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Hands-on with Insomniac’s highly anticipated PS3 shooter. Welcome to the Interrogation Room, GameSpy’s signature pre-release game coverage format. Here, a GameSpy editor (typically one who’s relatively in-the-dark about the game in question) grills his peers for information on a hotly anticipated game — hopefully with more entertaining results than the typical boilerplate preview would provide. [...]
The lead designer of ArenaNet’s massively multiplayer sequel opens up on the future of Guild Wars and the MMO genre. Guild Wars 2 — the even-more-massively-multiplayer sequel to ArenaNet and NCsoft’s smash hit massively multiplayer role-playing game — is coming. And if you ask us, it can’t get here quick enough. We recently had the chance [...]
We get our first look at Bethesda’s highly anticipated RPG. I’ve played a lot of Elder Scrolls in my day. I’ve topped over 100 hours in both The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (yes, dear readers, I know you played more and I’m a noob and I fail and all [...]
Welcome to the Interrogation Room, GameSpy’s signature pre-release game coverage format. Here, a GameSpy editor (typically one who’s relatively in-the-dark about the game in question) grills his peers for information on a hotly anticipated game — hopefully with more entertaining results than the typical boilerplate preview would provide. Ryan Scott. Executive Editor: So how was [...]
Gnarly deaths and cute aliens make for a fun combo in this challenging action game. The Good Lots of creative maneuvers to pull off Clever rewards for killing swarmites High-score hunting is addictive. The Bad Occasionally brutal difficulty Short length. Considering the objective of most games is to keep the main characters alive, it’s rather [...]
Silent Hill meets Apocalypse Now in the latest demo of this PlayStation 3 shooter. Insomniac Games held a community event in Hollywood earlier today to give fans a chance to see and play this year’s upcoming entries in the Resistance and Ratchet and Clank franchises. If Insomniac’s base of eager and excited fans was the [...]
Its beautiful vision of 15th-century Rome is just one of many reasons to get lost in Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. The Good Exquisite, detailed reproduction of Rome Great voice acting makes you care about the eclectic ensemble cast Lairs are a pleasure to explore Online investing makes economy even more meaningful Long adventure stuffed with lots [...]
This big, bold sequel offers an eerie vision of a city under siege. The Good Nanosuit and big levels offer plenty of flexibility Powerful depiction of a devastated city The second half is stuffed with awesome, memorable battles Good-sized campaign and full-featured multiplayer offer lots of lasting value Outstanding soundtrack. The Bad Poor AI detracts [...]
What it lacks in originality, Pokemon Black more than makes up for with a vast world to explore and an absorbing battle system that’s heaps of fun. The Good Charming visuals Engrossing battle system Collecting Pokemon is incredibly addictive. The Bad It’s the same Pokemon formula you’ve seen before. From the moment you befriend your [...]
Tropico 4 is one of many new games on display at the 2011 Game Developers Conference, and from the looks of it, this sequel will build on everything people enjoyed in Haemimont’s Tropico 3 and offer more of it. In Tropico 4, you’ll still play the role of El Presidente of the tiny, fictional-but-a-lot-like-Cuba island [...]