The latest installment of 2K's annual pro basketball simulation is a detail-packed, quality-rich tribute to Michael Jordan, the game's greatest and most popular player. Its only major flaw is its failure to teach gamers how to play it.
Both major baseball video game franchises predict a Giants World Series win.
Here's a quick look at what I played last week, as well as what I thought of each game.
It's officially fall, with "Dead Rising 2," "FIFA Soccer 11," "Wii Party" and a new "Guitar Hero" headlining this week's new releases.
I recently got a chance to try out "DJ Hero 2," and it was good enough that I've become a convert for the first game, which I wrote off as being too expensive when it first launched.
Since the Wii launched almost four years ago, the console's owners have been treated to a seemingly endless parade of mediocre family games with the words "family," "party," "play" and "fun" in the title. Disney's "Guilty Party," which grafts simple motion-based minigames onto a structure reminiscent of the board game "Clue," bucks that trend by being surprisingly inventive as well as able to accommodate players of varying ages and skill.
Have you heard? There's a new "Halo" game out. Also, Sony launches its Wii-style motion controller Move, and San Rafael-based Telltale Games is selling its episodic "Tales of Monkey Island" for just $5 this weekend, in honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day.
"Madden NFL" reigns largely unchallenged, save for a few add-ons and downloadable games.
By breaking up games like Remedy Entertainment's "Alan Wake" into smaller, lower-priced episodes, video game publishers might succeed in roping in more players who don't have time to play a 20-hour game in one swoop.