Transformers: War for Cybertron
When game developers grab onto a popular franchise like Transformers, you think they would be careful with the product they release. But most of the time this hasn’t been the case. While the early cartoons were just a ploy to sell more of the action figures, it grew into a worldwide phenomenon that still remains incredibly popular today. Maybe it’s because of these high expectations that...
Lv42′s E3 Favorites
E3 has come and gone, and of course that mean's that there is plenty of time to talk about what we liked, or in some cases, didn't. Each of our writers has outlined (roughly) two things that they were most excited about at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. Michael Brown – Editorial Director Professor Layton and the Unwound Future It's no secret that I am absolutely...
ModNation Racers
Think Mario Kart meets LittleBigPlanet. Pretty cool, right? Whenever I’ve had to describe ModNation Racers to any of my friends I typically use that description, and to be honest, it couldn’t be more accurate. ModNation Racers is the latest game in Sony’s line of “Play Create Share” games, or in MNR‘s case, “Race Create Share”. Developed by Vancouver’s own United Front...
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Please note that this is a review for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game Just in time for the movie, Ubisoft has released the latest installment in the Prince of Persia series. Back on track with the Sands of Time storyline, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands takes place between the original Sands of Time and Warrior Within. You start off entering your brother Malik’s domain,...
Red Dead Redemption
To me, no settings are better than space horror and spaghetti western, be it film or video game. The latter is the main focus of Rockstar Games' newest release, Red Dead Redemption. A collaboration between Rockstar San Diego and Rockstar North, Red Dead Redemption serves as a spiritual successor to an older Rockstar release, Red Dead Revolver, which was released in 2004. Rather than being a straight-forward...
Split/Second
Racing games rarely impress me. I hardly ever feel pumped before a race and the repetitiveness of the track absolutely kills me. Of course there are exceptions. Games like Mario Kart 64, Burnout and various arcade racing games, in some way or another, grabbed me. First off, they have lots of charm. They each amused me in different ways and more-often-than-not allowed me to be...
Lost Planet 2
I enjoyed the first Lost Planet. Mechs (or the in game name, a Vital Suit or VS), thermal energy to keep you alive, forbidding environments and terrifying creatures, it all came together nicely despite its flaws. Not so in Lost Planet 2. Its somewhat hard to see where things went wrong, but somewhere along the path of making everything bigger and more of it, LP2 makes a lot of mistakes. There...
Super Street Fighter IV
If you were to randomly ask people on the street to name a fighting game series, most of them would probably give you weird looks and walk away as fast as they could. But those that stuck around to answer your question would more than likely answer, “Street Fighter.” Ever since the release of Street Fighter II in 1991, Capcom has owned the market on the fighting game genre. Street...
Two Worlds II
Too many times we’ve seen greatness go sour in a sequel. Sometimes, the growing pains of the original can instead teach some important lessons for the sequel. In the case of South Peak Games’ Two World II, we’re fortunate it’s the latter. The open world, high fantasy RPG is new and improved, perfectly suited for those who find a thirty hour game, “a brief aside”. The...
3D Dot Game Heroes
My uncontrollable and selfish grin suggesting the kind of satisfaction to be procured from 3D Dot Game Heroes appeared very early on in the experience. The game shamelessly mocks a fine pedigree (primarily the NES Legend of Zelda and early Dragon Quest games) and I was fully aware of this upon 'Inserting Disc'. The game was directed squarely at my own personal genetic gaming composition. ...
