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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 5: 8-Bit Is Enough

A good ending to the first (and hopefully not only) season of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People

For the last installment of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Season One, the games of the 80s and 90s are brought to the forefront to poke fun at, play within, and enjoy (?) a second time around. Pitfall's... Read Full Review

Crysis Warhead

Crysis Refined

This game is the perfect PC fps for guys like me. It's based on an established game with teriffic gameplay, shooting mechanics, and an awesome powered suit. But in this expansion, all of those things have been polished... Read Full Review

Left 4 Dead

A Great Start

Ignoring the brouhaha that's been bubbling lately, this game is a must-have for any shooter, zombie, co-op, or multiplayer fiend. The pacing is great, the audio cues are helpful, and the A.I. director is... good. I d... Read Full Review

Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones

Fire the difficulty testers, but promote the story writers and level designers.

I fell in love with Prince of Persia when I got a free copy of "Sands of Time" with a videocard a few years back. Much has already bee said about that title's gameplay mechanics, animation, story, and characters, but su... Read Full Review

Crysis

Graphics aside, the gameplay makes this a must-play.

I don't need to talk about the open gameplay. I don't need to talk about the amazing graphics. Nor do I need to mention the powersuit your character uses to give him superhuman powers. What I DO need to mention is h... Read Full Review

Evil Genius

A Fantastic Break From the Usual

Evil Genius has you playing a world-domination, minion-management, artifact-stealing, agent-torturing, trap-laying, machine-researching role to take over the world. Three different archetypes are available: the German w... Read Full Review

F.E.A.R. Extraction Point

I never understood the media backlash against this game.

Edit: removed placeholder text. After my absence from the F.E.A.R. franchise (since the original), all I've heard about the two expansion packs and prequel was the phrase "more of the same." I think these claims com... Read Full Review

F.E.A.R.

My favorite FPS to-date.

I'll play the worst game if it has a great story that draws me in. When F.E.A.R. came along, I realized that the gameplay didn't have to suck in order to experience an entertaining story. This holds just as true in rev... Read Full Review

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade

The perfect example of an expansion.

The original Dawn of War is to-date my favorite RTS game. Actually, it's probably closer to a Real-Time Tactical Game, as there are only two resources to gather: land and power. With that micromanagement out of the way... Read Full Review

TimeShift

A year of extra development time gone to waste.

I remember testing the original Time Shift, when it was about to release a year or so ago. The premise was great, even if the non-time features and presentation were so-so. After a year of cooking (in a rare move by ... Read Full Review

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

Good for nostalgia now, but that's about it.

The first fps game that I truly dug myself into was Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast. After hearing so many people scream about the awesomeissity of Jedi Knight, I decided to give it a go. Meh. I'm sure this game was ... Read Full Review

Age of Mythology: The Titans

A final coat of polish on a pretty good original game.

Back when it first came out, the premise and graphics of Age of Mythology (holy crap, they had commercials for it in the movie theaters!) drew me in. Well, stale gameplay and a disconnect between my favorite strategy ... Read Full Review

Condemned: Criminal Origins

A methodical, story-driven, investigative game that provides to be a shining stone in a sea of mediocre titles.

This game was a breath of fresh - and cold - air. I picked this game up for the simple reason that it looked different. It isn't a twitch-based FPS, it wasn't a slow and methodical RPG, and it certaintly wasn't an ac... Read Full Review

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner

"Almost, but not quite" sums up this episode well.

I am still amazed that a cartoon as simple as Strong Bad not only caught on so feverishly, but that it generated enough interest to make a SERIES of Adventure games. I tried the demo. Meh. But a month later, I kep... Read Full Review

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free

An evolution of style, humor, and other refinements makes this a gem.

The second of this 5-part series improves upon the first episode through refinement. Of course, you expect "Teen Girl Squad" to show up in a Strong Bad Game (which appeared in the first episode), but "Cave Girl Squad?" ... Read Full Review

Penumbra: Black Plague

A simpler iteration, but not as fun as the original.

I'm usually not a big fan of horror games as they tend to scare the mess out of me. Further that with adventure games. The latter I can not quite explain, as I certaintly enjoy the exploration, puzzles, and combat taking... Read Full Review

Penumbra: Overture

An obscure little game that I picked up on a whim. So happy I did.

I'm usually not a big fan of horror games as they tend to scare the mess out of me. Further that with adventure games. The latter I can not quite explain, as I certaintly enjoy the exploration, puzzles, and combat taki... Read Full Review

Space Siege

Neither horrible nor good.

Editor reviews notwithstanding, this game brought me some enjoyment. That being said, the game as an experience was exceptionally disappointing. I can not escape the feeling that this game was rushed out of the develop... Read Full Review

Hellgate: London

A great game that lost its first-chance impression.

I was there; I beta tested. I'll admit, the game sucked. Bugs crashed my computer, my fps were slow due to a lack of polish and optimization (which I later found was the result of only using high-resolution textures on... Read Full Review

The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar

The best thing since sliced bread on crack.

As a kid, I loved the 70s cartoon movie "The Hobbit." But between that time and my college years, I always thought of Lord of the Rings readers as (at least) one level of nerd below me. ok, more like tens of levels of ne... Read Full Review

SiN

Old, but awesome.

I JUST finished watching the final cut-scene from this game. It wasn't too bad, actually. It was released as the same time that Half Life (the original) was, and so SIN 1 got a little lost in its shadow. For all the f... Read Full Review

SiN Episodes: Emergence

A fantastic game. It's too bad the development team folded.

I knew that this was going to happen before I even loaded this game for the first time - wait, let me backtrack a bit. Sin Episodes was supposed to be Sin 2, broken into "episodes:" shorter chunks of gameplay for a lower... Read Full Review

PlanetSide: Core Combat

A near death-blow for Planetside, that has since been rectified and made more interesting.

I am an avid Planetside fan, and have been since being in the exclusive beta. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, is as exciting as playing a FPS against not just 10-30 opponents, but THOUSANDS. Defending a base, waiting for th... Read Full Review

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Continues the Breath of Fresh Air

I had an amazing time with the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but when I heard of the nastiness approaching the PC version of the sequel I was hesitant to buy: a $60 price tag, and no dedicated servers for multip... Read Full Review

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Breath of Fresh Air

I don't have to say much about this game except it has all of the usual features of a well-polished FPS (tight controls, good variety of gameplay, great visuals and sound, etc.), and is FINALLY set in a contemporary sett... Read Full Review

Medal of Honor

The thinking-man's response to Call of Duty's popcorn blockbuster.

I am happy to see such a surge in shooters placed in modern settings. As much as I enjoyed the deluge of World War II titles, there is something about a modern setting that helps me connect to the characters more.I reall... Read Full Review

Mirror's Edge

Artistic Indeed

Here DICE pulls off what I once thought was impossible; making a non-Battlefield game great. Mirror's Edge is a parkour first-person action game centered around a distopian future. In the game's setting, information ... Read Full Review

MadWorld

The first mature title on the Wii that I liked.

Recent **** aside, I still am happy in my Wii purchase. With games like Super Mario Galaxy, New Super Mario Brothers, Endless Ocean, Wii Sports, and Mario Kart Wii, I've been happy with my inexpensive purchase. These tit... Read Full Review

Mass Effect 2

Simply Epic

Going into Mass Effect 2, I reminisced fondly on my playthroughs with the first iteration. See, I initially bought the game within the first month, when only the Xbox 360 version was out. I played it, my wife watched, ... Read Full Review

Sam and Max

Not quite what I expected.

Maybe it was because I never played the original Sam & Max games... maybe it was because I had played Telltale's later games and expected more refinement... but Sam & Max Episode 1 did not go down as well as I thought i... Read Full Review

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky

A great second-helping to the original STALKER, with refinements abound.

The developers of STALKER Clear Sky took everything that was learned from the first and did their best to improve it. They succeeded in some areas and failed in others. One major success in this game was the connecti... Read Full Review

The House of the Dead: Overkill

An altogether ignorable game.

I normally am a big fan of light gun games. So when a crop of them (House of the Dead Overkill, Dead Space Extraction, Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles...) came out for the Wii, I got pretty excited. Now after playing... Read Full Review

Jade Empire: Hisui no Teikoku

Grab this gem that easily trumps Mass Effect and KOTOR.

Ok, I just finished "Jade Empire," and it has clearly become my favorite Bioware RPG since the "Baldur's Gate" series (which will never get topped... ever... so don't even bother). Reason the First: the maps. KOTOR's ... Read Full Review

The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay - Developer's Cut

Great game - crash and performance bugs = this PC game.

Go ahead and google "sbzengine.exe + 'runtime error'" right now. You'll see a written moan of despair across various forums, all crying the same thing: Chronicles of Riddick just crashed. Dual-core performance issues... Read Full Review

Fahrenheit (French)

This game is perfect for those looking for a breath of fresh air.

Not quite an adventure game, not quite an action game, Indigo Prophecy (Fahrenheit in Europe) sets a new standard as an half-game/half-interactive movie. From the use of motion-capture, the great voice acting, to the co... Read Full Review

Fallout

Why didn't I play this sooner?

I originally bought this game with its sequal for $9 in a bargain bin. I don't know if it was the non-fantasty setting, the different setting (post-acopalyptic California?), or that I found it in the bargain bin that ma... Read Full Review