Tales of Xillia is a Japanese RPG in every possible way, from its anime style and focus on characters to its progression system and occasional quirkiness. It also happens to have been played in Japan for more than two years, as the game is only now releasing in America. But while calling Tales of Xillia […]
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I am unabashedly a child of the 1980s. My weekends were filled with the Looney Tunes cartoon, Alvin and the Chipmunks, G.I. Joe, Transformers, and The Smurfs. There was a bunch of live-action goodness in there too — Battlestar Galactica (the original), The A-Team and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century — but the cartoons
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The original Dead Space took the survival-horror genre back a step — in a good way — by returning the focus to horror. Since then that series, like the genre as a whole, has returned to more action-oriented sequences. That’s one of the reasons we were so excited by The Evil Within at E3: it’s
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Protagonists with wiped memories are apparently in vogue again, with the big screen getting Oblivion and a Total Recall reboot, and video gamers getting an original IP from Capcom called Remember Me. It was bold of Capcom to release a new franchise on the eve of a new console generation, but it was even more
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Insomniac Games has expanded well beyond the Ratchet & Clank franchise during this console generation, beginning with the PS3’s Resistance: Fall of Man and continuing with their newest game, Fuse. Published by EA, Fuse marks Insomniac’s most public multiplatform escapade, shipping on Xbox 360 in addition to the developer’s traditional PlayStation home. But even with
I first saw Star Trek: The Video Game two E3s ago, when a 30-miunte demo packed every session in the behind-closed-doors meeting room. Two years ago it was a graphical powerhouse, showed compelling cooperative gameplay between Kirk and Spock, and seemed utterly epic in its scale. Twenty-four months later, the only way to explain the
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There isn’t much to be said about the original BioShock that hasn’t been said already, including words like “defining” and “masterful.” It’s with those massive shoes to fill that BioShock Infinite entered the limelight, a new game at the tail end of this console generation trying to prove that the current hardware can still manage
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Seth McFarlane, you can do better. For the fans of FOX’s Family Guy, Activision — the storied publisher behind Call of Duty, Doom and Wolfenstein, as well as tons of licensed games — created Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse. The action-adventure game stars Stewie and Brian Griffin and continues the storyline of the “Road
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The oddly-titled Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien is a great example of a casual, side-scrolling game that keeps players engaged while still keeping things simple. Imagine a combination of side scrolling, forced running and rhythmic Whack-A-Mole, and you have an idea not only of the general gameplay, but of the reasons for this
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Let me preface this Urban Trial Freestyle review by saying that I hope you, dear reader, find this review to be an acceptable length. It’s hard to be verbose when a game stinks. Either I predicted this game years ago, or I’ve played it before, and in either case there’s a reason I’m not playing
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