Dustforce! Review (PC/Steam)

Games are usually an escape from life and so often have strange and unusual premises but you don’t find a whole lot that have you play a janitor armed with your push broom.  Even fewer have you play as part of a janitorial team working to clean up the forests of leaves.  That however is the premise of Dustforce and in it’s format the theme works just fine.

Dustforce is a 2D platform aerobatic action game in which players have to sweep, swipe and jump their way through multiple levels cleaning up leaves while avoiding thorns, destroying leaf clumps and saving woodland creatures from leaf possession.  I honestly didn’t fully understand the last part of leaf…

Zombii Attack Review (WiiWare)

In Zombii Attack, players must defend themselves from waves of zombies in an attempt to help the scientist Dr. Zii develop a cure for the zombie outbreak. Players are given a giant catapult and a variety of projectiles to hurl at the zombies from rocks and tires to mines and explosives. There are 18 different levels a few of which you are able to destroy some buildings in. There is even a bonus driving game thrown into the mix where you must run over zombies while avoiding parked cars. While defending yourself against the wave of oncoming zombies you are also tasked with capturing some zombies as well. These are used by Dr. Zii to…

All Zombies Must Die! Review (XBLA)

I’m an old school gamer as avid readers know, so as soon as I heard this title and saw how it was made my first thought was “Zombies Ate My Neighbors” that blasted onto the Super Nintendo and into the hearts of old school zombie hunters as you ran through 50s style camp saving the neighbors and killing the zombies.  So when I saw a trailer for All Zombies Must Die! I figured we were in for this generations version of the same game, just with updated graphics but what I found was a very well made game which while paying homage to the old game also pays homage to pop culture in general and…

Voltron: Defender of the Universe – A Review (XBLA)

THQ and Behavior Interactive have brought to the Xbox Live Arcade a game that I would have killed for as a kid during the 1980’s with Voltron: Defender of the Universe.  Unfortunately, nostalgia alone could not make this title the huge hit that I wanted it to be.  With repetitive game play, quick time boss battles, and bad quality control in the voice acting, Voltron: Defender of the Universe falls short of a good game and ends up directly into the mediocre pile of XBLA titles.
Story:
 The story for Voltron: Defender of the Universe is where the game really shines, but still has some problems with the line up that it wants to have in regards…

Sinister Pointe’s Not So Holiday Haunt Review

You may recall back in October when we posted our review of Sinister Pointe’s Haunted Attraction that the event’s creator, Jeff Schiefelbein, mentioned wanting to do haunted events at other times of the year. Well, now is that time! The Sinister Pointe Not-So Holiday Haunted Attraction is running in a limited engagement this weekend (December 9th through 11th). For the holiday season, Sinister Pointe has had a Wintery makeover, complete with snow, Santas, and more!
Brief IR (Nightvision) Clip of the Inner-Lobby

Walking up to the Sinister Pointe building in Brea, CA, the queue line was adorned with red and green lights, Christmas Trees, and even some holiday specials running on projector system. A couple of monsters worked…

Jurassic Park: The Game – A Review (PC)

Since the novel first hit in 1990, I have been absolutely enraptured with the world of Michael Crighton’s Jurassic Park.  Since the first release of the book, Jurrassic Park has seen four movies, another novel, ten series of comic books, a theme park ride, and numerous video games. Even though many feel that the entire premise of a dinosaur theme park had been driven into the ground, Telltale Games has decided to resurrect the Jurassic Park corpse and (attempt to) breath some life into the franchise with their latest release, Jurassic Park: The Game.  Has Telltale Games done what was originally done in the novel and brought back to life an ancient lifeform that is…

Yoostar 2 And Yoostar On MTV (Review)

I learned a long time ago that I have a face made for radio.  Back in college, I studied being both behind and in-front of the camera and realized my place was “in the rear with the gear”.  So, being there I got to know the gear pretty well – from taped together scripts rolling through a prompter which was little more than a rigged overhead projector to state-of-the-art, programmed HD equipment.  When I heard a PC game had come along that had green screen clipping capabilities I got really excited.  Commercial keying gear costs a fortune and is one of the harder expenses a start up television station has to invest in so if…

Afterfall: inSanity Review (PC)

Afterfall: inSanity is the a “what if” story that takes a moment in time where things really could have taken a different turn and changes everything we know today.  During World War 2, right before the Nazis are at the point of defeat, Hitler gets his Wunderwaffe and the Germans finish the atomic bomb race first. He launches a V-2 rocket armed with a nuclear warhead at the Soviet Army poised on the Polish-German border.  Peace talks commence with German dominance developing in Europe and American presence being reduced to covert operations and support.  While the Soviets and Americans are perfecting their nuclear capabilities, Germany has moved on to greater weapons, weapons on a scale…