Reviews

Fallout 3: Point Lookout Review

Published on: 9th October, 2009

The fourth Fallout 3 downloadable expansion, Point Lookout, takes you on a ferry ride to an area that time forgot. It’s a swampy environment that sits just outside the Capital Wasteland filled with gnarled trees, foggy hillsides and inbred monstrosities that live in shacks. This is the area offered up for exploring in Point Lookout [...]

Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome Review

Published on: 19th April, 2009

Jewel Master: Cradle of Rome would be a perfectly playable, budget match-three game if it only provided an alternative to pointer control. Players are required to use the Wii remote to point at gems they want to swap. It’s an imprecise and tiresome control method, and the option to use traditional D-pad controls would have [...]

Bomberman ‘94 Review

Published on: 19th April, 2009

It took 28 months to move one year forward.
Back at the launch of the Wii almost two and a half years ago, the Virtual Console’s first ever Monday update was home to a Bomberman game. It was a solid release, and allowed for new Wii owners to have access to that classic B-Man multiplayer design [...]

Monsters vs. Aliens Review

Published on: 19th April, 2009

There are all manner of pitfalls that can appear when reviewing a licensed game — so many that I could probably fill the space of a review talking about them. The two biggest are that the game could somehow magically get better as the game goes on (highly unlikely, but it’s happened before) and that [...]

GDC 2009: Monster Hunter Freedom Unite Hands

Published on: 11th April, 2009

Capcom brings to North America the incredibly popular monster-hunting series on the PlayStation Portable.
While everyone else was busy getting ready for the Game Developers Choice Awards, Capcom held a Monster Hunter Freedom Unite event in San Francisco so that we could get hands-on time with one of Japan’s hottest-selling games. Staying true to the series [...]

GDC 2009: Blood Bowl Impressions reviews

Published on: 10th April, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO–Earlier today we had an opportunity to meet with representatives from Cyanide Studio and Focus Home Interactive, Blood Bowl’s developer and publisher respectively. Based on the popular tabletop Games Workshop game of the same name, Blood Bowl pits teams of orcs, dwarves, lizardmen, and other fantasy staples against one another on playing fields where [...]

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Hands

Published on: 10th April, 2009

At one point, Wolverine was running around in daisy dukes. It wasn’t intentional, this sartorial mockery of Marvel’s most badass mutant. Rather, it was a somewhat ironic function of his mutant healing powers or, more specifically, how those powers were implemented by developer Raven Software in the upcoming movie-licensed video game, X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

You see, [...]

Ninja Blade Review for Xbox 360

Published on: 10th April, 2009

When an action game lets you dress up in pink pinstripes before carving up hordes of gruesome mutants, you know it doesn’t take itself seriously. Ninja Blade is such a game, but it’s so ridiculously over the top, so rambunctiously insane, that it’s hard not to get a total kick out of it. It’s an [...]

The Godfather II Review

Published on: 10th April, 2009

Even if it were finished, this movie-inspired action game wouldn’t be deserving of its prestigious license.
The Good

You get to see some cool movie moments from a different perspective

Impressive and upgradable arsenal.

Businesses that you control after successfully negotiating all of the aforementioned problems don’t just earn you money; they can also unlock special perks [...]

Resident Evil 5 Review for Xbox 360

Published on: 10th April, 2009

Resident Evil 5 is a fun and frantic evolution of RE4’s breakthrough gameplay and the series’ horror themes.
The Good
* Beautifully detailed graphics and character animations
* Having a partner enhances the fun and excitement while adding tension
* Real-time menu system keeps you immersed
* Plenty to do once you’ve beaten it.
The Bad
* Frustrating hurdles to leap when [...]