I am unabashedly a child of the 1980s. My weekends were filled with the Looney Tunes cartoon, Alvin and the Chipmunks, G.I. Joe, Transformers, and The Smurfs. There was a bunch of live-action goodness in there too -- Battlestar Galactica (the original), The A-Team and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century -- but the cartoons are the only parts I’ve shared with my kids. The Smurfs has definitely been their most beloved, so when Ubisoft released The Smurfs 2 video game, the kids and I smurfed at the chance to test it out. (Yes, … [Read more...]
Resident Evil Revelations Review
The original Dead Space took the survival-horror genre back a step -- in a good way -- by returning the focus to horror. Since then that series, like the genre as a whole, has returned to more action-oriented sequences. That’s one of the reasons we were so excited by The Evil Within at E3: it’s refreshingly scary as Hell. Thankfully, Capcom has made sure we don’t have to wait for a nice dose of fright, as Resident Evil Revelations is available here and now. Resident Evil Revelations isn’t technically new; the game … [Read more...]
Remember Me Review
Protagonists with wiped memories are apparently in vogue again, with the big screen getting Oblivion and a Total Recall reboot, and video gamers getting an original IP from Capcom called Remember Me. It was bold of Capcom to release a new franchise on the eve of a new console generation, but it was even more bold for Capcom to test as many interesting concepts as it does in Remember Me. Sometimes, though, a concept should remain just that -- an idea -- because the actual implementation of several ideas here falls flat, … [Read more...]
Fuse Review
Insomniac Games has expanded well beyond the Ratchet & Clank franchise during this console generation, beginning with the PS3’s Resistance: Fall of Man and continuing with their newest game, Fuse. Published by EA, Fuse marks Insomniac’s most public multiplatform escapade, shipping on Xbox 360 in addition to the developer’s traditional PlayStation home. But even with several consoles to call its own, Fuse is grounded in the basic hallmark of Insomniac’s games: surprisingly deep gunplay. As with many shooters today, the … [Read more...]
Star Trek: The Video Game Review
I first saw Star Trek: The Video Game two E3s ago, when a 30-miunte demo packed every session in the behind-closed-doors meeting room. Two years ago it was a graphical powerhouse, showed compelling cooperative gameplay between Kirk and Spock, and seemed utterly epic in its scale. Twenty-four months later, the only way to explain the final product is to borrow a page from JJ Abrams’ first Star Trek movie: a crazy wormhole changed the course of history. What should have been a can’t-miss complement to Star Trek: Into … [Read more...]
BioShock Infinite Review
There isn’t much to be said about the original BioShock that hasn’t been said already, including words like “defining” and “masterful.” It’s with those massive shoes to fill that BioShock Infinite entered the limelight, a new game at the tail end of this console generation trying to prove that the current hardware can still manage to wow. And with Irrational Games at the helm, “wow” it does. BioShock Infinite isn’t technically a sequel, but it’s close. The game takes place not in the underwater city of in Rapture, … [Read more...]
Family Guy Back to the Multiverse Review
Seth McFarlane, you can do better. For the fans of FOX’s Family Guy, Activision -- the storied publisher behind Call of Duty, Doom and Wolfenstein, as well as tons of licensed games -- created Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse. The action-adventure game stars Stewie and Brian Griffin and continues the storyline of the “Road to the Multiverse” episode in which Bertram, Stewie’s half-brother, is the villain. I am a fan of Family Guy. And it’s important that I say that so you to understand the full meaning of this game … [Read more...]
Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien Review
The oddly-titled Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien is a great example of a casual, side-scrolling game that keeps players engaged while still keeping things simple. Imagine a combination of side scrolling, forced running and rhythmic Whack-A-Mole, and you have an idea not only of the general gameplay, but of the reasons for this game's surprisingly high fun factor. The game starts with a fake commercial akin to the ones seen in Jellyvision’s You Don’t Know Jack, and continues with a cut scene that reminds you … [Read more...]
Urban Trial Freestyle Review
Let me preface this Urban Trial Freestyle review by saying that I hope you, dear reader, find this review to be an acceptable length. It's hard to be verbose when a game stinks. Either I predicted this game years ago, or I've played it before, and in either case there's a reason I'm not playing it today. Urban Trial Freestyle is a downloadable game for the PlayStation 3 that centers on varying levels of the side-scrolling "racing" variety. Anyone who's ever played Trials HD or ridden in the cars at Disneyland’s Autopia … [Read more...]
Dead Space 3 Review
The survival-horror genre gets such a bad rap these days that it’s tempting to overlook them for games with a frantic gunplay, co-op multiplayer elements, customizable weapons or ... wait, that’s actually what Dead Space 3 offers. Not often one to take franchise risks, EA made a massive gamble years ago on an untested studio with an unknown IP in a survival-horror genre that had been seemingly owned by Konami for eons. Now three games in, the Dead Space series has made EA look the part of a sage investor, with a … [Read more...]
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