Half-Life 2 Episode two is another quality product released from Valve.  The product spews of fine tuning and extensive care and the carefully crafted environments really show.  Valve stays true to the first person "discovery" narrative where the hero, Gordon Freeman, is just as clueless as the player but through battling his way through White Forest, he d...

    Don't let the cartoony graphics fool you, Team Fortress 2 is no childs play.  With so many futuristic war shooters, Team Fortress 2 is a breath of fresh air with its innocently seeming pixar-like but violent graphics and true team oriented gameplay.    Team Fortress breaks up the game into 9 distinct classes.  Each class has their own unique weapo...

    I haven't played too many First Person Puzzle games but Portal sure stands out amongst the crowd of shooters.  You do not shoot enemies, you do not throw grenades, you simply make portals with your portal gun to get from point A to point B.  Sounds simple but as the levels go on, the puzzles just keep getting harder.     Puzzles are completed...

    One minute you're on a plane heading who knows where, the next you find yourself in a 1920's Atlantis.  I can safely say that Bioshock is going to win many gaming awards due to its immersive environments, great gameplay, and superb story.    Running on the unreal 3 engine, Bioshock looks absolutely stunning.  The beautifully designed art deco ...

    Being on a budget sucks, but being able to find an excellent deal is great.  The 7900 GS KO by EVGA is a good mid range graphics card that is sure to stay good for at least a year or so.      Although it only supports Direct X 9, it should still be able to run games released in the future while already running current games a steady rate.  When a...

    Other than being visually stunning, Unreal Tournament 3 doesn't offer much improvement to the previous iterations or the First Person Shooter genre.      If you've played Unreal Tournament 2004, then you already know what to expect, hardcore intensely twitchy first person action.  The only additions to the game is the new Warfare mode which, i...

    I preface this review to inform you that I am no mouse expert, but for those of you looking to find a cheap, great, reliable mouse, then the intellimouse is probably the mouse for you.  I've had this product for about three years and it still functions great and I still love it.  The plug and play USB works with every computer I used it with.  I don't k...

    Despite being titled as a noise cancellation headphones, it hardly does its job.  It will probably cancel noise at a library pretty well but it won't help you much if you're walking down a street.  The headstrap is very flimsy and will most assuredly break.  I'm on my third pair of noise cancellation headphones since the first one's bass was too...

    The Squire bullet is the immitation Fender Stratocaster knockoff that feels like a good intro guitar.  I bought this through a pack on ebay which included an amp, a guitar case, picks, and instructional dvd and I feel that it was a good buy to get me started on guitar.  I'm currently coming to my fifth year of playing and I've started to realize the lacking ...

    Being a port of the PS2 Resident Evil 4 and that being a port of the Gamecube Resident Evil, I had low expectations of how this one was going to turn out.  Since this is a port of the PS2 version of Resident Evil 4, the shadows are non existant and maps seem brighter than they should.  This wasn't too distracting from the game because the core gamplay elements a...

    Uplink is a little known 'hacking' simulator where you can log on to your proxy machine rented from the Uplink corporation to perform jobs requested by individuals wanting to smear the name of their enemies to companies wanting to destroy research of rival companies.  The game potentially never stops and you always need to be careful of getting your activities tr...

    Being a port of the popular ps2 game of the same name, the pc port is bound to be several setbacks.  The most annoying setback is the controls.  Since every action requires the keyboard for input, you'll find yourself pressing several awkwardly placed buttons at a single time while manipulating the arrow keys to find a good shot.  This is why it is best if ...

    Smash Brothers Melee is an excellent upgrade from the original Smash Brothers from the Nintendo 64.  boasting tons of new stages and many more characters its bound to keep you busy for a long time... that is, if you have friends to play it with.    To put it short, Melee is a horrible single player game.  There is quite a bit to do other than defeatin...

    Considering that there most of the tab sites are hosting Guitar Pro files, it should tell the guitarist in you to keep up with the times.  Guitar Pro 5 is an excellent tabulature writer, reader, and player for tabulature and sheet guitarists.    From what I've tried, I've opened numerous Guitar Pro tabs and each music track was excellently split an...

    When Half-Life was first released audiences were stunned and amazed at how a First Person Shooter can be more than just clear level 1-10 and win the game but can be more of a narrative tool.  I too was one of those people and absolutely loved it.  Even for such an old game, the enemy ai is excellent and the gameplay is a great mix of ambience, action, and story foll...

    Peggle, a game similar to that of Japanese pachinko machines where you release a ball from the top of the screen and watch it bounce off of as many pegs as you can before it reaches the bottom.  The concept, although very simple, makes for a great game.  Before you know it, your plan to play for only 20 minutes will last for around 2 hours.    I'm...

    Finally!  A First Person Shooter where you are free to explore.  What I like most about this game is the free form nature of it.  You are (almost free) from exploring the entire world if you so please if it weren't for those darn radiated areas.  The shootouts in this game are excellent as well as the enemy attempt to flank you as you and him can both ...

    Although the third installment of the Command and Conquer tiberium story does not follow in the footsteps of their previous games, it still is a whole lot of fun.  Honestly, I prefer the fast and furious nature of this game than that of their slow predecessors.  The graphics are visually stunning and I was impressed that I was able to run it at a 'normal' 10...

    There is no sugar coating it, this game is mediocre.  Although I think its loads better than its previous ID game, Doom 3, in terms of action and battles, its still pretty bland.  The gist of it is to run around and shoot the enemy strogg over and over and over until you reach a plot point and then fight them some more and more.  Expect to find lots of blood gu...

    Your computers cower at the name of Crysis, the power hungry game.  To start off, I have an Nvidia 7900GS with 256 memory, 2.4 Pentium D, with 2 gigs of ram and I can only run this game at playable framerates (read 20-30 Frames Per Second) at medium to low settings.  This game will make your computer cry and make you feel bad about it but it sure does look awesome.&...