reviews

I have a weakness for certain franchises; for example, Stars Wars and Lord of the Rings. So I could not help but pick up Lord of the Rings: War in the North by Snowblind for the PS3. I've played it for about three hours, and already I feel it belongs in this topic: Finished playing. The plot…

I'd like to say that I enjoyed this game as much as I enjoyed Arkham Asylum; based on the on-line reviews I've seen, I seem to be one of the few who was not as impressed with AC. The main difference in the games is the setting. In AA, you were restricted to certain areas of the…

This is the one with a character voiced and "faced" by Felicia Day. I rate this as very good. The environments were all new, the story was well-told, the characters were well-voiced and wittily-written. ("This is why you should not waste your last minute monologing.") The game took me about 10 hours to run on Casual difficulty.…

I just finished playing the five-part "Back to the Future" game from Telltale. This a simple adventure game along the lines of "Monkey Island." You interact with environment with movement keys and mouse clicks, you pick up items and put them in your inventory, you interact with other characters via dialog trees. You can't really "lose" the…

I know this one would probably be considered simple to the more dedicated console gamers. For me, it just about fits my abilities as a gamer: The puzzles are not too tough, the combat is usually forgiving, and most of the platforming is not more than I can handle. The game actually gets easier as you go…

It arrived in the mail on Friday, and I played it on Saturday. It took about 10 hours, two of which were spent on annoying series of platform jumps. In other words, the game is short, about a third the length of The Force Unleashed. The game framework has been improved somewhat; the switch between game menus…