Have you ever fantasized about building a video game environment of your own? A place where you and your friends could spend hours and hours playing your favorite games without interruption? Or how about a place that really shows off your game skills? It’s really pretty simple to create such a place and you don’t
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In a year chock-full of great multiplayer experiences like Supreme Commander, Call of Duty 4, and World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade, to name a few, the Best Multiplayer Award was a contentious subject among the editors. After much debate, we eventually settled on Team Fortress 2. It not only captured more of our collective multiplayer
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Like the famed Japanese soldier who did not surrender his post until 1974, Medal of Honor: Airborne desperately holds to the notion that gamers still want to play WWII-era shooters. Armed with a new parachuting gameplay mechanic and sheer force of will, MOH: Airborne defi es its anachronistic shortcomings and delivers a fairly gripping shooter
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If Unreal Tournament 3 gameplay feels strikingly similar to that of its previous iteration, it’s because UT3 is pretty much the same game wrapped in a fancy new graphics engine. Not that we’re complaining, since Epic arguably achieved death match perfection with its 2004 classic. We’re more peeved that we waited so long for UT3,
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Within four short hours of gameplay, Portal reminded us of a time when game developers could afford to take chances. By eschewing the run-and-gun mechanic that’s integral to first-person shooters and replacing it with a series of increasingly difficult physics-based puzzles, Valve created the first new game genre in years: the first-person puzzler. This new
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