Category: e3 2012
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E3 2012 Impressions: Astro A50 Wireless Headset
Sometimes it’s hard to know when you have a bad headset until you’ve listened to one that’s better. It’s not something you think much about as a system like the Xbox 360 will often come with one or will have one that will come bundled with a necessary peripheral. So moving from a free headset […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: DmC: Devil May Cry (Microsoft Xbox 360/Sony PlayStation 3)
I’m of the opinion that franchise reboots are wholly unnecessary and only succeed in alienating the fans that enjoyed the source material of what was being altered. How many people do you know are excited that Devil May Cry is hitting the reset button? Tomb Raider? Castlevania? What successful video game series has ever gotten […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: Dragon Ball Z Kinect (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Call me crazy, but when Namco Bandai announced that they were making a Dragon Ball Z Kinect, I couldn’t help but think that perhaps this would be the game that would make me want Microsoft’s motion peripheral. It has everything going against it: the motion controls might not work right, the game might not have […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (Sony PlayStation 3/Vita)
When screenshots for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale were first leaked, I thought they were fake. They looked very much like a Super Smash Bros. hack to me. Then, when the officially announcement came and there was actual footage of the game in action, it almost looked even more fake to me. Having come away from […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: Persona 4 Arena (Microsoft Xbox 360/Sony PlayStation 3)
I’ll be blunt: I suck at fighting games. This isn’t to say I won’t play them, I just don’t go into them expecting to best anyone particularly seasoned at it. Since I had an interest in the Persona titles, particularly the fourth entry, I figured I’d at least give the fighting game spinoff a try […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: Code of Princess (Nintendo 3DS)
One of the most frustrating things about Treasure, as a company, is that despite being incredibly successful at introducing new IP’s that are well revered by fans, they always seem to choke when concocting follow up games. There are exceptions, of course. I felt that Sin & Punishment: Star Successor was pretty decent, and I […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: New Super Mario Bros. U (Nintendo WiiU)
The other major game from the Nintendo booth that I couldn’t wait to try out was New Super Mario Bros. U. I was a huge fan of its Wii predecessor, so I was anxious to have the opportunity to see what kinds of new things they had done with this version. And the truth of […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: Pikmin 3 (Nintendo WiiU)
Of all the games that were discussed during Nintendo’s press conference, Pikmin 3 probably made me the most giddy. Here was a game that had been discussed long ago as being in development for the Nintendo Wii and just never surfaced for one reason or another. Now it’s one of the launch titles for the […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: Legasista (Sony PlayStation 3)
Fans of the Cladun series of games should feel right at home with the upcoming Legasista by System Prisma and NIS America. It’s an action RPG with dungeon crawler elements played from a top down perspective, though not quite as retro looking as its predecessors. Legasista takes place in a world that has abandoned science, […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: The Witch and the Hundred Knights (Sony PlayStation 3)
The Witch and the Hundred Knights had the rare honor of earning my interest based on name alone. I mean, think about the potential of a name like that. You know there’s going to be a witch involved. Is it a good witch? A bad witch? Do you play as her? And then there are […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: Bellator MMA Onslaught (Microsoft Xbox Live Arcade/Sony PlayStation Network)
One of the biggest challenges when trying out a game that belongs to a particular property, such as UFC, MMA, or even something like WWE, is that most of them are built as simulators. What I mean by that is they are constructed primarily for the fans, and random onlookers who may not have much […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: Mugen Souls (Sony PlayStation 3)
As much as I like the Disgaea games, I sometimes think of how nice it would be if the humorous over-the-top nature of the games can be applied to a more traditional RPG setting. And wouldn’t you know it, come this fall, the folks at Idea Factory and NIS America are going to deliver. As […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 (Microsoft Xbox 360/Sony PlayStation 3/PC)
I never played the original Sniper: Ghost Warrior, though my reasons are more due to personal taste rather than anything negative I’d heard about the game. As you can probably establish from the title, you spend the majority of your time picking off targets with a sniper rifle, and while that’s all well and good, […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: Enemy Front (Microsoft Xbox 360/Sony PlayStation 3/PC)
The thing that I found interesting when being introduced to City Interactive’s Enemy Front for the first time were the words said before the demo started. “I know you guys have seen World War II shooters, but this is how we are going to approach it.” Here was a developer that knew that the theme […]
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E3 2012: Interview with John Greiner of MonkeyPaw Games and Victor Ireland of Gaijinworks
We chat with John and Victor about Class of Heroes II, Tomba!, and more.
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E3 2012 Impressions: Elder Scrolls Online (PC/Mac)
There’s a healthy amount of skepticism that comes with any MMO announcement. Rightfully so, considering so many companies take the plunge and few come out on top. So it was only natural that when Elder Scrolls Online was first announced that the biggest reaction I could muster was a light shrug and went on with […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: Dark (Microsoft Xbox 360/PC)
Ever wish that Sam Fisher was a vampire? Well, the folks at RealmForge and Kalypso Media do, and they’re aiming to make that happen… sorta. Their upcoming game, Dark, focuses on a vampire that dispatches his foes in quite the same stealthy manner. The primary difference being, of course, that the focus is more on […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: Dishonored (Microsoft Xbox 360/Sony PlayStation 3/PC)
I wasn’t sure what to expect when first sitting down to see the preview to Dishonored. I knew absolutely nothing about the game, other than it was the latest product from the minds at Bethesda. I’m happy to say that I went from no expectations to high expectations in no time flat. Dishonored is a […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: Omerta – City of Gangsters (Microsoft Xbox 360/PC)
Anyone who has played the Tropico series of games should be instantly familiar with the developer, Haemimont Games. In fact, anyone who has enjoyed those titles should also be instantly excited for their next project, the upcoming Omerta – City of Gangsters. I had a chance to sit in on a demonstration with the fine […]
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E3 2012 Impressions: XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Microsoft Xbox 360/Sony PlayStation 3/PC)
I know next to nothing about the XCOM franchise (not being a regular PC gamer probably has a lot to do with that), but I sat in during 2K’s demonstration of their latest reboot to see if I could get a glimpse of what the fuss is all about. After all, despite changing hands as […]