STOP. SPOLIERZ. if you haven’t finished portal yet, don’t read this post. seriously though. the game is so much better unspoiled — to be experienced in a complete and utter daze as if you had just woken up in an isolated, empty research lab with only a computer voice to keep you company. …Continue Reading Portal
Sound Design, as expected plays a pretty large role in rhythm and music based games. I can’t even say “Dance Dance Revolution” without imitating the games start-up title sound (imagine an amped up announcer over-enunciating the game-title). That being said, outside of the music within the gameplay, I’ve never been particularly impressed with the overall…Continue Reading Dance Dance Revolution & Other Rhythm Games
Thanks to the perfection that is HumbleBundle, I recently fell back in love with the Sid Meier’s Civilization franchise. After a torrid love affair in high school that resulted in many incomplete homework assignments, I chose not to install the game on the laptop I took with me to college. I’m glad that this class…Continue Reading Sid Meier’s Civilization V
By far my favorite game I played this week, The Room is a beautifully crafted puzzle game. The game begins in a room with a curious box on the floor. Gameplay is quite simple, the user spins around the box with the touchpad and can zoom in to find clues. Between downloading the game last…Continue Reading The Room
The Simpsons Tapped Out is a sarcastic take on the classic city-builder game. Gameplay is simple enough, in many cases the game outright tells you what to click and when. The premise: Homer has destroyed Springfield by playing a silly time-wasting mobile game (haha funny self-aware game. how clever…) while the nuclear reactor explodes around…Continue Reading The Simpsons™ Tapped Out
I expected to really get into this game. Thomas described Candy Crush Saga as video game “crack.” I’m not going to lie; I have what one would call an addictive personality. I’ve been playing Puzzle and Dragons, a game similar in objective and style to Candy Crush Saga, intensely for the last few months, but for…Continue Reading Candy Crush Saga