Twisted Metal
Twisted Metal is a pretty fun game. I understand that statement is passively bland and opaque, but when examined closely it reveals more about Twisted Metal than one may first suspect. It’s actually a fun game in the sense that it doesn’t seem overly concerned with the gross artificiality and assumed necessities that have risen in popularity and become and staples of the current genera...[Read More]
Gotham City Impostors
Is it Batmen or Batmans? Or neither, considering there is no Batman?
Shank 2
Shank 2 embodies both the verb and the noun.
Final Fantasy XIII-2
The second thirteenth time's the charm...
Run Roo Run’s adorable, cash hungry Kangaroo
“Free to play” games don’t usually strike my interest. That particular business model, which prices the base game at little to no cost and then offers upgrades or time savers for additional fare, has been embraced by almost every modern MMORPG along with the more recent DOTA-style competitive experiences. The rationale seems sound when applied to customization; cosmetic accessori...[Read More]
AMY
Surviving horror...
Eric Layman’s Top Ten Videogames for 2012
Ok, so this obviously isn’t a Best of 2012 list a full year in advance. I’ve only actually played two of these games and there’s a lot that could happen in a year, but this is more like a fun guess over what has the potential to make my list come this time next year. I estimate that two or three will actually make it through. If all ten appear unchanged then I...[Read More]
Eric Layman’s Top Ten Videogames for 2011
Hello and welcome to my top ten for 2011. A couple odd trends worthy of note; only two games were developed in North America, and only two were legitimate sequels. This is consistent with my particular interests, meaning I tend to favor new ideas (even when they fail) and ambition rather than engage an experience I’ve already had several times over. In the case of the two sequels I th...[Read More]
Sonic CD
It's about time.
Trine 2
Colored Expectations...
Tekken Hybrid
Hit and miss with an Iron Fist.
Need for Speed: The Run
Having Michael Bay direct Need for Speed:The Run’s commercial was utterly perfect. Usually a videogame’s pre-release media and final product are so divorced from each other you wonder if anyone in the marketing department actually bothered to play the game, but The Run’s message is in complete harmony with the experience it provides the player. Like Bay’s body of thrilling ...[Read More]