Okabu is entertaining but lacks polish. A lot of good games could have spent a little more time in the oven, but not every developer out there can afford to operate on Valve time. In Okabu, you, along with a friend if you’ve got one in the room, take control of two cloud whales traveling all over the world to stop the Doza and their terrible pollution. The pollution hurts the villagers and keeps their crops from growing, and it mingles with the clouds in the sky, preventing the cloud whales from flying high above the villagers. Naturally, the cloud whales descend to help the villagers, vanquish the Doza, and resume their life flying through the skies. READ MORE
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken is a port of an indie PC game developed by Ratloop Asia that follows the adventures of Hardboiled Chicken, a renegade soldier trying to overthrow an oppressive penguin army and bring freedom back to the land of Albatropolis. Should we be interested in the adventures of a chicken fighting a bunch of penguins? You bet. READ MORE
Tides of Destiny, originally branded Rune Factory: Oceans in Japan, is the follow-up to the Wii-only Rune Factory: Frontier. Known for their being a more magical, fantasy take on sister series Harvest Moon’s realistic (though still often fantasy) farming simulation, this new Rune Factory looks to change things up within the series, introducing and changing core elements in the series to flesh out others, including combat, exploration, and for the first time, the ability to choose between a male and a female protagonist. READ MORE
FIFA 11 took the FIFA franchise to new heights of accuracy and enjoyment. After being so good last year, how does the new installment in the series fare? It isn’t the large upgrade that it was last year, but it does still improve itself incrementally. READ MORE
Pro Evolution Soccer used to be the epitome of the soccer game genre, but has fallen on hard times lately, as the FIFA series has outclassed it every year this generation. Does PES 2012 restore the series to its former greatness? Unfortunately, no. READ MORE
