This year’s sports game: just like last year’s sports game. Right? That’s the prevailing wisdom, anyway. It’s true that annual titles recycle a lot of content, and some years it’s just not much of a step up.
With NCAA Football 12, this is not one of those years. READ MORE
Rhythm Heaven is a strange and wonderful game. The mechanics themselves are quite simple: usually you’re hitting a button at the right time for the scenario, triggering this animation or that and trying to do well enough to continue to the next challenge. The actions themselves are usually simpler than even developer Intelligent Systems’ WarioWare series; those games at least have some sort of pointing or shaking or aiming or… well, something we’d call a legitimate game mechanic.
Lately, the game industry has regularly been taking the peanut-butter-cup approach to game design. Take one game, combine it with another game. It’s simple, but it works.
Quarrel, a game that’s been floating around for a bit now but finally nearing a release on iOS (with console download to come), takes a standard Risk formula and adds in some Scrabble.
When it first appeared on the PlayStation, the Resident Evil series was about exploration and scares. As the years have passed, the series has changed into more of a third-person shooter. Resident Evil 4 and 5 exemplify this transformation into more of a shooter than a survival-horror game. Now, Operation Raccoon City takes the biggest step toward third-person shooter territory ever, while not neglecting the past.
Hey everybody! Mario Kart!
Let’s be honest: there are those who are excited just by us saying that, and there are those who are just totally burned out on the series as a whole. Mario Kart 3DS isn’t going to change that, but it does add some things that modify the formula a bit.
