So there’s a new New Mario. The old New Mario was pretty damn sweet, I reckon, and another new Mario is always a good thing. A lot of people don’t reckon, however, they reckon it’s too cutesy, too the-same-as-the-last-one, too old school. I think we’re about to learn that we’re both right,...
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House of the Dead: Overkill is a brutal, over the top, blood-fest that takes itself as seriously as a school of dead fish. Reminiscent of the worst ham-fisted B movies (that you stayed up watching when you knew you should be in bed), it is as captivating as a car crash. You know you shouldnâ€...
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The world of Sims is a strange, strange place for both the unacquainted and the chemically balanced. Here is a parallel universe, populated by zombie-like creatures—or, as they are known in our world, suburbanites—doing mundane, middle-class tasks: earning, buying, building, and busying. And whi...
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In some sense, games like those from the Guitar Heroes series and Rock Band suffered largely from their strength: they rock, and they rock hard. And while this seems an admirable goal for the KISS Army, it’s something of a disadvantage for those not ready to rock. Indeed, there’s something narro...
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For the most part, puzzle games prove too preference-peculiar to garner wide approval. Puzzle games need to be as addictive as crack, and to that end a crack palate is strangely refined taste: not everyone wants to hit the rock. Platforms, on the other hand, seem well suited to almost any taste, pro...
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