Some players raged against "Battlefield 3's" recently completed public beta test, which used unpolished code. Here's a look at some hands-on time that I got with the game featuring code more representative of the final product.
The studio behind classic first-person shooters "Wolfenstein 3D," "Doom" and "Quake" has released its first new franchise in over a decade. While "Rage" is technical marvel and certainly a decent game, it's hard not to come away a little disappointed, given id Software's pedigree.
Twisted Pixel's whimsical Western about an undead cowboy seeking vengeance is a smartly written, creative tour de force for Microsoft's Kinect. But imprecise controls and a story that can be finished in four hours or so might mean some players balk at the $40 price tag.
You'll find a lot to love in Techland's zombie-filled fusion of open-world role-playing game and visceral, first-person slaughterfest, provided you can overlook its numerous warts.
A more intimate, personal campaign and a slew of ridiculously robust multiplayer modes make "Gears of War 3" the franchise's strongest entry to date and one of this console generation's signature titles.
Saber Interactive's upcoming shooter has itself a cool gameplay gimmick: gravity manipulation. Now it just needs a better game to go along with it.
Replete with obtuse battles against heavily armored bosses, computer-hacking minigames and punishing stealth missions, "Deus Ex: Human Revolution" demands patience of its players. If you're happy to oblige, you'll get to experience some of the best levels and backstory gaming has to offer..
The August lull is a great time for catching up on all those games you swore you were gonna play after you finished some of those other games. A quick look at four titles from my backlog. This is a longer version that what appears in Friday's Press Democrat and includes "Transformers: Dark of the Moon."