Game Reviews

Few games capture the thrill of the hunt like Monster Hunter. Hours of work, preparation and practicing on lesser mobs, culminating in a final standoff. A creature looming just ahead, multiple times your size, who eats hunters for three meals a day, waiting for you to take the first swing.

The idea of a prison break does nothing but excite me. There aren’t many prospects more thrilling than sticking it to the man using only your wits and the limited tools offered up by your oppressors, so naturally I quickly snatched up the chance to play The Escapists. Sadly

Simplicity can spawn brilliant products; thus are the hopes for many of Ubisoft’s new smaller projects that have been recently released such as Child of Light and Valiant Hearts.  Grow Home is another game that lives in that same vein. It is clear that the game blossomed from a

Sometimes you’re not in the mood to wrestle with complicated controls, to struggle with difficult segments of a level that have you grinding your teeth, or to battle it out with stiff competition online. In Gravity Ghost, you’re seldom inhibited by complications and it’s easy to get

Making a zombie product relevant in today’s video game market is very difficult, but Techland did just that in their 2011 release, Dead Island.  Their first foray into zombie violence focused on their analog combat that allowed you to attack specific parts of the body in hopes of weakening

The recent spate of game remakes has, in my opinion, been an absolute boon.   It breathes new life into the classic games I grew up with, letting me share them with my loved ones.   Grim Fandango reaches back to 1998 in a time when LucasArts was cranking out the best

I bought my Pentium 100mhz PC to play Command & Conquer.  I upgraded it as the franchise grew, and I was sad to see the series head in some bizarre directions as it progressed.  Many of the people behind that storied franchise left Westwood when it was bought by Electronic

When I wrote my review of Saints Row IV, I commented that I thought it was what happens when Volition completely takes the shackles off of reality and simply lets it get weird. The main character becomes President of the United States, aliens invade, and their ruler Zinyak ultimately destroys