In 2008 Capcom did something that was an uncommon stroke of genius: They made a new Mega Man game in the style of the original NES classics. To the untrained eye, you would have been left to believe they simply took the same engine and made new levels. It was that faithful, and it was a critical and commercial success as a retro-styled downloadable title. They would inevitably follow it up with Mega Man 10 two years later.
I think I’ve played more hours of Shovel Knight than any actual 8-bit game, short of maybe the original Mario Brothers. And I loved almost every minute.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has bundles of the game for sale that include a remastered version of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. They dropped the 4 in the title of the new game for some reason, and released it as “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered.” I picked up one of the bundles that included the remaster and just finished a veteran run through it, so I think a mini-review may be warranted as a follow-up to my Infinite Warfare review. So what is included in...
Call of Duty is a series that seems to get less interesting every year in some way or another. When games as visually rich as these ones hit, you start to feel fatigued after a few years because they all end up looking the same. They look good… but they look the same. I don’t like to knock the visual presentation of games much because I think modern gaming has given us the best looking titles we could hope for. With games like Call of Duty being released annually...
When EA and DICE revealed that their next entry in the Battlefield franchise would be set during World War I, I had mixed feelings. As a lover of history, the time period was instantly acceptable to me. WWI is a largely unexplored in the video game space, and I think most of that is due to the prevalence of World War II content being more of an inspiration thanks to the multitude of movies and television shows that portrayed it. I think its accurate to say that WWII is a...
What excitement, what wonderment, what… the heck is even happening? Investment: PSP or Vita, Cost $15, Time to complete 30-40 Hours Jeanne D’Arc is a tactics game set in the early 1400’s during The Hundred Year War between France and England. The team at Level-5 has done the story of Jeanne quite a bit of respect. Many of the levels and major early events follow the actual history closely, if a bit stylized. And by stylized I mean that, while this setting...
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...
its recent re-release on the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita it seemed like a good time to revisit Mega Man Legends. As a child it was one of my favorite games; garnering multiple rentals from the local video store before the eventual purchase. Hours of my life were spent kicking cans into counters and abusing poor servbots. I even remember arguing with a friend of mine on why Megaman Legends was far and above Ocarina of Time. While I can say that the game has retained...
I still remember it like it was yesterday. I was walking through my local Hollywood Video with my Mom when one game in particular caught my eye: Paper Mario. I had to have it. It was decidedly one of the core pieces of my childhood, intertwining itself in sleepovers, my first all-night game session, everything. If you were anything like me you had the same experiences: playing Thousand Year Door, loving it, playing Super Paper Mario… kind of loving it. Then we got...
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