You probably know one or two people who are fantastic storytellers. Perhaps a teacher, grandparent, or just a really creative friend. I certainty know a few, and often find myself inspired by their ability to take a topic and present it in a compelling way. I’ve aspired to be one myself, actually, and have taken great care to study what it takes to weave a narrative that will captivate an audience and inspire them to also explore their creativity. With that said, I...
are I started playing Tom Clancy games later than most of you did. It’s not that I didn’t like them or anything, it’s just that I was playing other things at the time and had not gotten around to anything in the franchise until four or five years ago. With the exception of the two Advance Warfighter games that I played at launch, I ended up getting most of what I missed on the Xbox 360 all at once and tore threw them in a marathon session. I really enjoyed...
exactly recall the last time I played in an open-world take on New York City. Sure, Grand Theft Auto IV had a really good-looking Liberty City as a clone, but not a re-creation. For me, it may actually go back to the second “True Crime” game, “Streets of NY.” It’s actually a bit surprising that an open-world game in NY hasn’t crossed my path in so long. It’s pop-culture’s most recognizable metropolis, after all. How did it...
In 2005, I played a lot of multiplayer games on my Xbox over LAN thanks to the ease of setup my college dorm provided. The games we played most were undoubtedly Halo 2 and the first two Battlefront games. Halo 2 really set the bar for how multiplayer systems should work, and Battlefront provided the epic scope that games like Battlefield would expand on. Very few experiences match up to the times when my friends and I would experience the chaos of a Star Wars battle, and it...
Halo 5: Guardians is what Xbox One owners have been waiting for. It houses a massive campaign that can be enjoyed alone or with a group (except not the players sitting next to you). It has a huge degree of replay-ability thanks to situation-based story content, varying difficulty levels, and collectibles. It has the largest multiplayer array in franchise history. It has the Master Chief. It has Nathan Fillion. It has inter-species love letters. Halo 5 is the powerhouse title...
I feel that in an age where everyone is in debt, costs of goods are constantly on the rise, and wages are stagnated, it’s very hard to justify telling anyone how to spend their money. It may sound very two-faced, considering I am reviewing games and hardware here, but at the end of the day I will always be one who urges thought and consideration before taking the plunge and spending your hard-earned money on entertainment. Which is why my review of the Xbox One Elite...
I blame Titanfall. Well… Let me rephrase that. I attribute it to Titanfall. When the shooter launched in 2014, one of the most notable things about it was how it evolved the way players moved. Aside from speeding up the player, Titanfall’s designers added something most FPS games lacked: vertical flavor. The wall running and jet packs let the player climb with ease and added a much-needed shot of adrenaline into a genre that was largely copying itself every...
It seems like a lifetime ago when Microsoft announced at E3 2015 that they intended to bring Xbox 360 backwards compatibility to the Xbox One. In reality, it has only been around four months. Since then we’ve seen a multitude of fan excitement around the feature. This should come as no surprise for a nearly 10-year-old console,which has sold 78.2 million consoles to date world-wide. A lot of 360 owners have huge libraries and/or backlogs that may have made the upgrade...
When I was in grade school, I spent a large amount of time during our recess period drawing, due mostly to the winter weather keeping me from bounding out the door to the playground. While I’m not any sort of art savant, I was pretty good at drawing things young boys draw. Space ships. Dinosaurs. Sonic the Hedgehog levels. Yeah, I was a SEGA kid for the most part, and my love for Sonic has never wavered. I wasted plenty of paper learning to draw the characters and...
Late last night Microsoft and 343 Industries released a new trailer for Halo 5: Guardians, which also happens to be the games introductory scene. While it is unrepresentative of game play (partly, anyway), it does feature Spartans doing what they do best: Dominate. The scene first showcases the mission’s objective: find and safely return Dr. Catherine Halsey, creator of the Spartan II program and overall human scientific asset. For those that remember their history...
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