Do you like first-person shooters? If the answer’s yes, you probably spend all your time fragging friends (or enemies, or strangers) online in Modern Warfare 2—and with good reason. EA has been trying to find a good competitor for Activision’s flagship FPS series for a good while now.
A lot of Street Fighter fans have been excited for the release of Super Street Fighter IV ever since it was announced last year.
When it comes to Dante’s Inferno, EA developer Visceral Games can’t seem to catch a break.
How many times when you’re playing a game have you said to yourself, “I could make a better game than this?” If you’re an avid gamer, probably more than a few times. And it’s for these people that games like Warioware DIY are created.
When you’re talking about flight games, they generally fall into one of three categories: hardcore flight simulators with ultra-realistic physics, arcade dog fighting games with streamlined physics and controls and horizontal or vertical shooters.
Capcom is one Japanese developer that gets nostalgia. Whether it’s throwing in classic franchise characters together in games like Tatsunoko vs. Capcom or the upcoming Marvel vs. Capcom 3, or purposefully “de-making” new eight-bit games like Mega Man 10, it’s always a company with fan service on the brain.
Space is not an uncommon setting for a video game, although few games really capture the spirit of adventure and exploration such environs arguably demand.
Outside of a few notable exceptions, kart racer games are generally little more than a quick cash-in on the popularity of recognizable video game characters, and more often than not, suffer from low quality because of it.
Wii-owning point-and-click fans, rejoice—Sam & Max have returned to Nintendo’s little white box for another round of insane adventures. Following the somewhat sketchy release of Sam & Max: Season One on the Wii back in 2007, I wasn’t at all sure that Season Two, or Beyond Time and Space, as it’s known, would be making the trip.
It’s a tale as old as the hills: A young man makes a journey across the land to find his destiny, thwart an ancient evil and save the world.
DLC, or downloadable content, has changed the way games are made. In the days before consoles had online capabilities out of the box, if there were parts of a game that ended up getting cut in order to keep the production schedule, they would never see the light day.