Neither a film nor a game, developers Quantic Dream have created an experience that manages to be mature, without losing its ability to tell a gripping story. Forget whether it’s a game or not, this is Heavy Rain and gaming conventions don’t apply.
Continue reading...Monday, September 8, 2008
Simplicity doesn’t always breed the best gameplay, but in the case of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the stylus-only controls make for accessible action in the vein of Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword. Similarly, the most recent Legend of Zelda title for the DS also featured movement/attacks using exclusively the touch screen. Clone Wars uses this [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 5, 2008
With the immense popularity of Dragonball Z in the west, it’s a wonder if anyone remembers the series’ roots in the original Dragonball manga. Goku, the franchise’s spiky-haired protagonist, was less a galactic hero and more of a monkey-tailed child. Less fond of Ki energy and mammoth fireball attacks, the bo-staff wielding kid still saw [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Though the game boasts a familiarFable feel, Viking: Battle for Asgard only surpasses it in some regards. From the start of its nonsensical resurrection story to the hellishly frustrating finale, the 20-30 hours of slicing demonic blue baddies never really gets old. The combat is repetitious, but progressive upgrades help ease the frustration of tapping [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 16, 2008
Kratos is stunned: there isn’t a flock of identical zombies… After the short and sweet opening cinema detailing the you-whomp-‘em-Persian-guards objective, you’ll become immediately aware that the tried and true hack-‘n-slash formula is in full, familiar force in Ready At Dawn’s God of War: Chains of Olympus. Fortunately, that means loads of enemies on screen to [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 2, 2008
Time flies when you’re having fun, or whatever, and the Freelance Police have the evidence to make that case in Sam and Max: The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball – the third, funniest, and most brain-dead-easy of the Sam and Max season of point-and-click adventure games. The mafia centric parody has our heroes in search [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 7, 2008
February 7th, 2008 saw the release of the Japan-only Death Note Nintendo DS prequel game, L the ProLogue to Death Note. Konami’s first-person point-and-click adventure title brings back memories of the recent mystery-murder game, Hotel Dusk, and stars one of Death Note’s most revered and well known characters, the elusive crime-solving “L”. As a rookie FBI [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 9, 2008
When a maniacal talk show hostess takes her audience hostage, it’s up to the Freelance Police to stop her. Myra Stump, an obvious parody of Oprah Winfrey, is under a spell of hypnosis, a recurring theme in Season One of Sam and Max: Freelance Police, and our anthropomorphic heroes set out to rescue the audience. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 8, 2008
With comic books, cartoons and computer games gracing their résumé, Sam and Max have a lot to brag about. Unfortunately, with Hit the Road being their last 2D adventure video game, the anthropomorphic dog and rabbit comic duo have been MIA since the early nineties. The dwindling interest in point-and-click adventure games shortly after [...]
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