Alan Pettit
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Resonance of Fate
Dubbed End of Eternity in Japan when it was released a few months ago, developer tri-Ace's newest creation is called Resonance of Fate here in the West and has finally arrived. Sadly the game is a bit of an unknown quantity around these parts. Perhaps it was SEGA's decision to...
Prototype
There are probably few things more enjoyable in a video game experience than having free reign to do as you please. Sandbox games have always been a unique beast, taking longer to develop and being harder to get right. With so many elements and so many different ways the player...
It's a hard thing as a comic book and video game fan to see such a degradation of quality from paper to screen. It gets worse when there is another step in between in the form of a game based on a movie based on comic books. I've called it...
Star Ocean: The Last Hope is the fourth installment in a series of RPGs by developer tri-Ace and publisher Square-Enix, though it actually serves as a prequel to the entire series' timeline. Truth be told this was my first experience with the series and with developer tri-Ace, having purchased but...
Rock Band 2
Rock Band 2 is obviously the followup to the highly popular, successful and innovative Rock Band released less than one year ago. There have been musical games in the past that allowed you to act (some might say "feel," but I don't think that term is really appropriate) as if...
SoulCalibur IV
Soulcalibur has always been my favorite fighting franchise. Sure, it doesn't have the gore that Mortal Kombat prides itself on, nor does it have the quick action of Street Fighter, but what it lacks in flash it more than makes up for in technique and execution. Former developer and current...
Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda is the latest adaptation of a family movie, this time centering around a Dreamworks film about a panda and his quest to be a grand Kung Fu master. I've played my fair share of awful kid's games so I was a bit reluctant to get into this...
Dark Sector
Dark Sector is a third person shooter made by Digital Extremes (Unreal Tournament) and published by D3 (Earth Defense Force), which features a unique take on the shooting genre with an added element: the glaive, a boomerang-type weapon with three long curved blades in a circular pattern. Set in a...
Lost Odyssey
Lost Odyssey is the newest Japanese-style RPG to hit the Xbox 360, the second from newly formed Mistwalker and their publishing giant Microsoft Game Studios. Mistwalker was formed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the mind behind the Final Fantasy franchise and a legend in general for RPG gamers. Hiro brought along his...
Shrek the Third
Based on the highly successful movie franchise, Shrek the Third offers up a beat-em-up action/adventure with humor suitable for all ages. Covering the third movie in the series, out this past summer, the story mostly follows Shrek, Donkey and Puss-in-Boots as they search for the true king of Far Far...
Eternal Sonata
Eternal Sonata, the newest offering from Namco-Bandai, previously separate companies as Namco and Bandai, is a beautiful cel-shaded, turn-based/free-action melded, Japanese-style RPG. If that was not enough hyphens for you, here's one more yet: this game is fan-freaking-tastic. Eternal Sonata is a highly stylized RPG mixing familiar elements with a...
