Had Albert Einstein been an avid video game player, his classic E=mc2 may just have been written as Dungeon Defenders = Tower Defense x Gears of WarRPG, because this is the formula of the game Dungeon Defenders, it’s also the formula for greatness. Dungeon Defenders starts out by explaining to you what happened and who you are in the game. You play as one of four young apprentice warriors being trained to defend the world from evil doers, especially those trying to attack...
Okabu is a game where you control two Cloud Whales that are trying to stop air pollution by any means necessary. On their trip down to the surface from “cloud god place” the air pollution gets to them and they sink down to the ground. One there they meet a cute and lovable group of terrorists bent on keeping the world free of any unholy machinery. Together your band of demi-gods and eco-zealots go on a rampage against the Doza, whose only quantifiable offense was...
If there’s one golden rule to follow in the gaming world, it’s this: If it started as a movie, don’t play it. If it started as a game, don’t watch it. If you don’t understand that, it basically means don’t play movie games and dont watch game movies. The reason this tulle holds up is because video games based on movies tend to fail each and every time they’re attempted. Real Steel set out to destroy this gaming commandment...
Immediately after I started up Guardian Heroes, I was sucked back into my childhood. I fondly remembered a time when I could find arcade machines everywhere. From my local comic book store, even to the grocery store down the street. There was one machine I longed to see though, that was the Neo-Geo. Oh, to bask in it’s warm, soft glow. If you remember that machine like I do, then you remember that it housed some the best 2D side-scrollers of it’s time. My...
RocketBirds: Hardboiled Chicken is a blend of shooting, puzzles, and great music. It stars a shotgun wielding, bandana toting, super buff chicken with a one goal, kill the penguin overlord. Normally this premise is something that I would laugh heartily at but not in this game, RocketBirds is serious business. There is humor in the game to be sure, but every major story scene is a filled with visions of war and oppression that, in spite of the games chickeny nature...
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Orcs Must Die! Is Robot Entertainment’s latest game and it certainly impresses. In Orcs Must Die you’ll play as the teenage apprentice of your late master. After your master passed it became your job to defend the magic from Orcs. To do so you’ll use both your conventional tools: Crossbows, Swords, y’know, classic hack and slash-knight of the ye’ old round table things. Along with handheld items you’ll also be given the ability to lay traps.This is where...
Rochard is what I imagine Valve would do if they made a side scrolling game. That statement is not just because of the Team Fortress like art style but because of its great mechanics and excellent level of polish. The basic premise is that you are a miner on an asteroid looking for a rare element when things go kinda crazy. You are given a sort of Gravity Gun as well as control over gravity and told to sort things out. On your quest you are continually hit with puzzling...
INCOMING! Bam! Swooooooosh… Kapow! Explosions! Guns! War! Shit. War World; Or as it made itself out to me: the miscarriage of A night featuring one too many drinks between a power ranger and a transformer in which both wake up, realize they’ve made a child, drop him down off at the rickety old run-down orphanage and call it a day. If you’re looking for a great game with killer game play, an amazingly deep story, and an awesome cast of characters… Then please don’t...
The Warhammer 40K universe is a bleak environment. Humans are assaulted constantly from every direction of the galaxy. Being overpowered by the foreign races. The Imperial Guard can only handle so much. So when the… um, poop, hits the fan. The elite are called in, the Space Marines. Warhammer 40K : Space Marines is the exact game you would get, say, if Gears of War and Darksiders had a baby. As I used the Bolter Rifle, I was reminded of the feel of a Lancer. The...
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