron 2 Gravitron 2 is a retro styled arcade gravity shooter in which you must pilot a spaceship around with the goal of destroying a reactor core and then escaping in to the atmosphere before the reactor explodes. The reactor core is often hidden within a well-guarded chamber, past several gun turrets and laser fields. This game is 100% pure arcade madness. It even has a “cocktail” mode for table-top…
Braid Braid is pure, hardcore, badass mind-fuckery. While time manipulation in games has been done to death, the time manipulation gameplay in Braid still feels fresh and interesting. Also, the ending of the game is so insanely clever and poignant that it had me wide-eyed, shocked in amazement, laughing in amusement and ready to cry. Braid is split up in to 6 “worlds” which are split up in to several levels. At it’s…
World of Goo In short: World of Goo is fun, hilarious, clever and definitely worth it’s budget price, so please delay no further in adding this joyous slice of genius to your gaming collection! Running right along side with Braid, World of Goo is much more than what it initially seems to be. While World of Goo starts off as a straight-forward puzzle game where you need to build a tower or a bridge out of cute balls…
Dead Space While many new games try and rip off the highly-acclaimed games of the past in an attempt to be as popular as them, the knockoffs typically end up failing regardless of how similar they are to the source material. There are also certain concepts that have been done to death now; such as time manipulation. Yet there are games which have shown us that even overused game mechanics such as time manipulation…
I suggest reading Jeff Gertsman's review first as those are my general sentiments about it - but I can't help but be upset by the inclusion of certain annoying features. 1. Delaying gameplay. When I'm replaying a level over and over - I want the process of restarting to be quick. There are lots of arbitrary delays going on in Bionic Commando Rearmed that are really annoying. Game designers: All sequences that are…
