When the city of Rapture was first unveiled, it was an underwater dystopia ravaged by civil war and self-destructive genetic manipulation. This strange and unforgettable world was also one of awe and wonder. Set nearly a decade after the events of its precursor, BioShock 2’s Rapture is just as haunting and [...]
Mass Effect 2 takes the bleak vacuum of space and flushes it with color–the light of stars and galaxies, the red and violet swirls of far-off nebulas, and the glimpses of comets as they burn through the void. You’ll catch your first glimpse of this in the game’s intense and much-improved [...]
Although many wrestling games pride themselves on featuring up-to-date rosters and letting you do any move you want during a match, Legends of Wrestlemania takes a different approach. It appeals to nostalgic wrestling fans, giving them the chance to play as classic wrestlers in historic Wrestlemania matches from the ’80s and ’90s. It also favors [...]
It’s hard to deny the joy in proving that you are the king of trivia. There is something inherently satisfying about dropping knowledge bombs on a variety of arcane subjects, and Trivial Pursuit has long been the arbiter in matters of trivia superiority. Electronic Arts’ attempt to bring the hugely popular board game to the [...]
History has shown us that the Japanese are quite resistant to change and rarely up-to-date when it comes to popular culture. This is, of course, in sharp contrast to the Land of the Rising Sun’s thirst for cutting-edge technology. To see a micro laptop in Japan playing an episode of Columbo or a gadget-riddled Nissan [...]
I’ll say it straight up: If you’ve never played some form of Peggle, you aren’t a gamer. Sure, Halo is a great game series, the Grand Theft Auto franchise broke ground for all open-world games and the Gears of War games have upped the grittiness for first-person shooters, but Peggle is in a class of [...]
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 [...]
