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Review: 'Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Wii U Edition' - No TKO Here

Posted 11/27/12 11:34 am EST by in Reviews, Wii U

You can't play "Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Wii U Edition" with a GamePad. I mean, you can but you really wouldn't want to.

Two months after Namco Bandai's very good fighter made its way to the PS3 and Xbox 360, we've got an even more feature-rich of the game on the Wii U. And while "TTT2 Wii U" is more or less the same game you might have been playing back in September, it's not one that fighting fans can readily play with the Wii U base hardware, it's not a game without some performance issues, and it's simply not the optimal way to play "Tekken Tag Tournament 2."

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'Crashmo' Review - It's No Pushover

Posted 11/27/12 9:50 am EST by in 3DS / DS, Reviews

Crashmo

When Pushmo was released last December it seemed to signal a change in the quality of digital games that were landing on Nintendo platforms. The eShop release was an addictive action puzzler that won the hearts of critics and fans, and it is still one of the highest rated games on the 3DS. Helping Mallo solve the puzzles in Pushmo was such a rewarding activity that the team at Intelligent Systems tweaked the gameplay a just a bit to create an all-new experience in Crashmo, also for the 3DS.
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'Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed' Review - One If By Land, Two If By Sea, Three If By Air

Posted 11/26/12 1:00 pm EST by in 3DS / DS, PS3, Reviews, Wii U, Xbox 360

Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed
Taking your company's mascot and putting them behind the wheel of a small car has becoming increasingly more common place in video games, so much so that Sony just release their own version of it within the last few weeks. Sega, company that has a much deeper history of characters and games than Sony, are also bringing their version of kart racing to stores this holiday season in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed, the sequel to 2010s Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing. The new release is an ambitious project, attempting to bring together three different types of racing - land, air, and sea, into one game.
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Review: 'The Walking Dead' Episode Five - This Is Going To Hurt [Mild Spoilers]

Posted 11/26/12 12:00 pm EST by in iPhone / iPad, Mac, PC, PS3, Reviews, Video, Xbox 360

Be prepared to justify Lee's decisions. That's the takeaway from "No time Left," the final episode of Telltale Games' "The Walking Dead," which concluded last week on the PC, Xbox 360, PS3, and Mac (the iOS version is incoming). More than any other game this year, "The Walking Dead" has not just been about player choice, but making players own up to those choices made for Lee, a convict-turned-caretaker for Clementine, a lost and scared little girl in the middle of a zombie outbreak. Throughout this season, players (as Lee) have had to make decisions that would guarantee to (or at least prolong) his and Clementine's survival in the face of other travelers, bandits, cannibals, and of course, the flesh-eating dead.

Which leads to the other takeaway from this final, poignant, heartbreaking episode: "Clementine will remember this."

****Spoilers after the jump****

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Review: Fighting It Out In 'PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale' (PS3)

Posted 11/20/12 5:01 pm EST by in Fighting Games, PS3, Reviews, Video

I've been saying for months now that 2012 has become something of a fighting game fan's dream. With major new releases from the "Tekken," "Dead or Alive," and "Soul Calibur" franchises, expertly curated collections bringing together 25 years of "Street Fighter" history, old-school downloadables making their way to consoles, and new entries like "Skullgirls" and "Persona 4 Arena." Ambitiously, Sony wanted to get in on the action with their very own console exclusive title, but one inspired less by the deep, technical fighters from Namco-Bandai, Capcom and the like, but instead Nintendo's addictive "Super Smash Bros." games.

So they assembled their own motley crew of PlayStation gaming mascots (Sir Daniel Fortesque, anyone?), dragged in characters from a couple of third-party franchises, and voila, you have "PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale." The only problem is, the last two parts of that title are a little inaccurate, as Sony and developer SuperBot try their best don't quite deliver the same kind of memorable fighting experience as the game that inspired it.

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Book Review: The Painterly Revolution of 'The Art of Assassin's Creed III'

Posted 11/20/12 11:30 am EST by in Books, Reviews


© 2012 Ubisoft Entertainment. All Rights Reserved.

Maybe the most interesting thing about "Assassin's Creed III" is how Ubisoft assembled the vision for the world and characters in the game. Whatever gripes I have about the game as a whole, a lack of ambition and drawing on history and numerous visual influences isn't one of them.

Titan Books' "The Art of Assassin's Creed III" presents that vision through concept art and early looks at the characters. While it doesn't reveal the evolution of "Assassin's Creed III" in the same way as the "Journey" artbook showed the progression of that game's development, it's still a good look at how Ubisoft established the world of the game.

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'Scribblenauts Unlimited' Review - Unleash Your Creativity, One Word At A Time

Posted 11/20/12 9:47 am EST by in Reviews, Wii U

Scribblenauts Unlimited

Since the first Scribblenauts was released in 2009 the game's star, Maxwell, and his magic notebook have become a cornerstone of creative gaming. Whereas games like LittleBigPlanet and Minecraft let you create levels, or customize your characters, or build to your heart's content, Scribblenauts lets you create objects out of thin air to solve puzzles and help people out. The series has become developer 5th Cell's flagship title, and the create-an-object gameplay has now carried the series through three portable titles. The arrival of the Wii U has finally brought the franchise's graduation to console gaming with the release of Scribblenauts Unlimited, the next step in Scribblenauts' evolution.
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Review: Treyarch Changes The Ground War In 'Call of Duty: Black Ops II'

Posted 11/19/12 4:45 pm EST by in PC, PS3, Reviews, Video, Xbox 360

With "Black Ops II," Treyarch has not only come out from under the shadow of the alternate year Infinity Ward "Call of Duty" games, but have found wise, ambitious additions to the shooter series in the process. From the dramatically different type of story and the how it's told, to a new set of fun to use weapons and points of interest, to an overhaul to how you loadout in multiplayer, "Black Ops II" may not hit all their marks with every innovation, but what works makes both the campaign and the multiplayer worth revisiting.

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'LittleBigPlanet Karting' Review - Sackboy's Vanishing Point

Posted 11/19/12 9:00 am EST by in PS3, Reviews

LittleBigPlanet Karting

Sackboy is undeniably one of the most adorable characters to come out of this console generation. So, it should come as no surprise that as this year's holiday season ramps up, Sony's little bag of burlap of cuteness is making appearances in two of their biggest games. While he may have to share the spotlight in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royal, he is, quite literally, in the drivers seat of his own title, the appropriately named, LittleBigPlanet Karting. Bringing together two of the PS3's most unique games, LittleBigPlanet and ModNation Racers, LBP Karting may be one of the best karting games to come along since a certain plumber decided to hit the racetrack with his brother and some of their frienemies.
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Wii U Review - The Next Generation Of Gaming Begins Now

Posted 11/18/12 12:16 pm EST by in nintendo, Reviews, Wii U

Wii U

Innovation is something that is something that is part of the lifeblood of Nintendo. The 123-year-old company has been creating unique products dating back to their time as a playing card company. Over the course of the last century Nintendo has branched out their business in a variety of directions, some more successful than others, but in the early 1980s they finally found one that stuck – video games. The release of the Nintendo Entertainment System quickly established a little known company out of Japan as the biggest name in the industry, and one of the few that has endured as a major player for almost 30 years.

Fast forward to today, where Nintendo is riding the wave of their most successful home gaming console, the Wii, by following it up with something they hope is an even more hit, the Wii U. It's the first video game console to offer a fully integrated second screen gaming experience, as well as Nintendo's first real push to establish an online gaming community for their fans, and they're even making a grab to take over you TV. As the first out of the gate for the next generation of gaming consoles Nintendo is hoping to get a jump on consumers, and take over their living rooms before their competitors even announce what they have next.

The Wii U is an intriguing piece of hardware and it's symbolic of a lot of firsts for Nintendo. It's the first time that a Nintendo console is in HD. It's the first time that a Nintendo system home to an online gaming community. It's the first time that Nintendo will be making full console releases available as digital downloads. Sadly, these are all things that Microsoft and Sony have been doing for years, and, for the most part, doing well. Nintendo's wait and see attitude may have paid off for them as a company, but it may have also lost countless gamers to the competition in the meantime. That's not to say that Nintendo hasn't crafted an amazing machine in the Wii U, in fact, it's the console that will singlehandedly change the way people play games for years to come.
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