Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments A good game plays by a set of clearly defined rules; a great game gives you plenty of clever opportunities to break those rules. X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse breaks the rules by letting you create an unlikely mutant dream team of heroes […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Dishonored is a game about many things. It’s about revenge; armed with deadly weapons and supernatural powers, you seek vengeance upon all of those who orchestrated your downfall. It’s about a city; the plague-ridden industrial port of Dunwall is lovely to behold, exciting to […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments In a future where resources are scant and an oppressive worldwide government endeavors to extend its controlling grip around the whole planet, there are those who resist. Banding together in disparate factions, elite soldiers use their diverse talents and quick reflexes to carve out […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments The award-winning film Saving Private Ryan influenced several levels in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, and the new Allied Assault expansion pack, Spearhead, also draws inspiration from that movie, as well as from the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. However, in what might be […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments A tagline like “Any moment can be a wow moment” just invites mockery. Splashing this catchphrase all over the back cover of NHL 11 for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 is certainly over the top and more than a bit cheesy. But it’s […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Like its predecessors, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is all about stretches of chilling stillness and thick dread, punctuated by the tense thrills of menacing mutants and the rush of discovery. If you’ve played either of the first two games of the series, you know […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments This is not your average Telltale Games adventure. The developer best known for all-ages affairs like the Back to the Future and Tales of Monkey Island franchises has nimbly waded into the guts and gore of the zombie apocalypse with the first episode of […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Average Joes looking for the chance to fly the unfriendly skies of Europe during World War II should enlist with Air Battles: Sky Defender. While this Pilot Entertainment game screams low budget at times and takes a casual approach to aerial combat that won’t […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Oh what a joy it would be to see the world like Amanita Design does. There would be no barriers and no wall of cynicism to cloud our imaginations from creating the grandest of adventures out of the most humdrum of objects. That is […]
Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments Dear Esther is not a video game; at least, not in the traditional sense. In 2008, it was released for the PC as a Half-Life 2 mod. Now, it has been rereleased as a stand-alone product with updated visuals and remastered audio. It casts […]
