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AAAAAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity
AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! (84 on Metacritic), the ‘jump off a building’ game from Dejobaan games, does not suffer from a lot of story getting in the way of the fun. Here’s the pitch from the developer:
Dive off a skyscraper.
Flip off protesters.
Spraypaint buildings.
How great does that sound?
It ends up looking like this:
In their 9/10 review, GamesRadar [...]
Rainbox Six Vegas 2 drops to $20
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 / Xbox, PS3, PC (81 or so on Metacritic, varies by platform) just dropped to under $20 on Amazon.
Rainbox Six Vegas 2 a tactial first-person shooter. It’s the seventh in the Rainbow Six series (nineteen if you count expansions), but it’s only the second where you get to lead [...]
F.E.A.R. 2 drops to $20
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin / Xbox, PS3, PC (78 or so on Metacritic, depending on platform) just dropped below $20 on Amazon.
It is a first-person shooter in the horror genre.
In marketing speak — “The sequel to F.E.A.R. continues the original game’s spine-tingling supernatural suspense story of an escalating paranormal crisis that threatens [...]
Torchlight / PC – “Diablo meets Pixar”
Sure, the recently-released Torchlight / PC (86 at Metacritic) is another in a long line of Diablo-alikes. But it’s an extremely well-done and inexpensive Diablo-alike, produced by people who have spent their careers refining their Diablo-alike development skills. (Some of them started with developing Diablo, even.)
As usual, you pick a character-type (wizard, warrior, ranger), and [...]
Team Fortress 2 / PC – $2.49
Steam is running a special this weekend — Team Fortress 2 (92 at Metacritic) for the PC is $2.49.
If you like the shooters, Team Fortress 2 is a ‘must-have.’ If you don’t like the shooters, it’s good enough that it might change your mind. YouGamers summed it up with:
When the biggest flaw of the [...]
House of Dead: Overkill / Wii – $19.49
House of the Dead: Overkill (80 at GameRankings) is a first-person zombie shooter on rails with a grindhouse vibe. If that hasn’t sold you, maybe this will: it holds the Guiness World Record title for ‘most swearing in a video game’ with 189 occurrences of the f-bomb alone.
Here’s the trailer:
And here’s what game play looks [...]
Canabalt / iPhone: $2.99 or free
Canabalt (iPhone or web) is a fun little game about a character who runs. It isn’t said what he’s running from, or why, but it’s clear that he has to bound from building to building, avoiding crates and crashing through windows, to escape some horrible fate.
There is just enough design to make it pretty, and [...]
Fallout 3 / PS3 – $19.99
Amazon’s Videogame Deal of the Day is the almost universally loved Fallout 3 (90 at Metacritic). It’s $19.99 for the PS3. PC and Xbox are still around $37. (Be sure to click through to the ‘Standard’ version.)
It’s a shooter with strong role-playing elements set in a — say it along with me! — a post-apocalyptic [...]
Hive / iPhone : $4.99
Hive, a 2-player strategy game — and one of BoardGameGeek’s 100 best games of all time — is out on the iPhone. Like Othello, it’s ‘quick to learn, hard to master.’ It offers four levels of single-player play, two-player ‘pass the phone’ play, and four different tile sets.
At under $5, it’s worth checking out, [...]
Assassin’s Creed / PC – $5 through Thursday
Assassin’s Creed /PC (79 at Metacritic) is available through Steam for a mere $5 through Thursday.
It’s a third person action-adventure title set during the Crusades in the Holy Land. You play an assassin, doing a whole lot of what assassins do: blood and murder and mayhem and the like.
Here’s the trailer:
Here’s what gameplay looks [...]