Split Second: Velocity Review – The Speed Is The Charm
As racing games go, they all follow the same basic concept of drive fast and win. Very few actually differ in levels of realism and skill they strive to achieve with a passion. Luckily, Split Second takes the task of start to finish and makes it revitalizing, new, and an overall decent title to play that provides a sense of experience and realism. Split Second pushes for an added new dimension to the basic structure by allowing players to affect the racing environment by blowing up boats, cars, trains, and basically anything that litters the side of the course, allowing for more tactics to come into play. The game can turn from boring, to unexpected and for everything that goes right on a track, things can go wrong. This aspect can both be beneficial and a hindrance when it comes to enjoyment and frustration and it lets the game down to a point. Regardless, the title is some fun as long as it lasts through core gameplay in singleplay and finally the multiplayer aspect that transitions this into the real world scenario.
Prince Of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Review – Time Can Be A Cruel Mistress
The Prince will never be in the forgotten realms of every gamer that has encountered him. The Prince returns in Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and this time the mood is entirely different from Prince of Persia 4, the storybook equivalent that focused more on the inveterate storybook version as the original and truly defined a new height for the series with humor, and action combined into one. Thankfully, the new title pushes the series back into its former Sands of Time inception and critical storyline atmosphere with a central but memorable antagonist, and a tale of vengeance and time packed into one. Newer abilities and an upgraded combat system with smoother mechanics without a companion makes the Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands truly refreshing. Even though the gameplay does not live up to the same standards in relation to mission structure and design by the original title, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands feels nostalgic regardless. With a detailed storyline, splendid graphics, and moreover the ability to finally rewind time – the Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands truly feels like a decent sequel to The Sands of Time, but nostalgia can only go so far.
Red Dead Redemption Review – Why An Outlaw Exists In Glory And Redemption
Red Dead Redemption is the epitome of the product that results when you take a developer that strives to create a world teeming with life in all its simplicity and metamorphoses the Western World into something completely unforgettable and extraordinary. Red Dead Redemption is Rockstar Games’ latest open-world action, suspense, humor, and adventure title all seamlessly integrated together to create one of the most necromantic experiences for gaming enthusiasts that love anything remotely related to the word “Western.” Providing a macrobiotic and meticulously thaumaturgic setting, Red Dead Redemption explodes with different personalities and characters with their own ambitions and dreams in the lawless West that is central to the intricately detailed storyline. Red Dead Redemption makes the beauty of the daily sunsets pale in comparison to the sheer vivacity of the incredible variety in gameplay that it offers. Red Dead Redemption is something that stays with you and inevitably makes you believe in the times of the ungovernable West, and that we actually live in 1911 America. People are not simply playing Cowboys and Robbers, but the world is revealing itself in its one true and only form: The Wild West. Through crossing multiple genres of art and style, Red Dead Redemption redefines the Western Open World Genre to an acclaimed facet of life in which anything is possible.
Alpha Protocol Small World Trailer – Perfect Arabia
The latest trailer for SEGA and Obsidian’s upcoming espionage RPG Alpha Protocol is out today, putting the spotlight on the numerous locales Agent Michael Thorton will be traveling to and from throughout his adventure. From Saudi Arabia to Russia and from Italy to Taipei, this Agent has his work cut out for him.
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Lost Planet 2 Review – Survival Of Humanity
Lost Planet 2 takes players back into the hearkened mist of the snowy peaks and the mountain tops of E.D.N III. An entire decade has passed and E.D.N III has changed to adapt to the interactions with the now-defunct Project Frontier. Terraforming efforts have allowed the ice to melt and luscious jungles with purveying areas of deserts to form. Players experience the bitter wilderness of the E.D.N III world by attempting to take control of the environment with an incredible arsenal of weaponry against the native Akrid enemies, and an incredible storyline that spans across 6 interactive storyline experiences. Lost Planet 2 is much more evolved from its predecessor in more ways than one and is a game that reveals the newfound sense of cooperative gameplay action from the single-player campaign teams to the online cooperative mode that makes it a title that is worth the gaming hours spent despite the frostbite.
Alan Wake Review – The Dichotomy And The Power Of The Night
The darkness is a compulsion of everything that is wrong with the night, and it has being. It is something palpable and dangerous, sparing no one from its torment in the shadows of the moonlight and the dim street lamps. Alan Wake is the plagued victim of the darkness, an author and another soul to torment when the town of Bright Falls goes to sleep. Alan Wake was sure he would be safe in Bright Falls by having time to relax and forget the horrible mental block that prevents him from writing the next hit-seller to Alan Wake: The Sudden Stop; Unfortunately, he was specious in the power and authentic realism of the unseen and the night. Alan Wake is the latest title by Remedy Entertainment that lives and breathes the dichotomy of the amaranthine force of time, light, and darkness. With one of the most incredible gameplay aspects that accentuate the flashlight, Alan Wake is an exhilarating experience that thriller and suspense savants will find unforgettably palpable. The transitions of mood and the tone of the setting with Bright Falls surpasses the astonishing storyline that ensues and the plot twists that follow. Bright Falls is the deus ex machina to the constant positivity of the sun and the glaring power it holds over the mysterious facets of nature, from growth to pure unleashing of destruction when it sets and takes away the glow that protects the town. The semblance is rich with scary cabins to serene people during the day and constant interference by a dark presence that is felt throughout the pages of the novel that make up Alan Wake and that make up an incredibly memorable title for 2010.
