It’s hard to imagine a time when you didn’t have two readily available analog sticks in which to comfortably play a first-person shooter on consoles with, and people growing up today in the post Dualshock/original Xbox era may never know how we once easily got used to aiming and moving with face-buttons because we had…
When the surprise announcement came last year at the Game Awards that Telltale was teaming up with DC to do a series starring Batman, I didn’t know exactly how to feel. Of course I’m always excited to see any comic book character come to life in a video game, but after the excellent Arkham trilogy having come…
If you were intimidated by the competition at your local arcade, or just simply didn’t have a local arcade to go to in my case, home console conversions were normally how you played fighting games, and unfortunately those normally came with sacrifices that had to be made due to hardware limitations. As many hours as…
T-U-R-T-L-E POWER! T-U-R-T-L-E POWER! T-U-R-T-L-E POWER! TEENAGE. MUTANT. NINJA. TURTLES. This is what starts to pump out of your TV once you boot up Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, and if you’re a child of the 80’s/90’s like I am, you get a warm feeling of nostalgia and immediately think you’re in for something…
For their debut effort with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, Ubisoft tried something different that worked in one case (the console game) but not in another (the criminally bad DS game). Though it was wise for Ubisoft to differentiate their take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise from what came before, there was still a lot of…
TMNT (2007) on the Xbox 360 was a pretty good game that unfortunately was just a little too linear and easy for those who grew up on the at times brutal beat-em-ups developed by Konami in the 90’s. Compared to the DS game of the same name which tries a similar structure though a little big…
Up until 2007, all of the video games in the long running Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise we’re handled by Konami, but after a failed return to form with some mediocre games based on the 2003 animated series reboot, the Japanese publisher let the rights expire to be picked up by Ubisoft. Under the direction on Konami,…
When Activision claimed the X-Men license at the start of the new millennium, they didn’t do anything terribly exciting with the license prior to the ground breaking X-Men Legends in 2004. The first Mutant Academy game and its sequel were fine, but they were more or less just a Street Fighter clone with a 3-D coat of paint, again not that…
The new millennium has not been kind to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game franchise in the same way the late 80’s and early 90’s were. There have been some bright points, like the console game based on the 2007 CGI film TMNT and the Game Boy Advance game of the same name, as well as WayForward’s Danger of…
Is it just me, or did it seem like Capcom habitually used the X-Men as a testing ground for larger Marvel Universe ideas? On the SNES, there was X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse which was followed by Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems. When the seeds of the Vs. Series were first being planted, there came X-Men: Children of the Atom which was precedded…
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