Too Much Awesome

If anything unites gamers, it’s most certainly fanservice dished out in droves. Knowing this secret to instant success, Square-Enix brought the PSP a little title called Final Fantasy Dissidia, a strange fighter/RPG hybrid that consisted of characters from every numbered Final Fantasy title. Seeing as how it sold like Phoenix Down, Squeenix is back with [...]

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 [...]

Mario on his own usually never misses a beat. Place Mario in a sports setting and things start to become hit-or-miss at an alarming rate. Hand the property to Square-Enix and you’re nearly promised things won’t end well. Nintendo has done just that with Mario Sports Mix, the newest Mario-themed sports game for the Wii. [...]

In a random sort of segue, my last article mentioned my desire for Retro Studios, famous for their absolutely amazing Metroid Prime games and now Donkey Kong Country Returns, to get a hold of the Star Fox franchise to make a truly perfect new Star Fox title. I’d like to speak as if I have [...]

Guys and gals, regardless of your preference behind the Call of Duty series, we have a clear winner this year for outstanding sales: Call of Duty: Black Ops. It’s managed to sell over 5.6 million copies in just its first few days, and I’m pretty certain it’s going to keep right on selling those. What [...]

The year is in its eleventh hour now with some of the biggest games coming and going too fast to keep up with. My only hope is that a small arcade-style title named Super Meat Boy doesn’t get washed away with the rest of the usual fodder. Much of this rests on my love of [...]

I’m in sort of a corner here. I wasn’t shy to the concept of writing slander about Fable II no more than a few weeks ago, mostly because I played it to completion. Fable III, however, is a game that I’m told is roughly identical to its predecessor, though things have been simplified even further [...]

Another year, another “modern” take on the war-based First Person Shooters. Medal of Honor, a game series originally praised, then panned, is now praised again with the release of their newest title which scraps World War II entirely and shifts to…a conflict in Afghanistan. Oh goodie. I can hardly contain my excitement for another breath [...]

I’ve never been the best gamer when it comes to the Castlevania series. I’m absolutely not opposed to it though. In fact, I think it’s an awesome series. Super Castlevania IV is one of the games I most recommend downloading from the Virtual Console if you don’t already own it for the SNES. That being [...]

So we all know my opinion of the first Dead Rising game. I dinged it heavily due to escort missions, limitations on weapons, and above all, a ridiculous timer affecting everything I did. Now that Dead Rising 2 is out, how do I feel about a largely unchanged sequel? Well, that’s what you’ll have to [...]