Last year’s Virtua Tennis 4 was a great entry in Sega’s popular tennis series. It continued the mix of semi-realism and arcade-style gameplay while adding some new ideas and quirky touches that made it stand out from previous iterations. Virtua Tennis 4: World Tour is Sega’s initial release on Sony’s…
When I first heard about Binary Domain, my skepticism was loud and proud. Team Yakuza still has yet to really grasp the hearty following it deserves in the US, and games like Binary Domain just looked like desperate attempts to appeal to a specific market using sensibilities and assets that…
I will admit that I went into Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games with an open mind, because I heard the Wii version was pretty good. The 3DS deserves an excellent party game after all. Did Mario and Sonic succeed in providing a pleasant experience that anyone…
Half-Life. That’s right, roll it around your mouth then say it out loud; enjoy the after-taste. The 1998 sensation that was Half-Life blew the minds of anyone whom played it. At the time, the game was absolutely worshipped for offering players an immersive gameplay environment featuring a story that wasn’t…
Ask any group of gamers about their most prized moments at the arcades of old, and you are bound to hear the words “House of the Dead” uttered at least one or two times (with the phrase “suffer like G did” lurking just behind it). Even after the lamentable demise…
It’s hard to doubt that the beat ’em up genre is at least important to the retro scene and early videogame history as a whole. And while the genre has stopped being relevant it has in many ways made a come back into the download market in the last few…
Well, even though Soul Calibur IV was intended to be the end of the series, Soul Calibur V has come out. So where does it stand on the stage-of-history-of-the-soul-that-burns-to-fight-for-the-sword-of-legend-of-the-spirit-of-the-soul? Well, Soul Calibur V reverses some of the negative trends fans have perceived in the series while creating new problems for itself….