Before you read this review, know this — I am a huge fan of Ubisoft’sPrince of Persia: The Sands of Time. And if you’re a fan of that game as well, you and I are probably a lot alike. I was less thrilled withWarrior Within, disliking the tone, but loving the expanded, visceral combat.Two Thronesgot the trilogy on track a bit, but was still missing that certain “something” that madeSands of Timeso unique and special....
According to French gaming Web siteJeaux France, Capcom are readying a playable demo ofDevil May Cry 4before year’s end. This information comes from Japanese gaming magazine,Famitsu 360, but a Capcom representative on their official forums has come out and said the info is incorrect … but not too far from the truth. “Wat a littile while longer and the demo strategy will be clear,” the rep wrote. “The news you’re looking for is not far off … a little more patience please....
Whenever I playRock Band, I always use my 360Guitar Hero 2controller. Reasons include a functional strum bar, a solid design, and consistent functionality. That’s a nice thing about theRock Band/Guitar Hero divide, for as long as they undercut each other, those mics, drums and guitars are going to work together, by and large. Well, I had a chance to speak with the Creative Director ofDJ Hero, FreeStyleGames’s Jamie Jackson, and I asked him about his game’s proprietary controller....
You’d think theDragon Questseries could do no wrong, but despiteDQIX‘s ridiculously huge Japanese success, there are haters. Japanese consumers have been ripping the game a new arsehole onAmazon, despising the game’s character customization, cutscenes, costume changes and female character Sandy. Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada, however,doesn’t really care. To him, this is just another day online. “Because it’s the internet, well, that’s the Internet for ya,” shrugs Wada. “We were telling the game creators ‘Don’t worry about that....
It’s competitiveColumns. With vampires and magic spells. It’s not bad.
If you’re not up to par with your American criminal history, John Dillinger was an infamous bank robber who was shot dead by the FBI in 1934. His legacy is also jealously guarded by the grandson of his half sister, who owns Dillinger LLC and will throw down the banhammer on anybody who dares to use the name. EA is one such company that dared,and is now suingDillinger LLC for the right to name a machine gun after the robber in itsGodfathergames....
Ah, review control. What a seedy-ass business we’re in. I’m incredibly thankful to work for an outlet thatdoes not give a f*ckwhat game makers and PR companies want us to do. We just do it, and we’re glad to see that other outlets aren’t following Eidos’ request to holdTomb Raider Underworldreviews that are under a score of 8 out of 10 until next week. Apparently British game outlets were asked to sit on those low scores to get Tomb Raider Underworld’s Metacritic score up....
Encyclopedia Gigantica is a virtual book written by Monster Hunters for new Monster Hunters. Capcom enlisted the help of the top four Japanese Monster Hunters in the world to help create this online resource, packed with tutorials, oveviews, and background on theMonster Hunteruniverse. The goal here is to prime westerners for the upcoming release ofMonster Hunter Freedom Unite, set to drop on June 23rd. Encyclopedia Giganticahas a quick-start guide for new players, which I would have loved to have before Ijumped in cold turkey....
[dyslixec gives us a deep hard look at why you should be playingEVE Online. — CTZ] EVEis the darkest, most unforgiving universe you will ever walk through. This isn’t some world of alliance/horde characters running around in wheat fields waiting for you to get half health and then ganking you, or playing school yard capture the flag in an arena the size of my bathtub. This isn’t a world of open pvpers killing you and getting NO reward other than just killing you....
If you baked a huge cake using my favorite video game series of all time as ingredients,Advance Warswould be, like, the chocolate pudding center. It may not be necessary (unlike the Mario eggs and Zelda icing), but, once included, it just makes everything taste so much better. Okay, that analogy really didn’t make any sense at all. What I wastryingto say is that IlovetheAdvance Warsseries and am more than ecstatic that a sequel to one of my favorite DS games ever,Advance Wars: Dual Strike, is coming out....
Here we are, back again to regale you of tales of wonder and astonishment. Tales so frightening they will cause your hair to turn white. Tales so humorous, you literally bust a gut laughing. Tales … OK, I’ll stop. So what happened in Forum land over the last month? Quite a bit! Why don’t you follow me and we can talk about it? First, some numbers. We had a dip in active users in the middle of the month but those have come soaring back to even higher numbers then previous....
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, Killzone 2, Resistance 2andMetal Gear Solid 4. All of these have sold over 400,000 units in Europe, and SCEE has confirmed all of them for their price-discounted Platinum range. GamesIndustry.biz says that although Sony has not set a date for the re-releases of these games as Platinum titles, many retailers have already begun selling them at their lower price. This, added to the Amazon.co.uk leak thatGrand Theft Auto IVis also going Platinum, and it looks like there’s going to be some pretty solid games available at a low price pretty soon....
You might have used a code to score the first episode ofBack to the Futurefor free, or maybe just wondered about doing so. You also weren’t alone if you questioned why Telltale would make it so easy to not pay, especially for such a beloved property. Well, here’s the answer. Recently, Telltale sent out emails to us frugal gamers, saying that our free copy ofIt’s About Time!won’t actually be available until February....
