By Carolyn Petit
Posted Aug 11, 2008 6:49 pm PT
Despite some shortcomings, Siren: Blood Curse is an enjoyably creepy adventure with some interesting gameplay mechanics.
Once upon a time, survival horror games were defined not only by shambling corpses and creepy atmosphere, but also by protagonists that moved with all the grace and agility of a [...]
By Tom Mc Shea
Posted Aug 4, 2008 6:38 pm PT
The combat in Hellboy gets repetitive before the first level ends and never presents a challenge. This is a boring, bland game.
There is a moment in Hellboy: Science of Evil when you have to face off against a hideous gorilla/octopus hybrid. It roars with [...]
By Tom Mc Shea
Posted Aug 4, 2008 6:39 pm PT
PixelJunk Eden is beautiful and serene, until an impatient clock mixes far too much stress into this otherwise leisurely game.
The thread tying the PixelJunk series of games together is the unique spin it puts on traditional concepts. Q-Games’ first PlayStation Network title, PixelJunk Racers, [...]
By Tom Mc Shea
28 July 2008
Beijing 2008 proves beyond a doubt that rapidly pushing buttons is not fun.
Who knew qualifying for the Olympics could be so difficult? Instead of a worldwide competition crafted around ideas that fit in with the modern gaming landscape, this is just an archaic compilation of mostly old, painful gameplay techniques [...]
By Carolyn Petit
28 July 2008
Despite a cruel learning curve this bridge-building puzzle game is both fun and unique.
Heavy elephants encounter flimsy bridges time and time again in 8bit Games’ new puzzler, Elefunk. This combination poses quite a predicament, and in tasking you with designing a solution to the problem, Elefunk provides an unusual, challenging experience [...]
By Chris Watters
Iron Man dons the cliched suit of lackluster, uninspired movie tie-in games.
Held captive in a cave by soldiers armed to the teeth with weapons of his own design, Tony Stark ponders his fate. Faced with the ugly truth about the world he has helped create, he resolves to turn his genius to other [...]
Return to feudal Japan for more of the same button-mashing mayhem that Koei’s been serving up for years.
By Shiva Stella
Koei’s Samurai Warriors 2: Xtreme Legends is a standalone expansion for a game with very close ties to the company’s Dynasty Warriors series. In fact, the two franchises are almost identical except for a change [...]
By Tom Mc Shea
The third time is the charm for Traveller’s Tales–logical puzzles and great offline co-op play make this the best Lego game yet.
Now that Traveller’s Tales has conquered a galaxy far, far away, it has set its sights on giving a Lego makeover to a more terrestrial franchise. Lego Indiana Jones: The Complete [...]
By By Brian Fishman
Jul 3, 2008 12:28 pm PT
Though it was originally announced as a retail exclusive for the PlayStation 3, delays in development allowed the Xbox 360 version of Fatal Inertia to jump out ahead of its PS3 counterpart. Now, almost a year after the release of the Xbox 360 game, Fatal Inertia EX [...]
By Chris Watters
Since the release of The Bourne Identity in 2002, Robert Ludlum’s titular amnesiac spy has thrilled movie audiences with fast, brutal combat and tense action sequences. When developer High Moon Studios set out to create a game starring Jason Bourne, it drew on the electric choreography of the movies as well as the [...]
