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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (Xbox 360) Review
Summary [5.5 out of 10] A sequel to the 2006 original, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 offers up a hybrid Secret War/Civil War storyline and the same four character, top down beat-em-up action found in the first game and the X-men Legends titles before it. Vicarious Visions left the basic game play alone and streamlined the interface [...]
Continue reading...Shadow Complex (Xbox 360) Review
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Summary [9.5 out of 10] Set in the world of Empire by Orson Scott Card, Shadow Complex is a 2D side-scrolling adventure game in the vein of Metroid. You play Jason, a fish out of water who finds himself embroiled in high tech action and espionage when a hiking trip turns into a rescue mission which [...]
Continue reading...Batman: Arkham Asylum (Xbox 360) Review
Friday, September 11, 2009
Summary [10 out of 10] When Joker turns a prison transfer into Arkham Asylum into a full fledged take over of the island it is up to Batman to round up the inmates and stop whatever Joker has planned in the first game to ever fully and accurately capture the Batman experience. Finally, Batman’s entire skill [...]
Continue reading...Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Xbox 360) Review
Monday, July 27, 2009
Summary [8.5/10 (for fans) 6.5/10 (for anyone else)] Set in 1991 the Ghostbusters game effectively serves as a de facto third movie This is a cannon installment in the series which will apparently be relevant to the actual third movie. Written by Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis, the game finds the Ghostbusters thriving and happy working [...]
Continue reading...HTC Hero Review Uncovers Prominent Performance Issues
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Engadget Mobile put up their (excellent) review of the HTC Hero recently and I got a lot of information out of that review that I hadn’t gotten anywhere else. More specifically the following highlights: Hardware – The hardware in the HTC Hero was rumored at one point to be improved upon the HTC Magic, that form [...]
Continue reading...The Canon PowerShot SX 1 IS Review – Could Have Been Great
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Introduction I just purchased a Canon PowerShot SX 1 IS (not the SX10 — which has no HD video recording) to replace my existing Canon G9 (which is an excellent camera): What I really wanted out of the SX 1 IS was the 1080p @ 30fps video recording and improved zoom for traveling. Unfortunately when the SX [...]
Continue reading...Windows 7 – It Just Works… As Long as You Don’t Use It
Monday, July 13, 2009
I’ve been using Windows 7 since the RC was announced a few months ago and we’ve had quite a bit to say about it — mostly all good. Over the last month I’ve noticed a trend in my Windows 7 install (that I use as my primary desktop and work machine) that was feeling all too [...]
Continue reading...T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 Review
Monday, July 6, 2009
Summary [8.0 out of 10] The T-Mobile Sidekick LX is well-built piece of hardware combined with a customized Windows Mobile interface that some may love (teenagers?) but we don’t see it replacing any mobile warrior’s BlackBerries, iPhones or G1’s anytime soon. Review T-Mobile has released it’s latest iteration of the sidekick, the revamped 2007 version, the “Sidekick LX [...]
Continue reading...Thoughts on Transformers 2 and Big-Budget Sequels
Sunday, July 5, 2009
I’ve been wanting to see Transformers 2 since it was released, but noticed that every few days I watched the IMDB score, it would drop farther and farther down. Checking out Metacritic was even more dissuading, with a 35% overall score. I couldn’t believe how bad this movie sounded. I read comment after comment about how [...]
Continue reading...Terminator Salvation (Xbox 360) Review
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Summary [5.5 out of 10] Terminator Salvation is a terrible game whose unfinished feel, technical hickups and terribly scripted sequences all punish the player for trying to play it. Terminator Salvation has the feel of a game that only had 8 months of development time in order to make it’s launch along-side the movie. I wouldn’t [...]
Continue reading...Wii MotionPlus + Grand Slam Tennis = Garbage
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Ok so I bought into the hype-machine that is everything-Nintendo and plopped down my $19.99 for a Wii MotionPlus when it came out and along with the only other highly rated Wii MotionPlus-enabled game that launched with it: Grand Slam Tennis. Here’s my single sentence description of the experience for everyone that was curious “Was it [...]
Continue reading...The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena (Xbox 360) Review
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Summary [7.5 out of 10] Assault on Dark Athena is a great followup to the award-winning Escape from Butcher Bay title landing just-shy of perfect due to what I can only describe as a lack of “balls”. The well paced levels, interesting NPCs and fun melee combat are all back, but instead of bumping the Riddick [...]
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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