Battles take place across huge, beautiful battlefields three stories high, with projectiles flying, and special attacks requiring just a few button presses.
The player is buried by stats and options, on the mound or at the plate. Batting push/pull technique on the analog stick is tricky, but becomes very satisfying.
There’s no better way to take a break from the breakneck pace of other games than to just listen to the breeze as you shoot a few holes in Out of Bounds.
A fans-only title. An endearing bunch of characters: Some have absurd cleavage, others mechanical noses, they throw underwear at each other and act silly.
It’s fun to fire your weapons. Call of Duty 4 stands neck and neck with BioShock and Halo 3 as one of the best FPS releases in an impossibly cutthroat year.
If you’ve ever wondered why Marvel never created a comic book wherein a meteor shot forth from Elektra’s crotch, now is the time to rectify that inequity.
A PI is beheaded by the corrupt public figure he was digging up too much dirt on. He’s put back together by a mad scientist who gives him interchangeable heads.
The graphics may not dazzle, but the battlefields are big and well-designed, and there’s so much content, you learn to love substance over style real quick.
The recent movie was lame or a triumph, depending on your devotion to the cartoon. For the game, there’s no debate: It’s not fun to play. It looks gross.
While EA took its Madden and NHL franchises to new heights with sleek graphics and speed boosts to the gameplay, the 2K responses weren’t able to keep pace.