NFL Tour for 360/PS3 (CommonSense Media)
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Posted on February 4th, 2008 by
My reactions and ruminations regarding EA Sports’ latest attempt to bring Midway’s NFL Blitz to home theaters – only without all that offensive and outrageous stuff that made NFL Blitz fun. Well, NFL Tour is here… does it improve on where NFL Street left off? In honor of last night’s boring but history making Superbowl I present to you my review and content overview of NFL Tour.
The Games of Atari Classics Evolved
Posted on February 1st, 2008 by
Since I love classic arcade collections, here’s a quick rundown of the games in Atari Classics Evolved for PSP. Since most people here know (or can easily find out) about the old classic arcade titles on this package, we’ll just go over the Evolved versions of these games.
No More Heroes – Wii
Posted on January 31st, 2008 by
It’s far too rare, but every so often a true visionary, an auteur or maybe just a madman, takes the reigns of a video game title and sweeps everything generic, rote, boring, or predictable from the code. A game that posesses singular vision. You’d think they’d be more common in a creative medium as wild as videogaming. No More Heroes for the Wii is such a game. An endlessly controversial, hilariously offensive, mildly sophmoric, and endlessly playable new sword-simulator from a design team that’s clearly off the deep end and ’round the bend. I love this game and at the same time I hate it. Here’s my take on the laundry list of ESRB descriptors courtesy but uncredited by WhatTheyPlay.com. Oh, yeah, I wish I’d remembered certain details like how the only way to save is to go to the toilet. Suffice it to say, it gets our ADULT SEAL. Great game for grown ups though! What do you think?
Advance Wars – Days of Ruin
Posted on January 31st, 2008 by
Advance Wars is a series I should enjoy more than I do. There’s something about the happy, happy take on warfare I always found vaguely off-putting and the series is marred, in my opinion, by way too much writing. Still, they’re great for kids – they’re easy to learn, hard to master, and the tactical challenge is brain-teasingly fun and second to none. WhatTheyPlay has published my takes on Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising for GBA and Advance Wars: Dual Strike, and now they’ve put up my take on Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. An excellent new direction for the series where the story gets darker, the warfare is still happy, and the gameplay is still unparalleled and perfectly safe for kids as young as 8.
GamerDad at Large! – CommonSense Media Edition
Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by
CommonSense Media was the first website to come out and compete directly with GamerDad.com. Compete isn’t exactly the right word. Their board is a who’s who of child advocates and they seem well financed. Hey, they’re a charity. I’m a charity too, but that’s not my legal status… I just don’t make a whole lot of money. Since I’ve been working for them for over a year now, I won’t pick and link each review. Instead, there’s a catch-all link. So go here and browse away! more…
Last Week at GamerDad! 1/21/08
Posted on January 21st, 2008 by
If you’re looking for game reviews you want to move past this page and into GamerDad.com proper. But if you’re too busy to visit that site, and would like a handy weekly Round Up… well, have we got you covered!
