I could save us all a lot of time and just say that Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception is at least as good as its predecessor. I could say it sparkles with witty character dialogue. I could say once the game gets going, set pieces that would be the climax of another franchise are a frequent
Observant readers – assuming I’ve got readers; please, don’t divest me of the illusion – may have noticed that even though a lot of my reviews focus on games as storytelling, few of them cover role-playing games, the archetypal game-as-story. Of course, part of it is there aren’t as many big-name console RPGs on the
Starcraft: Final Metamorphosis, a fan animation depicting various scenes from the Starcraft universe, is officially out today. A medley of individual vignettes, Final Metamorphosis depicts ground-level battle scenes and moments mostly from the time period of the original Starcraft, accompanied by a voice-over narration by Kerrigan. Among the apparent scenes included are Kerrigan’s battle with
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon places me into an awkward position. On the one hand, it is damned hard to make flying a jet fighter through epic dogfights not exhilarating. My inner child, the one who watched Top Gun as a kid until my parents must have conveniently “lost” the video, is very easily pleased when
Starcraft Universe is holding an Open Developer Preview over the US and EU Battle.net from October 19th to October 30th while the developers are at BlizzCon. The preview takes place in the “Encephalon Grid,” a player-vs-player arena allowing players to start as level 30 with a full set of gear tailored towards PvP. The player’s
Without even going into a discussion of its mechanical achievements, Gears of War 3 is a compelling work of narrative and the most polished entry in the franchise. It is a rejection of the concept that storytelling is anathema to the shooter genre, and developers could certainly do worse than mimic Epic’s masterpiece. It is
Bethesda has released a new trailer for the upcoming Fallout: New Vegas DLC “Lonesome Road,” the fourth add-on pack for New Vegas and apparent conclusion to the saga of the Courier and his hinted rival, Ulysses. The trailer features a narration by Ulysses that provides plenty of hints at the storyline. Ulysses urges the Courier
A fan of games, anime, and their respective music, Blair Baker attended two separate Final Fantasy concepts and felt a hole in the performance. It wasn’t in the sound, which was fine, but in the lack of anything on-stage accompanying the music. “Video games and anime have so much imagery,” she said. “Especially the older
“Platforming without platforms,” is how Martial Hesse-Dréville, managing director, describes Rotastic, an upcoming title produced by his Dancing Dots Studio and Focus Home Interactive. Rotastic is a game about spinning. Lots of spinning. Its whimsical medieval characters whirl from pegs like living (and, in one case, undead) yo-yos, vaulting to and fro to pluck gems