Reviewed on Playstation 3, Official Website
Rated “M” for Mature (17 and Up)
My financially necessary “I can’t pay full price for games” rule often means that I let amazing experiences pass me by. If I’m lucky, I find them later – much later than everybody else – in the bargain bins. I then wander around desperate to find people to boisterously discuss something that, for them, has already become quietly nostalgic.
Reviewed on Playstation 3, Official Website
Rated “Mature”
Vanquish is yet another game that I found only because of my PS Plus subscription. I download all those free games and then promptly forget them. Later, when trying to reclaim some disk space, I wonder what they are and fire ’em up. Sometimes I find gold, sometimes not. This one was was all gold.
Reviewed on Playstation 4, Official Website
Sucker Punch revisits the successful formula of 2011’s “inFamous: Festival of Blood” (a follow-up to inFamous 2) with this sorta-DLC, but still stand-alone follow-up to “inFamous : Second Son” [My Review]. For $15, fans get a huge addition to the original game, while the curious can enjoy a beefy stand-alone adventure.
Reviewed on Playstation 4 and Vita, Official Website
The world of Indie gaming seems decidedly split into three broadly distinct camps. The first, and least interesting, are those simply mimicking traditional triple-A titles. Many of these are good, but they aren’t particularly exciting. The second camp are those leveraging retro formulas to create often novel, but familiar, titles. The last, which often blends with the second, are those creating truly unique experiences on a smaller, more intimate scale.
“The Swapper” is one of these.
Reviewed on Playstation 4, Official Website
Rated “E10+” for Everyone 10 and Up
Knack is the story of a big pile of widgets and gewgaws that, eventually, save the world from an even bigger pile of widgets and gewgaws. Like, bad ones. Oh, and there’s some really weird goblin racism as well.
Reviewed on Playstation Vita and PS3, Official Website
Rated “E” for Everyone, All Ages
There are some games that, when you finally get around to playing them, you literally ache with a vague, persistent worry because you might have missed this game. That, of course, underlies a sublime, barely constrained joy that you didn’t miss this game.
Reviewed on Playstation 4, Official Website
Rated “T” for Teen
Being a huge fan of the first two “InFamous” games (my review of “InFamous 2”), I was incredibly anxious for this. It was, in fact, the first disc-based PS4 game I purchased. I played it, I loved it, then promptly forgot about reviewing it. With the release of the first DLC for the game, inFamous First Light, I decided to rectify that.
My son, who’s much more into the Wii U than I am, is trying his hand at blogging and has started with Mario Kart 8. Why not give him a visit and see what the target audience thinks?
“Metro: Last Light” Official Website
Rated “M” for Mature; Reviewed on Playstation 3
This is the 2013 sequel to the 2010 game, Metro 2033, which was based on the novel of the same name. While the first game closely paralleled the novel, the sequel presented an original story that picked up a year after the events of the first.
Model: CUH-1001A
Website: http://us.playstation.com/ps4/
MSRP: $399.99
In Part 1 of the review, I focused on the hardware and controller of the PS4. Here I’m going to dive into the operating system and online features.
