Blogcritics Category: Gaming: Xbox 360

Xbox 360 Review: Grand Theft Auto IV

Mark Kalriess — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:45:06 EDT

Don't believe the hype.
Grand Theft Auto IV is the latest title in the Grand Theft Auto series and the first to appear on the Xbox 360. Technically it is not the fourth in the series. The game had a tremendous amount of hype building up to its release. The hype ratcheted up even higher upon its release with strong sales and near universal great reviews. In fact a few...

Xbox 360 Review: GRID

Brian Szabelski — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:42:45 EDT

Racing games just got less boring.
GRID’s slogan, and perhaps its promise, are clearly stated on the box: “Racing just got exciting again.” But does Codemaster’s latest racing endeavor in the Race Driver series fulfill that promise or crash and burn?The answer may depend on how strict of a simulation racer you are. Those who will accept nothing but realism in...

Xbox Live Arcade Review: Commanders: Attack of the Genos

Brian Szabelski — Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:57:20 EDT

It's a lot like Advance Wars. That's not exactly a good thing.
The Xbox 360 isn’t quite the home of the turn-based strategy game, but there are a few offerings on Microsoft’s current-generation console. One of those is Commanders: Attack of the Genos, an Xbox Live Arcade title that puts you at the helm of defeating the threatening Geno forces. Unfortunately, though, Commanders does just enough to...

Xbox 360 Review: UEFA Euro 2008

Brian Szabelski — Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:19:44 EDT

A step forward in some areas, a step backwards in others.
As I write this, the UEFA Euro 2008 tournament has finished up (congratulations to Spain), but that doesn't mean the action has to stop. EA brings us UEFA Euro 2008, a game based on the recently-completed tournament that lets us take our favorite countries and turn them into champions. However, if this game were a European national team, I'd have...

The Future of PC Gaming... Is The Future of Console Gaming?

Brian Szabelski — Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:31:43 EDT

PC gaming is dead? Long live PC gaming.
If an impartial observer was looking down at the state of gaming in 2008, he might feel saddened by the state of PC gaming. PC hits like Half-Life 2 and the Command and Conquer franchise, once in the domain of computers and computers alone, are now available just as easily on consoles, as are classic PC titles like Doom. Even those which are...

Xbox Live Arcade Review: Ikaruga

Richard Morin — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:27:09 EDT

A high-paced, difficult, and downright enjoyable top-down shooter well worth trying.
Ikaruga, developed by Treasure and now available on Xbox Live Arcade, is a member of the top-down vertical shooter genre. The game play upon first glance is fairly simple in concept; you fly a little plane with hordes of bullets and bad guys coming at you. The bad guys shoot black or white bullets, while your ship can change between black and white...

Xbox 360 Review: The Bourne Conspiracy

Thomas Steenhagen — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:21:17 EDT

A short yet thoroughly faithful, worthwhile experience.
In the realm of movie-to-video game adaptations, their quality is almost as unpredictable as adaptations made from video games to film.In the case of The Bourne Conspiracy, High Moon Studios' prequel to/recreation of The Bourne Identity, a film-based video game adaptation has never been presented with this much quality or concern for its source...

Xbox 360 Review: Bully: Scholarship Edition

Mark Kalriess — Mon, 9 Jun 2008 00:42:34 EDT

A surprisingly addictive game.
Bully is a game from Rockstar Games, who are best known for the Grand Theft Auto series. Bully originally came out on the PlayStation 2; this version is a port of that one. While the game shows its age and its origin, it is surprisingly fun. Instead of playing as an adult criminal, you play as a juvenile delinquent. You play as Jimmy Hopkins, a...

Xbox 360 Review: Conflict: Denied Ops

Brian Szabelski — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:14:00 EDT

FPS fans should deny these ops to their 360's disc drive.
One look at the front cover of Conflict: Denied Ops is enough to make you think this game isn’t very good. One hour is enough to convince you that the cover didn’t even begin to tell the story. Let’s just say that I’d rather be bludgeoned to death by club-wielding baby seals than ever have to play this game again.This is the...

Xbox 360 Review: FIFA Street 3

Brian Szabelski — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:40:54 EDT

Another enjoyable, yet not very deep game from EA Sports Big.
I'm a soccer fan, so theoretically, FIFA Street 3 should be something that's easy to talk about, as I'm probably supposed to have bought the first two games in the series already. Sadly, I don't have much time with the first two FIFA Street titles, but if they're anything like EA's other Street titles, then things probably started off good and got...