Tagged: action
Resident Evil 4 was first released in January of 2005 for the Nintendo GameCube. Since then it has been released on seven other platforms and is still touted as one of the greatest video games ever made. Resident Evil 4… Read More »
“In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.” With Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, this decree by Games Workshop about the Warhammer 40,000 universe is manifest in a game that asks players to become single-minded servants to… Read More »
No game review before has prompted the use of the word “deuterocanonical” and, optimistically, never will again. The source material for El Shaddai is the deuterocanonical (non-Protestant Christian Old Testament, outside the Hebrew Bible) Book of Enoch, a religious text… Read More »
Videogame adaptations of comic books don’t always go very well, especially when those adaptations coincide with big-budget films. The rush to get the game out on time can lead to half-finished titles or even ones that feel like the developer… Read More »
With Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, developers 38 Studios are aiming to take a slightly different approach to the western RPG, while still incorporating many of the tried-and-true mechanics and design elements veterans of the genre have grown accustomed to. Between… Read More »
It’s a bit unfair to assume that Hunted: The Demon’s Forge is an RPG based purely on its aesthetic, but it’s hard not to. I was about an hour in before it hit me: I’m not playing an RPG; I’m… Read More »
Out of all the greatness and glory that oozed from Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, one part of the game that sat in mediocrity was its cooperative multiplayer experience. Though enjoyable, the non-survival mode of the multiplayer featured a rather simple,… Read More »
Ubisoft did not pioneer the critically acclaimed Prince of Persia franchise, but some might say that it reached its peak with the company’s Sands of Time trilogy from the early 2000s. Now, after one departure and one revisitation to the… Read More »
When you think of the heyday of RPGs in the PlayStation 2 era, you think of a time when things were simple: characters didn’t always run around in a fully-realized 3D world, graphics weren’t nearly as crisp as the HD… Read More »
When players boot up Lord of Arcana, they’re greeted with a very Monster Hunter-like game. You customize your character. You choose a hulky weapon type. You even end up in an amnesiac state after the first mission, rendering your memories… Read More »
