While Dante slices through the belly of an undead beast with his razor-sharp scythe, traverses a crumbling bridge with a quick-time event, and overthrows the ruler of a damned land with vicious determination, a burst of familiarity might flash through your mind. From the gothic art style and the vengeance-fueled story [...]
While plenty of games are set in a postapocalyptic wasteland, not many let you participate in the actual end of the world. In the case of Darksiders, this is precisely where the action begins. Influenced by games like God of War and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (and often [...]
Army of Two: The 40th Day is a third-person shooter in which your objective is simple: get out of Dodge. Or more accurately, Shanghai, a city that is being torn apart by missiles for no discernable reason. Why is this happening? Who is behind it? Who cares! You can paint skulls on [...]
When three mediocre games are jammed into a single package, the result is still mediocre. That’s unfortunate, because Aliens vs. Predator is a game you want to love. It comes from the developer of the beloved first game in the AVP series, and like that game, it features three distinct campaigns [...]
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 [...]
