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Battlestar Galactica Online Game Announced
US broadcaster NBC is teaming up with browser game maker Bigpoint to bring Sci-Fi blockbuster Battlestar Galctica to life in the form of a massively muliplayer online role playing game.
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About Final Fantasy XIII’s Linearity Issue
Scan most reviews of Final Fantasy XIII and you’ll find a single accusation binding most of them: that Square Enix’s action-roleplaying game is stiflingly linear, undeviating for too long, and restrictive to a fault.
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Review: Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII’s gimmick is that it pares down the gameplay to a few basic elements: Turn-based battles against mobs of fantastic creatures and elaborate, movielike story sequences. But this time, Square Enix finally threw the baby out with the bathwater: The things that make RPGs feel so different from other games — the sense of a grand, nonlinear adventure and the rising and falling action of an open-ended world — are gone.
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Review: Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Military-based action games have become the first-person-shooter staple thanks to franchises like Call of Duty. We’ve seen attempts to capture the same experience before, but Battlefield: Bad Company seems to do the best job at tackling the genre with its own take on things.
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Lunar: Silver Star Harmony Now Shipping
XSEED Games is pleased to announce that Lunar: Silver Star Harmony has started shipping to retailers across North America. An entirely revamped iteration of the classic RPG, Lunar: Silver Star Story, Lunar: Silver Star Harmony was developed by Game Arts and will launch exclusively on the PlayStation Portable system.
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Platinum Life Beta Begins on Facebook
Heatwave Interactive, a Texas online game startup, is launching its Platinum Life Web Edition game as a beta test on Facebook. The game is a kind of music career role-playing game, where the player starts out as an aspiring hip-hop star.
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Avernum 6 for Windows Released
Spiderweb Software Inc. announced the release of Avernum 6 for Windows, the final game in the epic, award-winning Avernum series.
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Preview: Hexyz Force
Hexyz Force is a polished, nice looking PSP role-playing game from the folks at Sting, makers of games like Yggdra Union and Riviera: The Promised Land. Set to release in late May, this game is actually like two games in one, with independent story lines following two different characters through the same narrative arc.
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Review: Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey
If you are a gamer that has roots in the earliest Shin Megami Tensei series games, I’m sure you’ve already pre-ordered this, knowing exactly what to expect. Likewise, the savvy gamer that jokingly calls this game SMT: Etrian Odyssey surely knows what they’re buying. This is a big, console-sized dungeon crawler in a little tiny package, and it gets back to the series’ roots. If you’re looking for that, this is your game.
On the other hand, if you came into Atlus games later, and find that most of your enjoyment of the Persona series was the social links and the cute girls, and you found yourself running through dungeons to get to the next story bit, you might want to try Strange Journey before you buy. Or read our review.
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Alpha Protocol Release Date Finalized
After a couple of delays, Sega has finally firmed up the release date for Obsidian espionage RPG Alpha Protocol: gamers can grab it May 28 in Europe, or June 1 in North America. The game has seen a bit of a troubled development cycle, so it’s great to see a final date at last.
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