Saturday, September 10, 2011

Portal 2 Review

Portal 2 Review
5 of 5 stars

Stop reading this and go play it!

Jumping: Not only can you jump, but you can jump through Portals. What?!!?

Limbo Review

Limbo Review
4.5 of 5 Stars.

Pros:
Amazing visual artistic choices with the black and white silhouette
Astounding audio--makes you feel like you are right in there, and the queues really push you in emotional directions.
Truly evokes a sense of mystery
Excellent animations and tight controls
Great physics
Very well done puzzles and game design
Very moving (if confusing) ending

Cons:
I didn't really feel a build towards the ending. It sort of happened out of nowhere. Though that may have been intentional, I feel like the way the game ended could have been more impacting if the buildup felt more epic

Jumping: You can jump freely and catch ledges and swing on stuff. Heck yeah!

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Risen Review

3.75 out of 5

Pros
Top notch exploration game--no matter where you tinker around, there is a something there for you to find (great rewards for exploration)
Beautiful world.
Great faction interaction.
Difficult Combat
Spiritual Successor to Gothic II (Gothic III sucked and Gothic IV isn't really Gothic)
Pretty good voice acting.
Good Humor.
I like that you can get yourself into hot water with tough enemies if you go running to areas you aren't ready to get to yet.

Cons
Difficult Combat.
You need to save/reload all the time.
Final chapters are very lackluster and final battle doesn't make sense in the game.
You will get some cheap deaths.
Except for one case, women are secondary, wimpy inhabitants of the game.
Game needed more development time. Could have been epic.

You can jump freely and actually catch ledges with some jumps!