Obscure 2

Platforms: PS2, Wii, PC Release Date: 2008-03-25 Regions: USA Europe Chris’s Rating: ☆☆☆☆ The worst aspects of a teenage slasher flick in game form: boring, trite, and occasionally offensive. The original Obscure was a fun, if somewhat routine, horror game. Its saving grace was its two player mode, something that has still yet to be […]

Silent Hill 5

Platforms: Xbox360, PS3 Release Date: 2008-09-30 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ A game that can’t make up its mind which of the previous Silent Hill games it would like to emulate more, and suffers as a result. Silent Hill Homecoming is the latest in a series of not-very-Silent-Hill-like Silent Hill games. I guess […]

Condemned 2: Bloodshot

Platforms: Xbox360, PS3 Release Date: 2008-03-11 Regions: USA Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ A sequel that hits all the right notes but can’t quite follow the tune. Condemned 2 is sort of a hard game to write a review for. On the one hand, it’s clearly been designed to address the shortcomings of the original Condemned […]

Rule of Rose

Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2006-09-12 Regions: USA Japan Europe Official site: http://www.playstation.jp/scej/title/ror/

Alone in the Dark 5

Platforms: Xbox360, PS3, Wii Release Date: 2008-06-23 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★☆☆ Mixing procedural mechanics with traditional linear game play proves mediocre. Alone in the Dark 5 is an interesting game because it tries so hard to be so many different things at once. It’s got elements of all sorts of other games, […]

Land of the Dead

Also known as: Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler’s Green Platforms: Xbox, PC Release Date: 2005-10-26 Regions: USA