Too Much Awesome

It would be quite an understatement to say that the development process of InFamous 2 was indeed an uneven road. Fans of the first InFamous back in 2009 were immediately taken in by the game’s strong sense of action and variety. It took the GTA open sandbox motif, and turned it on its head with [...]

It’s finally come to this. Over a decade later and the weight of this game’s release is too much for anyone to handle. Duke Nukem Forever was a joke that’d never die, and when we heard it was coming out of development hell during PAX Prime 2011, it seemed too good to be true. And [...]

It’s really difficult for me to get into the FPS genre. Most of this isn’t actually because I’m bad at First-Person Shooters though. I found a lot of enjoyment with Modern Warfare 2’s online mode, or more specifically I’ve learned that I function better on a team where different members are given different responsibilities, so [...]

The first Portal was a video game that no one expected. It was an entirely new thing that tried things that felt incredibly fresh within a genre that was becoming stale, namely, a first-person shooter experience that was about solving puzzles rather than killing everyone. Plus, the writing was placed above the usual writing you [...]

Even though I was the absolute perfect age when the first three Mortal Kombat games were released in arcades and on home consoles, I never really found myself getting into them beyond a few afternoons with friends or the occasional match at Wunderland. Therefore, when I learned that NetherRealm Studios was going to try yet [...]

I don’t think I’ve ever had the chance until now to point this out, but I’m a huge fan of the Fight Night series ever since Fight Night Round 3 drug me into the ring and forcibly taught me the sweet science, me kicking and screaming the whole way. EA is releasing the newest edition [...]

Hi there. Is this the final straw? Are you tired of games like Killzone and Call of Duty taking themselves too seriously? Do you want to play a game so over-the-top that you can brag about it? Wouldn’t you rather tear out your brain stem, run with it all the way to the nearest four-way [...]

It’s really a shame that we live in a current console generation where a game on one system can’t just be a good game, it has to fall on some imaginary scale based on other games in the same genre. Killzone 3 is at serious risk of being compared to other franchises that I don’t [...]

It’s been a long time coming, but Capcom is back with a proper follow-up to its hit arcade series, Marvel vs Capcom. MvC 2 is one of my favorite and most-played games on my PS2, but now Marvel vs Capcom 3 is out and taking a whole new group of players for a ride. So, [...]

I don’t think it’s really easy to classify a game as a “Survival Horror” title anymore. Games too often take the “Action Horror” route, meaning that instead of scares you find yourself just mowing through enemies at breakneck speed while laughing and thinking marginally racist thoughts (maybe that’s just Resident Evil 5?). Not Dead Space [...]