Posted on 10 November 2009 by tanith6227
BioWare’s latest RPG, Dragon Age: Origins has hit store shelves, and your tireless gamer pal Tanith secured a Day 1 copy so he could provide his initial impressions of the Xbox 360 version of the game. After 12+ hours of gameplay, here’s what he thinks:
Story: The game sticks pretty closely to well-established RPG tropes. There are [...]
Filed under: Games | Tagged: BioWare, Darkspawn, Dragon Age: Origins, Edge of Reality, Ferelden, Grey Wardens, Xbox 360 | 7 Comments »
Posted on 19 March 2009 by rustedangel
The Resident Evil series – specifically RE4 – has been the cause of some divisiveness here at OBJ514. On the one had you have Dakalos slagging the aforementioned actioner’s loopy controls, on the other Iron Weasel’s carefully considered approval, and on the third my own obsessive “has memorized the location of every item” 100+ hour [...]
Filed under: Games | Tagged: capcom, chris refield, re4, re5, resident evil, resident evil 4, resident evil 5, sheva alomar, Xbox 360 | 8 Comments »
Posted on 3 November 2008 by tanith6227
Fallout 3 is the story of you, from the very beginning to whatever end you choose for yourself. Bethesda’s latest game begins in the operating room where you are born. You make character decisions even as your father (voiced by Liam Neeson) welcomes you into the world. You’ll choose your gender and name and then [...]
Filed under: Games | Tagged: Bethesda, Fallout, Fallout 3, first impressions, RPG, Xbox 360 | 13 Comments »
Posted on 2 September 2008 by tanith6227
2005’s Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction by Pandemic Studios impressed gamers and critics alike with its open-ended gameplay, violent yet cheeky atmosphere and awesome explosions. Word of a sequel got fans pretty excited. Pandemic are back in fine form with Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.
Having presumably spent the 50 or 100 million-dollar bounty collected for the [...]
Filed under: Games | Tagged: Chris Jacobs, explosions, hijacking, Jennifer Mui, Mattias Nilsson, mercenaries 2, World in Flames, Xbox 360 | 16 Comments »
Posted on 6 February 2008 by tanith6227
From Bioware’s Mass Effect Forums:
“To date, over 1.6 million gamers have explored the engaging sci-fi universe of Mass Effect. Beginning on March 10, fans everywhere will be able to expand the “Mass Effect” experience with the release of the first ever downloadable content for the award-winning saga.
The Bring Down the Sky downloadable content pack will [...]
Filed under: Games | Tagged: BioWare, DLC, Mass Effect, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »