Stylistically, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days is like all your favorite colorful candies packed into one thickly coated wrapper. Thick, because at times it’s hard to see beyond the game’s ulterior motives. There’s a lot of flavors and visual flare (such as the fact that the game looks like it’s being filmed on a [...]
Deathsmiles comes out in North America for the Xbox 360 exactly a week from today on June 29th and I couldn’t be any happier. The game marks the first bullet hell shooter by Cave (a popular Japan developer in the genre) ever to be released in the states. Other than having two other shooters (Espgaluda [...]
It’s amazing how giddy one can get over a new video game. The anticipation of arriving at the store, the fresh wrapping and scent of the case and instruction manual; these are just some of the things you appreciate when you invest in a game you feel is worth your purchase. It seems like it [...]
We’re finally in the midst of the holiday video game boom and while there are many intriguing games coming out within the next few busy months, none of them drag my undivided attention away from Bayonetta. To be honest, January is going to be a very important month for video games, with Darksiders (another hack [...]
Mother 3 has a lot of history behind it. What began as a sequel originally scheduled for the Nintendo 64, Mother 3 was finally released on the Gameboy Advance System years later in Japan on April 20, 2006. The rare and cult RPG Earthbound (Mother 2 in Japan) for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was [...]
So if you haven’t already figured it out already from the banner of this blog, I love the Metal Slug series. Whether it’s because of the addicting, fast, run and gun gameplay or even the silly humor, the Metal Slug games have always remained extremely consistent and solid throughout their long history dating back to [...]
Slicing and dicing through a dark, combat wonderland As I pulled off another “obliteration technique,” my mouth remained dropped. I thought to myself, “Team Ninja, you’ve done it again.” Brutally, a poor warrior’s legs were chopped off, sliced around the torso in a spinning fashion (like a spindle), only to be finished by a beheading [...]
