Oftentimes, when developers resurrect classic games for the modern era, they overhaul the core experience with enough bells and whistles to make it stand up to current releases. This is not the case in NBA Jam. The gameplay of this two-on-two fast-paced dunk-a-thon that you remember playing in the arcades 17 [...]
Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? You’ve studied the battlefield, marked your targets, and in one explosive pass the enemy convoy you just engaged is reduced to a pile of ash. Air Assault is filled with these moments, and since simply piloting an AH-64 Apache is no [...]
Like a classic car that has been lovingly but only partially restored, parts of Gran Turismo 5 look as good as new, while others are showing their age. Developer Polyphony Digital’s latest “real driving simulator” introduces plenty of great new features to the long-running series, but it also recycles a lot [...]
War in the Holy Land is the subject of Lionheart: Kings’ Crusade, a real-time strategy look at the conflict between the Christian forces of King Richard and the Muslim armies of Saladin. Developer Neocore Games has ripped a few pages out of the Total War playbook here, with a game that [...]
Like a great Bond movie, James Bond 007: Blood Stone jumps headfirst into a spectacular action scene before the opening credits even roll. Going from silently dropping enemies on a ritzy yacht right into a pair of harrowing chase scenes–first by boat on the Mediterranean and then by car on the [...]
When a franchise consistently delivers massively popular, high-quality games, each new entry in the series comes laden with expectation. Call of Duty: Black Ops has some big shoes to fill, but it does so admirably. The engrossing campaign is chock-full of exciting, varied gameplay and drips with intrigue and intensity. The [...]
UK REVIEW–On paper, it might not look like a whole lot has changed in this year’s Football Manager. However, the series has never been about grandiose, sweeping changes–and this year’s tweaks, such as the improved training system, the redone contract negotiations, and the all-new set-piece creation suite, make this year’s game [...]
In the world of Dead Rising 2, there’s an activist organization known as CURE that pushes for the humane treatment of the living impaired. If only CURE realized just how much fun it can be to maim, behead, or otherwise massacre hordes of brain-craving zombies. Very little has changed since the [...]
The most disappointing thing about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 is that it fails to capture the essence of the story it’s trying to tell. While the revamped third-person shooter gameplay stays engaging throughout most of the campaign, the context that it’s framed around is paper-thin. There is [...]
Sonic 3 shipped too soon. It was originally meant to have twice as many levels, another playable character and a whole separate storyline — but that all got the axe when, in the interest of getting the game out quicker, SEGA shipped it to stores half-finished. Now, even in that state, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 [...]
