There’s no such thing as the perfect video game. There can’t be. We’ve come close a few times, with titles like Portal or Ocarina of Time, but games are made by people, and people aren’t infallible. There will always be glitches, bugs, or exploits. As a culture, gaming has grown to accept this, albeit, with a grain …
One of the annual traditions gamers’ can count on for the past several years is that a new Call of Duty game will be released. Activision has continued the trend into the new generation of consoles and developer Treyarch as revealed its latest military simulator, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. Treyarch has the difficult goal of keeping the franchise fresh while also keeping core players satisfied. Their big solution is to make this the biggest Call of Duty ever. With such a large scope comes inevitable casualties, thus Black Ops 3 is perfectly competent, but a master of nothing.
Not since 2001 with the release of the original Xbox has any console launched with a game so revered by fans and critics alike as Bungie’s Halo: Combat Evolved. The original game was a bold adventure, brimming with new ideas, an alien world and a killer soundtrack. Following it’s huge success, the sequel Halo 2 …
The premise seems familiar enough: it’s the not-too-distant future and Earth is under attack by aliens. The “Mimics” arrived by an errant asteroid and now they have taken over half of continental Europe. To help combat these hyper-intelligent aliens, humans wear armored combat suits fitted with rocket launchers and side-guns. One might even confuse the …
One only has to cast a glance over the mainstream media to find articles proclaiming video games to be the work of the devil, to have incited violence in young children or to have turned them into ruthless killing machines, possibly sent back in time to stop the leader of the human resistance. Jack Thompson, …
Rarely, if ever, is a game so exceedingly great it warrants a remake only a year after release. This is, however, the case with The Last of Us, the late PS3 entry from Naughty Dog (the Uncharted series) that is coming to the PS4 in the way of The Last of Us: Remastered. Perhaps this is merely an effort …
There have been a slew of modern military shooters in the past few years but none have brought the cinematic experience like Call of Duty. The latest offering from Activision simply entitled Call of Duty: Ghosts seems to give a unique perspective. Taking place in the near future the oil fields of the Middle East …