Category: Reviews
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Hero of Many Review
With the focus on indie developers in the App Store, iOS games frequently excel at creating new and unusual experiences that take familiar concepts and throw new, touch-based twists in. Hero of Many is a perfect example. It’s an evocative and moody game, a focused study on atmosphere and style over traditional gameplay. That’s not…
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F1 2012 Review
Has there ever been a more opportune time to create and develop an accurate representation of single-seater racing? Hardened champions from Formula 1’s killer years regularly voice their dissatisfaction at the new era of racer, lambasting them for a lack respect of the comparative safety of modern motorsport. The Playstation Generation are as much at…
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Gobtron Review
Gross-out games don’t usually fly with us. As soon as a character starts flicking or flinging anything that came out of their bodies, we usually lunge for the “home” button to play something else. There are exceptions, though, and Gobtron is one of them. Gobtron is a castle defense game where you have to use…
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Dodonpachi Resurrection Review
Remarkable things are happening on the iPhone just about every day, and Cave Co. continues to astound us with their ports of Japanese arcade shooters. Like their previous game Espgaluda II, Dodonpachi Resurrection is a brilliant-looking, elegantly designed “bullet hell” shooter with a complex scoring mechanic. However, we found Dodonpachi to be even better than…
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A Game of Thrones: Genesis Review
What started out as a fantasy trilogy and now spans five books (with a planned total of seven in the series), A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin is one of those series that has set a benchmark for the genre. Full of intrigue and strong characterization, it is what we…
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BattleForge Review
In a traditional monster and magic-based card game players are restricted in a certain sense. The deck can only have so many cards, each player is limited to using what is only in their hand, and they can only react when it is their turn. In EA’s brand new ‘BattleForge’ players take the card game…
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The Walking Dead – No Time Left Review
So this is it, the end of TellTale’s The Walking Dead adventure game. Well, season 1, anyway. So how was it? In a word – amazing! In two words – amazingly upsetting; but don’t worry, it was completely in the way TellTale intended. As I have mentioned in my previous reviews throughout the series, this…
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Dead Space Hands On Preview
UPDATE: January 6th, 2011 EA Mobile has announced on their Facebook page that Dead Space for the iPhone and iPad will be released the same day Dead Space 2 comes out on the consoles: January 25. We hereby declare that January 25 shall be known for all eternity as Dead Space Day. Feel free to…
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Aliens vs. Predator Review
Two decades before his Oscar-nominated, 3D masterpiece Avatar, James Cameron was scaring film-goers with his survival-horror/action sequel to the 1979 classic, Alien. Placing a squad of colonial marines in an infested colony with hundreds of aliens, Aliens was a gritty, terrifying masterpiece that set a new standard for sci-fi action/horror. That bar was matched a…
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Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties Review
The Asian Dynasties is a new expansion for Age of Empires III, where you get to play as—yes, you guessed it—one of three Asian civilizations: China, India, and Japan. Big Huge Games are involved this time, and they’ve delivered something fresh for AOE III players. With the three new civilizations come three new single-player campaigns.…
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RoboCop Review
RoboCop is a fusion of man and machine, a being caught between technology and his humanity. We feel trapped in the same way when a particularly addictive app prevents us from putting down our iPad. Glu’s new free-to-download shooter RoboCop is an endless series of intense shootouts that will fuse your device to your hands. …
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Legend of Grimrock Review
For those who can remember that far back, games like Might and Magic (1986), Dungeon Master (1987), and Eye of the Beholder (1991) were the first foray into 3D graphics for the Dungeons & Dragons role playing genre. Innovative for their time, players effectively moved across a gridded environment, one square at a time, fighting…
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Garshasp Review
There’s a problem with Garshasp: The Monster Slayer. To be fair, there are several problems, but the fundamental one is this – I want to like it. And you will too. Dead Mage Inc. have released, at best, an average game. At best. But you have to give credit to this independent developer, who took…
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Mount & Blade Review
I was attracted to Mount&Blade; from the first time I saw it. It’s an underdog of a game (though some will – unfairly, I feel – truncate that to just ‘a dog of a game’). Coming from a small development team – TaleWorlds, based in Turkey – this Medieval Role-Playing Game was never going to…
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Devil May Cry 4 Refrain Hands On Preview
Devils and demons are everywhere on the App Store, from gross-out shooters like iRequiem to adorable hell-raisers like Hellkid. Later this month, Capcom’s summoning one of their biggest demons to the App Store: Devil May Cry 4 Refrain. This 3D action game will follow the same plot as the console game, with players controlling Nero…
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Heroes and Castles Review
Tower defense games were among the first to stand out on the App Store, due to their touch-friendly controls and short, wave-based levels. But until now, the genre hasn’t evolved much. Last year’s Fieldrunners 2 is polished and varied, but it’s fundamentally the same game as 2008‘s Besiegement. Heroes and Castles, on the other hand,…
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Hairy Tales Review
There are about a gazillion puzzle games out there on the App Store these days, with new ones coming out every week, so getting your game noticed takes some doing. Along comes Hairy Tales, from Crescent Moon’s indie label Forest Moon games. It’s a cute game with a unique look and clever gameplay mechanics. That…
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Gets to the Exit Review
We like a good challenge. We love it when a game tests our mettle, our skills, our resolve. With some games, getting through a puzzle, accomplishing all our goals, beating that enemy or getting through that level can make us feel like champs. And then sometimes a game will come along where getting through a…
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Spore Galactic Adventures Review
Will Wright’s Spore was one of last year’s most innovative PC games and spawned one of the largest collections of phallic-symbol monsters on ever seen. But there was one thing lacking: when you ventured into the space age you couldn’t go to a planet and roam around the environment as you had done in the…
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Borderlands Review
Borderlands is a game trapped between two worlds. On the one hand, it’s a cooperative first-person shooter. On the other, it’s an online role-playing game. While it would seem like elements from both genres could easily meld to make one cohesive game, Borderlands is not that game that does it. Though Borderlands certainly looks and…