Fable II
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009So just recently got myself an Xbox 360, and the first game I bought for the thing was really the one reason wanted a 360 in the first place: Fable 2. I had unfortunately bought into all the hype of the original Fable, and so with Fable 2 I vowed to myself that I wouldn’t [...]
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009By Arles Suarez Varrigan City has been taken over by terrorists. They’ve cut off all of the city’s connections to the real world. It is now the stage of the game show Death Watch, where the contestants must kill each other to survive. The surviving citizens of Varrigan City are now contestants in this brutal [...]
Comments OffComing Out of the Shadows: A Retrospective into Stealth
Monday, April 27th, 2009Games have usually been about killing. It’s the simplest objective and it’s the easiest thing to program. Be they Space Invaders or Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde, the annihilation of ones’ enemies was the initial goal of video games. It still stands as the primary gameplay feature in 95% of all games. The simplest iterations [...]
Comments OffStealth Retrospective Part 1
Monday, April 27th, 2009Games have usually been about killing. It’s the simplest objective and it’s the easiest thing to program. Be they Space Invaders or Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde, the annihilation of ones’ enemies was the initial goal of video games. It still stands as the primary gameplay feature in 95% of all games. The simplest iterations [...]
Comments OffKirby Super Star Ultra
Sunday, April 26th, 2009By Brent Oxford Kirby Super Star, released in North America in 1996, is a landmark in the Nintendo library and is still considered by many to be one of the best Kirby games in the franchise. Twelve years later, Nintendo, not being content with simply placing the game to the Wii’s Virtual Console, remade this [...]
Comments OffRag Doll Kung Fu
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Ahhhhh haaaaa…Rag Doll Kung Fu….. I Love Super Smash Brothers! And I love Little Big Planet! So when I heard that they were bringing Media Molecule’s original creation to the Playstation Network, needless to say I was excited. I never played the original for PC, but from what I’ve heard, it was basically Super Smash [...]
1 CommentFamily Party: 30 Great Games
Friday, April 24th, 2009My wife loves me more than I thought. First she played through Trivial Pursuit with me. Now she played through Family Party: 30 Great Games with me. It’s going to be hard for me to write this review because I bitterly disliked FP:30GG, but I’m going to try to give the same time and consideration [...]
Comments OffCastle Crashers
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009With the demise of video arcades, the world also saw the death of side-scrolling cooperative beat ‘em ups. The genre did see its share of success in the console realm with games like Battletoads, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time and River City Ransom, but when the gaming world transitioned into the third dimension, [...]
1 CommentNintendo DSi
Monday, April 20th, 2009The name “Elder-Geek” was decided upon for several reasons. “Elder” was to signify that we wanted to focus on the largely-unfocused, over-21 market, and also to explain our perspective. Perhaps more relevant for this article is the word “Geek.” We’re called “Geek” instead of “Gamer” because we didn’t want to limit ourselves to just games. [...]
Comments OffTenchu: Shadow Assassins
Monday, April 20th, 2009Stealth games were made for me and I was made for them. I hope that doesn’t say much about my personal character, but there something I totally love about outsmarting my enemies, sneaking up on them and dispatching them without being noticed. It fills me with a sense of satisfaction that I don’t get while playing other types of video games. It’s almost adrenaline. So when I hear a stealth game has been released, I try to snatch it up as soon as possible. I give all of them a fair chance—even the abysmal Vampire Rain: Altered Species—hoping that I’ll discover a sleeper-hit.
Comments OffTrivial Pursuit (Wii Edition)
Thursday, April 16th, 2009My wife and I are always looking for the next great video game to play with each other. I can’t stand television too much and she doesn’t care for some of the more “hardcore” games that I play. Some of the big hits have been Rock Band, Rock Band 2, Castle Crashers, Pixel Junk: Eden, [...]
Comments OffThe Godfather II
Friday, April 10th, 2009Plot Rather than attempt the impossible and directly retell the masterpiece “The Godfather, Part II,” EA’s next installment in its sandbox crime series serves up story centerpieces (like the penthouse-patio scene were Hyman Roth divides Cuba amongst the high-powered families) to roughly situate “Godfather II” amidst a loose context within the timeline of the film [...]
Comments OffGaming on the Cheap
Thursday, April 9th, 2009By Joe Mattucci I have been called lots of things in my life and most are not fit to be put into print. But one moniker that does suit me and can be said in mixed company is “cheap.” With a mortgage, car payments, daycare costs, and other financial pains of adult life, I do [...]
Comments OffTales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009By Raymond McCrum Have you ever been excited for a sequel to one of your favourite games only to find out after playing it firsthand you wish it never saw the light of day? Well, that’s the feeling I got after playing Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, the sequel to the popular [...]
Comments OffFemales in Gaming
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Gaming has always bore the brunt of parental and media criticism, with titles like those in the Grand Theft Auto series and many others being accused of polluting the minds and souls of our youth. Many activist groups will target games and condemns them for objectifying women and perpetuating negative stereotypes. They see games as [...]
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