Alone in the Dark

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

Unreal Tournament III

AudioSurf

Condemned 2: Bloodshot

Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction

Just what the loyal ordered

It is usually not wise to play a sequel without playing the previous games, especially when plot events and characters are carried over. The ending of Halo 3 is just another driving level without Halo. I would not have u... Read Full Review

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Almost, but not quite.

It has almost been a magical month for the PS3. First came Eye of Judgment, a title that betrays it nerdy hobby store roots by being much more then the sum of its parts. Then Ratchet and Clank arrived, all polished and c... Read Full Review

Unreal Tournament III

Low grav – instagib – double speed – ctf – plzkthx.<br />

Being a refugee from the PC world is a difficult thing, but for mostly financial reasons I have forsaken the wild, wild west of mods, over clocking and buying more ram for the stable and easy world of consoles. While it ... Read Full Review

Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom

Just a waste of time.

Good dungeon crawls should be relatively easy games to make. They have a very well established formula: phat loot + gaining levels and new abilitites + varied and interesting monsters to kill, with a dash of story and in... Read Full Review

Rez HD

audivisual intercourse

Describing Rez in literal terms is a great way to keep people from playing it. It is an on rails shooter with interactive music set inside a computer system with the player being a hacker who is trying to shut everything... Read Full Review

AudioSurf

Lucy in the sky with WinDows

My evenings run on a frighteningly consistent schedule: everyone else goes to sleep, I check news and email, then play videogames until I go to bed. It's a sad, nerdy bit of clockwork but it serves me well and is rarely ... Read Full Review

Condemned 2

Jigsaw called, he wants his ideas back.

Scary is a sweet spot somewhere between seeing too little and seeing too much that very few 'survival horror' games actually find. Silent Hill 2 did during the infamous Pyramid Head voyeur scene. Fatal Frame 2 found it a... Read Full Review

Space Siege

Full priced budget schizophrenic shooter. Need more beer.<br />

Desperation will lead a man to do strange and ill advised things. Eating your deceased and frozen friends after surviving a plane crash in the mountains comes to mind, and while no actual cannibalism occurs in Space Sieg... Read Full Review

Alone in the Dark

'I'm sure Uwe is pleased.'

Resurrecting a flagging or dead franchise is a risky endeavor. Sometimes it works and the series becomes relevant again, see Resident Evil 4. Other times it is the nail in the coffin, like last year's Tony Hawk's Horse B... Read Full Review

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (Bundle)

For the Aerosmith fans under 40. All three of them.

You would think that a review of Guitar Hero Aerosmith would be as simple as asking the player two questions: one, did you like Guitar Hero 3 and two, do you like Aerosmith (and perhaps three, are you offended by Steven ... Read Full Review

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Platinum)

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Discussing Metal Gear has a lot in common with talking about religion or politics with extended family over Thanksgiving dinner: things start out amicably enough but quickly devolve into shouting, name calling, and perha... Read Full Review

Haze

drugs are bad, mmkay?

Political commentary is just fine for FOX News and its ilk. I do not enjoy it nor am I informed enough to care and can avoid it entirely just by skipping a channel. It has its own bloviated space and that's fine, so long... Read Full Review

Assault Heroes 2

Self fulfilling delusions.

It is very difficult to be truly objective about anything, especially if there is any amount of anticipation involved. It doesn't matter if a person is a professional reviewer, writes them on the side or is just some J... Read Full Review

Gran Turismo 5 Prologue

Shiny and hollow.

The Gran Turismo series has always intimidated me. Between the realistic handling, obnoxiously difficult mandatory license tests and extreme depth of content they ended up feeling like work after a relatively short time.... Read Full Review

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (Collector's Edition)

More of the same, but worse.

I am pretty indiscriminate about what I play. Games show up in my mailbox, I play them, usually find something of worth and then send them on their way. It should come as no surprise that a significant portion of what I ... Read Full Review