Staff reviews
4,690 reviews · showing 2,361–2,380
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Staff Turbografx-CD
Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams review
When I think of "terror", I don't think of dirty hallways in need of a janitor. I think of grim forests populated by child-eating trees. I think of dungeons adorned with living statues that exist solely to murder little girls. Cotton…
Zigfried · May 16, 2010
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition review
Zeno Clash is so aggressively bizarre that when you call it “imaginative,” you’re in danger of giving its creators more credit than they deserve. So much of what’s here strikes me as weirdness for the sake of weirdness that the game’s most…
Mike Suskie · May 14, 2010
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Staff PSP HG exclusive
What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord!? 2 review
Badman 2 is addictive. It’s addictive like Tetris is addictive, only Tetris doesn’t have a little evil man begging you to help him conquer the world. In Badman, such victory is achieved through the digging of superior dungeons with your…
Jonathan Stark · May 13, 2010
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Staff Xbox 360 Review of the Week HG exclusive
Silent Hill: Homecoming review
Shepherd’s Glen looked every bit the next-gen reincarnation of Silent Hill, then new protagonist Alex Shepherd turns up in his surplus army coat, frizzy hair and a rugged stubble beard, looks you deep in the eyes and proclaims in a bold…
Gary Hartley · May 10, 2010
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time review
In Till the End of Time, you don't exist in some primitive medieval world dominated by swords and sorcery. Nope, you're in a massive galaxy with all sorts of planets — many of which are quite advanced technologically. You get teased by…
Rob Hamilton · May 8, 2010
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger review
Somehow, this deceptively simple fighter with fewer than 10 moves per character has the depth of an ocean. Even the story mode is deceptively complicated, and all the more rewarding for it. Moreover, the combat is complex, and the…
Josh Higley · May 8, 2010
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Major League Baseball 2K10 review
Like so many other sports games released this season, MLB 2K10 is guilty of failing to break new ground. My Player mode won’t appease everyone. However, it’s pretty clear that 2K Sports designed it with only one kind of player in mind –…
Louis Bedigian · May 7, 2010
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Borderlands DoubleGame Add-On Pack review
DLC has earned a reputation for being a quick and easy cash-grab, yet Gearbox’s efforts to expand the world of Pandora come off as anything but that; these are earnest and hearty attempts to deliver fans more of the engaging cooperative…
Mike Suskie · May 6, 2010
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Staff Xbox 360 Review of the Week HG exclusive
Enchanted Arms review
First impressions can be misleading. Sometimes purposefully so.
Gary Hartley · May 3, 2010
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
0-D Beat Drop review
0-D Beat Drop sets itself up as a fusion of rhythm and puzzle games, but the way it handles music doesn't fundamentally change the structure of its source material. No matter how many modes it throws at you, this is still an easier remix…
Benjamin Woodhouse · April 25, 2010
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Just Cause 2 review
Just Cause 2 doesn’t rely on things that go boom. Instead, the game succeeds by delivering moments that are intense, surreal, and will push players off the edge of their seats in cool and unexpected ways.
Louis Bedigian · April 25, 2010
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Staff DS HG exclusive
AGAIN: Interactive Crime Novel review
Again is the latest (and maybe last) interactive novel game from Cing, the developers of Trace Memory and Hotel Dusk. Such a pedigree makes this game even more disappointing than it otherwise would be.
Rhody Tobin · April 24, 2010
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Staff DS HG exclusive
Let's Draw! review
Let's Draw! includes a variety of fun shapes, too, things that kids would actually care to draw. You can start out simple just by drawing a few lines—and the game will congratulate you on your artistic prowess—then move up to something…
Jason Venter · April 24, 2010
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Sam & Max: The Penal Zone review
If there was ever any doubt that Telltale were anything but borderline insane, then the first ten minutes of Sam & Max: The Penal Zone put that firmly to bed.
Gary Hartley · April 24, 2010
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Staff PC HG exclusive
Shattered Horizon review
Shattered Horizon is certainly an original and unique addition to the FPS genre, but the lack of content and variety, the small number of players online and the lack of Windows XP support make it a difficult title to recommend.
Sohail Saleem · April 23, 2010
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
How To Train Your Dragon review
As you spend time outside of the arena with your dragon, whether that be training in the cave or playing mini-games that you have unlocked at a distant cave, your over-sized pet will grow weary. That can quickly impact its performance, so…
Jason Venter · April 23, 2010
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 review
The game's limited scope comes with a pleasing silver lining, however: destructible environments. Games have made attempts along those lines in the past, but Bad Company 2 takes the beautiful chaos to an unusually involving level. For…
Jason Venter · April 23, 2010
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Staff PlayStation 2 HG exclusive
Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love review
One definitely has to give credit to the Japanese for their ability to appeal to a wide range of sexual tastes. There’s a female here for everyone. There’s the plucky and inexplicably clumsy redhead, the big-breasted and flirtatious blonde…
Jonathan Stark · April 22, 2010
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Staff PlayStation 3 HG exclusive
Resonance of Fate review
For the most part, this battle system works wonders and it lends Resonance of Fate a fair portion of its charm. When you're able to stop thinking about all of the strategy that goes into perfectly executing a massive assault on powerful…
Jason Venter · April 21, 2010
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Staff Xbox 360 HG exclusive
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction review
Where Conviction diverges from its predecessors is in pacing. Guards in previous titles didn’t know what they were up against; at the player’s discretion, they often didn’t even know they were up against anything at all. On the flipside…
Mike Suskie · April 19, 2010
