Like last year’s crime thriller “Heavy Rain,” its rich plot is well served by simple gameplay that prioritizes players’ ability to “read” faces, analyze clues and discern motives over an accurate and itchy trigger finger. By simplifying gameplay so that everyone can participate, Team Bondi has created a classic that gamers will be talking about for years.
After spending a few hours playing some kid-oriented titles for THQ's uDraw GameTablet, I'm hoping we'll get more titles aimed at older gamers when the device makes the leap to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Depending on your gaming likes and dislikes, Splash Damage's teamwork-oriented first-person shooter "Brink" is either a breath of fresh air or a complicated, frustrating, glitchy mess. That's because it's both of those things. I fall into the "love it" camp but can't begrudge the haters.
"Crysis 2" looks stunning, and its controls could revolutionize sci-fi first-person shooters. It's too bad, then, that what should be a fun multiplayer game is undermined by a convoluted, single-player story and level design that fails to match the abilities of the game's supersoldier hero.
"Portal 2" has considerably more expectations put on it than its low-key predecessor, yet it equals or surpasses the original in nearly every way.
Role-playing game powerhouse BioWare once again delivers a fantastic story filled with memorable, well-written characters. But dated level design and cut-and-paste dungeons bog down what could've been an epic adventure in a medieval metropolis teeming with life. This is a longer review than what ran in the newspaper.
Support in the latest "Tiger Woods" golf game for Sony's Wii-like Move controller is way ahead of last year's patched-in iteration, though it could still use more polish.
Once again, Sony's PlayStation-exclusive baseball game is a polished, no-brainer buy for baseball fans. Its only real weakness is that it takes longer than it needs to to get the hang of the new pitching and hitting controls, thanks to a lack of well-made tutorials and contextual help.
A huge population of nongamers and gamers alike will undoubtedly be turned off by “Bulletstorm’s” ample profanity, frequent references to sex acts and gory dismemberments, but to casually dismiss it as "just another violent video game" misses the point.
After the lackluster meatheadfest that was 2009's "Killzone 2," Guerrilla Games returns with a sequel that's surprisingly a lot of fun and packed with variety to boot. It's too bad it's all over so quickly.