Saturday, May 28, 2011
A sometimes repetitive, but absolutely rewarding, tale of corruption and deceit through the eyes of the law in 1940s Los Angeles that will stick with you.
The standard sandbox game is often one that somewhat glorifies lawlessness and violence. You typically find yourself running from the cops while attempting to get away with murder. Team Bondi turns the tables on you with L.A. Noire, making you the law. This single-player detective story twists and turns its way through postwar 1947 Los Angeles, each of its characters flawed and damaged in their own way with nary a wholesome soul to be found. It's a mature and unsettling tale of deceit, regret, crime, corruption, and war, and it's unlike any other game that you've played before. Let's get one thing out of the way: L.A. Noire is not a 1940s-themed Grand Theft Auto. It may look like an open-world game, but it doesn't play like one. It is …
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
An inexpensive indie title available on Steam serves as a first attempt at combining two popular gaming genres, and it succeeds.
If you're a gamer, you're familiar with first-person shooter games. You may also be familiar with tower defense games. But no one has attempted to combine the two genres. Indie developer Coffee Stain Studios apparently noticed this. In order to capitalize on an untapped concept, they put their heads together and came up with Sanctum, and it has been dubbed the first game to serve as both a first-person shooter and a tower defense game. There isn't much to the story: You play the role of Skye, a futuristic female soldier with a large cybernetic left arm who is sent to protect her home of Elysion One from what seems to be an endless supply of alien-ish enemies. But story in this game doesn't matter, as it's just a way to explain why you …
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Valve has announced that their anticipated title Portal 2 will run on a new version of Steam built for the Playstation 3. Here is why this could be big news for Sony's console.
Co-founder of the popular video game development company, Valve, Gabe Newell and his relationship with Sony's Playstation 3 has been somewhat of a roller-coaster. Back in 2007, he was very vocal and forward about his disapproval of the game console: "[The Playstation 3 is] a waste of everybody's time and a disaster on many levels ... I'd say, even at this late date, they should just cancel it and do a do over. Just say, 'This was a horrible disaster and we're sorry and we're going to stop selling this and stop trying to convince people to develop for it'." Tell us how you really feel, Gabe! This is precisely why there was a good deal of shock over his appearance on stage during Sony's keynote at E3 2010. Evidently, he was displeased at how…
Robert Chen
7:19 pm on Saturday, May 28, 2011
L.A. Noire is awesome! I just found a blog that's giving out the DLC for all the extra cases! I just got my Slip Of The Tongue Case DLC, but I don't know if there's anymore DLC codes left. If you want to check it out, here's the site: http://freelanoiredlc.com.nu more ›