Adventure/Explore

The shortest Longest Journey, crackdowns, and choices

By Richard Naik on September 5, 2009 - 12:41pm.

Finished The Longest Journey last night, and it was fantastic, if not a bit awkward at times. The "battles" are strange in that since I can't fail, I can stand completely still and do nothing while the monster just looks at me and waves its arms. I'm aware that Dreamfall has a combat mechanic but my friends tell me that it isn't very well done. I'm curious if something akin to Shadow of the Colossus (which I haven't played) or the new Prince of Persia would work here.
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Tales of Monkey Island Chapter Two: The Siege of Spinner Cay Review

By Tera Kirk on August 26, 2009 - 5:43pm.

Something's fishy in Spinner Cay

Tales of Monkey Island Chapter Two: The Siege of Spinner Cay Screenshot

HIGH The main characters are as strong as before—perhaps moreso.

LOW The secondary characters? Not so much.

WTF Swashbuckly ending! Wait—WHAT?!

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Shadow Complex

Classlessness & The Longest Journey

By Richard Naik on August 24, 2009 - 8:57pm.

Team Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2's "classless" update dropped recently, adding the new King of the Hill game mode, several new maps and some pretty significant class changes (despite being classless), the most prominent of which are the return of the Scout's double jump while using the Sandman (at the expense of 30 health) and allowing the Engineer to repair one end of a teleporter (including removing Spy sappers) by repairing the other.
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Aliens in the Attic Review

By Tera Kirk on August 18, 2009 - 7:53am.

Don't go in the attic

Aliens in the Attic Screenshot Aliens in the Attic Screenshot

HIGH Giant alien heads! In three dimensions!

LOW Fighting a missile-shooting freezer, only to have my game lock up more-than-several times.

WTF The natural enemy of extra-terrestrials? Potatoes.

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Aliens in the Attic

Aliens in the Attic

Ghostbusters: The Video Game

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Review

By Brad Gallaway on July 29, 2009 - 9:14am.

Bustin' makes me feel really, really good

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Screenshot

HIGH It feels exactly like playing a never-released Ghostbusters movie.

LOW Bill Murray has a few good lines, but mostly phones in his performance.

WTF The last level is the weakest, most trite in the entire game.

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Tales of Monkey Island

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