As Endroi, a lovable blue robot thing, pull cubes around levels to form towers and other structures to defeat enemies and pass puzzling levels. Despite only having one thing to do (cube-tracting), there's a suprising amount of depth available, and with extra optional levels and challenge times, there's enough here to keep anyone who enjoys the title busy for a while. Read More.
For those who’ve been here before, it’s a satisfying return to the world of Aventuria with some familiar faces and a brand new story that will intrigue you up to the very end. For those who haven’t, welcome to the world and I hope you stay awhile, because things are about to get very interesting around here. Read More.
Halloween may be over, but it’s never a bad time of year to play a game that’s going to put you on edge. Slap some headphones on, turn out your lights and give yourself plenty of time to enjoy that gut wrenching fear that twists your stomach into knots. Read More.
Infinity Ward has consistently delivered quality games but the experience overall has been one of stagnation. Ghosts exemplifies this – you have damn good campaign set pieces, a garbage story, a solid multiplayer experience and then… somehow it all ends up feeling kind of hollow. The only really endearing part of the game package is Extinction mode which I’m sure I’ll be playing for a long time but that’s not leaving a whole lot of game to recommend. Read More.
One could sum up Lost Planet 3 with the word: unnecessary. Nothing about this game really adds anything of importance to the series’ mythos. Even if we get to see how NEVEC got started on its path of evil and meet the father of Wayne from the first game (he’s Gale, the annoying mechanic). Honestly the best thing about the game is the final boss fight where you actually get one of the few intense combat sequences to be found in the game. Other than that only buy this if you’re really looking for something to help you get to sleep. Read More.
What's important here is how the game plays and how well it executes the setting and on those merits alone Shadowrun Returns succeeds. Content may be light straight out of the proverbial box but that can be mitigated thanks to the community. It might not be the prettiest dame at the ball but it certainly works hard to keep your attention long enough for you to get your money’s worth and that’s more than a lot of big name game developers can honestly say about their game. Read More.
With three types of game modes to play, Wii Party U promises a party experience for everyone, but there isn't much to the boards to play on or the minigames to play in them. A free controller with the game is nice, but it doesn't quite make up the price of purchase. Read More.
Learning guitar is really hard. This game doesn't change the fact that getting good at playing guitar requires a commitment level and several setbacks before you can produce anything remotely inoffensive to the human ear. For those who commit to the daily regimen, RockSmith could very well provide the first non-threatening steps to a lifetime of musical enjoyment, or perhaps even a fun new way to practice for a more experienced guitarist. Read More.
The concept of Rush Bros is an idea someone will likely steal and execute better, because the overall experience doesn't have that wow factor that I've gotten playing so many other flawed indie gems. Read More.
This thing is just embarrassing. When you’ve got a game that lacks any sort of tension or drama but is supposed to be a dramatic adventure, what’s left? Nothing, that’s what. All we have here is some good voice acting and the usual graphics that accompany any PS3 exclusive title and literally nothing to recommend to anyone looking for more than just sit there and not be entertained. If you’re desperate to experience the “plot” then just watch a Let’s Play – it’ll be exactly like playing the game yourself without having to waste money on the disc. Read More.
Since Halloween is coming, it's a great opportunity to get a gang of horror lovers together and spend the evening experiencing all the scares, squicks, and silly moments that Outlast has to offer. Award a prize to the person who can summarize the ending in the most hilarious way. It's a good time, cheaper than a night at the movies, and it's a bonding experience akin to a game of Cards Against Humanity. Read More.
It’s not much of a stretch to say that Wind Waker HD is the single best HD remake on the market right now and it’s probably one of the only ones that deserves to market itself as anything other than a cheap port. Even if the developers managed to get this done in a rather short time (supposedly six months) this has more effort put into it than is put into most games on the market nowadays. Read More.
Cognition has been a game series full of twists, turns and engaging cinematic storytelling. Yet for all they did well in the first three installments, the fourth seems to have forgotten about a lot of what was laid out and gone its own way entirely, but not in a good way. Read More.
Even for someone who isn’t a huge fan of sports games (or soccer games in particular) PES 2014 is still a great game. What you have here is a quality gaming experience with high production values and damn good gameplay design. When the worst thing you can say about a game is that it sometimes feels a bit slow paced, which is clearly what the developers were intending, that’s a damn sight better than most games can hope for. Read More.
There are a few games in the Capcom Arcade Cabinet that are sure to trigger high levels of nostalgia to those who remember whiling away afternoons in an arcade, but there are also a lot of titles that simply will not. And if any kind of game has had trouble aging over the years, it's the arcade games, with numerous frustrating mechanics and an incentive to kill you repeatedly. Read More.
