Gameplay Reviews

Final Fantasy 13 starts with a bang. The game drops you right into the action without really jumping too much into the story. The sci-fi like introduction area of the game is a surprise for a Final Fantasy game. The series hasn’t focused on the futuristic aspects like those presented at the beginning of the [...]

Persona is an enhanced port of the PS1 game Revelations: Persona by Atlus. The Persona series is a spin-off of Atlus’ flagship title series Shin Megami Tensei (or Megaten), which is extremely popular in Japan, and known for its difficulty and style amongst hardcore JRPG players. Persona itself has become extremely popular worldwide lately with [...]

ODST is an expansion for Halo wrapped up in a nice full game package. It’s actually a really interesting idea, and the package itself turns out to be a good value for Halo fans.
The default controls themselves play much like previous Halo games, but if you’ve been playing a lot of other shooters (CoD, Killzone, [...]

2D action games have been relegated to cheap titles with download status this generation. But there have been several retail games that really remind us of how fun a simple 2d experience can be. The most recent example I can think of is Wario: Land: Shake it, which was an incredible and beautiful 2d platformer [...]

I’m sick of grid based RPGs. Call them what you want Tactics, SRPGs. I think we’ve had enough. It was all nice back in the day with Shining Force and Ogre Battle, but since Final Fantasy Tactics hit the scene, the SRPG market is just as flooded as the FPS one.
It’s not a bad thing [...]

I have complete faith in Sucker Punch to make a fantastic game. I also LOVED Crackdown, which is similar to this in that it’s an open world sandbox game, where you play someone with super powers. So I bought this game day one. I didn’t regret that purchase. There are very few games that inspire [...]

A quick recap of my Sonic feelings in case you haven’t read my Sonic Heroes review: Loved the 2d games in the franchise, love Sonic Adventure 1, liked Sonic Adventure 2, and didn’t care Sonic Heroes.
So how does Shadow the Hedgehog (the next entry into the Sonic franchise) hold up? Well I’ll tell you off [...]

Skate came out at a pretty perfect time. For me it was weird as it was exactly when I had given up on the Tony Hawk series. I loved Tony Hawk. The original 2 games were great, then 3 felt like just more of the same, 4 changed things up but by 6 I was [...]

Chalked was a game that I was expecting to really impress me at first, I left feeling totally turned off by it. The presentation for a community game like this is amazing. There’s an interesting mix of black and white line art and a chalk style visuals that starts with the loading screen, goes through [...]

My first exposure to this game was on an Official Playstation Magazine demo disc from so long ago that I can’t even remember what city I was living in at the time. The game was so memorable that it stuck with me up until now.

At that time the game was labeled “I’m the Chef!” and [...]