Going into Soul Calibur IV I must admit I was a tad nervous. See I’m slowly but surely realizing I’m not nearly as hardcore about some game genres as I used to be. Role playing games and fighters, specifically. So while I was head over heels in love with (and awesome at) SoulCalibur for the Dreamcast and later with part 2 on the Xbox, I’ve sort of waxed and waned on the genre since then.

But there was so much interesting here that I decided it was better to not wade back into the water but to dive headfirst into the deep end. Do I manage to stay afloat or do I end up drowned at the bottom of the pool? Continue Reading »

It should be said straight away that although The Last Guy is an awesome title for the game, it’s pretty inaccurate. There are in reality tons of people left alive, though it is left to you alone to gather them up and get them to safety. But then a ship flies in and it’s piloted by someone so you can’t even say that you’re The Last Guy to save humanity! But I digress…. we’re here to talk about how the game plays after all.

The good news is while the name might not be accurate the following statement is… The Last Guy is awesome. Continue Reading »

We’ve had quite an inspired run of updated classics lately. After years of simple cash-ins we saw the likes of Pac-Man Championship Edition and Space Invaders Extreme challenge our perception of what an “update” could really be. Hell, when Pac-Man Champ first hit XBLA I looked right past it as another in a long line of nostalgia cash grabs. But the game seriously kicks-ass. So can Galaga Legions keep up the streak of updated classics? Or does the game stray too far from it’s roots to deserve the Galaga name? Continue Reading »

American McGee is a strange cat. Skyrocketing to fame more than a decade ago with American McGee’s Alice, the work that followed it has been less than stellar. Scrapland was recieved well critically but failed to perform at retail, and Bad Day LA is widely considered one of the worst games of 2006.

Going back to the well that made his name, McGee chose to revisit some classic children’s literature and put his own dark spin on it. The victim this time around? 24 classic fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm. Released as weekly episodic content, every week promises to deliver a fresh take on an old favorite. The first of these, A Boy Learns What Fear Is, is out now and available for free. So how does it play?

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Final Fantasy IV is a title that a great number of video gamers, including myself, have fond memories of. Truth be told, it was the first ‘real’ RPG I ever played. It started as a 3 day rental from BlockBuster and, yes, I beat it within that time frame as I was completely obsessed with it for those days.  Anyways, since its appearance on the Super Nintendo, it has been re-released a few times. Of course, being the ravenous fan of Square that I am, I bought each release and played it through. The latest reincarnation brings this timeless classic to the Nintendo DS. …but this is no simple remake or port. In my opinion, it genuinely feels like a brand new game that stands tall among the ‘modern’ RPGs we have seen on the 360 and PS3, just on two very tiny LCD screens. To make things short, it’s a fantastic game. If you want to read what I have to say about Final Fantasy IV DS, make the jump.

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Atari’s resurrection of the franchise has had a bit of a rough month. It’s been getting knocked around to be honest. Shame too cause those screen shots looked dead sexy (at least the stuff on fire).

As a fan of survival horror type suspense games though I was still intrigued enough to want to give it a fair shake on my own. There seemed to be some cool and interesting elements here, and could easily outweigh the bad stuff if executed well. So how did it turn out? Continue Reading »

In the world of online entertainment, you’d be hard pressed to find something that has been as consistently funny as Strongbad. You’d also be hard-pressed to find something that has survived so long on the web. For 8 years now Mike and Matt Chapman have been churning out laughs and building a universe of their own. Such ongoing success is a testament to the strength of the franchise. No wonder they decided it was time to branch out into the world of gaming. So how did Homestar Runner, the first episode of StrongBad’s Cool Game For Attractive People turn out? SBCGFAP is the best game Telltale has done to date.

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