Let me preface this review by saying that I’m not the hardcore fighter type. By that I mean I don’t play fighters very much, and am not even remotely close to being great at them. So with that said, I’m not the type of person that can describe all of the intricacies of Soul Calibur [...]
Resurrecting a flagging or dead franchise is a risky endeavor. Sometimes it works and the series becomes relevant again, like with Resident Evil 4. Other times it is the nail in the coffin, like last year’s Tony Hawk’s Horse Beating Simulator. Re-envisioning Alone in the Dark should not have been that hard; there were almost [...]
You would think that a review of Guitar Hero: Aerosmith would be as simple as asking the player two questions. One; did you like Guitar Hero 3, and two; do you like Aerosmith, and perhaps three; are you offended by Steven Tyler’s massive virtual pie hole? Thankfully, there is just a little more to it [...]
Discussing Metal Gear has a lot in common with talking about religion or politics with extended family over Thanksgiving dinner: things start out amicably enough, but quickly devolve into shouting, name calling, and perhaps flying mashed potatoes. If you were to put five people in a locked room and force them to talk about it, [...]
Political commentary is just fine for Fox News and its ilk. I do not enjoy it, nor am I informed enough to care, and can avoid it entirely just by skipping a channel. It has its own bloviated space, and that’s fine so long as it leaves me and one of my favorite pastimes alone. [...]
I was in a car crash once. I was approaching a junction calmly at three hundred miles an hour and I just clipped this bus. Only slightly. It flipped my car and I tumbled along the highway for the next eight thousand yards, spinning nineteen times. I hit eight other cars too – all of [...]
With IV, Grand Theft Auto has, in many ways, grown up. The parody that too often ends up being potty humor is still present, but this is no longer a cartoon trying to be a gangster film, and Liberty City is no longer made up of rows of dollhouses with a couple dozen different types [...]
The Gran Turismo series has always intimidated me. Between the realistic handling, obnoxiously difficult mandatory license tests, and extreme depth of content, they ended up feeling like work after a relatively short time. Even so, I have played them all because they look incredible and you get to go fast in un-dent-able cars that no [...]
I am pretty indiscriminate about what I play. Games show up in my mailbox, I play them, usually find something of worth and then send them on their way. It should come as no surprise that a significant portion of what I play amount to below-average games, but even then almost every game has at [...]
Scary is a sweet spot somewhere between seeing too little and seeing too much that very few ‘survival horror’ games actually find. Silent Hill 2 did it during the infamous Pyramid Head voyeur scene; Fatal Frame 2 found it as well, and is probably the most frightening game I have even played; Condemned 2 never [...]