I was five years old during the summer of 1984 when Ghostbusters the movie was released. To a five year old, the Ghostbusters were the coolest guys in the world. I remember going on a family vacation that summer and begging my dad to turn up the radio anytime the theme song came on the radio. When the movie was released on VHS, my brothers and I watched the tape so many times we could repeat every line in the movie from beginning to end. When I first heard that [Read More]

If you haven’t purchased any of the additional episodes that have been released for Fallout 3, the Broken Steel expansion is the best place to start. There have been a lot of positive changes and updates to the core Fallout 3 game included in this release. Most notable is a change to the ending of the game. Fallout 3 did so many things right but the ending was one of the more anti-climatic endings of a game this generation. Ending the game actually means, ending the game. If players complete [Read More]

Crouching under a grove of palm trees, hidden by tall grass, I stare down the barrel of my sniper rifle patiently waiting on the American troops to come charging over the hill. My team has silently coordinated a beautiful plan of attack that has pushed our enemy into a single corner of the map. Our planes are flying above their base continually pelting their position with payload after payload of bombs weakening their attack plans. My teammates have moved our tanks into a position that should help us prevent any [Read More]

Thrust into the wasteland as the “Lone Wander from Vault 101” and ending up “The Last, Best Hope for Humanity” was a long, and at times, trying journey. If you missed the first two parts of my review you can check them out here and here. Following your fathers trail requires a lot of back and forth through the wastelands and they are anything but safe. Constantly having to defend yourself against on coming attacks from Raiders, Super Mutants, Feral Ghouls, Mole Rats, Vicious Dogs, Deathclaws, Mercs, and more, isn’t [Read More]

Picking up where Part 1 (check it out here) of my Fallout 3 review left off, you are rising out of the vault and into the wastelands. After your fathers unexpected exit from Vault 101, you forge into the unknown in hopes of reuniting with him on the outside. As you escape the fallout shelter with the assistance of your childhood friend Amata, the overseers daughter, you gaze across the ruined landscape of the D.C. Area for the first time. Looking over the horizon for the first time, its obvious [Read More]

With over a hundred real-time hours logged in the Bethesda’s post apocalyptic wasteland that is Fallout 3, I still can’t get enough. Having completed the main quest just shy of ninety seven hours I wanted to share my thoughts on the game. Not knowing how to write about a game of this magnitude I decided to break up my “review” of the game into parts, allowing me to focus in on each area I wanted to comment on. In this post I am focusing on the starting stage of the [Read More]

God of War: Chains of Olympus is the first game I picked up for my PSP following my post regarding Sony’s high-tech paperweight. (Check it out here if you missed it.) I have been looking for a reason to justify owning a PSP, Chains of Olympus was great choice. This game does everything it can to show the capabilities the PSP has to offer to gamers. The game kicks off throwing players straight into the gore filled action one would expect from a God of War game. Chains of [Read More]

If you have played any of the previous iterations of Punch-Out!! then the new Wii version will feel very familiar, but only in the best way. Nintendo knows the way to a gamers heart, nostalgia, and they didn’t pull any punches updating this franchise. Players will find themselves going toe to toe with the likes of Glass Joe, Bald Bull, and King Hippo (to name a few) while collecting star punches and listening to remixed versions of the original theme music. Fans of the NES classic will recognize arenas, sound [Read More]

I recently downloaded and played through Rockstar Games Lost and Damned add-on for Grand Theft Auto IV. Setting aside the controversy surrounding this series, this is one of the best downloadable packages available on the Xbox Live Market Place. The add-on cost me twenty real world dollars worth of Microsoft space bucks and 1.2 gigs of hard drive space. Once the download completed and I fired up the game I found myself back in Liberty City, a place I came to love while playing through GTA IV. After a [Read More]