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9Angry Birds Space- Zero Gravity Changes Everything
Since the launch of Apple’s iOS App Store in 2008, many small companies have created extremely successful services and games. Perhaps the biggest success came from a once small company named Rovio who brought us Angry Birds. Due to its addictive gameplay and memorable characters, Angry Birds has become one of the most popular games of the last three years. Angry Birds is the Pac-Man of this generation. Everything from toys to t-shirts have been made from the...
9Sine Mora – In Deep
Sine Mora is a modern 2.5D (2D plane of movement, but rendered in 3D) side-scrolling shoot ’em up with the heart of a classic. If you are a fan of old-school games like Gradius, R-Type, or Darius, you will certainly feel at home with the fairly simple gameplay mechanics, frantic dodging action, and the huge mega-bosses that permeate the seas and skies of Sine Mora. The game has been co-developed by both Digital Reality (Sky Drift, Dead Block) and Grasshopper...
7Alan Wake’s American Nightmare – A Dream
Is Remedy's latest Alan Wake a great game, or truly an American Nightmare? Let's find out.
10Journey – There is Nothing Like It
Can a game ever evoke an emotion in one hour too poignant to describe? Journey did.
6Syndicate – Just Go Play Deus Ex a Second Time
Cyberpunk? Dystopian future? Evil corporate supersoldier? SIGN ME UP. Syndicate sounded like it had everything I wanted. Like Deus Ex, only crazy, evil, and immoral. I fired it up, ready to inflict some serious financial losses on my corporate foes; oh how they would pay for being foolish enough to cross whoever I worked for! Looking back, I can’t help but laugh at my naivete. You begin the game inadequately strapped to a chair. I say “inadequately” because...
7.5Serious Sam 3: BFE
Serious Sam 3 takes the series back to the styling and gameplay of the original. (A good thing, if you ask me. I didn’t like the cartoony style of the second one.) Despite the name, however, “serious” the game is not. Sam Stone consistently delivers so-bad-they’re-good one-liners throughout the game. Characters and dialogue are hyper-stereotypical and ultra-macho to the point of parody. (I hope it was intentionally humourous anyway…) Enemies...
8Asura’s Wrath – Press R2 to Yell
This games main goal is to deliver you an experience. It does so with flying colors. Yes, you will be watching and performing quick time events a lot during this game. Also, as you watch this distinguishing work of art unfold before you, you won’t care. I found myself captured by the story and blown away by the visuals. Asura’s Wrath takes you on an epic journey that you won’t soon forget. As you’re guided through Asura’s story, you’ll be...
8Vessel – A Steam-Powered, Dystopian Romp
Do Fluros dream of liquid sheep? That is the unanswerable question posed in Strange Loop Games’ new title, Vessel. Combining a run-n-gun/puzzle-platformer game style with an engine built to model particle liquid effects, this game has you working out how to activate the various buttons and levers required to fix each or the 8 broken machines in this Bioshock-esque universe. You begin the game with a cutscene, stills and text pieced together in true indie game-fashion...
8Twisted Metal – Welcome Back Calypso
Twisted Metal for PlayStation 3 doesn’t reinvent the wheel when it comes to the car combat genre, but it has added some interesting new wrinkles. New gameplay modes and the inclusion of online multiplayer allowed for the men and women of Eat, Sleep, Play to expand level design to much larger scale and the addition of Talon, the helicopter, completely changes the dynamics of team based games. Twisted Metal is the biggest it has ever been and still maintains the...
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