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If you take a step back and look at all the little things that make up TerRover, you will see what looks like an amazing title. The art style is fresh and crisp looking, much like that of pixeljunk shooter. The gameplay feels like a combination of Trials HDs control scheme mixed with some puzzle/platforming aspects reminiscent of LIMBO. So whats not to like? Well a lot unfortunately. I’ll get to that in a bit. First…
Record of Agarest war has some very interesting ideas. Take a strategy role-playing game and mix it with a Japanese dating-sim? Alright that could be pretty cool. Make the game span across five generations and at the end of each, you get together with the woman who loves you the most and make a baby. In the next generation you then play as that baby! That sounds great too right? Spice up the typical SRPG with some…
Did you grow up playing video games? When you hear old school 8-bit music do you get hit with a rush of nostalgia? Do you like side-scrolling beat em ups? Then brother do I have a game for you. Just like Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novel, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The game is an amazing mash up of nostalgic video game references. If you’ve read the comic books or seen the movie, you’ll get a bit more out of the…
Alright, let's clear some things up first before we start this review. This game is no flying simulator. Yes this is based off the movie The song Danger Zone is in here This costs 15 bucks I have a strange soft spot for top gun You can be my wingman anytime Allow me to go into more detail. Top gun is the personification of an arcade flight combat game, taking tropes from other popular video games, such as…
With the success of Street fighter IV not all too long ago, Capcom single-handedly revitalized a dead genre. In fact by the time Marvel Vs Capcom 2 came out, the fighting game market was oversaturated and specialized to the point where most video game fans just lost interest in fighting games all together. Yet there was something about MvC2 that stood out from all the rest. That particular brand of over-the-top…
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In the past few years a lot of developers have been taking their games from the vault, dusting them off, and breathing new life into them. We’ve seen games like Bionic Commando, Yars Revenge, and Secrets of Monkey Island brought back from the past. Part of what makes these games fun to play is nostalgia, but what really makes a great remake/reboot is when they take what made the older games fun and mix them with…
Swarm is a very very strange game. It’s an awkward mishmash of Tony Hawk combo based scoring, Pikmin-ish style character controls, and the adorable murder of your own minions. The latest title from developer Hothead Games has a lot of really fun ideas that you rarely ever see together. And sometimes these ideas go together perfectly, but at other times they fail… hard. You are some kind of alien species that needs…
The Civilization franchise has been a mainstay of PC gaming since I was a child. Even though I never tried a Civ game until Civilization 4, I always had a deep respect and fear of the series. So when I first tried my hand at Civ 4 I was almost immediately overwhelmed and frustrated by the games vast amount of options and lack of instruction. So I tried Civ Revolution when that came out, but it felt too dumbed down…
I recently got a chance to check out the new Mars table for Pinball FX2. Seeing as I’ve reviewed the last few releases for PFX ( http://www.giantbomb.com/pinball-fx2/61-32513/user-reviews/?review_id=20488 and http://www.giantbomb.com/pinball-fx2/61-32513/user-reviews/?review_id=20489 ) I figured I’d let you guys know what I thought of the new Mars table. Going Zero-G when you have multiball makes me go OCD trying to…
Do you like Marvel? Do you like pinball? Alright, you’re set. Go buy this. Go on now! What, do you need more convincing? Well worry not, because Marvel Pinball is a four table DLC pack for Xbox Live Arcades Pinball FX 2 as well as a standalone game for the Playstation Network, so if you’re worried about how this feels like as a pinball game go and read my review on PFX2…
It saddens me that over the years the popularity of pinball has fallen by the wayside. Let’s face it, unless you really seek out to find a pinball machine what are the chances that you’ll run into one at your local restaurant? Finding a good pinball video game is just a hard, either you’ll end up paying too much for too little, or the quality of the tables just won’t be there. Luckily Zen studios has your back…
Limbo is a game that sounds simple and familiar in premise, go from left to right, jump to avoid obstacles, solve puzzles to advance to the next area, and eventually find the princess, or in this case your sister. This is where the similarities to other puzzle/platformer games stop. The first thing you’ll notice once you start playing is the unique art style. There is no color in the world of Limbo only black,…
The years have been unkind to Lara Croft. Every sequel to the original hit Tomb Raider never quite lived up to the first, and in some cases just were just downright awful games. So when I head a new Tomb Raider game was coming out for Xbox live arcade, and that it was taking the series in a whole new direction, I thought "well it's gotta be better the Angel of Darkness right?" Actually, this is no Tomb Raider at…
2008s Bionic Commando: Rearmed was a pleasant surprise. A high quality remake of the original NES game, with 2.5D visuals, packed with humor and 4th wall breaking. Unfortunately, after next years “Bionic Commando” for Xbox/PS3/PC was met with heavily mixed reviews and low sales, the developer GRIN shut down. Since then some individuals from GRIN (Grin-dividuals) came together to form Fatshark. A few years later and…
The Mega Man franchise is one that, for the most part, has stood the test of time. It has had so many sequels and spin offs that most new gamers might not even recognize the side-scrolling platforming shooter as the original style of Mega Man game. That is unless you played the last faux-retro Mega Man game they put out in 2008. Now I could go on and on about the controls, the feel, the look, the straight up style…
I was on the fence about getting Deadly Premonition, I hadn't heard anything about it, in fact no one I knew had heard about it. However every time I walked around my local game store something just stood out to me about the game. Also the budget price of $19.99 helped a lot. Deadly Premonition is a game that you absolutely can not take serious. If you want your games to have thrilling and fast paced action, if you…
