Less than Meets the Eye The Transformers has a special place in my heart. It marks a significant part of my childhood, and it conjures warm memories of morphing robots fighting the forces of evil and makes me smile reminiscently. During the same time of my youth, I was introduced to the wonderful world of [...]
Let’s Play Among the Stars There are very few games nowadays that inspire within a sense of unadulterated thrill and child-like whimsy. Contemporary gaming, it seems, inspires more either a sense of bullet-filled action, skin-crawling fear, morbidly-insane blood fests, or all of the above. Violence appears to be the defining characteristic of fun in the [...]
Anger Management Recommended In planning for this review I was hit with an extreme case of deja vu: I’d already written this review numerous times before! In this, the third iteration of Kratos’ rampage through Greek mythology (fourth if you count Chains of Olympus), not much has changed. The same formula from the original God [...]
Hi EG readers. It’s me, Bones. Yes I can write the words sometimes. You may know that I’m a somewhat responsible adult these days and that means that I don’t get to play too many video games. Picking which games to play and which to pass on completely is a difficult choice that I don’t [...]
What it means to be human… A serial killer is loose on a frightened city. Young boys are being kidnapped and drowned in rain water. An orchid and an origami figure accompanies the corpse days after the kidnapping. Like a scene out of CSI, Heavy Rain (HR) establishes itself as a thriller drama. I get [...]
Resident Evil 1 was a stand alone title in many ways. Every title after the first were more action oriented than adventure. I love the first one, because of the emphasis on atmosphere and exploration. There was a creepy mansion with many nooks and crannies teeming with unknown dangers. Exploring the mansion was exciting and [...]
Improving on Perfection Bioshock was a juggernaut. It was a ground breaking achievement in many ways. Although a FPS on the surface, Bioshock was an experience unlike anything before. It was oozing in atmosphere. It was dripping with philosophy and passionate dogma that seemed too high brow for a video game. It was the title [...]
An Amalgam, Brilliantly Executed. I have to admit. It is true what they say: “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Darksiders looked like a God of War clone; as a result, I was immediately turned off. It wasn’t until I heard people saying that it was more like Zelda that I decided to take [...]
Art of War Modern Warfare is an interactive movie. That is the best way I can describe my experience. Now, I’m not talking about Kojima-length cut scenes that make it movie-like. I make the comparison because the heavy reliance of narrative to drive the interactive experience. Now obviously I’m not talking about the multiplayer experience. [...]
The sheer of thrill of the hunt. Being able to move through crowds in search of your prey, to use your skills and cunning, and to hide among the shadows to bring down your foe was the concept of Assassin’s Creed. Many would argue that it was not the proof of such an auspicious concept [...]
