After just a few minutes with the final preview build of Kane & Lynch 2, it’s clear that the presentation of the game isn’t just limited to the idea of online video. From the first cutscene (which I can’t talk about,...
Once upon a time the biennial announcement of a FIFA World Cup or Euro game was met with unparalleled disinterest. And rightly so: the titles were pure shovelware, produced to make a quick buck out of the biggest sporting event of the...
Tekken has long been a Playstation franchise, but in its last iteration it crossed over to the other side (I leave the decision of whether it joined the light side or dark side to you). Although I have been a fighting game fan on the...
Every new Sonic release carries a hope that Sega’s blue hedgehog will be able to regain the form that made him a star in the early ’90s. And most every venture into the third dimension has...
Bolt doesn’t know it’s just a movie-licensed game. Sure, it has a few of the telltale weaknesses: the plot is thin and the game gets repetitive toward the end. But just as Bolt the dog confounds...
Developer Sandbox Games was shut down by THQ nearly a full month before Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon hit retail shelves, and the PlayStation 3 version of the game was canceled shortly thereafter....
Rock groups don’t get much bigger than AC/DC. The Australian hard-rock act has churned out 17 studio albums over 30 years, including one of the highest-selling albums of all time, Back in Black. With...
The Lord of the Rings universe is full of memorable battles. No matter whether they are staged in a cramped burial chamber or on a vast, open plain, each clash of arms teeters between exultant triumph and...
When a first-person shooter bungles moving and shooting, what does that leave room for? Great reloading? A potent save system? Awesome menus? Legendary is not a good game, nor is it a so-bad-it’s-good...
Obsidian Entertainment attempts to turn back the clock with Storm of Zehir, a Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion that tries hard to emulate the seminal single-player role-playing game Baldur’s Gate. But...
In many modern games, you rain death upon your enemies; how refreshing, then, that your main task in Prince of Persia is to breathe life into a darkening world. That doesn’t mean that the forces of evil...
Four years and well beyond 10 million subscriptions after the release of World of Warcraft, Blizzard’s phenomenally successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game is barely recognizable as...