Monthly Archives: September 2009

Zombie Apocalypse review

Time and math are always against you. It’s the way of zombies. Thumbs up.

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Need for Speed: Shift review

Need for Speed: Shift is a game you have to tame before it will take you on any sort of meaningful ride. Thumbs up.

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Three Moves Ahead: What’s the deal with Majesty?

Troy calls it an evolutionary dead end. Bruce calls it a terrarium. Tom quotes a movie. Listen here and visit the Flash of Steel page here.

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Halo 3: ODST review (firefight mode)

…all the fat of the Halo games trimmed away. Thumbs up.

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Halo 3: ODST review (campaign)

After all this time, given all these resources, with their enormous success and all their fans, this is all Bungie has come up with? Thumbs down.

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Majesty 2 review

The developers have done a few things differently, a couple of them better and a couple of them worse. But what they’ve mostly done is made me re-appreciate the genius of Majesty. Thumbs up.

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Three Moves Ahead: strategy games for people who aren’t strategy gamers

From chess to Hearts of Iron III by way of Advance Wars. Listen here.

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Guitar Hero 5 review

It might not knock Rock Band out of its place in the living room, but it’s earned a place alongside it. Thumbs up.

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Dirt 2 review

If Codemasters has to EA-ify the presentation to sell copies, they can have at it so long as they don’t mess with the racing. And they don’t. Thumbs up.

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Final Fantasy: Dissidia review

…what the holy heck is going on? Thumbs up.

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Three Moves Ahead: Rum, sodomy, the lash, and right clicking to unload transports

Or is it left clicking? Why is war at sea such a hassle? And why is it also so awesome? Listen here.

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