By Kevin VanOrd
Posted Oct 31, 2008 5:54 pm PT
A lazy porting job hinders Bully’s classic classroom hijinks.
PC game enthusiasts know they’re in trouble when a game’s menus require keyboard input rather than allow you a mouse pointer. That’s the first indication, but hardly the last, that this version of Rockstar Games’ boisterous look at [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Oct 29, 2008 5:39 pm PT
Welsh spooks, ancient myths, and subtle scares abound in this stylish point-and-click adventure.
October is certainly the right time of year to release Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches. This eerie adventure about a haunted farmstead from Arberth Studios may be well out of date when it [...]
By Brett Todd
GameSpotPosted Oct 29, 2008 5:38 pm PT
Even for a French adventure, Nikopol is awfully surreal.
If you know anything about Benoit Sokal’s track record with adventure gaming, you know going in that Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals will be weird. But even prior experience with the French designer’s surreal Syberia games doesn’t prepare [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Oct 24, 2008 6:19 pm PT
Even an innovative sci-fi setting can’t save the illogical and boring Immortals of Terra.
Perry Rhodan, at least according to our limited research, is the lead character in the biggest-selling series of sci-fi books ever published. That will surely come as big news to befuddled stateside geeks, [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Oct 20, 2008 8:21 pm PT
This stand-alone Venetian expansion adds practically nothing to the gameplay of The Guild 2.
The Guild 2: Venice is a stand-alone expansion that purports to be all about the legendary sinking city best known for its canals and singing gondoliers, but it’s actually just a third-rate face-lift [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Oct 20, 2008 7:08 pm PT
The Eastern Realm expansion is the lone highlight of this Gold Edition of last year’s The Settlers: Rise of an Empire.
Even though the only draw of The Settlers: Rise of an Empire Gold Edition is the Eastern Realm expansion pack (previously released on its own in [...]
By Chris Watters
Posted Oct 15, 2008 7:17 pm PT
Hell’s Highway proves to be an exciting, engaging ride despite a few bumps along the way.
The first two games in the Brothers in Arms series distinguished themselves among the crowd of WWII shooters on the strength of their smoothly integrated first-person squad control and gritty, moving portrayal [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Oct 10, 2008 4:51 pm PT
Lame jokes and long loads are all you need to know about point-and-click adventure Everlight.
Everlight: Of Magic and Power is a point-and-click adventure that falls flat on its face in just about every way. It tries to be all things to all people, with a lighthearted [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Oct 6, 2008 11:26 am PT
It might not be creative, but Fate: Undiscovered Realms is a solid extension of the original hack-and-slash role-playing game.
Fate: Undiscovered Realms adds a pair of new levels, a dead-is-dead option, and pretty much nothing else to the original Fate. So expect this hack-and-slash role-playing stand-alone [...]
By Chris Watters
Posted Oct 3, 2008 7:22 pm PT
Colonization is a more focused and linear Civilization experience that nevertheless offers the depth and rewards of the classic strategy series.
Civilization IV is a grand strategy game in which you build an empire that spans every epoch of human society. Civilization IV: Colonization takes a [...]
