Up until now 3D action Castlevania games have not only been a critical failure but a commercial one as well, though it hasn’t stopped Konami and other smaller companies from trying their hand at the gothic epic; the first being Castlevania for the N64, though enjoyable it didn’t live up to what is still considered the best in the series. Castlevania: symphony of the Night.
2010 has been a great year for videogames. This year has seen at least two or three great games for every genre and every system, so regardless of your personal taste or preference in platform, it’s almost guaranteed that you found a game this year that you absolutely loved. Of course, with all of these big, high profile releases it’s inevitable that some games will fall through the cracks and fail to get the attention they deserve.
Get those flame throwers ready soldier. EA and Dice have an all new expansion for their extremely popular first person shooter Battlefield Bad Company 2.
Get ready to return to Albion for the third installment of the Fable series. While Albion itself has changed greatly since Fable II the core game play remains largely unchanged and there are enough additions to keep both new players and fans of the series entertained.
Fallout New Vegas might just be the best RPG ever made. Just one problem though: It isn’t finished.
I’ve spent the last week or so wandering across the post apocalyptic expanse of the Mojave Wasteland, fighting off raiders, thieves, mutated insects, and radioactive monsters, all while double and triple-crossing the various armies, politicians, and power-hungry maniacs who populate (and are fighting for control of) the titular city of New Vegas. This is a game that I’ve already poured dozens of hours into, and judging by the amount of incomplete sidequests I have left to do and the vast swaths of unexplored territory still remaining on my map, I’m still probably going to have to pour dozens of more hours into this game before I’ve seen all of the content it has to offer.
Shortly after it was announced that EA / Criterion Games would be releasing a demo for Need For Speed it became available on XBLA; and tomorrow it will be available on PSN. I downloaded and started it playing it straight away, as this is a game I have been looking forward to for some time.
Final Fantasy XIII is a divisive game; people either love it or they hate it. What do I think of it? Well… I guess I’m weird, because I don’t really like it, nor do I hate it outright either. To put it simply, FF13 is equally brilliant and terrible. It’s a weird mishmash of incredibly high production values mixed with some surprisingly half-assed gameplay elements that create an overall mediocre final product. It’s not the worst game ever made, but it’s certainly not anywhere close to being the best either.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was a great movie that referenced video games with a type of respect and genuine admiration that you’ll probably never see again within the mainstream media. Too bad then that it completely bombed at the box office, and while I don’t have an exact figure of how many tickets it sold, I’m pretty sure at least 4 people watched it.
Which is a good thing, because now you should be able to wrangle up 3 other friends to play the (mostly) great Scott Pilgrim game with you.
The Halo series gets a lot of flak; it’s hated on by contrarians because it’s popular and it’s trendy to hate anything that has any sort of sizable following, and it’s obviously hated by Sony and PC fanboys who simply blindly dismiss anything that isn’t on their platform of choice. Of course, some of that hate stems from the people that populate Halo’s online community, which seems like it’s made almost entirely of pre-pubescent internet tough guys and dudes who really love raised trucks. But all of these reasons to hate Halo are completely unfair, because regardless of what platform it’s on, or the audience it attracts, the fact is the games within the Halo series have consistently and undeniably been great, and out of all of them, the newest entry in the franchise, Halo Reach, is simply the best.
Well, September 14th has now come and gone and Halo: Reach is amongst the masses. I hope everyone can understand why I have not already posted, but as you can imagine I’ve been a tad distracted, apparently so have millions of others. I thought I would take a few minutes and give my first day impressions on the various aspects of Halo: Reach. After all first impressions last a life time, and Bungie has made sure that this game welcomes us in like a hug from your mom, and gives plenty of reasons to come back for more. Keep in mind this is not a full review, I simply wanted to get my initial impressions off my chest.
The moment everyone has been waiting for! Halo: Reach has finally been released and sold in stores. DodgeVader, of course is the most dedicated to the Halo series and waited over 24 hours in line to be sure he was the first to get it so he can soon have a long detailed review of the game. So, for everyone holding out before purchasing can be sure they have all the facts!
MLG events are few and far between, but for competition gaming these events help form a large and ever growing gaming community. Head over the www.mlgpro.com this weekend to check out a free stream that will be covering live footage from both Halo 3 and StarCraft 2. Other popular titles covered in the circuit are Super Smash Bros, Tekken 6, and World of Warcraft.
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