Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (360) – Review

Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard presents an interesting concept to build a game around: create a fictional video game hero of the past, now returned to revitalize his games, but only to attempt to kill him quickly.  It sets up a range of possible industry in-jokes on video games and recent trends, [...]

Fracture (360) – Review

Fracture, created by Day 1 Studios and published by LucasArts, makes its claim to fame by adding in the concept of “terrain deformation” to a third-person shoot to alter the environment for both progressing in the game and defeating foes.  Unfortunately, while the mechanic certainly works, the whole game is mostly a mess with [...]

Dark Sector (360) – Review

Dark Sector by Digital Extremes and published by D3 Publisher, is a third-person "shooter", in the sense that while there are guns, the primary feature is a "glaive" that your character gains early in the game that can be used both offensively and to solve a handful of puzzles as you work your way through [...]

Bullet Witch (360) – Review

Bullet Witch, developed by cavia, inc, and distributed by Atari Europe, is a third-person shooter in the vein of some classic cabinet video games such as Time Crisis, with many gameplay elements that suggest an arcade-like feeling. While the core gameplay seems to have several good ideas, there are many technical problems with [...]

Overlord (360) – Review

Overlord, developed by Trimuph Studios and distributed by Codemasters, is a game in the same vein of play like Pikmin, a mix of a third-person fantasy hack-and-slash and minimal RTS elements.  The game is pretty fun, offering puzzles and monsters that are just right in difficulty, an entertaining story, and plenty to do outside of [...]

Earth Defense Force 2017 (360) – Initial Impressions

This game definitely falls under what I would call “stupid fun”.
Story is simple stupid: aliens have come to invade earth and it’s your job to try to stop it as part of Earth Defense Force.
Gameplay is a basic third-person shooter in a rather fragile city and other environs, generic enough that it doesn’t matter too [...]

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (360) – Review

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, produced by Capcom for the 360, was a highly anticipated title, due to two relatively new concepts: a world based on snow and ice, and the use of mechanical suits in addition to typical gameplay aspects. Unfortunately, the overall single player game really lacks any meat or challenging gameplay, [...]

Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions (360) – Initial Impressions

Well, while the multiplayer for those appears to be good, I’m very underwhelmed with the single player game.  The background of the story seems interesting (people defending themselves from hostile aliens on a chilling cold, snow-covered planet) though we just had that same story effectively from Gears of War, but the in-game presentation of the [...]

Gears of War (360) – Review

“Gears of War” produced by Epic Games and distributed by Microsoft for the Xbox 360, may not offer a drastic difference from many first-person or third-person shooters, but manages to introduce several tactical elements and enough variety of battle situations, in addition to excellent graphics and sound for a highly immersive experience, to bring [...]

Gears of War (360) – ~3hr in

(Can’t give a better time estimate, and I know the game’s divided into Acts, but I can’t tell if I’m still in Act 1 or 2. I’m in a chapter called “China Shop” for those that have played it).
I think this is a game like “Killzone” was for me – my initial impression was [...]