peachey @ October 17, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Score: 3/5
Part of the trouble with establishing a franchise is keeping it fresh. Splinter Cell Double Agent is the fourth addition to the series in just as many years since the original. That leaves little room for expansion and/or innovation. Regardless, Sam Fisher has managed to remain young at heart with incremental fine tuning of […]
peachey @ August 29, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Score: 3/5
It’s no wonder that a handful of competitors published their own mimics of Grand Theft Auto. But few, if any, have come close to the high standard set by GTA. So along comes Saints Row, and skepticism along with it; another “me too” game built unabashedly on the foundation that Rockstar built. And there […]
peachey @ July 16, 2006 # No Comment Yet
Score: 4/5
It’s difficult to differentiate a game from the glut of others that have come before it. Nowhere is this truer than the first-person shooter genre. Perhaps the genre is so crowded that developers have simply run out of ideas. Perhaps, therefore, the only real innovation can come in the form of switching perspectives in […]
peachey @ November 29, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Score: 3/5
The ‘prequel’ to the original Perfect Dark comes at a time when first person shooters are at their zenith of popularity, and have evolved very different gameplay dynamics since Perfect Dark was originally introduced on the Nintendo 64. PDZ is a throwback of sorts to the old gameplay dynamics that made the original game […]
