Tag Archives: Game review

Review: Lollipop Chainsaw (X360)

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Reggie Carolipio

Suda 51 doesn’t just design games. He and his crew at Grasshopper Manufacture lovingly drip the paint from their imaginations onto a digital drop cloth to create some of the most unusual settings, characters, and storylines to be pressed onto … Continue reading →

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Review: Asura’s Wrath (X360)

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Reggie Carolipio

Asura’s Wrath is an unusual game. It’s short, at around five or six hours, and heavily scripted with Quick Time Events telling you what to do. It’s a wash of chaos, blinding colors, and cosmic explosions interrupted only by a … Continue reading →

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Review: Tron – Evolution

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Reggie Carolipio

Tron: Evolution is the “prequel” to Tron: Legacy, Disney’s big sequel to the eighties movie that stunned crowds with its stylized idea of a world within your computer. Evolution preps fans for the film by explaining a little of what … Continue reading →

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Review: Call of Duty – Black Ops

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Redmond Carolipio

If there’s one thing Call of Duty: Black Ops keeps trying to tell me, I think it’s this: War is awesome. Real war, of course, is far from that, but Treyarch’s latest work isn’t interested in painting any solemn pictures … Continue reading →

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Review: Dead Rising 2

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Redmond Carolipio

By Brittany Vincent Contributing Writer The boys are back in town. By boys, I mean ravenous, flesh-eating zombies. And by town, I mean Fortune City. Luckily Chuck Greene, motocross superstar, is on the case. In Dead Rising 2, the sequel … Continue reading →

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Review: Enslaved – Odyssey to the West

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Redmond Carolipio

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West feels like something I’d have seen in a movie theater and enjoyed. Perhaps that’s the point Ninja Theory, its creator, is trying to make. The fusion of techniques from the movie world into the creation … Continue reading →

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Review: Medal of Honor (X360)

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Reggie Carolipio

When Call of Duty first set out to take on EA’s Medal of Honor series in 2003, few would have guessed at the time that the ‘me too’ WW2 shooter would not only go on to trounce its rival but … Continue reading →

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Review: Metroid – Other M

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Redmond Carolipio

Samus Aran isn’t supposed to need anyone. Ever since she let her hair down decades ago in one of gaming’s watershed moments (“what? Samus is a girl?”), she has been the quiet and revered standard-bearer for strong, female lead characters. … Continue reading →

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Review: Mafia II

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Redmond Carolipio

By Brittany Vincent Contributing Writer I’ve spent plenty of time with Grand Theft Auto, inFAMOUS, and other similar excursions — except I’ve done nothing but harm innocent pedestrians and wreck countless cars while racking up an indeterminable amount of property … Continue reading →

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Review: Shank

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Redmond Carolipio

Shank is a game you play with beer, chips and a dumb grin on your face, the kind of grin you get when the hero’s sole responsibility is leaving a trail of kicked asses in his wake. Such is the … Continue reading →

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