The return of quite possibly the most popular non-sim sports franchise ever was certainly met with exasperated anticipation. For the last year, fans of the sub-genre have been enjoying themselves some b-ball action with NBA Jam, though the question was always ringing across the Internet: When will we get another NFL Blitz title? While we had seen rumors indicating as such, the official answer didn’t come until the final months of last year and surprisingly, we had it in our hot little ...
It has been about nine months since we last saw TNT Racers, appearing on Sony’s PSP after hitting Xbox LIVE Arcade about this time last year. While it proved to be an interesting take on the kart-racing genre, it did have a few things that held it back from reaching the upper echelon of racers. Most notably, the camera design and poor pacing placed this one firmly in the middle-of-the-road catagory (ok, upper middle of the road). Now that it has been ported over to the PS3 (again, via ...
These days, encountering a game that can best be described as “difficult” is nothing new. Games such as Dark Souls and Super Meat Boy offer players an unrelenting and brutally difficult challenge that, once completed, leaves them filled with a true sense of accomplishment. More often than not, however, developers of games that are simply ill conceived, poorly designed and sloppily executed try to shield their creations behind the seemingly impenetrable label of ...
If there’s one franchise that is in dire need of a new entry, it’s Oddworld. As we sit and watch annual releases of such high profiles properties as Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed, and Need for Speed, we haven’t seen a new adventure in the Oddworld universe since 2005’s Stranger’s Wrath. We have seen a couple of the old titles re-released on PSN as PSOne Originals (Abe’s Oddysee and Abe’s Exoddus), but those were just straight ports of ...
One of our biggest complaints around the GameFocus halls has always been overpriced games. No, I’m not talking about the jump to $60 that this console cycle ushered in. I’m talking about games that may have been looked at more favorably had they been released with a price tag that is more in-line with the quality they carry. My go-to example is always Iron Man 2 (sorry SEGA). Not a terrible game, although it is not a good one either. And ultimately it was an extremely bitter pill ...
2D fighting games have been making a comeback over the past few years. Long-time gamers that have spent a lot of their time at the arcade will most likely remember SNK’s flagship fighting series: The King of Fighters. After a long stretch of near-perfection, the series hit a small bump with the last episode, King of Fighters XII. The game was still very good, but it failed to achieve the same kind of greatness fans of the series were used to. Does this new entry finally raise the bar ...
While the level of quality entertainment provided by Steven Spielberg’s latest animated blockbuster, The Adventures of Tintin and the Secret of the Unicorn, doesn’t need to be established, the inevitable video game adaptation tied in with the release of the film does have a lot to prove. Knowing that these adaptations don’t always rhyme with quality, where does this version of Tintin’s adventures stand in the grand scheme of things? Let’s find out!
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On September 29, 2010, developer Dark Energy Digital released the first of an intended three episode series for the Xbox Live Arcade, called Hydrophobia. Unfortunately, due to a lot of negative criticism and complaints (including some from us), the developer released an update for the game on December 21 of the same year titled Hydrophobia Pure. In an attempt to improve the game, the update made some major changes, such as revamped controls, improved physics and graphics, a more detailed ...
The Uncharted franchise is one that I won’t ever lose sight of. While I didn’t jump on board the Drake train until just prior to the launch of Uncharted 2, I did make the journey across both titles consecutively...and loved every second of it. Equal parts Tomb Raider and Indiana Jones, Uncharted, as a series, offered a wonderful combination of 3rd person action-adventure gamplay, puzzling, and a summer blockbuster film presentation, and I just couldn’t get enough of it. ...
When a game franchise has reached it’s third or fourth iteration, players typically have good idea of what the next entry in the series will involve. When players drop in a disk labeled “Call of Duty”, they know to expect fast-paced, frenetic action with over-the-top, Michael Bay-esque cinematic explosions.With a franchise like Dragon Ball Z, which has seen more than fifty games over the last twenty-five years, players have little doubt what type of game they are ...
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