You may or may not know this, but the editorial team of TeamXbox (or half of us, anyway) share a floor in an office building in the scenic San Francisco Bay Area with the editorial teams of IGN and Gamespy. Corporate relationships aside, friendships naturally develop across the aisles, and I’ve been lucky enough to [...]
Not since Bad Day L.A. has a game disappointed me as much as Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard did. Eat Lead isn’t even in the same ballpark of suck that Bad Day L.A. was, but both games were built on a really funny concept that I hoped would be fertile ground for the [...]
Despite some very positive reviews coming back on the Warner Brothers film, “Watchmen,” many die-hard fans of the ’80s DC series/novel are up in arms. Just like many novels turned into movies, there are rumors of some interesting liberties that have been taken with the original storyline. It looks like we could have another “LotR”/ [...]
Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy line of games has really expanded from the Rainbow Sixes and Splinter Cells to add other entries—each one with a specific gameplay focus. The latest, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X., take to the air with real-world combat jets.
It’s important to note, for those who didn’t get a taste of the game through the demo [...]
It’s amazing to see a game so determined to shoot itself in the foot. In many ways, Major League Baseball 2K9 is an amazing effort compared to previous installments in the series, fixing a lot of what the game was lacking in feel and authenticity. But MLB 2K9 ships in such a buggy state, that [...]
Stoked is what you get if you strip away all of the superfluous features that serve as a distraction in other snowboarding games and offer some pure boarding action. There isn’t a poorly constructed backstory to make you care about your rider, there are no super moves to unlock, and certainly no coins to collect [...]
By Luke Anderson
UKPosted Feb 20, 2009 9:29 am PT
Halo Wars is a fun strategy outing for fans of the universe, but it feels simplistic and short alongside other games in the genre.
UK REVIEW–After shooting through scores of Covenant and Flood soldiers in three Halo first-person shooters, the United Nations Space Command’s story [...]
By Guy Cocker
UKPosted Feb 20, 2009 4:54 am PT
RacePro is an incredibly in-depth racing game that’s also an accessible and enjoyable driving experience.
RacePro isn’t afraid to let you know that it’s a racing simulator. When you first jump into the Career mode, the difficulty level defaults to Professional, turning off all steering assists [...]
