The God of War games are best known for providing gamers a fantastic single player experience. Now with the announcement of the new God of War: Ascension, it looks like things are going to be changing a bit. Sony Santa Monica will be adding multiplayer aspects to the game. Will this work out for God [ Read More ]
As I’m sure all of you know by now, Bioware’s latest release, Mass Effect 3, has come under heavy bombardment from the fans for its ending. Labelled unsatisfactory by many, the conclusion to the highly anticipated end to Shepard’s story has enraged a large percentage of the series’ fan base, a high proportion of which [ Read More ]
I’m the youngest of the writers on Gaming’s Rapture, so my nostalgia-fueled splurges will often land on games a bit later than theirs might. Where they might remember the SNES as guiding them through their childhood, I remember the Playstation. And with the Playstation, came it’s mascot of the time; Crash Bandicoot. Who could forget [ Read More ]
What if life was a game? What if everything was laid out like a game, a puzzle, a clear-cut task with a visible goal. You’d get stuff done faster, more efficiently, and most importantly, you’d have more fun doing it. That’s where Gamification comes in. Gamification is the act of applying game-design techniques; levels, scores, [ Read More ]
Alan Wake: American Nightmare is a downloadable title that follows up with the original Alan Wake game released a couple of years ago. Did this new installment fail or improve upon the other Alan Wake game? Read the review to find out! The Unbiased, Meat of the Game Alan Wake: American Nightmare is set two [ Read More ]
I was cruising the Xbox.com forums the other day and came across a discussion where one guy claimed that since the Mass Effect series is now a cross platform that the series is “watered down”. I let the turn over in my brain for a few minutes. Do you agree with this? I sure as [ Read More ]
With the Metal Gear Solid: HD Collection fresh on the shelves of Europe as of yesterday, now is as good a time as any to recap what Kojima’s magnum opus has done thus far to secure its place in gaming history. Note, this article may contain some spoliers, so if you’re dubious about that beware, [ Read More ]
It’s no new concept that shooting games have become horribly same-y as of late. From the “Russia is bad,” or “Arabs are bad” ethos of most modern shooters, to the god-forsaken chest-high wall infested landscapes of cover-based to games, all the way to the “bullets fall out of you over time” health systems, one could [ Read More ]
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