By Justin Calvert
Posted Dec 18, 2008 6:14 pm PT
Jason spends too much time talking and not nearly enough time fighting in this Greek mythology-inspired action-RPG.
Loosely based on the same Greek myth that inspired the 1963 movie Jason and the Argonauts, Rise of the Argonauts is an action-oriented role-playing game in which you assume the role [...]
By Aaron Thomas
Posted Dec 9, 2008 5:43 pm PT
If you enjoy tedious objectives, racially insensitive humor, and ugly graphics, the latest Destroy All Humans is right up your alley.
Developer Sandbox Games was shut down by THQ nearly a full month before Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon hit retail shelves, and the PlayStation 3 [...]
By Joe Dodson
Posted Dec 5, 2008 7:22 pm PT
Bolt is an action platformer that benefits from its super ambitions, even if it doesn’t completely live up to them.
Bolt doesn’t know it’s just a movie-licensed game. Sure, it has a few of the telltale weaknesses: the plot is thin and the game gets repetitive toward [...]
By Tom Mc Shea
Posted Dec 5, 2008 5:49 pm PT
Terrible level design, unresponsive controls, and a poor camera are just the beginning of the problems in this awful adventure.
Every new Sonic release carries a hope that Sega’s blue hedgehog will be able to regain the form that made him a star in the early [...]
By Chris Watters
Posted Dec 3, 2008 7:36 pm PT
SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 successfully returns to the fundamentals of realistic WWE action and impressive creation tools.
In the WWE, it’s not uncommon for seemingly vanquished superstars to return at random, handing out fresh beatdowns and earning back their former glory. After a disappointing showing last year, [...]
By Kevin VanOrd
Posted Dec 2, 2008 5:49 pm PT
Prince of Persia’s shimmering veneer and joyous platforming will cast a spell on you.
In many modern games, you rain death upon your enemies; how refreshing, then, that your main task in Prince of Persia is to breathe life into a darkening world. That doesn’t mean that the [...]
By Tom Mc Shea
Posted Dec 1, 2008 6:13 pm PT
Culdcept Saga is easy for beginners to learn, difficult for experts to master, and fun no matter who you are.
Card-collecting games can be extremely intimidating. Veterans of card-battle duels know the lure of building another deck in a fascinating new universe. But if you’ve never understood [...]
By Carolyn Petit
Posted Nov 26, 2008 3:39 pm PT
The fighting modes deliver some excitement, but the adventure loses its way with too many boring fetch quests and repetitive environmental puzzles.
Last year’s Naruto: Rise of a Ninja was a promising start to Ubisoft’s planned series of games telling the story of Naruto, the brash [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Nov 25, 2008 5:53 pm PT
Guilty Gear 2 may be an interesting experiment in cross-genre game design, but it’s mostly a shallow mess.
Good luck making heads or tails out of Guilty Gear 2: Overture. Given the way that the game sews scraps of different genres together to form a patchwork [...]
By Kevin VanOrd
Posted Nov 21, 2008 7:31 pm PT
Technical flaws mar, but don’t totally destroy, this long and fascinating role-playing game.
When you first begin The Last Remnant, you’ll participate in a battle within moments of inserting the game disc, and chances are that you’ll be struck by a glaring issue: The frame rate is [...]
