Let’s not kid ourselves, this isn’t that prequel that bridges the gap between Dead Rising and Dead Rising 2. DR2: Case Zero is a sandbox that demonstrates all the improvements that have been made from the first game. Read More →
With the expense of videogame hardware going up in recent years, (and then back down a little) gamers have called for multiplatform support for all games. They can have their exclusive, bullshit DLC, but give us the game. Now, that I have both major platforms, I’m finding the opposite problem. For example, Metal Gear Solid Rising was announced last E3 as a cross-platform game, coming...
Last week on Giant Bombcast, there was a discussion about if Mafia 2 constitutes an open world game if there isn’t anything inside the world to do except accept and execute the next mission. It’s a tough question, but one that glosses over the fact that open world games have been wrestling with the issue for as long as they’ve been around. Does going somewhere and playing...
After hobbling out of Shanghai and away from a sixer of Beast, Neil rings up his friend Dan, who comes out in favor of Nier, to talk video games for an hour! If that sounds like something you’d be into, click, why don’t you? Read More →
I’m confused. Reviewers just about universally gave Final Fantasy XIII pretty positive scores. The reviews were filled with, what is seemed to me, issues with Final Fantasy, but as if brand recognition counts for 7 points out the door, gave a high review score. Read More →
Dog Days appropriates Shangai’s neon city slums as a stand-in for the cyber punk dystopia that never arrived. The revolting poverty set among consumer electronics kiosks seems not far from fuchsia mylar biomods. “It stinks in here,” Kane laments as the pair enter a sweatshop early in the campaign. “Blood, sweat and tears,” Lynch shoots back. Video-compression...
Peace Walker feels like Kojima’s apology to Sony for making MGS: Rising multiplatform. Sony has always treated him well, and I’m glad to see that he still throws gifts out on their platforms, especially the lesser selling platform. Read More →
There was a time, perhaps more recent than it feels right now, when the mention of a new Mario game was enough to get me excited. I would go over to a friend’s house and spend the whole time playing Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo I didn’t have. Or I would have to pried away from Super Mario 64 by my frustrated parents. Or I would place an excited preorder on Super...
Ever play a game where you, a condom dressed soldier, infiltrates diseased vaginas and booty-holes? No… well you can now. Read More →
I just couldn’t finish it. The endurance test that is always Final Fantasy got the better of me. Read More →
