With Crysis 2 coming out this week, it only seems appropriate to look back at the origins of the series: the original Crysis exclusive to PC. Crysis was a graphical tour de force for its time, and offered players tactical shooting bolstered by the “Nanosuit”, giving choice to the gameplay. It’s a landmark for PC gaming to be sure, but does it hold up today 4 years later? The short answer is yes, but Crysis may have gotten even better with time.
The F.E.A.R. series is technically a shooter, but it’s also full of horror too. The first game in the series had players wetting their pants every time a little girl walked by (Or so other players tell me). In the latest installment in the series, the development team, Day 1 Studios have added a new cooperative multiplayer mode that has players form a team to run, shrieking, from an un-killable wall of death, while an endless army of armed goons tries to block their escape.
Mark Leung: Revenge of the Bitch is an indie turn based RPG made by and featuring Mark Leung, the creator and star of the College Saga web series. The story follows Mark Leung, a communist and ginseng collector as he is caught in a war between two fanatical religions fighting over the creatively inspired world of Untitled. Thankfully one element of traditional turn based role playing games that Mark Leung has managed to recreate is the length which is easily comparable to a Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy game. The story is a mishmash of generic fantasy and quirky internet humor which steals from everything from Star Wars to World of Warcraft.
I started up Dragon Age 2 with a lot of excitement,
considering I was a fan of the original. The plot was unique, although
simplistic at times, but the gameplay, character advancement and interesting
NPCs brought it all together to make a pretty good game. I was hoping that
Dragon Age 2 would take that game, improve on places where it was weak (few), wow
us with exciting set pieces and present a gripping story that kept us on the
edge of our seat. Instead, what we get is a complete reimagining of the series,
with the gameplay radically changed for the worse, graphics that seem almost
equal to the original and a story that is incredibly mediocre with some small jumps
in interest that make you wish they had stopped when they were ahead with
Awakenings.
I have always been a huge puzzle game fan, and a fan of quirky titles. The now-defunct Incredible Machineseries was my go-to for crazy puzzle games with sandbox-style gameplay. With this in mind, I may be a little skewed towards automatically liking a game such as Crazy Machines 2. Despite this, I have never played the original Crazy Machines or its pseudo-sequel 1.5, and I do feel that the genre has a lot of things that can be done wrong. Luckily, Crazy Machines 2 doesn’t hit too far from the mark, although I will not say it’s a perfect experience.
We mentioned some very nice sales going on in our Weekend Sales piece yesterday, and many of those are still available, but a whole new crop has popped up overnight, and you might find something here that seems like a better use of your gaming bucks. Steampowered.com is not only selling Friday Night Combat for a third off, but they’re also letting you play it for free all weekend. If ten dollars isn’t cheap enough for you, then FREE oughta be enough to get you to try this game.
The Lego games have traversed time, space, genres and various movie franchises but Lego Star Wars 3 is the first Lego Star Wars game to not be based on the iconic film franchise but rather on the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars is set in between episodes 3 and 4 of the Star Wars saga but will also feature some sequences set in Episode 2. Lucasart’s is also bringing in the voice actors that portray the characters in the animated series to reprise their roles. The 22 levels in the game will cover the first two seasons of the animated series.
