Last year, fans of NHL 2K8 was filled with discontentment, largely because of the overwhelming complexity of the controls that took away the fundamental nature of the game, which is to have fun. This year, NHL 2K9 brings back the “E” in Excitement as Visual Concepts introduces an intuitive yet easy-to-learn control scheme that gives…

Once in awhile, you’ll get a different kind of racing, the kind that involves ATV and the wild outback. That said, Disney surprised us with their very own off-road game called Pure. Pure is surprisingly good, packing in some of the best gravity-defying jumps and the wildest stunts! Pure reminds us of SSX Tricky on…

In the late 90s, Midway was king of the ring when it released WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game platforms. It featured cooperative play and eight of the famous wrestlers to graze the front cover. With names like Yokozuna, Razor Ramon and Bret “The Hitman” Hart, who could forget Wrestlemania? Though the game lacked balance in…

It’s been a while since a good action-RPG came out for a console, but Silicon Knight’s Too Human is like an oasis in a desert. It crams together some of the best characteristics of action adventure and the imaginative cultures of RPG and wrapped them up in a neat package. As the story goes, Too…

When the original Soul Calibur was released in the late 90’s, it set the standard for what would be one of the greatest 3D fighters in the history of video games. A decade later, Namco-Bandai reignites that same arcade enthusiasm through Soul Calibur IV. Seeing that today’s consoles have progressed quite nicely, the new Soul…

Capcom’s legendary franchise Street Fighter has come a long way since 1987, the year the first Street Fighter game was released. However, the series didn’t make waves until Street Fighter 2 made its way onto the arcade scene that had teenagers lining up their dirty quarters to get a chance to crack at its immersive…

Bringing the series back to its roots and moving it in a new direction all at once, Unreal Tournament 3 reintroduces shooter fans to simpler days, where weapons are both inventive and immensely out of this world, and somehow participating cosmic gladiators, who are quite agile, have no problem taking a rocket to the face!…

Creating a game based on a movie has always been a struggling transition. And players have learned the hard way when their game never really turned out to be as good as the movie. So there’s a constant doubt among gamers to pass up on a game despite its movie counterpart is breaking sales record…

In one corner, we have the reigning champ: EA’s Fight Night Round 3, and in the other corner, we have the contender: 2K Sports’ Don King Presents: Prizefighter. Which boxing game is better? Well, the answer is quite a long one. Prizefighter plays out as a documentary about you, or rather the boxer you create,…