15 reasons why you shouldn't play DotA 2. Dota 2 Review. Reviewed on PC → July 24, 2013 There’s an adage that the Dota 2 community often quotes when someone identifies themselves as a new player.
“Welcome to Dota 2!” They say, with open arms, before concluding with, “You suck.” Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Review. Reviewed on PlayStation 3 → January 15, 2013 Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch looks familiar, archetypical and even safe, but underneath the hood, it’s none of those things.
While developer Level-5 has stayed the course with many conventions of the genre, it’s likewise bucked the disturbing trend in JRPGs of emphasizing all of the wrong things, instead focusing on what any game that demands dozens of hours should: roping you in with solid gameplay, complemented by a wonderful story told by characters you care about. As such, Ni No Kuni gets its hooks into you almost immediately, and it refuses to let go. We’ve come a long way since the glory days of the Japanese role-playing game in the 1990s. Grand Theft Auto V Review. Reviewed on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 → September 16, 2013 Note: This review exclusively covers the single-player portion of Grand Theft Auto V, since it launched without any multiplayer mode.
Click here to read Keza's ongoing thoughts on the recently released GTA Online multiplayer mode. For me, Grand Theft Auto V’s extraordinary scope is summed up in two favourite moments. One is from a mid-game mission in which I flew a plane into another plane, fought the crew, hijacked the thing, and then parachuted out and watched it crash into the sea to escape death at the hands of incoming military fighter jets. Another time, whilst driving around in an off-road buggy, I got distracted by something that looked like a path up one of the San Andreas mountains. I could go on like this for ages. Trouble taps on your window again with this next chapter in the Grand Theft Auto universe, set in the city of Los Santos. its surrounding areas – feel like a living world where anything can happen.
Forza Horizon Review. Reviewed on Xbox 360 → October 12, 2012 Forza Horizon is what happens when you assemble a crack team of talented racing game veterans, plucked from a bunch of the UK’s finest driving developers, and shove them all under one roof and set them loose with Microsoft’s money.
This supergroup of racing devs is called Playground Games and its staff hail from some of the UK’s best and brightest racing studios; Codemasters, Bizarre, Criterion and many more. Playground Games' job was to take the incredible resources of the Forza franchise and create an open-world spin-off of this generation's leading circuit racer. The results speak for themselves. Forza Horizon is the open-world racing game that open-world racing game fans have always wanted.Think Test Drive Unlimited but with the nuanced handling and carefully crafted cars of the Forza franchise mixed with the confident presentation fans of Codemasters' racers are accustomed to. Heavy Rain Review. If you're planning on skipping the bulk of this text and heading straight to the review score to decide whether or not you should play through Heavy Rain, just know this: the game starts slow.
It'll take you a couple hours to get into the meat of the experience and for things to really pick up, but once it does, you'll be on the edge of your seat until the end and you won't want to put the controller down. In other words, if you stick with it, Heavy Rain will give you a ride like you rarely see in games. Having said that, it's also worth quickly pointing out that I'm going to keep this review completely spoiler-free, so feel free to read it without fear of anything being ruined for you (and trust me, you don't want anything ruined). Quantic Dream's last title, dubbed Indigo Prophecy in North America and Fahrenheit pretty much everywhere else, tried to bridge together intricate storytelling with gameplay by using what were essentially quick-time events (think Dragon's Lair). CES: Origin PC Steam Machine Offers Dual GTX Titans in the Living Room.
In the lead-up to its press event at CES, Valve had said that Steam Machines of all shapes, sizes, costs, and performance levels were in the works — some would be small and cheap, others would be high-end graphics powerhouses.
Origin PC's Chronos Steam Machine falls into the latter category. Based upon the company's existing line of small form factor PCs, the Chronos Steam Machine will offer support for up to dual Nvidia SLE GeForce GTX Titan GPUs, 14TBs of storage, and a liquid CPU cooling system. The system will be built-to-order and customizable from top to bottom, ranging from chassis color to component specifications and pre-configured overclocking. Optional dual-boot upgrades will allow users to swap between Valve's Linux-based Steam OS and Windows 7 or Windows 8 on the fly. The Top 10 JRPG Stories. Let's dispense with a well-worn stereotype right away: Yes, many Japanese RPGs feature cliche plots and story tropes.
There are others though, that feature memorable characters, play with our assumptions, and ultimately tell darn good stories. Below are 10 JRPGs with stories well worth experiencing. Persona 4: Golden This nod specifically goes to the Vita port, which adds in two very interesting social links and a terrific epilogue. The story follows a handful of high school students in Japan as they chase a mysterious killer, confronting their worst fears along the way. Earthbound Your mileage will vary on whether Earthbound or Mother 3 has the better story.