I have a confession to make. Despite my general crankiness about the game industry, as well as my increasingly picky taste, I have a soft spot for a bane of the industry: World War 2 shooters. Chalk it up to the fact I am a history buff with a desire to compare in-game …
Archive for the ‘Reviews Xbox’ Category
Review - Call of Duty 2: Big Red One
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 by christianReview - Superman Returns
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 by zenstraboAs you are happily whiling away the hours on the great games that have come out in the past few months, allow me to darken your day with another reminders of how much shit last year’s flood of licensed games sucked.
As a child, I spent a fair amount of my time educating myself, to a …
Review - Half-Life Episode 2
Monday, November 5th, 2007 by christianHalf Life 2 Episode 1 was much like the Opposing Force expansion to the original Half Life. Both games were largely similar, but each offered a distinct twist that helped it along. In Opposing Force, it was the concept of playing as a soldier hunting down Gordon Freeman, and the benefits of having …
Review - Second Sight
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 by christianI’ve come to believe strongly in a particular rule taught to me by wiser gamers. The rule states that “if a game wants to entice me, to keep me playing, then it cannot assume I have nothing better to do than to play video games.” It’s hard phrase to describe exactly what the …
Review - Advent Rising
Thursday, December 28th, 2006 by tonyThis is one of those times I’m sorry I listened to the reviews on a game and passed it up. I had been following Advent Rising mostly because its story was written by Orson Scott Card (author of the Ender’s Game series) and it was originally supposed to be an epic, three-part sci-fi adventure. …
Review - Doom 3
Thursday, October 19th, 2006 by tonyI didn’t understand all of the hype surrounding the release of Doom 3. So the graphics were cutting edge (assuming you wanted to drop $500 to get your memory and graphics card up to snuff), it was still a game based on a series well-known for having repetitious play and no story line whatsoever. Now …
Review - Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
Monday, September 25th, 2006 by christianI’m sure everyone remembers the shitstorm that hit the Internet when Prince of Persia: Warrior Within was released two years ago. An unstoppable tide of criticism and disgust toward the game flowed for months, only getting worse when it ended up outselling The Sands of Time by leagues. (Thankfully, we were spared from having the …
Review - Capcom Fighting Evolution
Thursday, June 8th, 2006 by christianReview - BloodRayne 2
Thursday, June 1st, 2006 by tonyA lot of reviewers would start this off by saying BloodRayne 2 “sucked” and then make some lame joke about this being a vampire game and there being a lot of “sucking” going on anyway. Well I think that sucks … and this game blows. If you’re not familiar with titular character you need only …
