Reviews

Disney Pixar's Up is based on the charming movie of the same name. The good news is that unlike many other movie games, Up retains much of the charm of the film and, for co-op fans, allows players to play with a friend. Make no mistake, this is a kids game. There is very little challenge, although sometimes the environments can create a bit...

Yes, this is on the list of Ultimate Gamerscore Whore Games. If you've played this game, you're either so shameless about getting gamerscore you don't care how it looks on your card, or you have a young daughter. Those are about the only reasons you're going to be playing this game. That's not to say it's terrible, though. Actually, the musical...

Fallout 3 is a worthy successor to the classic Fallout PC games, with an update from the top-down turn-based strategy game to a first person-shooter, but this change really works. Fallout 3 takes place in a dark post-nuclear holocaust world. After having been born in a Vault in the greater Washington DC area, a self-contained shelter whose...

Fallout 3 is a worthy successor to the classic Fallout PC games, with an update from the top-down turn-based strategy game to a first person-shooter, but this change really works. Fallout 3 takes place in a dark post-nuclear holocaust world. After having been born in a Vault in the greater Washington DC area, a self-contained shelter whose...

Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland is one of those stories that has been interpreted in several different ways over the years. From the Disney cartoon to the classic Jefferson Airplane song to the Johnny Depp Disney "sequel" (and with several made-for-TV movies in the middle), we've been fascinated by the tale of the young girl who follows the white rabbit down his hole...

Skylanders SuperChargers is the fifth installment of the plastic hotswap character series, and is supported by millions of adoring plastic figure buyers. (Full disclosure...I'm one of those.) In recent years it's had to compete with competing IPs, such as Disney Infinity and LEGO Dimensions. That being said, and having dabbled in the other two IPs, Skylanders...

Skylanders SuperChargers is the fifth installment of the plastic hotswap character series, and is supported by millions of adoring plastic figure buyers. (Full disclosure...I'm one of those.) In recent years it's had to compete with competing IPs, such as Disney Infinity and LEGO Dimensions. That being said, and having dabbled in the other two IPs, Skylanders...

The Saboteur was released in the middle of the busy 2009 holiday season, and as a result was unfortunately overlooked by many. This is a shame since Pandemic Studio's final offering was one of its best, an atmospheric sandbox game set in WWII Paris at the height of the Nazi occupation. The game revolves around Sean Devlin, an Irish race...

As the anecdote goes (I don't know if it's true or not... but who cares?), this game was originally a joke. Rockstar is known for making violent, sometimes brutal, acclaimed games such as the Grand Theft Auto series, Manhunt, Max Payne and, more recently, Red Dead Redemption. Well, as the story goes, someone at Rockstar thought it might be funny if, after all of...

JOYCITY's 3on3 FreeStyle is a free-to-play, all-online, all-multiplayer arcade basketball game that looks to replicate the spirit, if not exactly the accuracy, of 3-on-3 playground court basketball. Is it realistic? No. Is it fun? Absolutely. As someone who's already devoted at least 40 hours into this, I have a pretty decent feel for the nuances of the game. The game...

Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn is about what you might expect from a pseudo-autobiographical game about how Shaquille O'Neal was found as an orphan in a Chinese village, and comes to put his size 26 shoe up the derrieres of a few thousand bad guys out to destroy his adopted home. The original Shaq Fu was released for the Super NES and Sega Genesis in 1994, and was probably one of...

Three-Fourths Home is a strange game by American standards. While there are a lot of visual novels in Japan, a considerable number of people who play them do so for the incredibly easy gamer score. To play them by actually making choices would likely take 80-100 hours due to the sheer amount of text involved. Oh yeah, and...

OXENFREE is a refreshing change of pace from many of the releases on the market. Character- and story-driven, it's virtually impossible not to be immersed in the game. Part of that is the story itself, which concerns a group of five teenagers experiencing a "bash on the beach" on a deserted(?) island. Part of it is a unique mechanic that Night School has introduced. The...

The original Planet of the Apes film came out 50 years ago and spawned a series of popular sequels. After Tim Burton made a passable remake, Fox rebooted the series in 2011 to well-deserved critical acclaim, culminating in a trilogy that, in my opinion, is a must-see. Why is this important? Because Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier plays like...

Velvet Assassin is just like any other stealth-based game you've ever played, like Splinter Cell, Assassin's Creed, Hitman, etc. Except it's not. It has a noir feel evocative of The Saboteur... but that isn't doing justice to it either. Rather, it adds elements of Silent Hill (without the creepy-crawlies) and F.E.A.R. atmosphere to create a different...

Velvet Assassin is just like any other stealth-based game you've ever played, like Splinter Cell, Assassin's Creed, Hitman, etc. Except it's not. It has a noir feel evocative of The Saboteur... but that isn't doing justice to it either. Rather, it adds elements of Silent Hill (without the creepy-crawlies) and F.E.A.R. atmosphere to create a different...

This is one of those games that I want to like a lot more than I do. The ability to create your own courses is fantastic and easy to use, and the atmospheric elements add a lot of variety to the game. If you're looking for a fun game of minigolf that allows you to customize courses and play with your friends, this is for you. ...

Life is strange... to many of us. To Chloe Price--self-avowed delinquent and purposeful outcast--life seems distant since the tragic passing of her father. We first meet Chloe lighting her cigarette, staring down a train... a metaphor for the direction that her life has led to. In her attempt to distance herself from...

Once upon a time, there was a girl and her cat. One day, they were playing in the woods, when the cat was distracted by a shiny. If you know cats, you know how they are with shinies. The cat ran off into the woods, the girl was kidnapped, the cat... we don't need a story here. This is a side-scrolling, 2-D platformer. Girl meets cat, yada yada. A Walk in...

In 2013, State of Decay dropped us into a remote campsite where strange people all of a sudden wanted to meet us... and eat us. There was no prelude, it was a learn-as-you-go experience from the first moment and, oh yeah, when you died, you died. No getting around that. The instant save locked down that permadeath faster than you...

Hinterland's wilderness survival title has been in Game Preview for quite a while, and has finally made it into full launch with more features that expand the experience. The basic premise: you have crashed in the middle of the Canadian wilderness, and you must stay alive in the face of Mother Nature in all of her fury. It's not...

Twenty years have passed since the nuclear holocaust forced the citizens of Moscow into the Metro, one of the largest rail systems in the world. Hiding in the dark, sinister depths of the Russian underground, the denizens of the rail lines have created a new society through which our hero, Artyom, must navigate in his quest to save the Metro and, perhaps, the last...

Twenty years have passed since the nuclear holocaust forced the citizens of Moscow into the Metro, one of the largest rail systems in the world. Hiding in the dark, sinister depths of the Russian underground, the denizens of the rail lines have created a new society through which our hero, Artyom, must navigate in his...

Twenty years have passed since the nuclear holocaust forced the citizens of Moscow into the Metro, one of the largest rail systems in the world. Hiding in the dark, sinister depths of the Russian underground, the denizens of the rail lines have created a new society through which our hero, Artyom, must navigate in his...

Storm Boy is an interactive adventure based on the children's book of the same name by Colin Thiele. It tells the story of a boy who discovers three orphaned pelicans on the beach where he lives. The game features several minigames revolving around activities that Storm Boy does on his beach. These minigames are short and, while not terribly involved or in any way...