Dead Space Review
By Lark Anderson
Posted Oct 31, 2008 6:07 pm PT
An incredibly atmospheric and disturbingly gruesome deep-space adventure that will haunt your dreams and leave you begging for more.
The survival horror genre is rife with games in which you are isolated in a hostile environment full of monsters, and Dead Space is no exception. But from the moment you're thrown into the middle of the fray in the heart-pounding introduction until the bone-chilling conclusion, it's clear that this is something quite unique. With its disturbingly twisted visuals, its deeply engrossing story, and innovative strategic dismemberment combat system, Dead Space is a best-in-its-class game that surpasses other entries in its venerable genre in nearly every way and will be the standard by which they are judged for years to come.Read More
Bully: Scholarship Edition Review
By Kevin VanOrd
Posted Oct 31, 2008 5:54 pm PT
A lazy porting job hinders Bully's classic classroom hijinks.
PC game enthusiasts know they're in trouble when a game's menus require keyboard input rather than allow you a mouse pointer. That's the first indication, but hardly the last, that this version of Rockstar Games' boisterous look at schoolyard folly is just a quick cash-in. There seems to be little regard for the platform here: The game suffers from numerous bugs and glitches, the keyboard and mouse controls are awkward, and for a game that hardly pushes the capabilities of a halfway decent computer, it performs poorly. It's too bad, because at heart, Bully is one of the better gameplay experiences in recent years, letting you break a drunken schoolteacher out of an asylum, help the lunch lady drug her date, steal panties from the girls' dorm, and take pictures of snotty kids sitting on the lap of a homeless Santa. But with little in the way of meaningful additions and all sorts of platform-specific problems, Bully on the PC just feels rushed.Read More
Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches Review
By Brett Todd
Posted Oct 29, 2008 5:39 pm PT
Welsh spooks, ancient myths, and subtle scares abound in this stylish point-and-click adventure.
October is certainly the right time of year to release Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches. This eerie adventure about a haunted farmstead from Arberth Studios may be well out of date when it comes to game mechanics and visuals, but it packs a real punch when it comes to pure spooky storytelling. A tale steeped in ancient ghouls and a mystery drawn from Welsh mythology draws you in, even as the dated visuals attempt to push you away.Read More
Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals Review
By Brett Todd
GameSpotPosted Oct 29, 2008 5:38 pm PT
Even for a French adventure, Nikopol is awfully surreal.
If you know anything about Benoit Sokal's track record with adventure gaming, you know going in that Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals will be weird. But even prior experience with the French designer's surreal Syberia games doesn't prepare you for the strangeness of this adaptation of the work of graphic novelist Enki Bilal. Sokal's White Birds studio tells a bizarre tale here about a totalitarian government, gods from space, and action-oriented puzzles, all of which lend this game an off-kilter feel that is very different from that in traditional point-and-click adventures. All of these eccentricities make Nikopol an extremely challenging, acquired taste that you'll either love or hate.Read More
The Immortals of Terra Review
By Brett Todd
Posted Oct 24, 2008 6:19 pm PT
Even an innovative sci-fi setting can't save the illogical and boring Immortals of Terra.
Perry Rhodan, at least according to our limited research, is the lead character in the biggest-selling series of sci-fi books ever published. That will surely come as big news to befuddled stateside geeks, at least until they read a little bit further and see that Perry is mostly big with the kids in Germany. With this question answered, you can now rest easy knowing how some guy you've never heard of managed to get his name tacked on as the subtitle to developer 3d-io's space-faring adventure The Immortals of Terra. That, however, is the easiest mystery to solve about this point-and-clicker because the game itself is loaded with maddeningly illogical puzzles. It would take less time to learn German and read all of Perry's more than 2,000 adventures in their native language than it would to figure out this game without fleeing to the sanity-saving safety of an online walk-through.Read More
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