Aargh, me hearties. Aargh. In almost every way, Lego Pirates is one of the best of the Lego Whatever series, from its swaggering Jack Sparrow to the epic range of locations from the movies. Its cute, mimed retellings of these are genuinely funny. Even the traditionally very basic combat feels oddly [...]
By Carolyn Petit
Posted Oct 24, 2008 6:17 pm PT
Web of Shadows is a fast-paced, soaring superhero adventure that delivers just about everything a Spider-Man game should.
Treyarch has been in the business of making Spider-Man games for many years now, and the games have often been as frustrating as they have been fun. In this [...]
By Tom Mc Shea
Posted Aug 26, 2008 5:51 pm PT
The combat in Hellboy gets repetitive before the first level ends and never presents a challenge. This is a boring, bland game.
There is a moment in Hellboy: Science of Evil when you have to face off against a hideous gorilla/octopus hybrid. It roars with anger [...]
By Aaron Thomas
Posted Aug 11, 2008 9:31 pm PT
A few key gameplay additions and enhancements make this year’s Madden great despite some unseemly flaws.
When John Madden Football was released in 1988, no one had any idea that it was the beginning of one of the best-selling series of all time. But after 20 [...]
Spectral Force 3 is a functional and predictable strategy RPG without a lick of personality.
By Kevin VanOrd
Posted Aug 6, 2008 5:24 pm PT
Given such a ghostly title, you’d expect squads of shimmering spirits and imposing armies of the undead to loom ominously over Spectral Force 3. It’s true that this strategic role-playing game [...]
The Xbox is a sixth initiation video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. It was Microsoft’s first foray into the gaming cheer up fair, and competed in every respect with Sony’s PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo GameCube. It was on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 [...]
