Archive for September 2014
In the decade since the heyday of the Tribes series, many of the elements that made those games so engaging have been widely incorporated into many multiplayer shooters. Team-based game modes, large...
When Eidos handed development of the Tomb Raider franchise to Crystal Dynamics, it was a risky but ultimately wise decision. The team managed to reinvent the series while staying true to its roots with...
One of the most successful video game series of all time returns from a hiatus with Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness. This latest adventure starring modern-day adventuress Lara Croft sends her to Paris,...
It’s been almost 10 years since the first Tomb Raider was released, and while video games have come a long way since then, the Tomb Raider series hasn’t kept pace. Problems such as clunky controls and...
When Tomb Raider first hit in 1996, it was nothing short of groundbreaking. While years of sequels that ranged from unremarkable to borderline offensive did a lot to tarnish the Tomb Raider name, developer...
When adventurer extraordinaire Lara Croft raided her first tomb back in 1996, she brought with her an exhilarating feeling of isolation and discovery. Over the years, Lara has continued to venture into...
Since technology has evolved faster than good ideas, it’s easier than ever to be jaded about computer games. That being the state of things, you’ll have no problem relating to Garrett, the antihero of...
Like Thief: The Dark Project, Thief II: The Metal Age uses the mechanics of a first-person shooter to make a game that’s more about inaction than action. You won’t find yourself running through hallways...
One of the many reasons why 1998 was such a groundbreaking year for gaming is Thief: The Dark Project, a game that helped invent what’s now commonly referred to as the stealth action genre. Though two...
The Sum of All Fears motion picture is out, and so is the PC game, which uses the same graphics engine as Ghost Recon. And like Ghost Recon, Rogue Spear, and Red Storm’s other shooters that bear the Tom...
In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, victory is sweet–but it’s so much sweeter when it arrives after a heart-wrenching standoff. With each turn, the newest entry in this beloved strategy series heightens the sense...
Alice: Madness Returns is the sequel to the year 2000 PC game, American McGee’s Alice. Alice: Madness Returns is set over a decade after the original game. Alice is finally free from the Rutledge Insane...
Cross-genre games typically take a walk on the mild side. You usually get something to the order of role-playing-game leveling up in a real-time strategy game, real-time-strategy combat in a role-playing...
It’s difficult to come to grips with a release like The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, because it’s made up of several disparate components of varying quality. The shining star here is...
As one of the first shooters to pioneer team- and class-based gameplay, the first Team Fortress quickly became a favorite among the online community, inspiring devotion and spawning innumerable user-created...
Contrary to popular gaming lore, the original System Shock was not a commercial failure and sold over 170,000 copies over time. But when it first released in 1994, gamers overlooked Looking Glass’s groundbreaking...
When you think of Star Wars, the first two things that likely come to mind are probably Jedi and space combat in X-Wings and TIE fighters. So logically, a Star Wars game that features neither element...
