Authors: Jesse Kennedy
Review: Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero II Red Octane Reviewed On: Xbox 360 Street: 04.03 It seems I can’t mention my fondness for video games to anyone these days without getting a sermon on the marvels of the Guitar Hero series. I’ll confess that the success of these games and my own hobby of playing real guitars instilled in
Review: Comedy of Errors
Comedy of Errors Claude Chabrol Koch Lorber Street 05.01 Isabelle Huppert plays the little salmon swimming upstream as a French investigator trying to put the kibosh on a ring of dirty big shots spending French money on everything from mistresses to foreign bribes (Quelle horreur!). As the current swells against her, she seems to focus
Review: God of War
God of War SCEE Street: 03.01.06 Action Action Action The word epic gets abused quite a bit these days. However when I say that God of War is an epic game I believe the true meaning of the word is undiluted in this use. God of War (GoW) goes big from beginning to end without
Review: Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 4 Capcom Street: 10.25.2005 Action/Adventure Some nit-pickers will be quick to point out that Resident Evil 4 is not a PS2 title but a port from the Game Cube console. Well, I included it anyways and there’s not much you can do about it. With a game this solid, who really cares where
Review: Grand Theft Auto Series
Grand Theft Auto Series RockStar Games Action/Adventure I couldn’t pick just one of these so I’m going to touch upon the last three major console installments of this series, Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City and San Andreas. What can I say about GTA III that hasn’t been said a thousand times already? Open ended game play,
Review: Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil Ubisoft Reviewed On: PS2 Street: 11.11.03 As the SLUG staff dork it is my job to spend my free moments doing a variety of fun things like reading video game magazines, clicking video game websites and watching video game television programs. Over the last few years there have been a few
Review: Overlord
Overlord Triumph Studion Reviewed On: Xbox 360 Street: 06.27.06 You all know the story. Boy meets girl. Boy has been resurrected by a legion of devilish imps who have mistaken boy for their deceased and evil master. Girl adds a much-needed woman’s touch to boy’s evil fortress of tyranny. Yeah, some stories just never get
Review: Wired For Sound – A Guitar Odyssey
Wired For Sound – A Guitar Odyssey Mpi Home Video Street: 06.26 Wired For Sound documents the role of the Gibson guitar throughout the evolution of rock music. Through interviews and a dash of live music, we see how, from the very beginning of its blossoming from the blues, rock has been intrinsically bound to
Review: Wii Sports
Wii Sports Nintendo Reviewed On: Wii Street: 11.19.06 While Sony and Microsoft have been cramming as much graphical and memory power as scientifically possible into their new consoles Nintendo decided that they didn’t care that much about making anything look or act very realistic. Instead they have spent their time trying to make an anti-console
Review: The Darkness
The Darkness Starbreeze/2K Games Reviewed On: Xbox 360 Street: 06.25 Life must be tough in the world of first person shooter video games. Sure you can get shot about ten times every five minutes and still live, but obstacles as enormous as beer bottles can block your path and force you to reroute. Shooting 20