By Brett Todd
Posted Dec 1, 2008 7:40 pm PT
Storm of Zehir tries to be the square peg in Neverwinter Nights 2’s round hole, with predictably lackluster results.
Obsidian Entertainment attempts to turn back the clock with Storm of Zehir, a Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion that tries hard to emulate the seminal single-player role-playing game Baldur’s Gate. [...]
By Kevin VanOrd
Posted Nov 24, 2008 12:48 pm PT
This frustratingly bad shooter is not the stuff legends are made of.
When a first-person shooter bungles moving and shooting, what does that leave room for? Great reloading? A potent save system? Awesome menus? Legendary is not a good game, nor is it a so-bad-it’s-good one. Its [...]
By Aaron Thomas
Posted Nov 21, 2008 4:28 pm PT
Need for Speed returns to its roots with hokey cutscenes, wild cop chases, and solid racing action.
For the most part, the reaction to the last few Need for Speed games was the same: “Why aren’t they more like Need for Speed Most Wanted?” “Where are the [...]
By Chris Watters
Posted Nov 20, 2008 6:44 pm PT
Left 4 Dead makes both sides of the zombie apocalypse a thrill to experience, as long as you’re not alone.
The zombie apocalypse. Be honest: You’ve thought about it. When most humans have been turned into shambling, flesh-hungry monsters, how will you fare? Whether you fancy yourself [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Nov 19, 2008 6:24 pm PT
Although Sacred 2: Fallen Angel doesn’t break any new ground, it does impressive work freshening up an old formula.
Hack. Slash. Grab loot. Repeat. That formula is followed to a tee in Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, another action-first RPG you can toss onto the pile atop Diablo, [...]
By Chris Watters
Posted Nov 12, 2008 6:37 pm PT
World at War brings proven Call of Duty mechanics back to WWII with great success.
Call of Duty: World at War is a lot like its predecessor, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. In most respects, this is a good thing. The guns are tightly tuned, the [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Nov 10, 2008 6:16 pm PT
Dark Horizon is an improvement on its Tarr Chronicles predecessor, but that isn’t saying much.
Has somebody airlifted a battalion of English teachers to Russia? It sure seems as though somebody at Moscow’s Quazar Studios has been taking English lessons, because Dark Horizon is considerably less laughable [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Nov 10, 2008 6:15 pm PT
A unique subject matter is the most compelling aspect of this otherwise boring real-time strategy game.
Being able to guide the armies of Genghis Khan is the only real attraction in The Golden Horde. Developer World Forge’s real-time re-creation of the crazy years immediately after Genghis Khan [...]
By Brian Ekberg
Posted Nov 7, 2008 7:21 pm PT
MotoGP 08 is meat-and-potatoes racing with enough challenge to keep two-wheeled gearheads busy for weeks.
After snagging the official MotoGP license from THQ in 2007, Capcom released MotoGP 07 on the PlayStation 2; a promising, if far too difficult, rebirth of a game license that had previously [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Oct 31, 2008 6:08 pm PT
Innovative, addictive, and delightfully weird, World of Goo is a superb puzzle game.
World of Goo may ship in a plain-Jane box that makes it look exactly like the usual third-rate dreck that takes up space on a back shelf in your neighborhood department store, but this [...]
