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"Well, that was extremely disappointing. I could have saved my money for Plants vs. Zombies if I had known how this would all go down." That is my initial knee-jerk reaction after completing the final downloadable chapter of Dragon Age , entitled Witch Hunt . It has left a bitter taste in my mouth and I honestly wish to never see Morrigan again. In Witch Hunt , you can either import an existing character saved game…
I will admit that I probably judged Mafia II a little too harshly in my time with the demo . It's a beautiful game with some truly great moments. However, those moments are few and far between, and that's primarily what holds the game back from greatness. It seems to me that what 2K Czech are going for with Mafia II is an authentic slice of life story that happens to be about a young man (Vito Scaletta) who becomes…
Oh, where to begin with you, Kane & Lynch ? I never had the honor of experiencing you're less than mediocre first outing as Dead Men , and yet here I am reviewing you're chance at redemption. It's less than ideal, I know, but you're second game certainly caught my eye and held my interest long enough to give your new game a try. Let's break it down, shall we? Although I didn't experience the first game, the opening…
(Read the original review on my blog ) It's ironic that I should be writing about a game featuring the worst virtual weather of this generation while enjoying a beautiful almost-spring day outside. The sun is shining, plants are growing, birds are chirping, dogs are barking, and all of this topped off by two men wielding chainsaws somewhere up the street. Indeed, there is no better way to enjoy the great outdoors…
(Read the original review on my blog ) After testing the waters with the trial version of After Burner Climax on XBox Live Arcade earlier this week, I decided to finally jump in and give the full version a whirl. The achievements didn't seem too hard, anyway. To put it bluntly, the game is an absolute blast. Part of me has always had an affinity for arcade shooters, where you rush by on a predetermined path and just…
(Read the original review on my blog ) There's a certain kind of satisfaction one gets from witnessing something that is clearly impossible, yet is pulled off with such casual bravado that you can't help but snicker at how incredible it all is. The developers of Just Cause 2 recognize this, and have proceeded to deliver those kinds of over-the-top hi-jinks ad nauseam. The problem here is that I can't decide whether…
Okay, so I just finished playing through Mothership Zeta, the new DLC quest add-on for Fallout 3. Simply put: it's good. There are a lot of new things to see and do. The alien weapons are powerful and fun to use and the Main Quest of KICKING ALIEN ASS has many interesting characters, one of which is a totally hilarious samurai. My only gripe is that it felt like there wasn't much to do, but for the sake of…
(Read the original review on my blog ) Yet another game that I am glad I rented from GameFly, because I ended up not playing it nearly as much as I wanted to. But it's not that I ran out of time, rather that I just got to a certain point and just stopped because it wasn't fun anymore. I made it about half-way through the game, to the circle of Greed, before I quit due to lack of interest and enthusiasm. That's not…
I rented the game via GameFly, got it in the mail on the seventh of January. I tried to like it, I really did. However, after blasting through the awesomeness that was Bayonetta , I couldn't bring myself to enjoy Darksiders on the same level. I know the games are very different, but story-wise when you compare them, Darksiders pales in comparison. Here's where I think the problem lies for me: Bayonetta had a…
(Read the original review on my blog ) I should probably be asleep right now, but I'm fresh off of completing Bayonetta , an over-the-top (thats understating it) action game from developer Platinum Games and publisher Sega. No way am I going to be able to sleep peacefully unless I get all my words down right now. To say that Bayonetta is ridiculous would do the game a great injustice. I think incredible might be a…
