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Adventure Time: Finn and Jake Investigations Review
Previously released games in the Adventure Time line-up have been, well, less than favorable. I’m still trying to get over the poor Gauntlet knockoff Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know!, and the other games, well, have been pretty down there in terms of quality.
Army of Darkness: Collector’s Edition Review
With Ash vs. Evil Dead just days away from release, the talk behind the Evil Dead trilogy has begun picking up again. Not that it was dead to begin with, as watching Bruce Campbell let loose with a chainsaw never gets old. The original film created an unsettling but satisfying take on horror, while Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn twisted the theory in more absurd (and even more enjoyable) directions, ev...[Read More]
Halo 5: Guardians Review
343 Industries has taken a lot of flack over the years. I mean, the team practically took over where Bungie left off with Halo, working alongside Microsoft to give the popular sci-fi series a new direction. And I’d like to think that it succeeded, despite a few hiccups.
Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson Review
Featuring over sexualized female ninjas from different schools of training who would normally be super best friends forever but are destined to fight each other because that’s simply what they are supposed to do, Senran Kagura 2 Deep Crimson’s story is certainly not winning any awards but it’s just the right amount of over the top cheesy to make it entertaining. My enjoyment of this game came from...[Read More]
Grey Goo Review
I am not unfamiliar with RTS games. So when Grey Goo came to me I thought “oh nice, I’ll have a nice casual campaign to play through followed by some intense multiplayer”. You know, the standard fare found in most RTS games. The campaign or story mode acts as the tutorial to prep you for the much more competitive multiplayer. So it is safe to say I underestimated Grey Goo when I selected Normal an...[Read More]
Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below Review
Last year, Hyrule Warriors for the Wii U proved that there’s still life to be found within the whole “Dynasty Warriors formula” thing. After all, Omega Force has been producing these games for years, with countless soldiers falling to your high and mighty warrior without breaking a sweat. The games got repetitive, sure – they still do to this day – but there’s a certain fla...[Read More]
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 Review
Nostalgia can be a funny thing. Sometimes I’ll pop in an old movie to show Tifa and say something like, “I LOVED this movie when I was younger.” I, like many gamers my age, grew up playing the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series. I’ll never forget getting that Pizza Hut demo disc that had the first Tony Hawk game on it. The sounds of early 90s punk blaring through my TV speakers, playing as skate legend T...[Read More]
The Legend of Zelda: Tri-Force Heroes Review
Sometimes you have to shake things up with a game series in order to innovate. It’s what helps it mature. Metroid, for example, was simply known as a side-scrolling series before Retro Studios came up with the bold (yet controversial) idea of creating a first person shooter series – and the awesome Metroid Prime trilogy was born. And recently, Activision made a fresh start for its Guitar Her...[Read More]
Blood Bowl 2 Review
Booting up Blood Bowl 2 for the first time and jumping into the tutorial/career, left me with a few questions about gameplay while throwing a “go win the game” challenge at me. While the first game you play seems impossible to lose – your opponent quits as soon as you score a point – it teaches you some of the basics behind player movement.
Guitar Hero Live Review
By the time 2010 rolled around, the Guitar Hero franchise had played itself out strenuously. That’s not to say it wasn’t enjoyable anymore, but it had certainly felt like a rock star that was merely sticking around for the sake of the franchise, instead of innovating as it did years before. You can blame that on the countless releases and saturation that had set in – not to mention the...[Read More]
Bedlam – The Game By Christopher Brookmyre Review
I never really got around to reading Christopher Brookmyre’s novel Bedlam, but I hear it’s based on a fascinating concept, placing a girl in harm’s way as she jumps into a virtual world that she created, eventually trying to find her way out while dealing with a number of hostile enemies. In fact, it almost sounds ideal enough that it would work as a video game in itself.
Logitech G920 Steering Wheel Review
A few years ago, Logitech made quite a name for itself by producing Gran Turismo-branded steering wheels for PlayStation consoles, creating an unmatched driving experience with ideal force feedback and the kind of “real” feeling that’s usually limited to deluxe arcade racing cabinets. Sure, it was expensive as heck, but the feeling you got from this wheel – with the right driving...[Read More]