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Let’s be honest here. Sure, I’m excited about a lot of games at the show this year. But when you boil it all down, there’s hardly anything more enticing to us old-school gamers than freaking Mega Man 9. Although I knew it would be there and I knew pretty much exactly what to expect from it, that still didn’t prevent me from getting all giddy when I saw the kiosk sitting there on the show floor. A ...[Read More]

If style was measureable in pounds, then both of Platinum Game’s titles would deliver it in truckloads. Bayonetta, directed by Devil May Cry founder Hideki Kamiya, oozed more style and substance in its four minute demo than some games do throughout their entire play time. Clearly showing its DMC roots, Bayonetta’s sexy heroine was pulverizing the snot out of rogue angels and other ethereal beings ...[Read More]

Remember God Hand? That over the top, hyper-violent brawler from Clover that no one played? What about Sin City, the avant-garde attempt to translate a black and white graphic novel to the silver screen? I think if you combined those two visionary works, along with a subtle dosage of Running Man, you mind wind up with something like Mad World. I’ll take art design over technical prowess any day of...[Read More]

It looked sort of fun during Nintendo’s media briefing – I’ll give it that. However, beyond the initial appeal, when you actually think about the nature of the Wii Music, you’re bound to run into the same roadblock many of us encountered; this isn’t actually a game. This thought was later confirmed when our Nintendo rep basically stated what many of us were thinking; it’s not so much of a challeng...[Read More]

Flock was riotously satisfying. You’re a member of an alien species and it’s your job to abduct Earth’s wildlife by any means possible. In its simplest state this involves using your UFO to scare/heard sheep back to the mother ship but, at its most complex, it turns into a Rude Goldberg device that would make Mousetrap cower in fear; dozens of things may have to happen in sequence all for the minu...[Read More]

The original Banjo Kazooie and I had somewhat of a tenuous relationship. To date it is the only game I ever forcibly removed from a console so I could throw it as hard as I could against a wall. Its mockuMario style and incredibly cheap AI (detached zombie hand in church, I’m looking at you) rubbed me the wrong way one too many times. Thankfully, I’m happy to report that my experience with the 3rd...[Read More]

Dragon Quest IV Before I knew that the Dragon Quest 4-6 trilogy was coming to the internet, I was surfing the internet and literally thought it was a typo. I mean, I knew Dragon Quest IX was coming to the DS but I had no idea that IV was as well. It’s very hard to express my excitement when I finally realized that these titles were coming in the near future (5 & 6 have been Japan only up until...[Read More]

Empire: Total War I’m always a sucker for strategy games and the Total War series is one of the more in depth ones that I enjoy. Though I have only really played Rome: Total War, I am very excited to get my hands on Empire: Total War because the game looks down right beautiful. The game was in the pre-alpha state but it still looked magnificent. It takes place during the colonial times of the U.S....[Read More]

Yet another game of recent past that I have not had the fortune of playing is the highly-acclaimed first-person shooter/horror title for the PC, F.E.A.R. Granted, it would probably scare the bejeezus out of me anyhow judging by what I saw today of the forthcoming sequel, Project Origin, so perhaps in some regards that’s for the best. Either way, we learned a lot about PO today, so if you were a fa...[Read More]

Today we spent some time with MTV Games and Harmonix’s Rock Band 2, a title which should be self-explanatory enough for anyone who’s a fan of the original. Still, the Harmonix rep provided a very rational explanation of the company’s approach to developing the sequel to the smash hit: If Rock Band was innovation, Rock Band 2 is perfection. What? You have to buy new instruments all over again? It m...[Read More]

Rock Band 2 Rock Band 2 is turning out to be everything we had hoped for and more. Consistent with the “first we innovate, then we perfect” motif, the folks at Harmonix and MTV games have provided the full Rock Band experience with even further polish. So, I’ll try to run through everything that I heard that separates the title from its previous installment as well as its rival, Guitar...[Read More]