By Brett Todd
Posted Dec 12, 2008 5:50 pm PT
Cartoony bloodsuckers make A Vampyre Story a cheesy good time.
Backgrounds that could have been taken from old Hanna-Barbera cartoons and a bad guy who looks like he just stepped off a Count Chocula cereal box make A Vampyre Story one of the most distinctive adventures released this [...]
By Justin Calvert
Posted Dec 8, 2008 6:47 pm PT
Performance issues prevent this lazy PC port of a superb console game from being the best Grand Theft Auto yet.
Stepping off a boat in the shoes of illegal immigrant Niko Bellic as he arrives in Liberty City at the start of Grand Theft Auto IV, you can [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Oct 10, 2008 4:51 pm PT
Lame jokes and long loads are all you need to know about point-and-click adventure Everlight.
Everlight: Of Magic and Power is a point-and-click adventure that falls flat on its face in just about every way. It tries to be all things to all people, with a lighthearted [...]
By Luke Anderson
Posted Sep 26, 2008 4:09 pm PT
Multiwinia adds a multiplayer mode and even easier controls to the addictive gameplay and visually striking world of Darwinia.
Multiwinia is a multiplayer take on indie outfit Introversion’s break-out hit Darwinia. It’s a real-time strategy game in which you command armies of flat, 2D characters across [...]
By Tom Mc Shea
Posted Sep 17, 2008 5:56 pm PT
In Line Rider 2: Unbound, you’ll experience a love-hate relationship with the Bezier curve.
The deceptively simple Line Rider started as a free Flash game. It was able to move beyond restrictions, such as not having a tangible goal or even the ability to save [...]
By Kevin VanOrd
Posted Sep 4, 2008 12:01 am PT
Spore merges multiple run-of-the-mill building blocks into a big, entertaining game.
Spore is an enjoyable game that pulls off an interesting balancing act. On one hand, it lets you create a creature and guide its maturation from a single cell to a galactic civilization through [...]
By Brett Todd
Posted Sep 3, 2008 6:42 pm PT
Murder in the Abbey may not be entirely original, but it’s an adventure with a lot of personality.
The odd combination of monks and murder has been a staple of whodunit fiction for decades, so the biggest mystery here is why somebody didn’t come up with [...]
