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Anomaly: Warzone Earth can best be described as tower defense in reverse. Much like most other tower defense games, Anomaly is played from a top-down perspective. Instead of filling the area with towers, you lead a squad of vehicles through a city already filled with defensive towers. There are several possible routes through each level, so your job is selecting the path your squad moves through. You are actually…
Fable III is the third entry in Peter Molyneux's series of very English RPGs. You'll face complicated moral decisions, fight menacing monsters all while starting a family and investing your money in real estate to gain millions of coins worth of profit. That's the theory anyway. The start of the game gives off an amazing feeling of freedom and grand scale. You're the son of the (now dead) king of Albion. Your older…
Let’s get this out of the way first, I love me some RPGs with classic turn-based battles. Give me Persona 4 over Mass Effect any day. I’d rather start my umpteenth run through FFX than play Modern Warfare 2 at all. I’ve been looking forward to Hexyz Force because it appeared to be everything a person like me would like. Well, no. Hexyz Force is your traditional turn based JRPG experience in basically every way. If…
Mirror’s Edge is a freerunning/parkour game played from the first person perspective. You play as a courier named Faith who needs to get mysterious packages to their destinations. Your playground is the rooftops of a dystopian city. The controls for the running part are really smooth. L1 is your „Up“ button, which based on the context, makes Faith jump, vault, or do whichever upwards-directed action would make sense…
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories is a "reimagining" of the original Silent Hill game. The premise is the same: You are Harry Mason, you've crashed your car and your daughter is missing, so you go look for her. Trouble is, you're in Silent Hill, so bad things are about to go down. The gimmick here is the psychological profiling you get in between episodes, where a therapist asks you various questions and has you…
