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The first episode of Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead was somewhat of a shock to everyone. Coming off of the less than impressive Jurassic Park game, I don’t think people had great expectations for The Walking Dead. Here was yet another zombie related game coming from a developer whose style of game was, perhaps unfortunately, dying off. Yet episode one released to much critical and consumer appraise. While episode…
This article will simultaneously review both Battlefield 3 Premium as a service and Close Quarters as a map pack. It should be noted that I have only ever spent time with the PC version of Battlefield 3 and thus any talk about graphics, framerate, or player counts should be taken in knowing the gap between a high end PC and a console. Enjoy and know that this is the first thing I have really written in this form…
I don’t want to blow anybody’s minds here, but Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is Halo: Combat Evolved. Very little has changed, and that is far from a bad thing. Captain Keyes still hands you an empty pistol with ammo in it. There are still overshields in the Covenant boarding ships. The flashlight is on the end of your gun and the light still whirls around when you melee with it enabled. That is still a subtly…
When Uncharted 2 came out in 2009 it set a new standard for cinematic action games. Where the first game had some solid ideas that didn’t do a whole lot for the industry, the second game was a huge leap forward. It did characters, story, and action in a way that no other game had done before. It was hugely cinematic, beautiful, funny, and simply enjoyable. It was as close to perfect as you could find and topping it…
Battlefield 3 has been a long time coming. The last true Battlefield game was released six years ago and since then DICE has tried its hands at some twists on the formula. 2142 tried a future setting and in some aspects succeeded. Then they changed the feel of Battlefield entirely and made it for consoles with the Bad Company games, which in terms of multiplayer, succeeded greatly. Now, after six games and six…
I remember when I beat Portal 2 for the first time I couldn’t quite decide how I felt about it. This wasn’t due to the game having done things poorly or having a lack of emotion, no, my indecisiveness towards it came from the fact that it had been so long since I had encountered perfection. This same feeling, this stunned awe perhaps, was the first thing I felt when the credits hit the screen. There was sadness,…
Rage has a storied past. Following the release of Doom 3 in 2004 John Carmack and his team of engineers began working on a new engine, an engine that would bring id into the new generation of consoles with stunning effect. It would not be the first time that the genius of Carmack would stun the world with technology. He had just done it with Doom 3, which had arguably the best lighting gaming had ever seen, and he…
A man once said that videogames could never be art , he then redacted his statement because of the bad press it was attracting, Ebert was right though, for the most part, videogames could never be art, as “art” is defined; the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way to affect the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression,…
