The top down racer holds a special place in my heart. As a kid I would gravitate to the likes of Super Sprint and Ivan “Ironman” Stewart’s Super Off Road at the arcade to watch those blessed with more quarters than me literally take the wheel in racing action. I think the top down view has always been ideally suited to racing because gamers have a much larger field of vision and can simultaneously view what is occurring several car lengths ahead and behind them. In fact, ...
Who remembers the days of top down shooters, running wild through GTA 2, watching bullets leave your pistol as tiny dots begging for pixelated destruction? In the spirit of nostalgia, developer Team 17 has re-released their own top down shooter Alien Breed, a sci-fi survival horror game with all the hallmarks of an arcade classic. Originally released in 1991, the game featured two lone officers of the fictional agency I.P.C., or Interplanetary Corps. While investigating a potentially hostile ...
By Jacob Mertens
Ah, the hallowed days of the arcade-console crossover, when gamers traded restless hours jamming quarters into a towering machine, taking pride in the nimble flip of a joystick, for a box nestled against their television and a chance to master the same game without scrounging for loose change. Few crossover titles caught fire on the new console platforms like the arcade fighter. Gamers revelled at the chance to perfect a character’s set of moves, or to unleash a ...
By Jacob Mertens
If you haven’t heard of Naruto over the last several years, you may be living a sheltered life. The popular Japanese manga and anime series has permeated into Western culture, bringing with it Cartoon Network syndication, bound comic novels that strangle the aisles of Barnes and Noble, and video game adaptations both well crafted and hastily put together. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 follows in the footsteps of the well received Ninja Storm series, and ...
Resident Evil has reinvented itself a number of times during the popular series’ history. When it moved away from its Survival Horror roots in 2005 with the fourth installment, many people feared that the series would end up losing sight of what made the franchise so special. However, the game was received extremely well due to innovative and incredibly satisfying gameplay. Resident Evil 5, however, was a bit more polarizing. Moving away from horror and into action territory, it left ...
As the old adage goes, “Another day, another dollar. Another year, another FIFA.” The annual release of EA’s highly-touted soccer franchise brings out the football fans in droves, and over the course of this generation, EA has managed to create both a commercially successful and critically acclaimed FIFA franchise. After FIFA 12’s release, it didn’t seem as if EA could take the franchise much higher. Unfortunately, that’s what’s happened with FIFA ...
Sure, our readers over in the US may not feel like it’s a big deal, but over here in Canada, the release of NHL 13 is a much bigger event than the launch of Madden could ever hope to be. Of course, some fans may be rolling their eyes every time a new iteration of a sports series comes out, arguing that the yearly releases never add much to the previous experience. However, this time around, EA promised to add a lot of noteworthy things to the game. Considering the current lockout in ...
It’s not every day you come across a game like The Expendables 2: Videogame. At a glance, one can infer the game is obviously not trying to break any new ground or be particularly masterful, but still be a quick burst of fun to play by yourself or with a few buddies. There’s nothing wrong with this type of effort. Nobody should be ashamed of wanting to turn their brain off, blow some stuff up, and have a (possibly) forgettable, but delightful, experience. The Expendables 2: ...
Before I get deep into the review, I want to put some context on the situation that I am in. Racing Simulators and I do not agree with each other most of the time, and we shift to a firm dislike when the time comes for us to get close. Whether that’s the simulators actually expecting me to complete a difficult task, or myself expecting to have fun with said game, either way, the experience is mostly...ok, pretty much always discouraging. Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends makes no ...
Light gun games were all the rage back in the 90’s. Area 51, Lethal Enforcers, Mad Dog McCree, and Virtua Cop all had huge followings, not to mention the mass quarter-munching love given to the leaders of the pack: SEGA’s House of the Dead franchise and Namco’s Time Crisis series. I myself have fond memories of spending long afternoons in the arcade, virtually blasting bad guys, saving the world, and spending a considerable amount of my paycheck in the process. Eventually ...
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