It seems that the NCAA Football series has always played second-fiddle to Madden. That makes sense, after all; the sales numbers show that it’s not even close. Still, the past treatment of NCAA as a re-skinned version of last year’s NFL title has always irked us a bit. Now, though, it seems NCAA is making more steps out on its own. READ MORE
505 Games and NaturalMotion are back with another football game, this time on Xbox Live Arcade. The original Backbreaker was praised for its realistic physics and animations, but was trashed for its inconsistent gameplay. Backbreaker: Vengeance takes the Tackle Alley game mode from the original and adds in two more modes: Vengeance and Supremacy. $15 for a few mini-games does seem pretty steep. READ MORE
I don’t expect much from a Transformers game. All I want is to control giant robots that can change into cars, shoot other giant robots until they explode and be able to switch between combat and vehicle form at will. That’s it. Thankfully, Transformers: Dark of the Moon delivers on all of those points and is a fun, if shallow, game all the way through. READ MORE
The First Templar has a lot going for it: unique setting for an RPG, limited party size (meaning that you’ll never pick up a character that you don’t use), well-defined levels with well-defined primary and secondary objectives and active combat skills that entrench you in the scenario rather than remove you from it. What brings it down is that, for all of its high points, The First Templar looks dated and controls like a PS2 game. Everything feels like it could and should have been pushed out just a bit further to take the experience from good to great. READ MORE
As we played through the final episode of Back to the Future‘s first season, OUTATIME, we couldn’t help but be disappointed. After all, we came through the first four episodes, and followed Marty through his various adventures in locations both familiar and new. This last part, we thought, should be better than this.
Then, though, the game kept going. READ MORE
