If you’re familiar with developer Traveller’s Tales’ previous Lego games, you might think you know what Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 is like even before you’ve played it–and you’d be partially right. In this game, just as in Lego Star Wars and its ilk, you (perhaps along with a friend on the same console) experience [...]
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Some games feature emotional stories with complex subtext, well-wrought characters that make us care about their fates, or philosophical implications that give thoughtful players pause. Singularity is not one of those games. While it clearly looks to nuanced classics such as BioShock and Half-Life 2 as inspiration, this first-person shooter is all about blasting hideous [...]
Some games feature emotional stories with complex subtext, well-wrought characters that make us care about their fates, or philosophical implications that give thoughtful players pause. Singularity is not one of those games. While it clearly looks to nuanced classics such as BioShock and Half-Life 2 as inspiration, this first-person shooter is all about blasting hideous [...]
Now this is what Mass Effect 2 is all about. This excellent add-on has great action, a smattering of memorable moments, and a final sequence that’s unlike anything you’ve seen in the series thus far. Overlord is a short but sweet microcosm of what makes the main game so entertaining, spiced with a neat hovercraft [...]
The March 2010 G.I. review scores include Heavy Rain, Final Fantasy XIII, Bioshock 2, No More Heroes 2, Mass Effect 2, and much more
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (DS) – 7.5
Aliens vs. Predator (Multi) – 5.75
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (Multi) – 9.5 / 9.5
Bioshock 2 (Multi) – 8.25
Blood Bowl (360) – 7.75
Dante’s Inferno (PS3/360) [...]
The Good
Combat is bloody good fun
Some of the creature designs are gloriously vile.
The Bad
Final one-third of the game is lousy
Puzzles are either way too easy or just lame
Uneven difficulty too often relies on cheap deaths.
While Dante slices through the belly of an undead beast with his [...]
Take a moment to consider how bizarre this game world really is. It’s set in an underwater sprawl of surface-style skyscrapers, a city called Rapture. Filling the pressurized space is a society founded by an industrialist named Andrew Ryan with the notion that there’d be no limits on what the individual [...]
MAG’s big battlefields are a great place to wage war, as long as you can handle some of the rigors of combat.
The Good
Well-integrated command structure
Quick, tense action
Lots of ways to make your mark on the battlefield
Large, well-designed maps.
The Bad
Can be tough to get a command post
Some technical awkwardness
Occasional [...]
The Razer Imperator! The name itself asserts the mouse’s bold presence and instills fear in the hearts of opponent gamers. And on first inspection, it is instantaneously clear that the Imperator is totally a right-handed mouse and not one of those ergonomic ones. Leaning slightly to the right it cradles the ball of the hand, [...]
Once this intense and action-packed role-playing game pulls you into its orbit, you won’t want to escape.
The Good
Great cast of interesting and diverse characters
Excellent dialogue and voice acting
Fantastic art design with a strong sense of identity
Solid shooting mechanics make for exciting encounters
Level design makes every mission feel fresh.
The Bad
Scanning [...]