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 [...]

OK, I admit it; I never finished the first Ninja Gaiden. And while the statement is also true with regard to the NES version, I am specifically referring to the Ninja Gaiden that debuted on Xbox. But unlike most people who didn’t finish, I’m assuming I was unique in the sense that I didn’t finish [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Turok is a bad game. I’ll be honest with you from the start. Don’t buy this game. There are a lot of problems with this title, many too insignificant to mention. But they stack up. But before that, let’s look at what Turok gets right.
Dinosaurs! There are many varieties, ranging from small wall crawlers, to [...]

I won’t spoil anything about DMC4, and I’m not talking plot either. While passable, I don’t think anyone is here for the narrative. Spoilers in this sense are what I would call gameplay spoilers. There are moves you attain, weapons you get near the end of the game, which make the first ten hours look [...]