July 4, 2009
Video Game Reviews
VIDEO GAME REVIEW
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2010 on the Bethpage Black
This week, you can get onto the Bethpage Black - and play against Tiger Woods.
Video game review: Punch-Out!!
Punch-Out!! is certain to cause flashbacks in gamers of a certain generation. It smartly retains the cartoony appeal of the original Nintendo Entertainment System game, although the characters are expanded into three dimensions.
Video game review: 'Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II'
Dawn of War II drops all the races added in Dawn of War's expansions, paring the selection down to the original Space Marines, Eldar and Orks and swapping out the Chaos Space Marines for the hive-minded Tyranids.
Video game review: Street Fighter IV
A gamers classic with the same old twists. But that's a good thing.
Video game review: Killzone 2
Killzone 2 is awe-inspiring. With crisp, cinema-quality graphics and immersive sound design, this first-person shooter feels like an interactive version of a big-screen war epic.
Afro Samurai: All about getting the headband
The title character (voiced by Jackson) pursuing the villain Justice (Perlman) to avenge his father's death and take the Number One headband, a mystical object said to make its wearer into a god.
Guitar Hero: Live the dream, create a hair band
Guitar Hero, the game that killed karaoke nights and launched a million armchairs, released its latest version, Guitar Hero: World Tour, available today for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, and Nintendo Wii.
Game review: Buzz! Quiz TV for PS3
"Buzz! Quiz TV" packs over 3000 questions on topics including music, celebrities, TV, sport, science, nature, movies and more.
Video game review: Madden NFL 09
Surely EA can't be thrilled about millions of gamers heading off to buy Madden NFL 09 and thinking they're buying the wrong edition, since Brett Favre, in a Packers uniform, graces this year's cover. But if gamers can get past that, they will get to play an improved Madden game that has some nice enhancements - but doesn't achieve true greatness.
Review: Soulcalibur IV guests make it shine
Soulcalibur IV may not be the quintessential one-on-one fighting game, but it's certainly the quintessential Soulcalibur. That's a good thing, unless one dislikes Soulcalibur. This game won't change anyone's mind. It features the most diverse lineup, the most extensive character-building options and by far the best graphics of any recent fighting game.
Game Reviews: Final Fantasty IV
Final Fantasy IV opens with the guilt-wracked Dark Knight Cecil of the Kingdom of Baron returning home after stealing an elemental crystal from the wizard-populated town of Mysidia. Cecil is the captain of the Red Wings, Baron's airship fleet, but he is troubled by the king's increasingly bellicose behavior.
Video-game review: Guns of the Patriots for PS3
It all comes full circle eventually, and like anything that has a beginning, it must have an end. We will be sad to see no more of Solid Snake, but you can rest assured that he goes out in classic Snake glory.
Video game review: The Incredible Hulk
What would you say are the odds that a movie-licensed game would be a successful effort for gamers? Three-to-one? Eleven-to-one? A gazillion-to-one? With The Incredible Hulk, unfortunately, it's closer to the gazillion end.
Video game review: Ninja Gaiden II
The truly great action films of our time - "Die Hard," "The Road Warrior," "Aliens," say - can be summed up in one word: relentless. Once they get in gear, they put the pedal to the metal and don't slow down. If only " Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Whatever" had such single-minded drive.
Video game Review: Haze
Forty years into the future, the world relies on private military corporations for military work. In Haze, one of these companies, Mantel, is in South America to eliminate a rebel group called the Promise Hand; the player is a rookie Mantel soldier.
Video game review: 'Wii Fit'
If someone had pulled me away from "GoldenEye 007" in the late 1990s to tell me that I'd one day be using my video game system to get in shape, I would have likely drawn James Bond's Golden Gun and shot a hole in that cockamamie theory.
Grand Theft Auto IV's low-key rollout
There's no Burger King tie-in or special flavor of Mountain Dew. No commercial directed by Peter Jackson, or even an action figure.
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'Grand Theft Auto IV' delivers more than mayhem
Eight hours into "Grand Theft Auto IV" (Rockstar Games, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99), I've stolen 17 cars, run over 20 people and killed another 15 (some of whom had it coming). I've shaken down a couple of store owners and beaten up an old lady. I've driven while drunk and, perhaps worse, while talking on a cell phone.
Real people love leading Sims' lives
Video game publisher EA recently celebrated selling 100 million copies of its stalwart franchise "The Sims," which has been chugging along in a gaming world dazzled by the pyrotechnics of "Halo 3," the flying-among-the-stars fun of "Super Mario Galaxy" and the get-out-of-your-seat thrills of "Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero III."
Video game review: Wii has a 'Smash' in its new 'Brawl'
It has been a long seven years since Nintendo fans last experienced the hilarious, addictive fighting action of a Super Smash Bros. game. And while Wii Sports and Super Mario Galaxy have been wowing mainstream audiences for quite some time, Super Smash Bros. Brawl is exactly the kind of unique, crossover hit that only Nintendo can deliver. It's certainly a must-buy for anyone with a Wii, as the game caters to everyone from newbies to the Nintendo fan boys.
WORLD OF VIDEO GAMING
Taking big-screen visions to gaming
Having found gold with his "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy of films, Gore Verbinski is now sailing into the world of video games.
Video Game Review: Five portable games to play on the run
Let's face it: The commute is pretty boring; staring at the back of someone's head on the train holds its appeal for only so long. Here are five of the best games to play on the run.
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