The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings – Enhanced Edition Review
Posted by Game Spot on Apr 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Kevin VanOrd gladly fights his way through The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings in this video review for the Enhanced Edition on the Xbox 360.
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The Good
Intricate, politically charged story
Player choice manifests itself in meaningful ways
Gorgeous, fearsome world tinged with death and despair
Entertaining combat with a good sense of impact
A number of powerful, memorable moments.
The Bad
Visual and interface quirks
Third act comes...
Fez Review
Posted by Game Spot on Apr 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Tom Mc Shea gives us some perspective on Fez in this video review.
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The Good
Inviting, charming visual design
Varied and catchy soundtrack
Challenging puzzles that require serious dedication to solve
Novel screen-rotation mechanic.
The Bad
Convoluted map
Unclear when you have enough knowledge to solve puzzles
Performance issues.
First appearances can be mighty deceiving. Fez starts as a simple platformer in a brightly colored...
Alone, confused, and sick in the world of Stasis.
Posted by Game Spot on Apr 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Turn off the lights, puts some headphones on, and get ready to wake up into the world of Stasis. The trailers had us biting our nails off.
You wake up, covered in a green slimy liquid. There’s nothing to indicate what time of day or year it is. You don’t know where you are or what you’re doing lying face-up in a dirty abandoned research facility. Yet, three defining thoughts enter your brain: Where’s your wife? Where’s your daughter? What are you going to...
Street Fighter X Tekken Gets Cross-Platform Play
Posted by Game Spot on Apr 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment
The Vita version of the crossover brawler will enable battles between PS3 and Vita, and comes with the 12 new fighters packaged as DLC for everyone else.
When Street Fighter X Tekken arrives for Sony’s handheld this autumn, the home console versions will have been kicking around for months. So it’s just as well the Vita release is more than the same game squeezed onto a smaller screen. It also opens up cross-platform play between the Vita and PlayStation 3s–good news for...
DmC: Dante Gets Naked, Is Fun to Play
Posted by Game Spot on Apr 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Now we’ve gone hands-on with Ninja Theory’s Devil May Cry reboot, we can stop talking about the hair. Right after this preview.
Tameem Antoniades is relieved to put DmC into the hands of the press at last–maybe now we’ll stop banging on about how Dante looks and start on whether he’s any fun to play. “Ironically, Dante’s hair is black and mine’s turning white now,” says the Ninja Theory chief, referring to months of being denounced by...
Lost Planet 3: The Last Thing You Expected
Posted by Game Spot on Apr 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Unless you expected a civilian hero, a personal story, and Western developer Spark Unlimited (in which case, good job).
After Lost Planet 2’s modest sales and lukewarm reviews, Capcom must have had a long, hard think on its sci-fi shooter series. A change of direction was probable, then, but not an about-face like this: Lost Planet 3 is a character-driven, primarily single-player adventure set years before the events of the first game. It’s recognisably a Lost Planet outing...
Resident Evil 6: The Third Guy is Wesker’s Son
Posted by Game Spot on Apr 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment
And the blonde girl is Sherry Birkin. Also: real zombies, “horror entertainment”.
Is the future of Resident Evil action or horror? The series of late has been evolving towards action, and you could call it adapt or die; the producer of 3DS instalment Revelations says the market is too small to support horror as we once knew it. But the makers of Resident Evil 6 talked up a “return to horror” at Capcom’s annual Captivate showcase, where they balanced the all-out...
Mugen Souls: Spinning Rainbows, Rabbit People, and Split-Personalities
Posted by Game Spot on Apr 04, 2012 | Leave a Comment
We check out the bizarre results of Idea Factory’s latest work.
Here’s a fun fact about Mugen Souls, a quirky little role-playing number from Idea Factory: the game was produced by an unnamed developer calling himself the new Keiji Inafune (that is, the Mega Man creator who left Capcom to form his own studio). The “new Keiji Inafune” stint was nothing more than a publicity stunt to get people turning their heads to the game. What’s even more surprising is that...
Rock Band Blitz: Kicking It Old School
Posted by Game Spot on Apr 04, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Say goodbye to plastic peripherals and hello to some streamlined, fast-paced rhythm action.
Before Guitar Hero and Rock Band reduced our living rooms to a plastic peripheral junk yard, developer Harmonix made a little known title for PlayStation 2 called Frequency; a fast-paced rhythm game that used a standard PlayStation 2 controller to perform songs. So too did its follow-up Amplitude, which upped the pace and made the seizure-inducing visuals even more outlandish. Both were incredibly tricky...
Is Far Cry 3’s Multiplayer worth howling over?
Posted by Game Spot on Apr 04, 2012 | Leave a Comment
We got to play two maps and two game modes to find out.
While Far Cry 2 boasted a long and varied single player campaign, its multiplayer didn’t really manage to compete in a post-Modern Warfare world. For Far Cry 3, a separate team at Ubisoft Massive is hoping to create a multiplayer experience that can compete with the shooting genre’s heavy hitters, as well as carve a niche of its own. We were lucky enough to get to play the game at a recent preview event to find out how it’s...
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