One of the defining factors of the Call of Juarez series has been its placement in the Old West, as you blast bad guys and root for the McCall clan. Can the series benefit by updating the game to modern day California and Mexico? It all comes down to cooperative play. READ MORE
It’s not often that you play a platformer in which the main character hasn’t been anthropomorphized in some way. You play as a guy, or a hedgehog made to look and move like a guy, or a guy made of meat, or a guy who’s really pixelated… or a girl. That happens too. What doesn’t happen much is the path taken by iOS darling EDGE: you’re just a cube. You don’t have a face, arms, legs or any of that. While we love iOS games around here, we’re glad to see Two Tribes take on PC porting duties for Mobigame’s abstract title. READ MORE
When most professional developers attempt to make a 3D game that uses 2D assets, it usually ends as an unpolished mess that loses its charm quickly and isn’t generally fun to play. EasyGameStation, the developers of the recently-localized Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale, manages to blend both dimensions splendidly to bring us the world of Chantelise, a love letter to both lovers of 2D sprites and tough action games. READ MORE
The Witcher 2 is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, ready to bite your hand off as soon as you get near it. Here is a guy at the end of the previous game with no gear, no skills, and as many as 8 dudes killing him at once. It’s hard to figure out how to beat any that are not the lowest. Very few of your options are open to you without looking at the manual, and the tutorial screens are tiny and last half a second. You will have to either look at the manual or go through your keyboard hitting all the buttons just to figure out where all the screens are. (I is inventory and M is map, which I suppose one could guess).
So the game is hard, you might’ve heard that. It’s not a fun hard, either. READ MORE
Atlus games don’t offer your average experience. Whether they are challenging morality in the Shin Megami Tensei series, challenging your sanity in Demon’s Souls or going for plain quirky in 3D Dot Game Heroes, Atlus games never fail to push boundaries for games and gamers alike. With Catherine, Atlus ups the ante and risk by creating an adult themed horror/puzzle game that relies heavily on story and challenging puzzles. READ MORE
