No one cares, Marcus. Hoping to finish up Gears 3 tonight or tomorrow. The game is definitely the best in the series but the combat does get monotonous. Still, as shooters go it's mindless in a good way, things certainly blow up well enough and humanoids gib as they should. I could care less about meeting / rescuing Marcus's dad but instead enjoy the banter between Cole, Baird and Sam. Marcus a...
Hearing about Nintendo's decision to reject The Binding of Isaac from their eShop piqued my interest. I think Sw0rdfish gifted me the game during the Steam sale and I never touched it. All I can say is wow, I can see why Nintendo would have issues with this game. Between the amounts of cartoon blood everywhere to making deals with the devil, it was probably a good move considering their image....
As resolutions go, I'm as good as the best of them when it comes to failing to follow through. That is, I'm like most people. Day-to-day promises to myself start out positive around 6:45 in the morning, and once I'm out of the shower my enthusiasm for changing my life in some remarkable way cools off by the time I'm hanging up the towel. Weekends are a black hole entirely; I rarely shower on Sa...
Killzone 3 comes out this Tuesday. Besides being what Metacritic reports is a solid sequel to Killzone 2, it includes full support for the Playstation Move. Up until now, consoles have managed to host some of the best first-person shooters around, but ask someone with a deep history of playing PC FPS and you’re liable to encounter a tsunami of disdain for console shooters. For someone skilled a...
It's...Left 4 Dead, with more weapons and unique zombies. I picked it up for $33 bucks off Steam, so given that first impression, I can't complain too much. I mean, that's an expansion pack level price. My friend Joe and I played through the first two campaigns, we haven't touched any other multi-player modes yet. The level design captures the feel of the area it's based on, so it doesn't feel...
Knights in the Nightmare is unlike any tactics game I've ever played. And the more I play it, the more I wish games in general would take risks with breaking with convention. Having to dodge bullets while giving your soldiers orders seems kind of arbitrary, but it's like throwing hot sauce on what would otherwise be an ordinary burger. I like hot sauce. A lot. I guess Atlus is ultimately respon...
Are fantastic. I adjusted to the gameplay from playing other online shooters, but after playing with the high precision controls last night, my kill-death ratio jumped like crazy. Good job, Guerrilla Games. Also, being able to stay in the same squad is great.
When people talk of remakes from now on, they're going to probably point to Bionic Commando as a poster-child for "How It's Done." The game is true to the original in almost every way, while adding little nudges here and there that make it worth revisiting. Take the Bazooka for example. In the original, it pretty much fired a big ball or something. In BC:R, it fires an actual rocket that twists...
Found this story off Shacknews about how some folks just can't let Diablo 2 go . In fact, they're so devoted that they only play on the hardcore difficulty setting--you know the one where if you die, that's it? No respawning in town? I continue to mine the Greatest Hits for the PS3, my latest acquisition being Resistance: Fall of Man. It's definitely a solid FPS, as you probably know leaning mo...
When I think to myself "Yeah this isn't bad for a console game," what I really think overall is that I could find a more refined and ultimately better use of my time elsewhere. That's what I think most hermits from the QuakeWorld days react if they manage to put themselves into a situation that has them controlling the foot soldier portion of Warhawk. They've played Battlefield 2 on the PC to d...
...thanks to Brady Games, things have gotten a tad bit easier. If you're a n00b who bought the game a couple days ago for $30 (like yours truly), you can skip to the head of the class by checking out this video tutorial BG produced for new pilots . What I can say is that flying is a bit of an art when you're facing what seems to be a swarm of Mavericks and Icemen who coldly prevent you from rea...
*Does not pay $60 for Warhawk *
Go here to read it . The thing you really need to read? Where SC4 really shines, however, is in its character-creation mode. The more you use your custom characters, the more options you unlock -- with a wealth of weapons and armor pieces offering boosts to strength, impact, speed, and more, while certain stat modifiers improve your chances to escape throws or reverse counters. By selecting att...
Giant Bomb is akin to an explosion in that it's created a vacuum that has been filled with the enthusiasm of thousands of gamers. While the interface is a little loosey goosey at first, and by loosey goosey, I mean almost completely unintuitive to what I'm used to when it comes to common website navigation, once you understand that the entire site is a flippin' wiki, it begins to make sense. I...
You know when something just clicks? You don't know it until you feel it, but when you do, you wonder why it wasn't so in the first place. Giant Bomb is that.
Very rad stuff so far. The site design is sweet!