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 [...]
Call of Duty, the mediocre clone of Battlefield that has millions of fanboys echoing praise even though the game has barely changed from its inception and offers nothing new in terms of gameplay with each iteration. Modern Warfare 3 is the so-called epic conclusion to [...]
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 [...]
The Battlefield series has always had a cult following and has always lived in the shadow of the inferior Call of Duty series. I never quite understood how Battlefield never gained market dominance even though in terms of story and gameplay, it was a superior [...]
When I was in my late teens, Duke Nukem 3D had just come out and I played it on almost every system it was ported to. It was a great game for the time, which had raunchy humor suitable for a fresh out of high [...]
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 [...]
Dragon Age II is the successor to the wildly popular Dragon Age Origins game. Dragon Age II tries to surpass the success of the first game, but fails to deliver a memorable experience. The game takes place after the events of Dragon Age Origins, with [...]
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 [...]
The Need for Speed Hot Pursuit games have been missing for quite some time as Electronic Arts has focused the Need for Speed series on underground/street racing that was made mainstream through the Fast & Furious movies. Along the way, the series lost its focus, [...]
