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 [...]
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 [...]
Sometimes technologies arrive are released ahead of mainstream acceptance and fail to stand up in the marketplace. Years ago, before Xbox Live and the Playstation Network made console multiplayer a mass market experience, a small company named Catapult launched the first console based online experience [...]
Assassin’s Creed II is the much anticipated sequel to the original 2007 hit. The story continues the events surrounding Desmond from the immediate conclusion of the previous game. The events in the Animus take place approximately 300 years after Altair, with a new Assassin named [...]
Assassin’s Creed Bloodlines is supposedly a game meant to tie the events of Assassin’s Creed and Altair, to the events of Assassin’s Creed II and Ezio. Unfortunately, the game fails to bridge the gap between the two games and instead creates more questions. The game [...]
Batman video games have always been lackluster and devoid of any true immersion in the game, whether it is horrid gameplay or uninteresting plot lines. Batman Arkham Asylum is the first real attempt to repair a fractured franchise and it definitely delivers. The game centers [...]
These days, companies regurgitate old franchises like owl pellets left and right and Ninja Gaiden Sigma is no exception. Sometimes it is a bad idea such as in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, but in the case of Ninja Gaiden, it is a pleasant gift. [...]
The Rainbow Six series have been around since the late 1990s throughout a range of console systems, portable systems, and the PC. Most of the games have been stellar, but there have been some duds such as Lockdown. Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is a direct [...]
