Modern Warfare 2 does not live up to the hype that surrounded it before the release date and to the standard set by its predecessor, which was released in late 2007. It ticks all the points on the list: there are better graphics, there's a bigger “What the Hell?” moment, there are tougher characters, bigger firefights and more controversies. It's a fun, quick, at times tough shooter that satisfies the urge to redeem by wielding a firearm and has superb level design.But the soul of the experience seems not to be there anymore. Activision, a company led by someone who stated that one of his goals was taking the fun out o... [read more >>] It is a known fact that the movie industry is all about creating new fictional or real content for the sole purpose of entertaining viewers by challenging them to either take part in adventures or discover the human spirit. The Indiana Jones franchise has been around for some time now and has made it from the wide screen into our homes by being incorporated into the videogame industry. This is how everyone can experience the thrill of being a great adventurer from the comfort of their own home either by playing new and daring adventures or by reliving some of their favorite movie scenes. Most particularly, LEGO has embraced the Indiana Jone... [read more >>] Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time is a fitting end (if it is really the end, hard to know when it comes to such a long running and interesting series) to the adventures of the very unusual duo of a Lombax and a sentient robot.The first installment in the series arrived in November 2002 and just seven years later, there are five games in the original series, including a ground breaking one on the PlayStation Portable, three videogames in the Future series, featuring the one reviewed here and another spinoff on the PSP, which puts Clank in the spotlight. It's been a good few years of Ratchet and his partner, and Sony platforms... [read more >>] Think of Halo 3: ODST as a centaur. Or as a gryphon. Or as a mermaid. Or as any other creature that is half an entity and half another. In the case of Halo 3: ODST, it is clearly half Master Chief and half human. Half classic firefights, pitched battles that never let you hold your breath and get the adrenalin pumping, and half quietly sneaking through a dark city, almost afraid to shoot the enemies. Half complex story delivered in interesting ways and half military stereotypes acted out in a flat manner. Half attempt at innovation from Bungie and half need for commercial success on the part of Microsoft. Half exciting experience and half d... [read more >>] It's not a pretty game. It's not about a hero and it's not about glory. The concept of Dragon Rising is a breath of fresh air, as it steps away from the cinematic depiction of war that games have started to portray exclusively and throws you in the middle of combat as a soldier should be, on a need to know basis. The game is one of the closest things out there not to a first-person shooter's depiction of war but to an actual war simulation. The whole super-soldier factor of unlimited health regeneration doesn't exist and surviving getting shot is a miracle as long as you don't dress your wounds and receive medi... [read more >>] Kill. Climb. Love. Take down a helicopter from the rooftops. Battle a tank on the streets of a Himalayan village. Get a giant dagger to stab the heart of a millennium-old statue. Climb on a train as it plummets into a crevasse. Save the love of your life from a mass murder. Steal from a Turkish museum. Get betrayed (multiple times). Fight mech-like enemies wielding Gatling guns. Decrypt ancient languages. Solve puzzles. Grab enemies from ledges and throw them in huge, open pits behind you. Take a comrade to safety while under fire. Destroy an armored carrier as it tries to crush you. Sneak around. Fight hordes of enemies. Offer witty remark... [read more >>] Batman has been many things over time. He was the human detective who hanged around with all those superheroes with the awesome powers. He was a dark, torn apart man motivated by the death of his parents to eliminate crime. He was the only man who could take Superman on and win. He was the conscience of a city embraced by crime. Thus, Batman is one of the best known comic heroes and enjoyed several successful big screen outings, with the most recent two movies, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cristian Bale, being some of the most popular in history. But can a videogame, with all the restrictions that come with the genre, boil dow... [read more >>] Video games aren't exactly very innovative sometimes as, when they find a theme they can exploit, developers usually try to run it dry then abuse it some more before migrating to the next “cash cow.” Such is the case with World War II titles, which have appeared ever since the invention of fairly complicated games. It seems that most shooter fans have shot more Nazis than all of the soldiers who participated in that historic conflict. Among the franchises that made WWII their home is id Software's Wolfenstein. After achieving cult-like status thanks to various titles made for the PC, running on DOS and other older sys... [read more >>] Evil. It is the center point for a lot of video games these days, as many tell the story of a brave and good character going up against the forces of evil and eventually vanquishing them in a tour de force. After that, all is well in the land, peace reigns and everyone can start hugging puppies and kittens until they feel sick. But luckily for those who prefer to play on the dark side of things, the team at Triumph Studios has created the Overlord franchise, with the first title showing us just how good it is to be evil with your fellow companions and how much better it is to send your loyal minions into the fight while you think of your l... [read more >>] Open world games are pretty standard these days, with many developers trying to place players in the shoes of ordinary people who have an interesting story. But sometimes, game creators spice it up a bit, and give every gamer what he wants: a super-powered character who can cause havoc in the world around him with a multitude of different and gory methods. Prototype is such a game, telling the story of an amnesiac, Alex Mercer, in a Manhattan devastated both by a deadly virus that turns ordinary people into mutants and by the battle between the monsters and the army. Mercer now has to track down what happened to him and leave behind a tr... [read more >>] | 
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