Gamers who had the fortune of experiencing the Nintendo 64 era firsthand no doubt harbor fond memories of staying up until ungodly hours shooting their friends in the face in GoldenEye 007.GoldenEye 007: Reloaded for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 repackages last year’s Wii remake of the classic shooter, but with the addition of upgraded graphics [...]
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Review : GoldenEye 007: Reloaded
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
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No Comments »Review : BurgerTime World Tour
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
Here’s the thing about HD remakes: If all they plan to do is prey on our nostalgia, they will not live up to our expectations. Memory and reality are rarely the same thing when it comes to games, as design changes so rapidly. To really knock a remake out of the park, developers need to [...]
Posted in Action, Genres, Platform, Reviews, Xbox 360 Tags: BurgerTime World Tour, Review No Comments »Review : Back to the Future: The Game
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
After first being released as a series of downloadable PC titles, developer Telltale Games’ episodic Back to the Futureadventures found a new home on the PlayStation Network. Now all five games have been bundled together into a single retail release for Nintendo’s Wii, making for an incredible value for fans of the classic ’80s film series. Unfortunately, [...]
Posted in Adventure, Genres, Platform, Reviews, Wii Tags: Back to the Future: The Game, Review No Comments »Review : Captain America: Super Soldier
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
If you’ve ever read a Captain America comic, or if you happened to catch the recent big-budget Hollywood film, you should already know what to expect from a video game adaptation based on the all-American hero. Nobody hands it to unpatriotic scum better than the Captain, and in this regard the game largely succeeds. Unfortunately, everything else [...]
Posted in 3DS, Action, Genres, Platform, Reviews Tags: Captain America: Super Soldier, Review No Comments »Review : Serious Sam: The Random Encounter
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
The latest in a series of indie titles inspired by the Serious Sam intellectual property – and conspicuously leading up to the launch of Serious Sam 3 – Serious Sam: The Random Encounter is perhaps the most unique take on a shooter since the magic bullet theory. Essentially, TRE is a conversion of Serious Sam’s usual FPS [...]
Posted in Genres, PC, Platform, Reviews, Role Playing Tags: Review, Serious Sam: The Random Encounter No Comments »Review : Sequence
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
Sequence is, on paper, an interesting concept. You take a rhythm game (in this case, you play with a control pad or a keyboard, not by stomping on particular areas of the floor), slap on a whole mess of RPG elements and a lot of unnecessarily snarky dialogue and voila: you’ve got yourself a “hybrid” game, [...]
Review : House M.D.
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
I’m going to keep this one really short, since anyone who’s previously read my thoughts on House M.D. — Episode 2: Blue Meanie or House M.D. — Episode 3: Skull and Bones should be able to predict where this fourth installment is headed. Yes (shockingly!) it’s more of the same. Dr. House is still grumpy and cracking characteristic jokes, [...]
Review : 1950′s Lawnmower Kids
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
This is the latest DSiWare game from Zordix, the studio that previously brought us Valet Parking 1989. Like that last game, this one pairs a bygone era with a thankless job to create a fun gameplay scenario. Unlike the last one, though, this release doesn’t manage to elevate its choice of activity to feeling like anything more [...]
Posted in 3DS, Genres, Platform, Reviews, Strategy Tags: 1950's Lawnmower Kids, Review No Comments »Review : Gnomz
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
There’s apparently been an interesting PC game making the rounds on the Internet through the past few years called Super Mario War – it’s essentially a version of Super Smash Bros. that removes all of the fighting techniques and forces you to kill your opponents simply by jumping on their heads. Swarms and swarms of [...]
Review : Balloon Kid
Posted by Rishi on November 4th, 2011
Who remembers the NES classic Balloon Fight? Probably lots of you, seeing as how it was just re-released for the 3DS two months ago as part of Nintendo’s Ambassador Program. But, OK, who remembers its Game Boy sequel Balloon Kid then? Probably not nearly as many. And that’s a shame, since Balloon Kid is a solid little adventure game. [...]
