So here's the million-dollar question: How do you cram one of the deepest, most graphics-intensive stealth series of all time onto the PSP? If you're Ubisoft, you learn from your mistakes, take a deep breath and push the handheld's limits as hard as you can.
Unlike the franchise's abortive N-Gage and Nintendo DS attempts, Splinter Cell Essentials loses little in translation, enabling players to do everything they can do in the console versions. NSA spook Sam Fisher is as agile as ever, able to
At each of Spore’s five stages, from the microbiotic to the intergalactic, there is an eternal choice: kill or... don’t. When you start, as a microbe with teeth, it’s kill or be vegetarian. When you evolve enough to crawl from the primordial soup to dry land, it’s kill or sing little songs to befriend things. Once your species forms a society and decides what buildings to have in its first village, it’s kill or
In an effort to add more depth to the classic driving/shooting hybrid series Spy Hunter, a new wrinkle has been thrown in. Now, you're forced to get out of the badassed ride known as the Interceptor (that sweet, James Bond fantasy car) and run around on your
You experience a 'love at first sight' moment when you see SSX on Tour running. It's a simply stunning game - a hallucinogenic trip down the sides of mountains pulling off outrageous moves that are somehow just within the bounds of plausibility (a feature from the Tony Hawk games that reached its pinnacle in THPS2 and has never been quite so perfectly replicated since). If other games in its annual sports sequel portfolio seem to be resting on their laurels, the EA team behind SSX are pushing
Poker: America's new national pastime? You'd think it from the sudden explosion of TV shows, books and paraphernalia littering the pop culture landscape. Video games have jumped on the bandwagon, too, but every poker title seems to be missing ... something. Usually it's either smarts or speed. Stacked featuring Daniel Negreanu promises both.
Stacked is powered by the Poki AI, which doesn't sound like much, but has the potential to make all other poker games look utterly ridiculous. Developed
Poker: America's new national pastime? You'd think it from the sudden explosion of TV shows, books and paraphernalia littering the pop culture landscape. Video games have jumped on the bandwagon, too, but every poker title seems to be missing ... something. Usually it's either smarts or speed. Stacked featuring Daniel Negreanu promises both.
Stacked is powered by the Poki AI, which doesn't sound like much, but has the potential to make all other poker games look utterly ridiculous. Developed
Our earlier hands-on with Tactical Assault left us wondering how much fun flying around flat space could even be. Despite the word "tactical," your classic Trek ships are limited to basic maneuvers and not all that much planning ahead. In fact, there's no height or depth to this universe at all - the Federation and Klingons have to wage their race war on a flat plane, ignoring that pesky third dimensional axis altogether.
But after cruising through several missions, we're starting to warm up
When you hear a name like Tactical Assault, you rightly assume there's going to be a decent amount of tactical thinking involved in the ship-on-ship gameplay. Well, you certainly do have to mind your location in relation to the enemy, but all the action takes place on a flat plane - how sneaky can you be when you can only steer left and right?
In the mission we tested, we had to check out a mysterious signal that was emanating from deep space. Once we got there, a few different options were
This is our third go-around with flat-space shooter Star Trek: Tactical Assault and we're still waiting - and hoping - for the game to come together before its holiday release.
In Assault you pilot a Federation or, once unlocked, Klingon warship from Star Trek's original TV series era, jumping into various space sectors to perform seemingly simple missions. Much like a Disney theme park ride, however, even the simplest task can go terribly awry: enemies pop in from hyperspace and start
Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron sports all the features we wanted to see in a new Battlefront game. For the first time, you can battle on land, hop in a ship and strafe ground units from the air, and blast into orbit to dogfight and assault your enemy’s capital ship, all on the same map. We recently got to sample multiplayer with 16 other players, and the transitions between ground, air, and space combat work great.
