Assassin’s Creed was originally conceived as a replacement for the Prince of Persia franchise as it had seen so many sequels and reboots that fans grew tired of it and sales plummeted. Ironically, Assassin’s Creed is following suit with Ubisoft’s announcement that they would be [...]
It is a rare time when I can say that a video game about Batman can tell a story better than the Christopher Nolan directed movies of the Dark Knight, but Batman Arkham City does just that and more. Batman Arkham City takes place after [...]
Deus Ex was a hugely innovative game back in 2000 when Eidos released it using the Unreal Engine on the PC platform. It included multiple player paths and an RPG element in a FPS, which was unheard of at the time. Deus Ex Human Revolution [...]
Sonic Generations is a celebration of the Sonic the Hedgehog 20th Anniversary. The game spans all the way from the original Sonic the Hedgehog, up until the most recent game Sonic Colors. Elements of certain games within the franchise are ingrained within sonic Generations, such as [...]
Uncharted is the defacto series for action genre games. Uncharted is what Tomb Raider always struggled to be in terms of smooth gameplay mechanics and perfect camera controls. Playing any of the Uncharted games is akin to being involved in an interactive movie, where the [...]
Gears of War is a series that was mainly created to showcase what could be done with the unreal engine on the XBOX 360. The story was paper thin, but the multiplayer was one of the most fun and engaging spectacles since the original Unreal [...]
I never got around to playing the original Alice back in 2000, even though it received a lot of praise for its macabre story and stunning visuals for the time. When I heard of the Alice series coming to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, [...]
SOCOM is a series that has a serious fanatical following that are reluctant to change. Some games change very little over time and become stagnant, and others change so much that the series becomes unrecognizable. There always has to be a happy medium that allows [...]
Crysis 2 is the successor to the highly successful original Crysis game launched in 2007. Crysis 2 takes place three years after the first game with the player taking control of a soldier named “Alcatraz”, who is part of a group trying to extract Doctor [...]
The original Dead Space was a game that redefined the Space-Horror genre with a complex plot and scares around every corner. The game made sure that players never felt more powerful than their foes and ammo was scarcely available. Enemies weren’t the normal fare that [...]
