Strategy/Sim

In what might be considered an alchemical achievement, Nival Interactive came out of nowhere in 2003 to release a game with a perfect engine. Silent Storm combined the two greatest games in the squad-level turn-based strategy (yes, it's a genre) genre, melding the realistic combat gameplay of Jagged Alliance 2 with the massively complex, completely destructible environments of UFO: Enemy Unknown.

According to ESRB, this game contains: Mild Language, Violence

According to ESRB, this game contains: Alcohol Reference, Language, Mild Fantasy Violence

I'm just not having much luck with review material lately. First I had to suffer through Drakengard 2 (which made me fall asleep—no joke), and now, a game lands in my lap which actually ties with Unlimited SaGa for the lowest score I've ever awarded a game in my entire career—Generation of Chaos on the Sony PSP.

Game Description: Generation of Chaos takes you into a fantasy world for incredible role-playing action. Enter a strange new world where magic and legends mix and the political future of your land in uncertain. Take up a sword or the magic arts, then use your skills to defend and expand your kingdom.

But if there has ever been an example of how to completely bastardize a fantastic game, it's hard to sink lower than the utterly lousy Rainbow Six: Lockdown. A backwards step in every single respect, Lockdown abandons the core elements that made Rainbow Six 3 and its expansion Black Arrow such fun, challenging and rewarding games.

Game Description:  Engineered specifically for the PC by Red Storm Entertainment, Rainbow Six returns to deliver the tensest close-quarter battles ever experienced online. In this episode, Rainbow faces independent terrorist threats, tied together by one common element—the Legion virus. Rainbow must determine the connection between the terrorist threats and the virus.

According to the ESRB, this game contains Blood, Language, Violence

This review is for all the Dynasty Warriors-haters (which appear to be mostly people from the Western hemisphere). Dynasty Warriors 5 isn't all that different from part 4 which wasn't all the different from part 3.