Singularity
Singularity is a first person shooter by Raven, who are best known for their X-Men Legends and Marvel Ultimate Alliance action RPGs. Since then they’ve been branching out, first with the X-Men Origin’s Wolverine title which was a single play action title, but still didn’t reach out too much further from what they had done [...]
Alpha Protocol
Alpha Protocol is the next in the increasingly popular FPS/RPG genre. The game is developed by Obsidian, and is really their chance to shine as a IP creator. A chance they’ve never had before as they’ve always been left creating sequels to Bioware’s popular games which never quite live up to the originals (Star Wars: [...]
PSN – Gundemonium Trilogy
SOE (Sony Online Entertainment) has brought 3 Japanese indie bullet hell shooters to the PSN. The games are billed as the Gundemonium Collection (all 3 games together), but can also be purchased seperately. Gundeadligne The first in the series is a horizontal shooter whose unique aspects are it’s with some very large sprites, and the [...]
Final Fight Double Impact with Magic Sword
Final Fight Double Impact is the PSN and XBLA release of two classic Capcom Arcade games. The first is the well known Final Fight, which caused revitalization of the beat ‘em up genre in the 16bit generation. The game is a near arcade perfect port of the original classic in with playable characters Cody, Haggar [...]
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
The Prince of Persia franchise has been around for absolute ages, and has generally always followed the same kind of idea. The Prince, a somewhat rebellious sort, has to navigate a maze of physical obstacles, running, jumping and climbing his way to his final goal. The series saw a reprise a few years back, reintroducing [...]
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Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption is Rockstar’s follow up to the original Red Dead Revolver. Having never played the original I didn’t really have much of an interest in this title despite all the marketing. After all the hype I was hearing from other gamers that I had to try it out. The game plays very much [...]
Mod Nation Racers. Sony’s Play, Create, Share #2.
Mod Nation Racers is the next game in Sony’s Play, Create, Share brand, which also includes Little Big Planet. Though the developers and genres are different the ideas behind the games are the same. A fun, easy to pickup game that allows users to create their own levels and share them with the community. In [...]
3D Dot Game Heroes. A “link” to the past.
3D Dot Game Heroes is an exciting exclusive for any PS3 owner. Regardless of you’re feelings on the title it’s amazing that a game like this made it out over here, and as a full retail release. The game is a huge throwback to the old school 2D Zelda titles. There’s a ton of in [...]
Nier
Nier is an RPG released by Square Enix and developed by Cavia. The game takes place in the same universe as Cavia’s PS2 series Drakengard, but takes place over 1000 years later. The game is a action rpg, with a heavy emphasis on combat. In Japan Nier had an interesting release with two versions. Each [...]
Super Street Fighter 4
The followup to Street Fighter 4 is here. I don’t think many can argue that Street Fighter 4 is the most influential fighting game of this generation. Like Street Fighter 2 before it, SF4 caused a huge resurgence in the fighting genre. Now if you were a gamer during the original Street Fighter 2 era, [...]
