Sam Fisher is back. And he is really, really mad. To anyone that had played the older Splinter Cell games, this would be reason enough to celebrate. Except for one little detail. This time around, ol Sam is up against a foe that renders him helpless. This time, the enemy is so abhorrently vile that [...]

Pay attention, if you will, to the following lines of dialogue from the single player campaign of Battlefield Bad Company 2 (BC2 from here on): Sweetwater (Yes that’s his name): “If this were a snowmobile race I’d take you down!” Haggard (Again, that’s his name): “It’s not a snowmobile. Snowmobiles are for sissies!” That should [...]

If you really think about it, the whole sci-fi and fantasy thing is silly. I mean, we know there are no elves. We know there are no death stars or Jedis, yet we get sucked into worlds that are home to these imaginary beings with their impossible characters and ridiculous plots. Lemme see, the world [...]

It is a little known fact that 95.2% of all males above the age of 13 absolutely WANT a zombie apocalypse *. Why? Well, to our testosterone-flooded, Romero-fueled, eternally adolescent minds, it would be fun. And each of us, to a man, is convinced that while the rest of the human populace would be snack [...]

I finished Dragon Age Origins last night. I should say that I finished playing Dragon Age Origins last night but I won’t. Why? Well, in the 75 hours that I have spent with it, I have been accused of regicide, been an instrument of vengeance, been hit on by a bisexual elf, made deals with [...]

Games based on movie / comic licenses usually suck. It’s true that now and again, one title may break that unfortunate rule but, that’s because the developer took the setting/time period/world of a particular intellectual property and made it its own. If you have played any of Bioware’s RPGs set in the Star Wars universe [...]