Fallen Earth’s vision of the future is a bleak one. Horrific mutants roam the desolate plains, violent splinter groups worship computer AIs, and you must rummage through bags and scavenge junkyards if you intend to survive. Unfortunately, the postapocalyptic setting isn’t this ambitious massively multiplayer online game’s only harsh attribute: An [...]
King’s Bounty: Armored Princess does more of the same really well. The stand-alone expansion to 2008’s cult hit King’s Bounty: The Legend adds virtually nothing to the original’s strategy role-playing game formula, but the game does all of the by-the-numbers stuff so perfectly that you can’t help but love the deja [...]
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 that The Zone is a harsh mistress, [...]
In many ways, Napoleon Bonaparte is the perfect subject for a Total War game. He lived during a time of revolutionary technological advancement during which a number of powerful nations were in direct conflict with each other. The spectacle of war was at a particularly high point and Napoleon dominated the era with a forceful [...]
When was the last time you felt totally lost in a fantasy gameworld? When was the last time you played a game with such a well-crafted and enjoyable story that you knew you’d remember it for a long, long time? Dragon Age: Origins is that kind of game, so rich and involving [...]
Bigger doesn’t mean better. Developer Ubisoft Montreal disregarded this mantra when creating James Cameron’s Avatar, delivering a mediocre game loaded with unnecessary padding, rather than a tight and enjoyable package that could have gotten players excited about the upcoming film of the same name. In fact, if you’re eagerly anticipating the upcoming Avatar movie, it’s [...]
How does a developer take such a gleefully joyous experience as Red Alert 3 and morph it into lifeless mediocrity? It’s a question that you’ll wrestle with as you struggle through the real-time strategy game’s first expansion pack, Uprising. Some valiant attempts to retain the original’s cheery, cheesy charm are all but lost in a [...]
The PC has not provided a home to many Japanese role-playing games, and when it has, the results have been uneven. How refreshing, then, that The Last Remnant is such an entertaining experience. It features a rich, original fantasy world, obviously crafted with great care and artistry, and it tells a strong, politically charged tale [...]
