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Blade Runner
Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shores… burning with the fires of Orc.
The year is 2019, the place is LA… but not "the" LA, but one where everything is gloomy and dirty, the sky pitch black and where it's always raining. This blackened metropolis spawns many anachronisms, a dark future buil... Read Full Review
2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
Silent Hill: Origins
In my restless dreams, I see that town… Silent Hill. You promised you'd take me there again some day… but you never did
"Was it all just a dream?" Maybe "Silent Hill" was just that: a dream… a dream surrounded by the misty haze of a medium far too young and shallow to understand the true value behind Toyama's masterpiece. Only by acknowle... Read Full Review
1 of 2 users found the following review helpful
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie
The Meaning of the Word *Cinematic*
For years now games have been trying to find the right way to convey a range of emotions similar to those present in other art forms, specially cinema. Though cut-scenes and FMV abound in modern videogames, they can be s... Read Full Review
0 of 2 users found the following review helpful
Grand Theft Auto IV
Hail the Revol… ups, sorry, Evolution
I don't know about you, but right after a couple of interesting titles in 2007, I've found it hard to keep interest in recent games; every thing's the same! Same genres, same mechanics, same art styles, same, same, same.... Read Full Review
0 of 3 users found the following review helpful
Azel: Panzer Dragoon RPG
Rated M for Mature
Because of my fondness for RPG's in general, I was rather cautious in approaching "Panzer Dragoon Saga", one of the last great works in the genre, released during the late nineties. It was the final chapter in Team Andro... Read Full Review
3 of 4 users found the following review helpful
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Platinum)
Elegant Trickery
And so it ends. Exactly 10 years after "Metal Gear Solid" debuted on the Playstation, Kojima puts an end to his most beloved saga with "MGS4: Guns of The Patriots". What to expect from the final chapter on such a rivetin... Read Full Review
2 of 8 users found the following review helpful
Heavenly Sword
Copying a Masterpiece
When Sony was getting cornered by Microsoft's absurd amount of exclusives and almost complete third party support, they did what any company would've done: pump up the production costs of their first party titles. One of... Read Full Review
2 of 6 users found the following review helpful
Braid
Jonathan Blow's Take on the Future of Games
"Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root." ~Edward Young The princess is gone… taken away into a castle in a far away land. Tim needs her, lo... Read Full Review
0 of 2 users found the following review helpful
Dark Sector
The Darkness awaits in the Obscure Black Shadow of the Sinister and Gloomy Night
Why is it, that when something good comes along, everybody rushes to rehash it over and over again? Strange… I wonder why that happens. Anyways, here is "Dark Sector", aka clone 245 of the (in)famous "Gears of War", itse... Read Full Review
1 of 5 users found the following review helpful
The Last Express
A Journey through Space and Time in the Orient Express
The stage is the Orient Express in 1914 (just before the 1st World War outbreak), a clear reference to the iconic background made famous worldwide by Agatha Christie's crime novel masterpiece, "Murder on the Orient Expre... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Infinite Undiscovery
Infinite Undiscovery (Pun Intended)
As a genre grows old, it tends to stagnate and become a solid monolithic structure, impervious to new ideas. RPG's, especially their oriental counterpart, greatly suffer from this predicament. Even when something refresh... Read Full Review
6 of 8 users found the following review helpful
Silent Hill: Homecoming
The Chasm
While playing "Homecoming", it becomes instantly clear what the designers at Double Helix were thinking before creating the game - here is "Silent Hill", a saga known for its great ambiance, twisted aesthetic and psychol... Read Full Review
9 of 17 users found the following review helpful
Fallout 3
Take a Vacation! Explore the Future of America, Today!
Have you ever felt lost in a videogame? That's a feeling you'll often get from "Fallout 3″, this sense of bewilderment on account of the scale and size of this vast, sprawling wasteland. It's everywhere, it surroun... Read Full Review
1 of 4 users found the following review helpful
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
A Trip Down Lovecraft Lane
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents… some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and... Read Full Review
1 of 3 users found the following review helpful
FolksSoul: Ushinawareta Denshou
Interactive Art Museum
"Folklore" is every art fan's idyllic dream. From start to finish, your senses will be engaged in hundreds of sumptuous sights and sounds, beautifully blended in a sea of lush, vibrant colors and moving melodies, eac... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Hail the King of Thieves
"Uncharted 2's" introductory moments are an absolute marvel. Most importantly, they represent a clear break from traditional game design logic, showing off exciting new possibilities in terms what a video game can (shoul... Read Full Review
2 of 2 users found the following review helpful
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Holy Similarities, Batman!
Franchise adaptations into videogame terrain are usually characterized by a meaningless boxing of the original work's aesthetic universe into a stereotyped gameplay genre. Rocksteady Studios nails the aesthetic translati... Read Full Review
5 of 24 users found the following review helpful
Resident Evil
Revisiting Horror
Today, the name "Resident Evil" can only be associated with a modern brand of derivative military shooters. This is true regarding the main entries of the series – that slowly, but consistently, shed their adventure lega... Read Full Review
1 of 1 users found the following review helpful
BioHazard
Revisiting Horror
Today, the name "Resident Evil" can only be associated with a modern brand of derivative military shooters. This is true regarding the main entries of the series – that slowly, but consistently, shed their adventure lega... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
Shadow Complex
G.I. Joe Complex
More than a modern take on "Metroid" (as were the "Prime" entries), "Shadow Complex" is a faithful homage to what is one of the most beloved videogames ever made [in all fairness, I am not a big fan]. Like so many player... Read Full Review
4 of 18 users found the following review helpful
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
One-Eyed Jack
From the title screen to the final credits, you can feel "Snake Eater" is Kojima's land: the virtuous cut-scene directing, the stylized visuals, the characters with their brooding voices and dramatic performances, the cr... Read Full Review
2 of 3 users found the following review helpful
King's Field: The Ancient City
Out of the Light and into the Darkness
There's a consensual, yet unspoken rule of modern game design which states that for a game to be enjoyable and entertaining, it can't ever become hard or frustrating, lest players feel bad and lose interest. Surely, such... Read Full Review
0 of 0 users found the following review helpful
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