Posts Tagged ‘ reviews ’
I went into my first OnLive experience with a lot of technical skepticism. I had unshakable preconceptions about what a "streamed" game would look and feel like. Those preconceptions were annihilated. Technically, OnLive is astonishing. I feel embarrassed for people who panned it before it even launched[ READ MORE ]
I finished Hidden Empire recently. I had preordered it for my Kindle, and it magically appeared on the device on 12/22/2009. I regarded it as a Christmas present to myself. I read it fairly quickly. I had a strong appetite for a story that bled more of the conspiracy-laden intrigue of the first novel, Empire, [ READ MORE ]
I downloaded the Dark Void demo for PS3. Only when I heard the music did I remember something I’d forgotten: Bear McCreary scored the game. The Battlestar Galactica Season 3 soundtrack is my favorite of all the music I own, and when I heard the music start in the Dark Void demo it all came [ READ MORE ]
I tend to like to write out video games’ entire titles, thinking that it makes things easier to search for. But let’s face it: colons are cumbersome. Please stop subtitling games. Now then. I finished Batman: Arkham Asylum (see?) the other day, and bestow upon it my most exclusive designation: a Work of Art. What [ READ MORE ]
I liked Avatar more than I thought I would. I went into it expecting little: a saccharine, clichéd, fish-out-of-water-meets-then-feels-sorry-for-misunderstood-culture story wrapped in millions of dollars worth of artificial pixels. In that respect, the movie disappointed. The wife and I saw a compelling, character-driven story with almost flawless technical execution. The effects were brilliant. The blending [ READ MORE ]
Square Off is a great game from Gnomic Studios that I found on Xbox Live Indie Games. It’s got a solid game mechanic and great art direction. Well worth the 240 points ($3), and a good benchmark for what Xbox Live Indie Games should be. The Gnomic Studios team paid a lot of attention to [ READ MORE ]
Spoiler alert. My wife and I just finished Borderlands. That wasn’t the spoiler. We were disappointed with the… thing that happened… before we stopped playing. No, not the ending—there wasn’t one of those. Instead of an ending Gearbox elected to have us fight something large and get something small as a reward. Now I’m doing [ READ MORE ]
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