There’s really not much of a story to MS, although there’s a three-paragraph intro in the game’s manual that explains about a generic government recruiting base in the South Pacific. You’re a new soldier recruit-you can pick either Walter Ryan or Tyra Nelson as your character. [...]
This game will be filled with moral dilemmas, sophisticated combat, and plenty of quests for players to embark on. Hang on to your hats guys! [...]
Dragon’s Lair 2: Time Warp is a complete grab at nostalgia. The lasting legacy of Dragon’s Lair has been the quicktime event: pressing a series of buttons or directions to make something cinematic happen. Among others, Shenmue did it, God of War does it, and Resident Evil does it. If God of War was only ordered and deliberate button presses, it would be boring – maybe cinematically exciting, but boring. [...]
During combat, the animation is top notch, with plenty of environmental effects and cool-looking moves. The character designs are good, especially the larger units like the Frost Dragon. A special mention should also go to the design of the Dark Chaos god. Wow. The audio isn’t so top notch. [...]
The games story mode has you playing a wrestler named Suicide, or formally known as Suicide anyway – as in the games intro where you find yourself on top of the TNA Wrestling World, you get taken out and dumped in Mexico with amnesia. Apparently they did quite a number on you, so a couple of plastic surgeons that found you apparently offer to fix you up, which leads into the games create a character mode. [...]
Set in the mysterious Aperture Science Laboratories, Portal has been called one of the most innovative new games on the horizon and will offer gamers hours of unique gameplay. The game is designed to change the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment; similar to how Half-Life 2’s Gravity Gun innovated new ways to leverage an object in any given situation. [...]
Original a 2001, Japan only, arcade release, Ikaruga’s unique twist on top down, 2d shooting is acclaimed as some of the best in it class. Ports also made it to the Dreamcast in 2002 and then to the Gamecube in 2003. Now it is the Xbox Live Arcade’s turn to have its shot, so what is new? Not much really. However this is not a bad thing. [...]
Early maps involve little more than rescuing civilians from burning buildings, climbing over ledges, moving a few boxes, and opening locked doors with easy-to-find keys. But like any good puzzle game, Exit challenges you to find creative solutions to your problems, and later maps will become labyrinths filled with underwater passages, conveyor belts, pitch-black rooms, and countless other obstacles that will impede your superhero deeds. [...]
The story takes place in a factory where prototype robots and toasters are being produced-talk about an odd combination! But when military combat routines are accidentally installed into the new robots, it turns them into strategic killers. To save humanity, a factory worked named Myron creates a new batch of robots that have been implanted with the brain scans of retired World War II vets. [...]
I guess the closest thing I can compare Colossus’s gameplay to would be one of the more recent Legend of Zelda games, except all you do is fight bosses. This is a fairly gross oversimplification, but for lack of a better comparison it will have to do. Essentially, the game is broken up into sixteen chapters that each begin with your character riding out on his faithful steed in search of the next tough, brute colossus to viciously slaughter. [...]
