Skewed 'n Reviewed Posts

Here's something staggering: a game about the second World War, localized into English, that doesn't even pretend to appeal to a western audience by detailing the campaigns of western armies. Here's something even more staggering: a game about amphibious operations in the second World War that doesn't feature Normandy. To someone who grew up on […]

If the truth really is in the middle, then Operation Flashpoint 2 is the best shooter ever made. It comes extremely close to violating everything we are supposed to know about console shooters and PC shooters. The fact that it is still fundamentally a console game appears to be less of a case of its […]

Guerrilla partially deals with the issue that has dogged the earlier games in its series – which was their stubborn refusal to grant the player even a tiny fraction of the freedom implied by their environment-altering gimmicks. In the first Red Faction you were given the tools to alter the levels and then set basically […]

Had you followed Dragon Age: Origins during the last few months of its release, you’d have no idea that this is much more than just a game with an insatiable desire to cover itself in blood and sell itself with gratuitous sex.  I lost faith in the game months before release thanks to just how […]