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...
You can diminish almost any game to a laughably low level by reducing it to its bare essentials: Harvest Moon’s focus is manual labor, Brain Age is portable homework, and Animal Crossing is about paying...
Arriving on the PC a full year after it was released for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Dark Sector is a stylish action game in which you assume the role of Hayden Tenno, an elite black-ops agent with an...
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Twenty bucks. Six solo missions. Two multiplayer maps that are free elsewhere. That sums up the Soviet Assault expansion to World in Conflict. The outstanding 2007 real-time strategy game has long been...
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If The Godfather II had been a mediocre, mindless action flick, the game of the same name could at least be considered faithful to its source material. As it is, though, Coppola’s Mafia-themed...
You would need to have the smarts of a Cicero to keep track of all the Roman city-building games released in the last few years. Haemimont Games certainly isn’t making this task any easier with Grand...
When the Leisure Suit Larry series was revived a few years back in Magna Cum Laude, its bawdy, over-the-top humor and minigame-heavy action seemed geared to capture a new generation of gutter-minded gamers....
Hybridization in PC games has rarely been as ambitious and as well executed as in BattleForge, which expertly merges real-time strategy play with a collectible card game, thereby spawning its own genre, the...
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Last year’s hit from Germany, Drakensang: The Dark Eye, has arrived in North America with a budget price and a classic scope that evokes the likes of Baldur’s Gate. Production values are...
Stormrise is one of those games that makes you wonder, “What were they thinking?” This real-time strategy game is, from top to bottom, misconceived, frustrating, frequently broken, and rarely fun....
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In the already crowded field of World War II real-time strategy games, new contenders have to provide something special to...