Hands-on Gaming - Where Experience Counts // Page 16

Many gamers who played King’s Field on the ole PS1 remembered how tough, cumbersome, and in hindsight ancient the game was. For some odd reason, it was well-received in Japan but villified elsewhere. Perhaps it’s the fascination with tough games, as evident with Shiren The Wanderer and Etrian Odyssey, but From Software decided to bring [...]

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Nineteen hours have passed, and I’m on the second disc as I traverse to yet another planet searching to co-exist with other species or help out underdeveloped planets, with a dash of time-traveling to boot. That is the gist of Star Ocean 4; a fine cocktail of Star Trek and standard anime conventions and extravagant [...]

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Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher’s Bay was one of the very few movie license games that ended up as an actually good gaming experience. Riddick himself is charismatic, and the actual stealth and killing bits are handled pretty well. So after the news was announced that a remake was in the works by the [...]

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Halo Wars, Ensemble Studios’ last completed project before the Microsoft Hammer of Doom fell, is right around the corner. We checked out whether this Xbox 360 exclusive RTS could do for Console RTSes what the original Halo did for Console FPSes.
The number one biggest problem with any console RTS is the controller, it’s just never [...]

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Just yesterday, I was offered the chance to play the upcoming shooter extravaganza Killzone 2 for half of the day. I couldnâ€™t go due to work reasons though. However, I manage to ask two buddies of mine to attend this egregious play session in my stead, both of whom have conflicting mindsets for their console [...]

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Anyone else feel that The Force Unleashed would have been an awesome game, instead of merely an average one, if they’d just completely copied God Of War’s controls and QTE battle system instead of making their own inferior version? With that in mind, Ninja Blade seems to be on the ball, having gone a little beyond just cribbing notes from some of the more successful franchises out there.

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This week, a closer look at the playable races of Dawn of War 2 and how they perform in the multiplayer beta.
Preview plus video for all four races after the jump!

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Normally, when a game gets a sequel, it’s simply a matter of polishing up the winning formula, throwing in a few new features and printing more of that delicious, delicious money. Relic decided to go with a different approach.
Intrigued? Preview after the jump.

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Want my first impressions of Skate II in one word? Good; actually let me use two: very good. But, in the spirit of wearing your pants hanging half way off your ass and generally acting surly towards authority, instead, take your pick from gnarly, rad, stoked, awesomesauce…maybe not that last one, but you get the [...]

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We’ve just got word that Deadly Creatures, the Wii game that lets you be in the shoes of both a tarantula or a scorpion, will be popping by on shelves like an infestation next month. Tentatively on the 9th of February in the States, Replay Interactive will be bringing it locally around the middle of [...]

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