For the past 10 years, Marvel vs. Capcom 2 remained one of the most popular games among the fighting game community, even through a resurgence of the fighting game genre that included Soul Calibur IV, Street Fighter IV, BlazBlue and Tekken 6. Earlier this year, fans got the refresh they wanted with the release of Marvel vs. Capcom 3, which sported a cast of 38 characters, most of them new blood for the franchise. READ MORE
Everything about Telltale’s Jurassic Park feels like an homage to the original film. The characters would have worked in the movie, the situations genuinely feel like examples of how a day in Jurassic Park plays out, and the story, despite having to carefully step around the story of the film, is engrossing and would have made a better sequel than JP2 did. There are a few problems, but my love for the source material and Telltale’s great treatment of it was more than enough to overcome them. READ MORE
It’s our last episode before the holidays! The crew discusses To The Moon, Mario Kart 7, Fortune Street, Metal Gear Solid HD and Fishing Resort, as well as the latest game reveals and how each console did in 2011.
Check out the show here or use the RSS feed in your favorite podcast aggregator. Let us know what you think!
Hosts: Matthew Jay, Chris Ingersoll, Gerry Pagan, Andrew Passafiume, Graham Russell, Shawn Vermette.
Music: Podcast theme by Tom Casper.
Mario Kart 7 is, in a very obvious way, a direct followup to Mario Kart Wii. It borrows the art style, the track aesthetic, the jump tricks and the Mario Kart Channel, and doesn’t do much to stand out from it. It’s so obvious that I feel a bit silly even articulating to you what this game is.
What makes Mario Kart 7 different, though, falls well beyond the obvious. READ MORE
A great many puzzle-based games have been released for the DS, but Ubisoft provides the first one for the 3DS with James Noir’s Hollywood Crimes. How does it stack up? About as well as most first attempts do. READ MORE
