The series’ tight and responsive gunplay, coupled with its addicting (and not copied nearly enough) slow-mo mechanic, makes for another great-playing game.
It’s a fantasy RPG set thousands of years in the past, but the game also exists in an ooooold school RPG dream world where the modern age never came to pass.
The title may be all that has been streamlined: It takes a kitchen sink approach, one that actually enhances rather than obscures the game’s strengths.
Colorful heroes and monsters clash on battlefields like luxury board games, with sparks and explosions of steel and magic lighting up the lush surroundings.
With Dark of the Moon, developer High Moon Studios has been yanked out of its G1 Cybertron fantasy and tasked to create a more predictable summer movie tie-in.
It’s a testament to the writing that this is good enough to read from beginning to end, discovering new artists as you go, just to hear the author’s take.
MLB 11 The Show offers the best baseball experience on a console, due in large part to the stellar audiovisual presentation that mimics an actual MLB broadcast.
Samael settles into its trademark midtempo mood and plays things a little too safe at times, but the highlights leave more of an impression than the dips.