Remember that scene in The Incredible Hulk where the Hulk jumps from building to building throughout New York? Prototype will make you feel like that. Or maybe like Spider-Man, only with crazy leaping abilities rather than web-slinging. Or maybe Superman.
On the surface, Droplitz doesn’t look like much—a series of discombobulated pipes thrown up on a screen with little balls (“droplitz”) falling down on them. To a passerby, it might look a little odd. What’s the appeal of creating paths out of pipes for balls to fall to safety?
Red Faction is a series that has lain dormant for so long you’d be forgiven for thinking it was dead. Chronicling an uprising of, and subsequent resistance to, a totalitarian regime on Mars, the original Red Faction and its 2002 sequel revolved around the conceit of completely destructible environments.
As a genre, Westerns have seen a sporadic, if fruitful, revival since Clint Eastwood’s seminal 1992 film Unforgiven. Good Western games, on the other hand, are few and far between.
Grin strikes again. After juxtaposing the terribly under-realized Wanted: Weapons of Fate with the stellar Bionic Commando reboot, the Swedish developer’s set its sights on the game tie-in to Terminator: Salvation.
Out of all the X-Men, Wolverine seems to always be one of the most neutered in just about every game he’s appeared in. It makes sense—Marvel arguably makes the most money from teens.
Out of all of the recognizable Pac-Mans, Tekkens and Ridge Racers Namco has created over the years, Klonoa is one that has always stood out, despite its relative obscurity. Someone over at Namco-Bandai clearly likes us.
Whether through stomping on enemies in colorful worlds, redlining your favorite sports car or blasting the crap out of everything that moves, gamers are ever in search of that holy grail of a pure gaming experience, always sought but rarely found.
Summer is not usually a time for video games. What with the warmth and generally livable outdoor environment, the game industry has a tendency to slow down. In fact, summer is usually the game industry’s slow season. But not this year.
Remember Donkey Kong Jungle Beat? That 2-D platformer Nintendo first released for the Gamecube back in 2004? If you do, the first thought that probably popped into your head was “oh yeah, that game with the bongo controller.”
When I first heard about Velvet Assassin, I was intrigued by the premise. Although WWII is quite possibly the most oversaturated setting ever (aside from your typical post-apocalyptic wasteland, anyway) a period stealth game with a female protagonist sounded like it could theoretically lend a fresh dynamic to the conventions of the genre.