Game Log

Giana Sisters is a reworking of an old Commodore 64 game that itself was a note-for-note ripoff of Super Mario Bros. This... more

Costume Quest feels like an off-hand idea thrown out there at a pitch meeting. I’m sure the designers had just... more

Syberia II picks up right where the first game left off with you racing by train into northern Russia in... more

Oblivion is a huge, open-world RPG made by the same folks who made Fallout 3. In fact, it plays very much... more

I’ve been playing a lot of adventure games these days. In Syberia you play Kate Walker, a lawyer working for a... more

Dream Zone is a graphical adventure for the Apple IIgs that I was never able to complete when it was... more

Despite their flaws, I have enjoyed playing all the games in the King’s Quest series up until now (I ,II, III & IV).... more

Fresh off of completing Broken Sword, I decided to continue my point-and-click adventure gaming with The Longest Journey. Like Nico from Broken... more

Broken Sword is a point and click adventure game from the ninties. You will spend most of the game playing... more

Mass Effect 3 is the satisfying conclusion to the Mass Effect trilogy (ME1 & ME2). The Reapers have finally come to reap and it’s... more

Alan Wake was developed by the same people who made one of my favorite games, Max Payne. Unfortunately, there is no... more

Fresh off of Goldeneye 007 I am continuing my Wii FPS fix with Conduit 2. Apparently somewhere between 1 and 2 they... more

I’ve had this game for quite a while now and have been waiting until I complete it before writing... more

I never played Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64. I guess the original was noteworthy for making the controls on a console... more

Dear Esther is a noble little experiment that pushes the notion of video games as art. The problem is, it... more

There have not been many wild west shooters. I guess there was Outlaw for the 2600 and, of course, now there’s Red... more

Okami follows much the same formula of a typical Zelda game. You proceed through the game by defeating the boss at the... more

I have never really been a fan of superhero comics. What I know about Batman comes mostly from the Super... more

Sword & Sworcery is a bit more art than video game. In fact, the game itself is more of a... more

Phantasy Star II and III are probably the only 16-bit era JRPGs that I actually completed when I was... more

I liked the original Dead Space well enough. The sequel is just more of the same endless dark hallways, jump scares,... more

I guess the best way to describe Other M would be “disappointing.” Judging from  screenshots of the game you would assume... more

This game has been lying dormant in a plastic bin in my basement for more than a decade. Back... more

I have just been plowing through the sequels of nineties FPS’s lately. This time it was back to Castle... more

It’s been quite some time since I tackled a Sierra 3-D adventure game (See my reviews of Kings’s Quest I, II & III and Leisure Suit... more

This is essentially the same game as Doom 3 except with the lights turned on and fewer monster closets. What both... more

The original Duke Nukem 3D was perhaps the best of the first wave of FPS games. I also really liked Rise of... more

This is the game that forced me to update my video card last year. I remember playing the first Far... more

I missed out on the original Tomb Raider game in the 90s. I think I downloaded the demo and... more

Pushing balls around has never been more fun! I have really enjoyed the last few Tomb Raider games like Tomb Raider:... more

Although it’s a massive 30-40 hour game, New Vegas is really just an stand-alone expansion pack to the wonderful Fallout 3. If... more

I have had this game sitting on my video game to-do list for a long, long time. This is... more

Having whet my appetite for adventure games on the excellent Sam and Max series, I thought it would be a good... more

Having been burnt twice by buying the technically challenged Wii versions on Season 1 & 2, I decided to... more

This is the fourth Oddworld game. The first two were great 2-D puzzle platform games of which I was reminded of... more

Zeno Clash brings brawling and melee combat to the FPS genre and makes it work. Whenever a game has attempted... more

This is a sequel I have been meaning to play through for a few years now. The original Deus Ex was... more

Painkiller is a first generation FPS that’s about a dozen years too late. Unlike most modern shooters, your goal is... more

This game is noteworthy for its incredible, painterly art style. The characters and backgrounds are all rendered with vibrant... more

Mass Effect had a really interesting storyline and I was pretty excited to delve further into the universe of Shepard... more

Portal 2 is incredible. You’ll find plenty of gushing reviews just about everywhere else on the ‘net so I will... more

Season two is more of the same point-and-click adventuring that was done so well in Season one. The puzzles are... more

This is one of the best games you can buy for the Wii. There are nearly a dozen classic... more

It took about a year of on-again / off-again playing, but I finally made it through this DS remake... more

“Leathermen don’t get nervous… leathermen don’t get nervous” The immortal words of Glenn the Leatherman from Village People movie, Can’t... more

This was my third journey into the world of Grand Theft Auto and I am starting to pick up on the... more

So, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks working my way through F.E.A.R. and its two expansion packs: Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate. I... more

After many months of playing I have finally finished all three of the games included in this excellent limited... more

Aim for the arms! Aim for the arms, dammit! Ever since I installed my completely unnecessary 5.1 surround audio... more

This is one of the first games I bought for my new iPad tablet. Puzzle Agent is essentially a clone of Professor... more

I have written about The Ocarina of Time on this Web site before. That game is considered one of the best... more

Dead Space Extraction is yet another “on-rails” Wii shooter game. The Wii, with its pointer controls, is the perfect platform... more

The Conduit is one of the few games for the Wii that makes an honest attempt to appeal to hardcore... more

The Wii has two areas in which it excels: family friendly games and pseudo-lightgun shooters (meaning, you point the... more

GTA: Chinatown Wars on the DS was my first Grand Theft Auto game and it remains one of the best games on... more

Mass Effect is another BioWare RPG that I picked up on Steam for five bucks during their holiday sale (along... more

No that isn’t a black square you are looking at above. It’s a  screenshot. A screenshot from Doom 3. Forget... more

It’s been quite a while since I have been able to make myself play another BioWare Game. I really... more

This was a cartoony and fun side-scrolling platformer with nice2.5-D graphics. A bit easy and lacking the exploration and... more

Aside from the hour or two of GTA 2 that I played on the PC years ago, this was... more

Mirror’s Edge is another free-running inspired game like Assassin’s Creed. But unlike Assassin’s Creed, the acrobatic roof running is actually an... more

Pictured above is one of the many exciting “sit and watch some guys talk” missions from the PC game Assassin’s... more

Fallout 1 and 2 are two of my favorite computer games. Those games had a great style to them,... more

Braid got a lot of critical praise when it was released for Xbox. When it went on sale for the... more

A nice little time killing game for the DS. Nothing too deep, but a great kids game.

This was another bargain purchase for me. Ten dollars on Amazon during one of their Gold Box sales. I’d... more

I found this game used for around twelve bucks a few months ago. I’m glad I picked it up... more

Old Ironsides (Optimum Resource, Inc., 1982) is a two-player game for the Apple II that simulates Nineteenth Century naval combat.... more

A nice, light-hearted version of Zelda for the DS with some interesting stylus controls.

Leisure Suit Larry is one of my favorite adventure games of all time. Certainly the best of the Sierra... more

My overview of the video game classics continues with the LucasArts adventure game, Grim Fandango. In many ways Grim Fandango can be... more

Well, I just finished The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and I have to say that it does live up... more

Most of the platform-type games made for the PC are utter crap (remember Duke Nukem 1 or Biohazzard, yuck!). Abe’s... more

Ever since my brother was suckered into buying a 3D0 console system, I have heard good things about the... more

Nox is an action packed role playing game for the PC. Many would compare this to Diablo. Both feature hack... more

Essentially a first-person shooter game mixed with lots of role-playing elements. For the most part the game is pretty... more

Considered by many to be the best games of the Ultima series, Ultima 7 is one of the most... more

Onward on my journey through the King’s Quest saga I go. Part III was the first in the series to really... more

I’m continuing to play the King’s Quest games in DosBox these days. Tonight I just completed King’s Quest II: Romancing... more

I am currently reveling in Sierra 3-D adventure games like the King’s Quest series and Leisure Suit Larry. As a kid, these... more