Category: Xbox 360

Poker Night 2 Genre: Poker/Card Game Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games Release Date:4/24/13 Poker Night 2 is an odd game to try and review. On one hand it’s a poker game. Every game is played tournament style, meaning you start off with four players, all with the same starting amount of money, with the…

Bit.Trip Presents Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien Genre: Rhythm Running Developer: Gaijin Games Publisher: Aksys Games Release Date: 2/27/13 For the sake of brevity, I’m going to just refer to this game as Runner2 for this review. That’s one hell of a name. I was familiar with the name of the previous game, Bit.Trip…

It’s time to cowboy up!

Tomb Raider Genre: Action/Adventure Developer: Crystal Dynamics Publisher: Square Enix Release Date: 03/05/13 The reboot has become something of an abused trend in the past couple years, as I’ve mentioned before. At the time I wrote that column, Splatterhouse and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow had both launched to reboot their respective franchises, and since then…

Dead Space 3: Awakened Genre: Survival Horror Developer: Visceral Games Publisher: Electronic Arts Release Date: 03/12/13 So, anyone who’s been following along for any period of time may remember this, but back when Dead Space 2: Severed came out, my observation at the time was thus: Dead Space 2 was a very good game, but…

Special Forces: Team X Genre: Shooting At People Online Developer: Zombie Studios Publisher: Atari Release Date: 2/6/13 This generation of console games has seen one genre of gaming rise above the others: the team based multiplayer shooter. That genre has risen in popularity so much that team based multiplayer gets shoved into nearly every game…

Omerta is a mafia game so bland it doesn’t even merit any obvious jokes to describe it.

For a game that’s about three dollars, 2012 isn’t a bad deal.

Dance Central 3 Genre: Rhythm Developer: Harmonix Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Release Date: 10/16/2012 While the Kinect has had something of a rocky time, between developers that have lofty but awkward ideas about what to do with the hardware coupled with developers who are just dumping “flailing simulators” out onto the hardware, dancing games generally…

The Walking Dead Genre: Adventure Developer: Telltale Games Publisher: Telltale Games Release Date: 12/11/12 I have been exposed to a fairly extensive amount of zombie media over the course of my life, and while I wouldn’t claim the sort of knowledge of zombie media someone like J. Rose or ML Kennedy might, I’ve certainly seen…

Power Rangers Super Samurai Genre: Beat-Em-Up Developer: Namco Bandai Games Publisher: Namco Bandai Games Release Date: 12/04/12 Games geared towards children generally tend to be sub-optimal gaming experiences; at best they are either surprisingly competent or at least tolerable to those who are not amazed by the franchise, at worst they are painful enough that…

Far Cry 3 Genre: First Person Shooter Developer: Ubisoft Montreal Publisher: Ubisoft Release Date: 12/04/12 The Far Cry series is one that has generally been filled with good ideas, though outside of the first game, the execution hasn’t always been terribly satisfying. The original was basically a solid first person shooter set in the jungle,…

Rise of the Guardians Genre: Action/RPG Developer: D3 Publisher/Torus Games Publisher: D3 Publisher Release Date: 11/20/12 Let’s get this out of the way up front: Rise of the Guardians is the sort of game more developers should be trying to make for the “small children” market. That’s not to say that the game is very…

XCOM: Slingshot Genre: Turn Based Strategy Developer: Firaxis Games Publisher: 2K Games Release Date: 12/4/12 Times certainly change; while back in the days when the original X-Com: UFO Defense was making the rounds your options were generally full sequels, expansion packs or mods, these days developers can just dump some DLC into the game and…