Despite what your feelings on Marvel’s mobile video game portfolio, personally I wish they would make traditional games like WB Games does with their Arkham franchise, you can’t deny that their offerings have not been diverse: There’s a puzzle/RPG hybrid in Marvel Puzzle Quest; A fighting game in Marvel Contest of Champions and an action-RPG in Marvel Future Fight among many others. Now…
In 2015 I looked at Acclaim’s roster of in-house produced comic book video games, and in 2016 I’m taking the year-long feature concept further and will determine what is the greatest Marvel console video game of all time. There are some things I’d like to clarify before the feature starts in the new year, the…
Disney Infinity is a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Some enjoy the freedom of creating their own play sets and playing the creations of others, while others prefer a more traditionally structured video game experience found in the game’s play set offerings. If you read my review of either the Disney Infinity…
Fresh off this summer’s Secret Wars mini-series spin-off based on the classic Avengers/Guardians of the Galaxy crossover The Korvac Saga, Michael Korvac has now been announced to be joining the roster of next year’s Lego Marvel’s The Avengers. Korvac initially was a technician from the future who was captured by the alien race known as the Badoon.…
In its short time in the video game spotlight, Acclaim’s Turok franchise was a lot of things: A series of traditional first-person shooters, a multi-player focuses arena shooter, several side-scrollers and overhead action games mixed with beat-em-up and vehicular gameplay. That all being said, I didn’t expect what I got when I slotted the Game…
2002 saw the release of two major franchise sequels from Acclaim on the sixth generation of consoles. The big fall release was the infamous Turok: Evolution, which arrived on every piece of hardware available at the time: The GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, PC, and even a spin-off on the Game Boy Advance. The second arrived at a…
As games and consoles moved into the third dimensions, companies worked to bring everyone’s favourite IP’s into this bold new era of gaming: Mario, MegaMan, Castlevania, Metal Gear, The Legend of Zelda, etc. each with their own varying degrees of success. One franchise that missed out on the first wave of 3-D revivals was Nintendo’s popular…
Fall is the time of year when people throw down big dollars and all the AAA releases that publishers flood onto the market, your Call of Duty’s, Assassin’s Creed, Halo’s, etc, however for me this past weekend, the game I couldn’t take myself away from was Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign on my PS4. It’s an incredibly simple, yet…
The folks at TT Games must be a huge fan of dinosaurs, after not only releasing both Lego Jurassic World and Jurassic World themed content in Lego Dimensions, but also with today’s character reveal for the early 2016 game, Lego Marvel’s The Avengers.. After yesterday’s news of Crimson Dynamo, Fin Fang Foom and Agent Carter joining the roster of Lego Marvel’s The…
Fifteen years ago today, Sony launched the PlayStation 2 in North America, and in typing that sentence just now, I feel very, very old. It’s funny in hindsight because I remember being in my second year of highschool when the PlayStation 2 came out, and I was nothing but underwhelmed by its line-up and prospects.…
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