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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Game Review: Prototype 2

The hit series makes a huge comeback with this great installment.

They say New York is the city that never sleeps. That’s probably because it can’t seem to go more than a few days without an apocalyptic disaster dropping in to ruin everyone’s week. Between giant monsters, sweeping plagues, foreign invasions, alien invasions and attempts at domination by supervillains it’s a wonder that the citizens of said city even bat an eye anymore. So here we have Prototype 2, a game about an apocalyptic disaster in New York City. This particular series has decided to go the way of sweeping plague, but it threw in a few superhero elements as well (although the protagonists are anything but heroes; more on that later).  Plot and Characters In case you’re an idiot, Prototype 2 is the sequel to the hit game Prototype …

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Game Review: 'Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City'

Worse than a city full of raccoons.

Pre-rant clarification: I am not a Resident Evil fan. I’ve actually never played one before this because I never owned an original Playstation and even when I had a PS2 I quickly traded it in for an Xbox at the persuasion of a friend.  The first one to become available on the 360 was Resident Evil IV, and I didn’t see the point of playing the fourth installment (or rather something like the fifteenth if you count all the remakes and spinoffs and side stories and crap).  So anyway, yeah, I’m not a fan or even a vet. It probably stands to reason, then, that I have no right to critique the latest installment in the series without knowing anything about the previous titles. But, I’m going to do it anyway.  Like I said, I know nothing about the…

Adam Alexander

11:18 am on Sunday, April 15, 2012

A reader informed me via email that Resident Evil V was actually the first to be released on the 360, and that IV was re-released on the 360 after that. Sorry about that.   more ›

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