Did we ever play Resident Evil 1, 2, 3, or 4? No; however, we have seen Resident Evil 1, 2, 3, and 4 game footage PLUS we watched the three movies starring Milla Jovovich. Now, going into part 5, I knew that part 4 took an odd turn by placing us in some South American country where the citizens have started revolting. In part 5, we're going to ( Read more... )

I'll admit that I've been putting off playing Call of Duty 2: Modern Warfare, and other war-themed games for a while, believing them to be fodder for teenage and college-age males to live out their fantasies of glorious armed combat from the comfort of their couches. I felt the violence would be too realistic to actually be any fun. Well, I was ( Read more... )

As expected, I decided to play the original Army of Two after having beaten its sequel, Army of Two: The 40th Day. So what was different? Well, for starters the game was a lot more challenging than its sequel. The enemies were a bit too psychic for their own good it seems. They'd advance places where the sequel's enemies wouldn't advance. ( Read more... )

In this sequel to Army of Two, you reprise your roles as one of the two in the aforementioned Army. Look, I'll be frank with you. I never played the first one, but I now have every intention of playing the first game since this second one was mildly enjoyable. I say mildly enjoyable because the game was all about going around and shooting stuff ( Read more... )

Did anyone like The Rocketeer? No? Good. I didn't like it, either. Did you ever wonder if anyone kept those old ideas tucked away in the back of their head for a rainy day? Well, wonder no more, as our friends at Capcom decided to make a game out of it. Now, before you run screaming for the hills, please keep in mind that you only have to ( Read more... )

This is yet another sequel where I've not played one or more previous entries in the series. In this case, the last exposure I had to the Metal Gear Solid series was the very first one that came out in 1997/1998 for the PS One. It's fair to say that part 4 really does try to wrap up some threads that were started in part one, and perhaps these ( Read more... )

I don't know why, but this evening I started thinking about Santa Claus. Every season we're given a mountain of movies about Santa that all follow the same premise. Santa is traditionally portrayed as a happy, older man who's always making toys just so he can deliver them once per year to all the good kids on Earth. Now, before people think I ( Read more... )

I had heard some positive comments about Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. What I found was a game that was, more or less, an adventure across continents in search of ancient treasure. It had a definite Tomb Raider feel to it, but did not have the same environmental depth or consistency as inFamous. Perhaps this was for the best ( Read more... )

This game falls into the should-I-have-played-the-first-part-to-better-understand-what-we're-doing-here? vein, at least initially. We're some distant relative of some assassin that lived during the renaissance in Italy, and now we're having to relive his every memory via a system called the Animus in order to find out something called "The Truth ( Read more... )

Would the famous 2-d platformer, Contra, be as famous and universally known if it had not been for that infamous code the developers left in the game to allow one to get 30 lives? Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, (select for 2), Start. This code is firmly ingrained in geek culture (at least my age group's geek culture). I don' ( Read more... )