Recently details came out about Guitar Hero: World Tour. It will have a fancy drum kit with faux cymbals. It will allow for music composition (sweet on paper). It may or may not be backwards compatible with DLC to date (depends on what article you read). It will feature approximately 85 …
Archive for June, 2008
It’s the DLC, stupid!
Monday, June 30th, 2008 by golden jewBest Game Ever – Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition
Monday, June 30th, 2008 by wesleyJurassic Park: Rampage Edition (hereafter referred to as JP:RE) is truly a one of a kind game. In my decades of playing games, I have never come across anything quite like it.
Whee!
Back in the early nineties some developer released the movie tie-in game Jurassic Park for …
Tales From Behind the Counter – The Walking Dead
Friday, June 27th, 2008 by tysonI love zombies. I love zombies so much that I would be lying if I said there weren’t nights that I have gone to bed hoping to wake up the following morning in a full-blown zombacalypse. In many ways this column and my video game store are in a state of zombie purgatory, not quite …
Review – The World Ends with You
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 by horatioSet in present-day Shibuya, a Tokyo ward is famous for its fashion, The World Ends with You (TWEWY) is an RPG that follows the story of Neku Sakuraba as he wakes up in a busy intersection with no memories. A text message informs him that for the next week he will be a participant in …
My Life as a Hermitic King
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 by jayAround day 100 or so it starts to become painfully clear that playing My Life as a King consists of little more than assigning spreadsheet characters to spreadsheet dungeons. As this understanding of the game mechanics slowly dawned on me, I began to go to bed earlier each day (virtual king me, not real me).
Calling …
Review – Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 by d. olsenAhh yes, Metal Gear Solid! We come to it at last! If the blithering of pungent otaku hermits is to be believed this legendary video game franchise will act like a combination of Viagra and powdered rhinoceros horn on the superfluous appendage of the fanboy elite. Crafted over the course of years by the very …
Review – Persona 3 FES
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 by chrisAtlus used to be rather stingy about bringing games over. We received the first Persona, sure, but it was missing a large sidequest and the story was changed to make it take place in the US. We didn’t receive the first half of Persona 2, although the second half came introduced us to …
Bad Company, good reviews for EA?
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 by christianRecently I played the single player demo of Battlefield: Bad Company. While opinions on the single player may be worthless for a game that everyone is anticipating for its multiplayer, such excuses don’t fly here at vl.
The fact is that Bad Company’s SP is the worst kind of worthless. It is a squad …
Review – Ninja Gaiden II
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 by wesleyNinja Gaiden 2 is not an earth-shattering masterpiece. As much as the fan in me wants to spout absurd levels of hyperbole that put recent GTA4 and MGS4 reviews to shame, and devote five paragraphs to how this game’s Oscar-worthy story made me regret having even existed before its release date, I feel it’s …
Review – Grand Theft Auto IV
Friday, June 20th, 2008 by christianWhen it comes to reviewing GTA IV, I am not even sure why we bother. We all know the game is going to sell more than anything else in 2008. We have all decided whether to buy it before reading reviews. Grand Theft Auto is such a part of our industry and …
