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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
Medal of Honor is the third FPS game to get a reboot into modern warfare after wearing out players with World War II throughout the series. It seems everyone is jumping on the modern warfare band wagon after the success of Call of Duty 4. [...]
The Battlefield series has come a long way from its roots in World War II combat similar to the Call of Duty series, a futuristic combat game, and most recently its Bad Company signature series. Battlefield Bad Company 2 takes place after the events of [...]
Sometimes game developers feel the need to imitate another’s grand game out of flattery and some out of greed, Dante’s Inferno skirts around the latter. Dante’s Inferno is a game that blatantly rips-off every game mechanic possible from God of War, albeit with no polish [...]
Sometimes franchises just need to die after they achieved a certain amount of success in the past, before they become notorious for sequel upon sequel of trash and a beloved story becomes one of the most hated video game adaptations in history. Lord of the [...]
