Forum: Reviews

Back in the days of the original Half Life, a group of dedicated fans created a mod for multi-player called "Counter Strike." A devilishly simple concept that pitted terrorists against counter-terrorists on a series of maps. Valve bought the rights to Counter Strike and released it as a stand alone...

Anyone else playing it? I'm about 60% through it now with 35 hours (according to the game stats). Plays well, cars handle similar to Test Drive Unlimited. I have a few issues with the game: 1) The recreation of Los Angeles is pretty weak. First of all they only included the basin and not the...

For some reason I lost some interest in Minecraft and started hitting up some stuff in my backlog. Defense Grid seemed like something I could pick up and play in short bursts (between homework assignments and such), and I had heard some great things about it, so I loaded it up. Game was pretty...

Review time! This has been my most anticipated game since it was announced. Huge fan of DoW and Warhammer 40k (models are coming along nicely). So after picking the game up Thursday afternoon and putting it through its paces, I feel its time to post up a review. Although I am a bit biased as a...

So no need to worry about spoliers considering I'm only 6 hours in the game. Let me just start off with saying if you remotely enjoyed the first Mass Effect you'll adore the second one. For once the devs have listened to the community, all the gripes and compliants I had about the first one...

Indigo Prophecy was released in 2005 and was reviewed well by most larger gaming websites and magazines. This leads me to believe they did not finish the game, but more on that later. Indigo Prophecy is unique in its field. By mashing many genres into one game, it loses its identity by trying...

I've waited a long time for this game. I was not instantly a Total War fan. I found Shogun to be a very difficult game that was heavy on minutia and light on fun. I bypassed Medieval Total War completely. But when Rome:TW was released, all the reviews said that it had vastly improved upon the...

Just finished it - overall I really liked it. I played it on normal - seemed fairly easy. You FPS aces will want to play it on something harder. All points that Hadsus mentioned (in the general gaming thread) I agree with. The compass leading towards objectives was very helpful. At my age I...

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TLDR; Decent game, worth a rental at the very least, that's stretching it a bit too. There's some sort of joke going around the gaming industry, I'm sure of it. Every other developer believes their hack and slash has to be filled with mind boggling combos requiring ridiculous timing, need...

Just finished RE 5 tonight. Medium (Normal) difficulty, single player the whole way, Xbox 360. Before I start my review, I should probably say I’m a huge Resident Evil fan. Even before the first game was released, I knew I was going to love it. I read a short RE comic book that was being given...

Just started playing this a week or two ago, I'm about 11 hours in, and I'm really enjoying it so far. The character customization feels like it's starting to take off, and if you get the DLC and start on hard mode there is actually a reasonable enough challenge to the game. One thing I'm...

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Ok finally got a chance to plug some time into it, and heres my first impressions/early review. Ill start with some simple pros and cons: Pros: - Great graphics, runs very smoothly at 1680x1050, max detail, 4xAA, 8xAF. Environments look great, as do fires, water effects etc. Explosions, gun...

I've never been a big fan of the tomb raider series. The games have been plagued with shittty controls , and poor gameplay. Thought I'd give this one a try...once I "acquired " the game , I've been playing non-stop , and have put in many hours. :p Graphics - really nice. Water effects are some...

Okay, I just picked this up a couple of weeks ago for a remarkably cheap price (it's been out for awhile) and I had pretty meager expectations going in since it came and went without much hoopla. The case wasn't helped with the dumb "Hot Import Nights" subtitle which really brought thoughts of...

Alright, I beat the career mode of it yesterday and am at 66% of "game completion". It took just under 15 hrs to complete the career mode. So that's a bit disappointing since it took about 40hrs to complete the career mode in Midnight Club LA, although it's MUCH more non-linear. The issues I...

Preface: I've beaten the game and have spent upwards of 30 hours playing the game. I beat the main quest (not really trying to blow through or anything) in 16 hours and went back and played the former parts. All was played on Normal difficulty. I will not spoil anything in this review, I HATE...

I played the game for about an hour. Heres the scoop. To me the game feels like a budget game from the start. I noticed EA hired a 3rd party to make the game. Some unknown company to me. I set up the game as I set up all my games - native res of 1680X1050. All graphics options on high. The...

I've played through MGS 1-3 in anticipation of MGS4. Haven't started up 4 yet, as there was a family emergency last week and I'm moving this week, but I thought I would christen the review forum with my thoughts on the first 3 - MGS1 - Great game overall. Bad graphics didn't really bother me...

I've already played a few of the past brothers in arms series, not bad, not great. I'm also fed up with WW2 shooters , especially since the new COD is going to have another go at it again...yawn. Here's my opinion of Hell's Highway, the latest offering in the series. graphics - very...

I'm just going to get this out of the way right now - Braid is brilliant. In Braid, the player controls a man named Tim, in search of the "Princess." The game is a complex 2d platform game with a time-shifting gimmick that may seem ordinary at first, but truly changes the way you think to solve...

With the recent Pyro update I thought I'd play some TF2 to see how it is. I started a few days ago and once again I find myself parked in front of my computer till the wee hours of the morning. I'm really digging the update so far. I been mostly playing 2fort to unlock the new pyro...

If you had told me this would be the most played game on my PSP when I first bought it I would have said you were crazy but the game is simply outstanding. From the graphics to the physics everything is very polished. A word on the physics. The only way to describe it is that it really feels...