Tag: Dead Island

Dying Light Review

The Vaulting Dead

Dying Light

HIGH Watching a horde of zombies immolate as a molotov explodes in their midst.

LOW Falling off a zipline to my death for the tenth time in a row.

WTF Sure, I'll just toss all this medicine in a fire. No chance it'll be useful later!

Dead Island: Riptide Second Opinion

Redoing Your Voodoo, Bitch

Dead Island: Riptide Screenshot

HIGH There's a mission entirely about shutting off Sam B's awful damn song.

LOW The nearly-immortal chainsaw maniac final boss.

WTF The developers were so sure I would use boats that water enemies don't even trigger if you walk right up to them in the canals.

Dead Island: Riptide Review

Lifeless

Dead Island: Riptide Screenshot

HIGH The new character's hand-to-hand fighting style is a hoot.

LOW Watching zombies infinitely spawn, clown-car style out of a tiny wooden shack.

WTF It's got the jankiest menu system ever created. How was this approved?

Denpa, Bayonetta, Riptide and Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate merch!

Bayonetta Screenshot

I'm trying to make a serious effort towards trimming down my backlog this year, so I decided to give Bayonetta one more shot. I've started and quit the game twice before, but it comes up in conversation so often and in such positive terms that I'd feel like I wasn't doing my critical due diligence unless I gave it a least one more try.

Game of the year… 2011?

Dead Island Screenshot

If you read this blog with any regularity, you probably remember that I was a huge fan of Dead Island last year. So huge, in fact, that I was one of the critics who chose it as our overall game of 2011. We got more than a few funny looks from other critics when we made the announcement, but I still feel good about the choice in comparison to what the competition was, and I definitely think it was the right direction to go.

PSP Minis, Kingdoms of Amalur and Dead Island’s Ryder White

Dead Island: Ryder White Screenshot

I haven’t been up on my download titles and the way I should lately, so I’ve been trying to rectify that over last week or two. I decided to comb through the PSP Minis store alphabetically and see what caught my eye. There’s a whole lot of junk in there, quite frankly, but there are some nice titles if you look hard enough.