I’ve just posted up reviews of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 for the Xbox Live Arcade. The All Encompassing review at Evil Avatar The Co-Op review at Co-Optimus. The bottom line is, you shouldn’t be reading this post right now, you should be playing GW2!
Ting Ting Ting. Thwump thwump. Chata-chata-chata. Ah the sounds of pinball. It’s like sweet, sweet music; as the sound draws you into an arcade or corner of the bar. While Pinball can date as far back as the 1800′s, modern day pinball had a boom in the early 1970s. One of the leaders in [...]
The first project from Kaos Studios (creators of Desert Combat), Frontlines: Fuel of War is very much influence by the aforementioned mod. The story revolves around the time the world’s oil begins to dry up, and involves the nations who must fight for the last remaining territories that have the precious resource. In [...]
After a Holiday 2007 that was filled with games like Halo 3, Mass Effect, Uncharted and others, the games of early 2008 have a large shoe to fill. Turok is one of those games that’s reception could change depending on the time of year it’s released. Turok itself isn’t a bad game…but it isn’t a [...]
If you’ve read my Geometry Wars: Galaxies review for the Wii, you know I thought very favorably of it. What’s even better is the fact that there’s a portable version of the game available for the Nintendo DS. In that tiny little cart you’ll find a virtually identical version of Geometry Wars: Galaxies. That’s not [...]
In a time when DS games had you performing surgery or solving murder mysteries Cooking Mama stood out as a quirky title about making food. I always figured it was one of those titles that tried to cash in on the DS craze so I avoided it. Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends was recently [...]
For your everyday onlooker, Geometry Wars isn’t exactly that impressive to glance at. It’s a game though that once you begin to play, you truly understand its beauty. It comes as no surprise that many websites picked Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved as one of the Xbox 360 must have launch titles. So while Xbox 360 [...]
When you have an actual movie theater in your basement, you tend to consider yourself a fan of movies. So when I heard popular board game Scene It was making it’s way to the Xbox 360 I knew it was time to fire up the popper. Scene It: Lights, Camera Action is also the first [...]
It’s hard to believe the Gears of War franchise is only a year old. When the game launched last year on the Xbox 360 it immediately took the crown as the game to have. The graphics were top notch, the gameplay was solid, and the co-op experience was the best to date. A year later [...]
Marble Madness pioneered a new genre of gaming back in 1984 on the Atari. Combining platforming, puzzle solving and incredible patience it was your job to navigate your marble from one end of the level to another. The game inspired numerous titles like Super Monkey Ball, Marble Blast Ultra and Mercury Meltdown. The latter was [...]